Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1858 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1858.

SLAVE AND FREE STATES.

-. Modern Democracy requires but FORTY THOUSAND inhabitants to make a Slavje State, but it takes NINETY-THREE THOUSAND to make a Free State;.ergo, one Pro-slavery man is as good as two FreeState men and one-third! long as God allows the vital current to flow through my veins, I will never, never, NEVER, by word or thought, by mind or will, aid in admitting one rood of free territory ,to the everlasting curse of human bondage.—Henry Clay.

Republican Ticket. STATE TICKET. Attorney General, WILLIAM T. OTTO, of Floyd. treasurer of State, JOHN H. HARPER, of St. Joseph. Auditor of State, ALBERT LANGE, of Vigo. Secretary of State, WILLIAM PEELLE, of Randolph. Superintendent of Public Instruction, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion. Supreme Judges. FIRST DISTRICT, HORACE P. BIDDLE, of Cass. SECOND DISTRICT,. ABRAM W. HENDRICKS, of Jefferson. THIRD DISTRICT, SIMON YANDES. of Marion. FOURTH DISTRICT, WILLIAM D. GRISWOLD, of Vigo. Por Congress, • < SCHUYLER COLFAX, of St. Joseph. State Senator, DAVID TURNER, of Lake. Representative, ROBERT PARKER, of Jasper. Prosecuting Attorney, JOHN L. MILLER, of Tippecanoe. COUNTY TICKET. Treasurer, EZRA WRIGHT. Sheriff, W. J. WRIGHT. Commissioner, JOHN LYONS. A Surveyor, i , J, D. HOPKINS. ’ Coroner, THOMAS S. PEACOCK. 1 Township Assessor,

(giy’Colfax and Walker are to have a political discussion this afternoon at South Bend. Addison Parkison will please accept our thanks for a lot of good cooking apples; and Mr. Theodore Sedwick for a lot of water-mellons, musk-mellons and pumpkins. ■> T’ * • “ ~ ot7“Mehaffey, the editor of the Democratic Union, a mushroom Democratic campaigner published at Winnemac, Pulaski county, has run off, leaving numerous creditors to mourn his departure. (J/y”M r . Snyder complained, one day last week, that C„W. Henkle and T. A. Knox had gone out into the country electioneering against him. If this were true, it was very ungenerous in those gentlemen, for Mr. Snyder did all he could to elect them in the fall of 1855. of all sorts of lying handbills, circulars, &c.,which will see the light for the first time on the morning of the election. Pay no regard to anything sprung at this late day, no matter what quarter it may come from. They were at work at the Expositor office yesterday, (Sunday,) and on Sunday night their press was at work. This shameful operation was witnessed by our citizens from the street. Their "deeds are deeds of darkness, and they shun the light. j ■■ Democrats have printed the name • f Alex’.'McDonald on their ticket for Senator. He was elected by the Republicans of Lake to the lower House two years ago, and they repudiated him for violating his pledges in regard to the Calumet Dam in that county. He was before the Republican Senatorial Convention last July for nomination, but did not get one vote. He then applied to the Democratic Convention, held one week afterward, but J. N. Skinner received the nomination. McDonald succeeded in running Skinner off the track,and the Democrats take hitn up as their champion.

POLITICAL DISHONESTY.

The Expositor published two weeks ago, several falsehoods about the Auditor. The editor then promised to publish a card from the Auditor on the subject. The card was furnished and the last number of the Expositor announced that it would be inserted in the next issue— after the electio?i! The same paper reiterated the falsehoods lagainat the Auditor last week. This is infamous.

THE ELECTION TO-MORROW.

Fellow-citizens: To-morrow you. will be called upon to decide at the ballot-box great and momentous questions—questions which will decide and shape the destiny of this Republic, for weal or woe, for" years to come. It is to be decided to-[motrow whether the State of Indiana will unite with the other free States of the North in rolling back the car of despotism and slavery, which has been making such rapid headway during the last four years. It is to be decided to-morrow whether Indiana shall be found, through her Representatives in the lower house of Congress, striving- to foster the curse of slavery on “bleeding Kansas,” and other Territories to be hereafter erected out of the vast domain of the Republic; or whether she will stand up nobly for the rights of the free white men—the working men—the “mudsills of society.” To-morrow is to be decided, so far as Indiana is concerned, whether the policy inaugurated by Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Adams, is to be cars' ried out; or whether we will still submit to the usurpations of Pierce, Buchanan, Can-dle-box Calhoun and Bogus Bright'-—whether freedom is to be national and slavery sectional, or slavery national and freedom sectional—whether this great Republic is to go on prospering as in the days of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Clay, the beacon-light for the oppressed of all nations, and to which those fettered down by the chains of the despots of Europe look with longing eyes; £* . • or whether it is to degenerate into an immense slave oligarchy,riveting the manacles still tighter on the oppressed and down-tred-den. ’ . Freemen! We appeal to you to weigh well these matters, and then deposit your ballots as your conscience shall dictate, and for which you will be willing to answer to God for the consequence. Scrutinize the character of every candidate presented to you for your suffrages, and vote for no man unless you believe him to be honest and capable. Flingall partisan likes or dislikes to the winds, and select the men whom you know will serve the interests of their constituents the best. We say to men of all parties, as you love your country, vote for no man merely because he is the nominee of your party ;“t»ut vote for those only in whom you have the utniost confidence. If you will do this, and follow it up, we will have no corrupt political parties in our country, for they will know that the moment they stoop to fraud or trickery, in that moment they will lose the confidence «and support of the misses. The free and untrammeled liberty of the ballot-box is the greatest liberty which freemen can have, and they should guard it with jealous vigilance. Let not the cry “don’t scratch your tickets” deter you from doing right, but scratch every man, whatever party you belong to, if he does not come up to your standard of moral and political honesty. Freemen! Remember that if the Democratic State ticket, or Walker, McDonald or Snyder are elected, it will be heralded as another victory of Lecompton and the Administration. If but a tythe of the truth were known Concerning Mr. Buchanan’s management of the affairs of the General Government, and the frauds perpetrated upon the people of Kansas through the instigations of the Administration, the masses would desert the Democratic party by thousands. The President declared war against the j>eople of Kansas—took to his bosom the viper Calhoun and the notorious Jack Henderson, who did everything in their power to defeat the oft-expressed will of the majority in Kansas—he recalled Walker and Stanton, two honorable Southern men, because they endeavored to give the people of the Territory some show of fairness—he promised to the country that the people of Kansas should have the opportunity of voting for or against Jheir own Constitution, and that they should regulate their domestic affairs in their own way, and afterward endeavored to prove that he did not mean what he said—he removed postmasters for having the manhood to oppose the Lecompton swindle, while he retained others in office who were notoriously unfit for that position—he bribed Congressmen to- support Lecompton, by the promise of Federal patronage, who were wholly opposed to the swindle—he stooped so low in his vile career, that no transaction was too mean, no trick too dirty, no maneuver too contemptible, for him to perform in his mad attempt to subvert the i free institutions of the country-r-and he has attempted to force through Congress, by cracking the whip of party discipline, that

essense of corruption, fraud and villainy,the Lecompton Constitution. Freemen! We repeat, do your duty, and do it fearlessly, regardless of parly lines. Vote conscientiously, and all will be well.

MR. SNYDER’S SPEECH.

The speech of Mr. Snyder at this place last Tuesday was a nondescript one—indescribable) There never was a speech delivered like it in this town, and we trust, for the sake of the good morals of our village, that another such speech never will be delivered here. It frequently brought the blush of shame to the cheek of every decent man present, to think that a man placed in nomination for the high position of law-maker should stoop to language fit only for a bawdy house. We will notice a few points in the speech, avoiding those parts where the speaker was too indecent to be reported in a family newspaper. Mr. Snyder said we had published a street rumor, when we announced, some months ■go, that Mr. James E. Ballard had challenged him to run for the Legislature on the Lecompton issue. Mr. Ballard gave us permission to publish his challenge, and Snyder knew it. He then asserted that the Gazette was not a reliable paper, and to prove it he referred to the popular sovereignty (so-called) resolution adopted by the Sth of January Convention. As published in this paper, the resolution offered by Mr. Wallace read “now and hereafter” no Territory should be admitted, &.C., while in the one which was adopted the word “now” was left out. Mr. Snyder said he had received a lett&r, which ' he did not produce, from Mr. Wallace, denying that he had written the word “now” in the resolution. 'Mr. Snyder neglected to add that the resolutions were copied inb. this paper from the Jasper Banner of the 14th of January last, and for which we gave proper credit at the time. Rather a slim show for bringing a charge of unreliability I against this paper, but “drowning men catch at straws.” In speaking of the transfer of the Wabash Canal to the bondholders, Mr. Snyder fully ] illustrated it in this manner: “Suppose you,) friend Shriver, held a note against Mr. Hur-j ley for SIOO, and he was unable to pay it. ; You then should offer to take a fine-horse of Mr. Hurley’s for the debt, and Mr. Hurley ’ should say that it belonged to his family, and his wife apd children would not part with it, but if they were willing you could take it. You go and talk to them, and give' them eqc'h a bright golden dollar, and they '; consent to part with the horse. That is the way the bondholders came in possession of the canal.” Just so—apt illustration! And that is the way they expect to get rid of it, again—by making free-use of the “bright j golden dollars!” Mr. Snyder seemed to un- ' derstand that fact pretty well. He then referred to this paper of January 21, and redd: “Senator Douglas, in his present position in regard to Kansas, is advocating pure Republican doctrines;” but read no further. Had he read further he would have seen this: “We failed in our efforts to place in the White House a man opposed to the extension of slavery, and our only hope rested on the people of Kansas.— We knew that they, if left; free and untrammeled, would exclude slavery.”— We now indorse all we said then. While Douglas and the Republicans we striving for the principle of submission of Constitutions to the people, the President and Bright and Fitch were opposing this “vicious doctrine,” and Snyder was noisily upfiolding them. He asserted last Tuesday that Douglas wts right on this question, admitted that Buchanan was wrong, and then insisted that there was no difference between them! Beautiful logic, which none can appreciate as well as Mr. Snyder. He said that, although Buchanan is wrong in this matter, yet he had done enough of g’ood to have his name inscribed high on the page of glory; but forget to tell what good he had done. He said that Buchanan’s argument in favor of Lecompton was unsurpassable, as a legal argument, and still he now opposes this “unsurpassable” argument. An admirable illustration of this gentleman’s ability to blow hot and blow cold in one breath. “I believe,” said he, “that Buchanan is honest, and if he has erred, I will still support him! Lecompton is a dead issue—it is no longer before the people. Why dig up the dry bones and stinking flesh of dead Lecompton and fling them as stink pots at the Democracy! Soldiers sometimes throw stink pots at the enemy, and the Republicans are resurrecting Lecompton and throwing it as stink pots at us!” Poor«Lecompton, AntiLecompton, Douglas, Anti-Douglas, Buchanan, Anti-Buchanan would-be Representative David Snyder! So he finds that the Lecompton “stink pots” are being hurled at him. Poor fellow! we pitty him—ipdeed we do. They will fly thick and fast to-mor-row, in the shape of paper pellets, and before the sun is down he will he buried under a mountain of “stink pots!” He here related a very vulgar anecdote about p dog jumping through a window and running off' in the dark, which no one seemed to appreciate Shame. , » He said it was not right that Territories should be admitted as States with a less population that 93,420. The clear inference

from this is, that as Kansas refused to come in with 40,000 under slave Lecompton, she must stay out until she has a population of more than double that amount —40,000 is enough for slavery, but far too small for freedom. He then said that John C. Forney’s rpime is now enrolled high up on the list of infamy. Forney’s offense is that he supports Douglas and opposes Buchanan—and yet Mr. Snyder claims that he is a Douglas man! Wonder if he knows that his name ought to be “enrolled high up on the list of infamy!” Here Mr. Snyder acted the low buffoon again, insulting his audience by relating another vulgar story about “the best thing to its looks he ever saw.” No one Appreciated it however, but a little boy and a stump-tail dog—the little boy haw-hawed, and the stump-tail dog grinned and wagged his stump tail. The speaker then gave the Gazette another round of abuse, and said it published wilfull and deliberate falsehoods, but did not point out one. We thougt of “stink pots” again. ' Mr.-Snyder believed that the editor of the Washington Union was an abolitionists, because the Black Republican papers throughout the country are quoting him as authority! The little boy haw-hawed again, and the stump-tail dog grinned and wagged his stump tail once more. The speaker then again “pitched” into the Gazette, and called it the most corrupt of all corrupt sheets. “Blistering brands of falsehoods,” said he, “shall rest on the head of the editor of the Gazette!” “Stink pots and bright golden dollars!” thought we. He then branded two men with perjury, but he did not name them out. In this part of his speech lie was exceedingly pathetic, and while he spoke of those two individuaals kneeling on the stool of repentance — beg pardon—kneeling on the altar of perjury, t would have forced tears from a brass monkey, hud there been one present. As it was, the little boy drew his snotty coat cuff across his snotty nose and sniveled in sympathy with the speaker, while the stumptail dog hung down his stump tail. It was an affecting scene, but the audience didn't know what he was driving at, and couldn’t see the point. In conclusion, of all “stink pots” we ever read of that were used in war, David Snyder is the most dangerous, for he stinks friends and foes alike. « Henry S. Lane spoke here last Wednesday, according to announcement. The day was wet and very disagreeable, yet the Court House was as full as it could be crowded, and the audience was edified and delighted with the most telling speech delivered here this campaign, as was fully evinced by the frequent bursts of applause that made the welkin ring. We must say that Colonel Lane is the best stump speaker that we have ever heard. It is a pity that the “Old War Horse” had not time to speak in every county in the Ninth District.

JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY.

In the days of Jefferson it was considered disreputable for a Federal officer to interfere With elections. Jefferson thought it “inconsistent with the Constitution” lor ofon the Executive of the Union to attempt to control or influence the free exercise .of the elective right;” but in our day the practice is far different from that of the, founder of the Democratic party. Now all the officers holding offices under Buchanan are laboring to their utmost to defeat the will of the peoplb. The following is a circular issued by Mr. Jefferson while President of the United Stajes: “The President of the United States has seen with dissatisfaction officers of the General Government taking, on various occasions, active parts in the election of public functionaries, whether of the General or State Goveanments. Freedom of elections being essential to the mutual independence of Government, and of the different branches of the same Government, so vitally cherished by most of our constitutions, it is deemed improper for officers depending on the Executive of the Union to attempt to control or influence the free exercise of the elective right; and further, it is expected that he (the officer) will not attempt to influence the votes of others, nor to take any part in the business of electioneering; that being deemed inconsistent with the constitution and his duties to it ” Voters of Jasper county! we have just learned that your county Auditor, Recorder and Treasurer have locked their offices in your faces, and have gone to the country to electioneer. These men and Mr. R. H. Milroy are now out on the track of Mr. Snyder, when they dare not meet him face to face. Let the hounds yelp.— Expositor. Mr. Berry— Sir: The above is too malicioualy, wilfully false, with intent to do a a wrong. If you are a gentleman, you will correct it in my case. You did it knowingly, to gratify your malice. When you penned it you was informed at the time that it was false. I have no enemy to punish, nor friend to reward. I have always endeavored to attend to my own business and let my neighbors alone, and hope hereafter you will follow my example. You will please give this an insertion in your next issue. Respectfully yours, Oct. 9, 1858. C. W. Henkle. [And we pronounce the article false in regard to the other officers. No office has been shut up while the officer was electioneering.—En,]

That Letter Acknowledged!

“THE CAT LET OCT OF THE BAG!” LET THE THIEF GO! The letter we published two weeks ago, from an Old-Liner in this place to a gentleman in Indianapolis, has created great excitement. Some of our Old-Line neighbors were almost wild with rage, and they went about the streets calling the editor of this paper a “liar,” and their organ took up the cry and flung the epithet at us. Whenever any two of them met, one would say,“Davies is a liar,” and the other would snv, “Yes, he’s a d—d liar!” and among the busiest ones'* in these delectable street-dialogues was Mr. Snyder. We informed this gentleman last Tuesday that he was not the one charged with writing the letter, and he went ■straight and offered SSOO reward for such a letter with his name attached to it, and repeated the offer in his speech that afternoon. Was that not brave? On Wednesday morn- j ing we informed a young gentleman, the first Democrat who had the manliness to ask us who did write the letter, that Jacob Markle was the author of it, but that we could not procure it until frauds were committed; and within an hour handbills were stuck up, signed by Snyder and Markle, offering a reward of SIOO for a letter written by either of them to any one to send ditchers into ! this county. So, after we had said that the ' letter could not be procured unless frauds ; were committed, Mr. Markle became bold enough to offer SIOO reward for its production. Wc, then, in the paper, “dared them to place the money in the hands of HONEST MEN!” which they did not see fit to do, and the Expositor came out on Friday morning and pronounced the whole thing false—a fabrication. Now, let us see how much truth and how much falsehood there is in this letter, and j on whjch side the truth or falsehood is: 1 Last Friday evening Mr. Markle stated to us in this office, in the presence of Judge Milroy and our workmen, in substance as follows: “He did not write the letter spoken i of, but had written a letter about four weeks \ ago to Wm. A. Patterson, of Indianapolis, who had a contract for ditching in this county for $2,000; that the time for the contract had nearly expired; that it was then favorable weather, and he had better attend to it immediately; that there was work enough laid out for one hundred and fifty extra hands. He also said that he (Markle) had no interest in the matter, except a desire to inform the contractor of the way matters stood* and he also said that Mr. Snyder was the agent of Mr. Patterson, arid had been for j two months—perhaps longer—and that ho (Snyder) neglected attending to it. The contract will expire sometime in November.” Ho, after all, what we stated was the truth, according to the statement of Mr. Markle himself, although he signed a handbill offering SIOO reward for the letter. We asked him why he did not make the above explanation in the Expositor of Friday morning, and he replied that he did not know that the authorship of the letter was imputed to him until Thursday night. We then asked him how he came to sign the handbill on Wednesday morning, if he did not know of it Until Thursday night! This was a stumper, and he answered it by saying he had understood, or it was hinted, that he was the author! His memory was very short not to remember the letter which he | now acknowledges to have written. It is fair to draw probable inferences from ■ his statement, and we proceed to do it: David Snyder, the agent of Mr. Patterson, had neglected attending to the business in time, which, if he had have attended to it two months ago, would not require more than a dozen hands to finish the contract in time. Mr. Snyder has been looking for the nomination for some months at least, and he neo- ° i lected to attend to the work when it would | require but a dozen hands, and waited until oue hundred and fifty were required to complete it. No skullduggery here, we suppose. About four weeks ago, as Mr. Markle acknowledges, he wrote to Mr. Patterson that there was work enough laid out for one hunared and fifty extra hands. Allow two weeks to procure this large number of hands, and we have two weeks previous to election. Again, this number of hands, at ninety cents a day, (the average wages, we believe,) would earn the $2,000, the amount of the contract, in fifteen days. Allow some loss time for bad weather, and they would complete it in at least three weeks, which would keep them employed until after election. In our opinion, it would have been better to have commenced the work two months ago, with a limited number of hands, than to postpone it until it would require one hundred and fifty about election time, when the one hundred and fifty, as soon ns they had voted and served the ends of the wire-workers, would be thrown out of employment—at least, it would have been the more honorable course, and people would then have no chance to talk about the matter. We hope, after this explanation, that some of our OldLine neighbors will now refrain from calling the editor of this paper a “liar.” oO“**lndependeat of other objections to the submission of entire Constitutions directly to the people, how can an intelligent vote be given by those who attempt it!”— Jesse D. Bright.

VOTE FOR CONGRESSMEN IN 1856.

We publish the following vote cast byJasper county for Congressmen in 185f> as a reference: TOWNSHIPS. STEWART. COLFAXMarion 115 . j 92 Iroquois 05 54 Jordan 43 45 Walker... 17 5 Hanging Grove 33 39 Kankakee 17 44 Barkley 37 94 Newton 42 44 Beaver 28 42 Gillam 20. . ” 81 Jackson 48. .' 33 Washington 82 42 Lake. .. ; - 30 2 Votes cast for esich.. . .538 652 5.38 Collax’s majority ....

The Election Law—Who is a “Restdent!”

To show the meaning of the word resident as used in the statute defining the quaL ideations of voters, we quote from IX Indiana Reports, (Supreme Court,) page 477. “To gain a domicile in this State, the citizen of another State must remove, locate, and intend permanently to remain here. Residence without such intention operates no change of poltical rights; and such resident cannot vote in this State. Thus, also, a resident in a county for any length of time, on business, on a visit, fur pleasure/or for any temporary purpose, with intention to return to a domicile elsewhere, or without intention to remain for an indefinite time at least, is no abandonment of the former domicile and uives no domicile in the county where such temporary sojourn is made, and consequently no right to vote at such temporary place of residence.” “By our law no elector can vote except in the township or precinct where he resides. The right to vote, eligibility to office, ami liability to taxation, in one township, are exclusive of those rights and liabilities mall other townships.” ’’Upon a question of domicile, evidence of the conduct or declarations of the party, afterwards as well as before, may be received to ascertain his intention on a particular day. The word “home,” is nearly synonymous with the word “domicile.” A residence, within the meaning of our constitution, is a home. The best definition of domicile seems to be—“A residence at a particular place. Accompanied with positive or presumptive., proof of an intention to remain for an irnlimited time.” “A single man can be no more without a fixed doliiicile than a man ol family: ami though the domicile of the former' innv be more dfficult to find and prove, yet the rules ol evidence by which it is ascertained are the same ns those applicable iu determining the domicile of other persons. This is the law as endorsed by the Sudreme Court of Indiana, and by every other Court that has had the question before them. It is a construction thut*commam’s itself to the judgment of every thinking man. The mere fact of a person living in a certain township on the day of election does riot constitute him a resident or a voter. If he is living there temporarily, for business or for pleasure, with the intention of leaving as soon as his object is accomplished, he .does not gain a residence within the meaning of the law, and consequently is not entitled to vote. It is the same whether he comes from another State, or from anotlier i township or county in the State. It is the same, whether the person is a man of family or a single man. Such being the law, it is evident that persons going into any township for the purpose of working on a railroad, or ditches, or at anything else, with no fixed intention of making that township their permanent residence, but with the intention of leaving as soon as the work is completed, are not entitled to vote in such township. It is notorious that a large majority of persons employed in constructing railroads and in digging ditches are of this, class Their residence is temporary and and not permanent. Yet a large number of votes of this class are polled by the Democracy at every election in this district. It is upon this class of illegal voters that Walker places his rpain hope of an election to Congress; and not content with those already in the district, others are being brought in from Illinois, VVe hold that it is not only the privilege but the duty of every Election Board, when a person is challenged o.r is suspected of being only a temporary resident, to question him in regard to this point, and if it is ascertained that the suspicion is correct, then tell him that he is not a legal voter and explain to him the penalties he will incur by voting. If he still persists in voting, ail good citizens should see that he is immediately arrested and prosecuted.— South Bend Register.

Fatal Railrood Accident.

About one o’clock yesterday afternoon as a gravel train on the New Albany and Salem Railroad was passing through the cut south of the water station, between the city and the Junction, the irrineer observed a man walking on the track. He immediately whistled the engine, but the man took no notice of it. Supposing that he would certainly get off the track he did not whistle down the brakes and reverse the engine until he had nearly reached him. The engine struck him knocking him down and dragging him a distance of thirty yards, breaking his left leg. fracturing his skull and otherwise shockingly mangling him. He was brought to the city and lived about six hours after the accident. He was apparently about twenty years of age. From papers found upon his person it was discovered that he was deaf. He had a pass over the Valley Road to Attica, and it is supposed that he was going to the Junction to take the afternoon train for that place. In reply to some written interrogations from Mr. Foster, of the New Albany and Salem it ail*, road, (who showed the unfortunate young man every attention,) he said that his name was James Greene-—that he lived in Crawfordsville, where his mother also resided.— Lafayette Journal, iit/i inst. (KLrßemember that Hon. Schuyler Colfax done more by his persevering energy in defeating the infamous Lecompton iniquity than-any other member of the House of Representatives.