, 1859-06-28

like LucSe VIC A!a*E al+saSAf 3!eA4ceA " tsol'-
,.lar clamor, and condemned to prolonged and
disgraccful Imprisonment an innocent man?
The trial tie court, the jury, the clamor Of the
mob. the verdict and the sentence, are worthy
Of that border population which poured ont its
thousands to suhjugate kansas- Elsewhere
they would be hooted down hy popular indig-
uatiou. whicl, nothing could resist! is there
no remedy for legal tyranny like this?
VOICE PROM n11NNEsoTA.
The reign Of Sham Democracy has made
Minnesota perhaps the most luck]ess common
wealth in the American Cnion, after Virginia,
Her people, swindlcd beyond preccdcn: in the
loan Of their credit 10 moonslliue railroads and
broken down currency mills, have now the
satisfaction Of learning that they were corr
pletely dircs,ed Of all political rights at tleir
first State election, and that their first Cover
nor, and probably their first Les7slnture} their
first Senators and Representatives in Congress,
were foistod upon them by 4 yi1lainy hardly
pars1leled in the history Of free government
It will be remembered that after the election
If 1857. the Republican ,,ress Of the State
charged upon tile federal officers and the lead
ing members Of the opposite party series o!
high handed frauds in tile voting Of the Indian
tribes, and the forging Of returns from Pcmbi'
ia aud several other wilderness precincts
These statements were supported BY sucl eyi'
pence as made them generally believed but
hitherto there has teea 10 testimony from the
crnclavc where tue frauds were llatcllcd, sutf
cient to bring the evidence to tho point o
demonstration,
eprint in another column a reported pub
lie conversation between Ex-Governor Cor
man and several citizens Of Cllattiela, Mime
so,a, in WHICH the yillainy perptrated in tn
eauvass Of 1857, is fully confessed. G"rmas
duplicates Senator Rice, Governor Siblcy, Sec
rctary Chase and himself i'll the foreeries @
returns by which the State was secured to tl1
Dcmocracy-iorgcrics which should suffice
every man who countena1,ccd or participate
in them to hard labor in tie pcnitcstiary
Doubtless the maa'.n Of Honor among Thieves
coupled with the shame attaching to sucll Il
outrage, was deemed guarantee Of wrpe,,l;
secrcsy among the actors themselves Via
may have been Gorman's REASONS Tor t,ir1lir
States evidence against ]is pals vi DO Ut
know to a certainty, hut it is supposed tia
having ltecn chcated out Of lis sltare If til
H'oty resulting from their jai,.t crime again:
the people, lie is now determined 10 pull III
house down about thc ears of the whole gan:
even at tie risk of breaking lis own bone
From the tenor Of his revelations We Judge i
will haze abundant SUCCESS in botll lr:lnellt
| Of the enterprise.
4 CONCEDED RIGHT sUlkRES1
Erred.
It now appears TINT the French Governmcll
in 1852, CONCEDED to the United States IL
! point which Gen. Cass las 20 readily and ptsi
lanisnously surrendered, il, Ills fan'ous lie Clcl
letter Here is history Of the case:
Frnncis .Allibcrt, native Of the nepartmel
l de ynr, in the south Of France, left there durit
the drawing Of the CONSUMPTION iu 1s}", ~
was actually drawn as conscEipt, and wa
| therefore. an ftAape de Ia consesiptioa. lfct;s
sired nt New Orleans, made the usual apple
! ton for citizenship, and was duly natufa!izcd
| isis. He was successful in business in Lou;si
III, and in July, 1>:,2, after IN :bsrncc Of near
L fourteen years, tie returned to yiait his family
his uative rillage, and under the vlgilant polit
in France, he was arrested in twenty ,fos
hunrs after LIS return. liz Immediately wro
| fo Mr. Hodge. tle nearest American const1
Tie latt~-, that he might tie better attc1
tn the case, Immediately requested thut u
| al'tbe1t might be brought to MarseiIIe
| which request was promptly accedcd to by i
Gcneral-inChlef eonmant|in. the military divi
l ion. liz WIS there brought bciurc the 1rih
| h4l de Guerrt as III j"so"fass, and condcmnc
| Mr. At'ibr1t was willing 10 pay four fhpnsas
fracs for substitute. but Mr. Hodge would III
/ a1lnw him even to make tue offer. but obtaint
i rehcnring Of his case, appeared inpcrsnu b
fure tho Tribunal De G"trr< and pleaded ii
l. case; and alter two trials and u detention Of 81
months. he was II .nox1 dyed un Amer ;c'
citizen, md orders can'c from the Minister
War al Paris. dir citing his Fcr-sc. Nit. 1Iu<l;
| save him d passport, which MAS vi>ed by Il
/ police, unI with which he remained some weel
| witt, his family, Travelled through Frunce, Ill
i embarked ut Hayre on his return to the Init
| Stutcx.
l Of State gives the full details Of the case, III
| Mr. Everett the Secretary Of State under n
| Fillmore. on The I'd Of March, ISIS, ,,he IL
dny he was in otIice( wrote compliments
letter to Mr.. Hodge, in which he says:
"The department was gratitied 10 learn I'll
II. Allibert, whose arrest and Imprisonment
an Insoh,ai<, although nuturalized citizen
tie United States, as mentioned in your col
| 1nunicaiions, las been .cleaSed. This is u
.ioub,edly due to II c i'm and Decided stal
1naintaintd throughout the lu,'e. controversy,
your official correspondence with the autllo
trs on the subjett.
"It ii much to be desired thu. this case m;
be considered as a precedent, US ron intinlut
: aud TINT hereafter naturalized citizens Of Il
United States may risit France without dang
Of arrest for military service. In this evcnt,
, hurtfnl source Of irritation and unfriendly fe'
lug will be avoided
ii 1t will he observed that in this case Il
. | parry not only owed military service accordi1
, to the Laws Of France, but thai lie ~as actual
: drawn as q eonscript about tic time Of Ills d
r 1sartnrc from the country. II is therefore
r | strong case AZ can POSSIBLY arise. New
i tllcless, by the Administration then in power
iint Of Miliard Fillntore-tlle rights conGrr
i,v American citizenship were rcsolutcly r1a
tanned, and .Ae point was finally concelcd
c the French Government. The position of t
I | present Democratic Administration is, the,
|. | fore, a voluntary surrender to France Of vi
shr lad formally abandoned Sucs 4 surre
: der would be pusillan'mous III tlls Gla O
+ resoluse stand on the part Of a foreign e.,Tc.
c nlent hut tho English lang1lasc llas no tel
| that will titly characterize the course of I
A.1u;p;sf rnrion IN 41,iq S,t,in%t II, ynyr nf