The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-08-03
From the Bangor Courier.
Smart Dissected.

The Kennebec Journal has received q
full file of the Belfast Free Press for 1857
'5S-cditcd by Ephraim X. Smart, then collec-
tor of Belfast. Il affords materials for most
scathng expose Of Smart's advocacy Of Lee
compton ami support of the administration ut
that time, until he was turned out OF Office by
Mr.. Buchanan, when he Immediately turned
eighty" man. We copy rs much Of the article
as we have room for. The Journal says:
In Smart's speech at Belfast he made the fol-
lowing declaration
Col. Smart said he had nerer supported The
admission of the Lecompton Constitution err
cent upon the express condition that the ques-
lion of constitution, slavery included, should
be Immediately submitted 10 the people; and
even this submission, he said, was to Bono rule
in the future" =
The Rockland Democrat and Free Press, ed
tied in great part by Mr.. Smart himself, had
previously made similar disclaimer. Thous-
ands of persons in the State will remember his
real in behalf of the Lecompton swindle, aud
there lies at this moment before US full file Of
the Belfast Free Press, Of which Mr.. Smart
boasts /, have been the exclusive political cdi-
tor from the day II was started until Its cxis
tepce was merged with that Of the Rockland
Democrat. From that file we shall proceed to
show the totally abandoned manner In which
Smart approved the whole Lecomptou yillainy,
so long as there was any hope Of inducing
President Buchanan to re-appoint him Collcc-
tor Of Belfast
its labors on the 10th OF Nov, 1887. and pro-
yided for submission OF the slavery clause
onIv of the c. Institution on the 2ist of Decem-
her following. The SCHEDULE" which de
fined the mode Of the submission, len the peo-
ME the power to vote for the CONSTITUTION
Nth ,Iarerv," or for Constitution piih no
slarsry;" but II gave them no power whatever
TO reject the Constitution in toto. They were
forced to accept the Constitution whether they
over proyiled that "NO ALTERATION
SHOULD DE MADE IN THE CONSTITUTION
UNTIL AFTER 1884," and then only upon "a
vote OF TWO-THIRDS OF THE LEGlSLA-
TURE." And In addition to all these tyranni-
cal and outrageous provisions the Schedule
wound up with the following astounding delar-
AUG" %cBHUrNo ALTERATION SHALL DE MADE
IN THE CONSTITUTION TO AFfECT THE
RIGHT OF PROPERTY IN TliEOwNERsHlP
I, must be remembered also that tho miscrc-
ants who manufactured this piece OF pro-slav-
CIV ,illainy were all elected by fraud fraud
40 corrections that Gov. Robt. ]. Walker himself
declared that at oxford and MCGEE precincts,
,rh,Ts serenteen hundred rotes were reported,
moi Grtv legal rioters resided. The whole affair,
tor rsscslty and brazen.faced outrage, stands
unparalleled In the political records OF this
country. Nevertheless as soon as Ephraim X.
Smart learned that President Buchanan intend
eli TO endorse tho swindle, he FASTENED to APP
prove il and defend all the villainy OF Atchison,
Tn The Belfast Free Prsn Of Nov. "a, 1857,
there Appeared . lengthy article. supporting
the whole Lecompton villainy. In that article
Smart said /; I...f.
"we have read the schedule OF the Constitu:
ton Of Kansas, 70 be submitted 70 vote OF AL
the citizens OF that Territory on the 2ist day
Of December. n sAosId b ssfit factory to srsry
citizen of tie Uniied States. II provides that
all white inhabitants may vote for the Consti-
! tuition with slavery" endorsed on his vote,