Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-08-11
From the Cleveland Plaindealer, July 10.
LOOK ON THIS PICTURE.
Watch the Wires.


We are enabled to-day to expose the
perfdity of those who, in their midnight
Vaccinations and Jacobin cabals, assay to
cripple the will of tie people, and ride
down whomsoever is too manly to put him.
self in the market for the veriest pittance
of patronage pap and to do the dirty work
of demoralizing, prostituting, prescription
policy, inaugurated to punish live demo-
Gratis for stability Of principle and fidelity
to pledges; policy which seems to have
taken possession of the fountain head but
to exhibit itself internally, externally, eter-
nally.
Do you ask what this means? Is any
one so deluded as to suppose the Lecomp-
ton sword has ever touched the scabbard
since it was first drawn, and to doubt that
postmasters and deputy collectors are still
taking the little paltry offices loaded down
with conditions-selliEg their manhood
and their souls for the one-ifth the price
asked for the poor veneral niger John,
and keeping up secret organized dens of
persecution to hunt down every man who
even now refuses to ''bend the plant hinges
of the knee" before the god Lecompton.
The secret record of the doings Of one
of these meetings, in printed pamphlet
of sixteen pages is before us, and our read
ers will get some rich developments from
it soon, an inkling of which we will give
give by few extracts.
The book opens as follows:
FREMoNr, Oct. Is, 1858.
Pursuant 10 arrangements a number OF
Democrats met at the Collectors office for
the purpose of organizing a Political Club
for the furtherance of Democratic princi-
Piles.
On motion of J. D. Botefur, S. NJ. Ellin-
wood was chosen temporary chairman, G.
w. Steels, Secretary.
This Botefur was sub-collector, and for
this dirty work gets 5000 year. Ellin
wood is P. M. at Fremont.
The next meeting is cat Ellinwood's
private Office" We quote from the re-
cords, italics and all. At the next meet
ing G. w. Steele, S. NJ. Ellinwood, ]. D.
Botefur, T. W. Wood, and ]. R. Francisco,
were elected SACHEMS. Francisco is a
route agent on the G. & T. R. R. He is
sold for about four times as much as Bote-
fur, but not up to a sick nigger price
At meeting Dec. Sd, 1858, A. L. Chan
dler, P. NJ. of Bellevue, and Isaac Kagg,
P. M. of Green Springs, were elected
members, and the Secretary instructed to
correspond with A. ]. Dickinson in regard
to public documents.
The following questions to candidates
for membership were adopted:
1. Are you willing to support and abide
by the Constitution and Bylaws of this
Club, and be ruled as they direct:
2, Will you at all elections for dele
gates, either for township, county, district,
State or United States Conventions, vote
and strive to elect members, or such other
persons as majority may direct, as dele
gates to such Conventions!
8. Should you be elected as delegate
to any Convention, will you attend in per-
son and poll your vote as majority of the
members of this Club may directa
4. Will you at all times, and under all
circumstances,g give your support to the regu-
larly nominated ticket, and vote the same
without any erasuress
5. Will you pledge yourself to keep all
discussions and other matters pertaining to
this Club secret and not to speak Of the
Association or its doings outside Of the
Club room, except to memberss
6. Will you at all times strive TO ad-
vance the interests Of this Club, political
ly, to the exclusion of all othersa
The candidate answering in the affirma
tive is then .'instructed," part Of which
reads as follows:
One object of this association will be to
assist one another, and it should at al
times be the duty of .he members Of thi'
Club to support for Office members Of ths
Club; and in order that We exert tht