Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1858 — Presidential Inteference. [ARTICLE]
Presidential Inteference.
When the Lecompton contrivance was before Congress, it was stoutly denied by the Democratic organs, that the President or Cabinet had exerted any influence to trammel or direct the action of Congress. But a voice from the grave has been added to the numerous other evidences of the falsity of such representations. In a letter written at Philadelphia on the 3d of to a friend in Texas, Senator Henderson, since deceased, says: “On the morning of the day the bill finally passed, the President sent for me and made such an earnest and stong appeal to me to vote for the bill, and aid in saving his Administration and the Democratic par-' ty of the North, as to induce me to leave the Senate Chamber and not vote at all, as I would have felt bound to vote against the bill if I had voted.” - inan in Kentucky killed a cow a few days since, in whose stomach was found a large brass ring, a hair pin, and a quantity of hooks and eyea. “Brindl*” had probably swallowed the milk-maid,
