Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-07


fairly made, should be faithfully carried out with
all the influence of the Government. The election
was accordingly ordered-in the meantime, the
conspirators at Washington sent out agent, named
Calhoun, if we remember Alright, as Land Agent for
Kansas, but whose business, it afterwards appear
ed, was to pcrpetrate the damning fraud upon the
ballOt-box, which for its nquity could only have
been conceived in tho brain of Sde whose partici-
patton in the Plaquemne frauds, in LOuisian, made
him a fit instrument to hatch out such deed of
fraud.
The election over, and the returns being received
by Gov. Walker at the capital of the Territory, it
was found that the polbooks of distant counties,
where it was known there were not over a dozen
two voters, were produced with majorities for the
slave constitution, of 1900 to 1900 votes Calhoun
had been through those countless and with the aid of
the border ruhans who pretended to act Judges of
election had carried out the plans Of his employers
at Washington, unbeknown to Governor Walker.
The latter, of course, repudated the fraud, which
was so unblushing, that it found that the
of the printed directory of Cincinnati, had been
bodily taken out, and pasted in the pol-bOos, the
Snow OF writing them, even, not having been at
tended to! \ holder fraud never attempted
Gov. Walker refused to give his sanction TO the deed
of infamy, by Withholding his attcstation. The con-
sttution, however, which, Mr.. Walker justly
terms it, was FORGERY" was taken up at Wash
ington, and the conspirators forced Buchanan to
make it an administration measure and the faithful
required TO support it under the penalty of the
loss of the smiles of the Executive and of the pap of
the Treasury. Mr.. Walker, hearing of this base
on the part of Buchanan, Immediately resigned,
did his Secretary, and in published statement
exposed the shameless villany which had been per-
petratcd, detailed above; On the presentation of
this constitution to Congress, Buchanan sent for
Judge Douglas, then the Chairman ofthe Committee
on Territories in tho Senate, aud demanded Of him
a support of the to force Through that body
Douglas promptly declined, denounced it as an in
famous swndle, and threatened if it was sent into
the Senate he would oppose it with all the influence
he could bring against it. 1t was this memorable
occasion that the gallant Douglas was attempted to
be ostracised from the Democratic party. Mr..
Buchanan, finding him infexibe, reminded him of
the fate of Mr.. Reeves, of Virginia, Talmadgc, of
New York, and others, who had opposed the illegal
and unconstitutional Interference with the deposites
in the Bank of the United States by order of Prcsi-
dent Jackson, whose removal of Mr.. Duane for his
Roman firmness in refusing to perform adeed which
4 more subtle tool was found to do, was the of
q split in the Democratic party at the time, and is
part and parcel of the history of tho country. AL
luding to the fact that Reeves and others had ever
since been laid upon the shelf public for OPP
posing Jackson's wishes, Mr.. B. intmated that such
would be the fate Of the Little Giant" if he foewed
an administration measure The gallant Douglas
spurned the temptation to his honor and honesty and
boldly replied, -" but Mr. President, you will rcmem-
Der that there is some difference between the admin.
istraon of Gen jackson and that of Mr.. Buchanan"
and bid him adieu. From that moment all the
boodhounds Of party let loose upon the devoted
Douglas. In the memorable contest which subse.
quenty took place in Illinois for Senator, when the
present President Mr.. Lincoln, was the competitor
of Douglas, the whole weight and power of the ad-
ministraton with all the Vaccinations of the conspr-
ators who had cotton up the Kansas fraud were
arrayed against him to PROSTATE him. lie was fol-
lowed up to the end of the chapter, and when was
found that he could carry the Convention for the
nomination of President at the last election it
determined to break up that body, and run a candi.
date in the Southern States where the principal por-
tion of the strength of the party existed. Thus, as
was known and intended by the conspirators, the
election of Mr.. Lincoln secured, and that was
intended to be the signal for the disruption of the
Union, which had been in contemplation for more
than thirty years in the South.
This grand fraud, attempted upon the people Of
Kansas, added to the prior outrage of repeating the
compromise measures was the signal in most of the
free States for the breaking up Of old PARTIES and
the formation Of that powerful organization, thC
Republican, hrty, which secured the election of Mr.
Lincoln.