READ AND OIRCULATE!
Facts for t   People o  Mihig I Ian
STATE AND NATIONAL FINANCES,,,I','
AND THE KANSAS POLICY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, 1858., 
TO THE PEOPLE  OF MICHIGAN.    I  office of Commissioner of the State Land Office,
with a perfect familiarity with all the wants of
B__~y th'e State Uentrcl Committee.      |the people and the State.
on eighteen hundred and fifty-four the people    The r-nomination of Hon. JACOB M. leOWiaD
of this State exercised their high prerogative  as Atr.-ey General, is a signal evidence that
through the medium of the ballot-box, to repu- th            lican party will frown upon all peckudiate the "Democratic" party, which had sso  i O i'a and fraudulent appropriation of money
tng held control over the financial and general 1rl,o the treasury, or extravagant and  unnecesaffairs of the State, and placed those affaill  Ar yexpenditures.  He is already known  as a
the hands of the REPUBLICAN party.  After tv. j, or to the former Democratic plunderers of
years of ardent duty, in which the interec:.s of  -,ie public treasury, as well as for his eminent
the State were administered with signal fidelity legal ability.
the  Republican party. was again endorsed by an    The names of JOHN M. GREGoRY, for Superinoverwhelming majority at the memorable contest tendent of Public Instruction, and  WITIER J,
of 1856; and the De'm6cratic party, which, with BAXTER, Esq., for the Board of Education, are
unblushing impudence then sought to be restored already widely known for their devotion and zeal
to power, was again rebuked and repudiated. in the cause of Education and Common Rchools;
Another important campaign has arrived, and and this important trust cannot be confided to
the REPUBLICAN party submits its claims for an- better or. safer hands.
other and third endorsement at your hands,  It   The eminent fitness and ability of each candiis with a deep and sincere consciousness of the date apon the State ticket, for.he various posihonest and frugal administration of the interests tions for which they are nominated, not lens than
of the State, by the past and present Repnblican the high moral character of the individual, is a
administration, that your endorsement  is again strong guarantee to the people that the affairs of
asked, with the fullest confidence that it will be the State will be administered with marked frugiven with cheerfulness and zeal. Thfe Republi- 1 gality, wisdom, prudence and integrity, by the
can party have sought to retain the confidence candidates above named, whom we have the foluof the people, ill the sterling character of the est assurance will be triumphantly elected, by au
State ticket which has been placed in nomination honest and discriminating constituency.
to administer the future interests of the State.    Opposed to this judiciously selected ticket,
The Hon. MOSES WISNER, of Oakland County, asking for the suffrages of the tax-paying voters
en3oys an enviable reputation as one of the most of Michigan, is the ticket of the Democratic
able arnd profound lawyers and statesmen in the party, endorsing the infamous Dred Scott  decinorthwestern States.  His adlministration, as Gov- sion-endorsing the infamous pr-.o-slavery policy
error, will be wise, just and judicious           of the  National Administration, bv which  the
Hon. EDM-fUND  B. FAIRFIELD,  candidate for fetters of slavery were sought to be -fastened
Lieutenant Governor, has alreadv distinguished | upon our free brethren of Kansas, by a system
Pbiself by his learning and abilitv no less than of force, fraud, perjury and bloodsheed, that has
by his thrilling eloquence, in the Legislative disgraced the administration of James Buchanan
Has of the State.                                 and brought a stain upon our natioaal character  -NsELSo  G. ISBELL, for Secretarv of State, and  endorsing also the attempt of the National DemoHon. JOlIN McKINNEY, for State Treasure, are cratic administration to admit a slave State with
also widely and favorably known as sound states- i one-third  the population that it required for the
men, in the past legislation of the State, and wi!,dmission of a free State; and, furthermore, enbe found both " capable " and  "honest " in the  dorsing the flagrant frauds and pecilations upon
faithful discharge of any duty imposed  upon the State treasury, by which hundreds of thousthem.  John  McKknney has akeady served the ands of dollars were  fraudulently abstracted by
State, for four years, with  strict integrity and Democratic officials, previous to the reign of the
general satisfaction.                             Republican  party.   With singular assurance,
DANIF.L L. CASE, of Ingham, is eminently fitted'and a total disregard of the sentiments of a libfor the important office of Auditor  General; erty-loving people, this party, whose  leaders
while Hon. JAMES  W.  SANBORN,  of St. Clair., have fattened upon the public treasury, by the
w,l admix"ster the interests of the State in the fraudulent ard unauthorized use of the neodles'
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money, throagh a long series of years, now again
ask to be restored to place, to power, to plunder,
and to confidence! IlWe have the mosst abidin.g
eon,fde,ce thut their wishes will not be yrottf    wed.
Writhing in all the agonies of starvation, the
leaders and journals of the repudiated Democratic party are resorting to the most desperate
measures of detraction, in reckless assertions
towards the Republican party and administration,
to frighten the people into a change of policy.
It is no less with a view to meet these g,roundless charges, and furnisih a complete answer to
all these falsehoods, and vindicate the integrity of
the Republican administration, by placing the
fdcts before the people, than to exhibit the frauds
and maladministration of the Democratic party in
past years, that the Republican State Central
Committee have deemed it appropriate to issue
this document;  the facts and information in
which are compiled from official sources, and may
be relied upon against whatever inventions may
be put forth during the campaign.
The frauds upon the peoples' treasury, already
discovered, while the Democratic party was in
power, are too palpable and glaring to be so soon
forgotten or forgiven by the people; while we
challenge the utmost scrutiny as to the integrity
with which State affairs have been administered
by the Republican party, regaidless of all reckless and unfounded assertions.
Democratic R~eceipts and ]PrOducts,
Down to January 1, 184-3, received in cash on bonds, and
other acknowledged State indebtedness,..$3 535,334  24
Received atf U. S. 600,000 acres of landl,
worth $1 2.5 per acre,.......................  625,000 00
Trotl receipts to 1843,.............$4,160,334 24
Produt~cs.
Mlichigran Central R. GR. sold for... $2,000,000
Southern       "...   500,000
2,500,000 00
Add interest from January, 1843, to 1846,
when the rainroadh were sold, say,         339,660   76
Total loss i n 10 years,........   $X,000,000 t00
This was the irst exploit in Democratic  financeeying in our State affairs.
Thec way' they Poeketedl the Surplu~ Inter                       est.
The total receipts into the Treasury for seven
years, from 1848 to 1854 inclusive, and tile cash
balances  on hand at the end of each year, were
as follows:
1848,.......................... $;392,693 00   $52,736; 98
1849,.. - 3x9~44,16.5 06......55,587/ 47
185,......................429,941 92 363,057 85
185,......................414,390 18  92,391 21
18~~~~~~~52,................1,0)82 97 116. 5552St
18Fw:3,..; ~655,667 86S....$75,773 68
1848,...........................i32630 599;9
1858,..............~............. 2,4 233078
1851,..............~.............443O1 2312
1852,................ 1,) 9 1355S
1855,........................... 1,9 75,3040
186,.....................610,699 97 5,30408
31,48,640 96 1,287,116 43
Snowing that the annual average of balances
for seven years was $183,873 78y
During the three years of Republican admin.
istration the annual balances, in cash, have been
as follows'
1855,...................$5167626!3
18   5.................................   88,015 77
1857,.....:........................ 158.690 33
Total balance for three years,.....,06~,329 343
Being, an annual average of $534,443 11.
Upon that annual average in the hands of the
n Republican party, for three years, there was paid
into the State Tre  asarer y by the pres ent   State
Treasurer, for interest account upon the balances,
the sumn of  ~6][4S4  55.-                       -
During the seven years Democratic rule, with
an annual average of $183,873 78 on1 hand, they
paid into the Treasury, on interest account, the
astonishinyg sum of $1,53 S6!'
grow thle Delancratic Party mlade the SIate
Debt.
When the people of the State assumed State
sovereignty, the Democratic party being in power, proceeded to encumber  the people with a1
State Debt as follows':
General Fund Bonds, act of Nov. i4, 1835.....  100,000
Five Moion Loan bonds, act of March 21,1837,. 5,000,000 B
Penetentiary bonds, act of April 19, 1837,..... 40jO    Up
Pafmyra and,Jackson~burg R g bondss, June2'2,
1837,......................   2.900
S~.ate Pe'etentiary bonds, act ef Mar. 22,'38,.  207000
Detroit and Po-ntiac R ER bonds, act of 5tateh
5, 1838,                                     3,000thesu.......m of I00,05
UniteSrity bond.s, act of April 6, 1838,.......... 100 Dsc00
Aliegan and  atrhasll B. R bonds. act of Apria
6, 1838~....................................I.0;000
Ypsiianti and Tecumseh R. R. bonds, act pof
April 6;        i 0..........................i,0   a..t.. ihi$,50
Delinquent T.ax bnds, 1839,.................. 3,0000
Interest bo ds? March 8, 1843................36,34
TotaM Debts to 184=3,...,...,....,.,...... 5,974,3')4
The bunlglting and fraudulent way in which the
Five  Million Loan  was  managed-the  entire
bonds being handed over to irresponsible parties
before one tenth part of their value had been
reived-lost the State several hundred thou —
sand doears, and cost it the charge of "repudiation," among  the bond-holders, for refusing to
pay the bonds upon which nothing had been received by the State-however much had been
received and used by individual Democrats o
private account, as in the case of a fraudulent
re-issue of bonds in 1854.
Slight difference betweeni Democratic and
lEepublican ratio of Interest.
The rate of interest paid upon the annual balances for seven years, by the Democratic party,
was L.ESS THAN ONE-FOURTH1 PER CENT!
althoughh the law required theml to pas not less
than one per cent.
The rate of interest paid upon the balances for
three years, by the Republican party, was OVER
SEVENTEEN PER CENT upon the average
balance for the average  time; and at a ramp
SIXTY-SIX TIMES GREATER than the intern
est paid into the Treasury under Deqroerati~
r?4~e.
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the  treasury,  fortunatel, was depleted of  only
$450, which, with the  interest up  to  this date,
makes an aggregate of abo't  $675.  We  simpy
submit a copy of the  vouchers of the  transmction, with the remark that the Attorney General
has  commenced  suit, also, for the  recovery of
the amount.
STrATS O' MICRGAN, To Geo. W. Peck, Dr.
May 7,1853.-To binding 4,500 copies of Session Laws of
1853, at 10c,...............$450 0
The above is correct.
ROD. R. GIBSON, Dep. S,ec'y of State
f4p50 00.  Reeeived of the Auditor  General a warrant
upon the Trea,surer of the State of Michigan, for the so
of four hundred and fifty dollars and........... cents, m
full of the above amount.            GEO. W. PECK.
Lansilng, May 19,1853.
STrAS OF MICHTI.A, To Geo. W. Peek, Dr.
May 7, 1853.-To binding 4,500  copies of Session Laws of
1853, at 10O................... $4 50  00
The above work bae been done, and the number of
copies    have been delivered.
ROD. R. GIBSON, Dep ec'y State.
$4:0 00. Received of the Auditor General a warrat
upon the Treasurer of the State of Michigan, for the snm
of fdur hundred and fifty dollars, and........ cents, in
full of the above account.           GEO. W  PFCK.
Lansing, Au;,. 15, 1853.
the  amount  of  $73,4:46 13 withheld  by
Democrats from the Treasury, In Interest.
Amount due the State on interest account, from 1848 to
185$, bv the Drmocratic p-rty, at the same rate paid
by the Republican State Treasurer for three years past,
was, say..........................  $75,000 00
Amount actually paid by Democra~tic party,..  1,553 86
Amount retained for private use,.......... $73,446 14
Being a GRAND AVERAGE of over $10,492
A YEAR FOR SEVEN YEARS!! which went
from  the pockets  of the Tax-Payers  into the
pockets of Democratic  officials, and Democratic
leaders, for private purposes!
The Democrats Last Grab —Another $60,0f0
Gone.
One of the most bare-faced and audacious
frauds practiced upon the treasury by the Demo 4ratic party, after it had been repudiated at the
ballot-box in 1854, was a lot of fraudulent claims,
which were dug up and allowed during the last
month of their power-in December, 1854-and
which they did not put into their last annual re port.  These were all old exploded claims, which
had been often examined  and rejected many
years before, while the claims, and all the circum:stances and facts  connected  with them, were
fresh in the knowledge of former State Auditors
,and Legislatures.
These fraudulent claims were allowed, as follows:
5ee..2,1854 -Gilbert & Co., damages bv                         reason  of mis   replresentation of the Comm:ssioner of Internal Improve   ment made to induce a low bidding on  etting contract
on Clinton and Kalamazoo Canal,....,.......$2,2~. 29
Phoenix Blul4k, Nh. Y., claim for adeyance oaf $16,40)
on Sta,te Bo,nds delivered Cshlier Farmers' &
Mechanics' Bauk, Detroit, by order  ov.
Mason, for use of the State, March 13,1838,
and'interest there-n,........................ 35,6)3 74
,Dee. 15, 1854 -Job Brookfield, second branch of
claim, bein? for expenses and costs of stuit itn
defence of his title to fractional quarter of Sec.
35, T. 7 S. range 17 W., and for depreciation
in value of said land in consequence of action
of the State,............................... 4,3Ol
Bronson, Knig ht & Ingalls, claim for damages by
reason or misrepresentation of Commissioner
of Int. Imp., to induce a low bidding on letting
contract on C i.ton and Kalamazoo Caal,  6,234 78
The  aggregate amount of these claims, with
the interest to this timne, is mnore thaz, sgixt/ thouys,and dollars, taken out of the money paid into
the treasury by the tax-payers of the State, and 
distributed among those leaders who had access!
-to the State vaults! 
The  Phoenix  Bank  claim, thus fraudulently
abstracted from the treasury, has been sued fot1
and a judgment  obtained, by Attorney  General
Hon. Jacob  M. Howard,  and  the case is now 
pending in the Courts of the State of New York.   h
"The Bank,  wishing to  delay payment,  has appealed the case from the Superior Court,  Judge
Hoffman, to the full Bench, where  the former  i
judgment will be confirmed, and the money  -eturned to the Treasury. 
Another Grab on a Picayune Scale.               ]
A  twice paid bill, by the Democratic  party                      n
Officials, for the same work, has been discovered  t
by the vouchers on file.  By this picayune grab  a
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FRAUDULENT RE-ISSUE OF STATE BONDS
-ANOTHER $3,000 SUNK.
After the Republican party were entrusted
with the affairs of the State, it was discovered
that the State had been swindled out of the sum
of $2,269 40 by the fraudulent re-issue of State
Bonds to that amount, which it has been aacertained was used in private speculations by a member of the retiring Democratic State administration.  It has also been ascertained  that  the
whole Board of State officials in 1854 were  cognizant of the fraudulent transaction; if they did
not share in the proceeds. The sum, wtth interest
to this time, amounts to about THREE  THOUSAND DOLLARS  more gone from the Peoples'
Treasury.
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expenditures of the ill-gotten pelf of the bal
lance, whose knavery has rendered them the object of so much indignation, suspicion  and contempt with the people."
THE COST OF A FOX HUNT-$3,500 E 9.
Another fraud, which emptied the treasury of
over three thousand dollars, to reward party faTvorites, was the act of pretending to employ an
agent to look after the State lands as indicated
in the following fraudulent allowances:
Il854. Feb. 24. To C. J. Gox, for expenses as agent of the
State, appointed by the Gov.,.  $147 31
May 12. For services as lumber agent, Ju              lyl, 1843, to March 1, 1854,..   660 00
"   Expenses as such agent,from July,
1853, to March, 1854........ 147 31
I  is manifest that the  Boalrd allowed
i, &xpenses (147 31) twice.
But Mr. Fox's account runs on:
185I Sept 21. (. C. Fall, employed by C. J.
Fox, agent for State lands, 92
days, at $1 50 per day,....... 138 00
"4      6  Expenses during same time,.....    95 87
"  C. J. Fox, for services as agent of
the State to prevent tresepass              lDg on the public lands, Feb.
29, to Sept 16,1854,.........   558 90
*'      "  C. J. Fox, for expenses incurred
as agent for State, March 1, to
Sept. 1, 1854','                426 66
THE QUID-PRO-QUO.-HOW THE  "CHOICE
PETS" PAID FOR THEIR ELECTION, AND
SWINDLED THE STATE.-RICII DEMO  CRATIC AUTHORITY.
This grand swindle of the Detroit and Pontiac
Railroad affair, by the Democratic State officials,
is made still more transparent by the further developments of Mr. Hawks.   In the same numrhber
of the  Allegan Record, quoted above, speaking"
of the systQm of frauds inaugurated by the Democratic State officials, Mr. Hawks further refers
to this great swindle in the following emphatic
language:
"The beauties of the system did not fully appear till the choicepets were installed into office,
when,  as the  yuid pro quo for their election,
they (one in the Senate and one in the  House)i
procured the passage of act after act,'for the
relief of the Detroit and Pontiac Railroad Company,' by means of uhich, the head devil, the
Napoleon  of  scoundrels, finally  succeeded  in
shaving the State out of the sum of $120,000."
It is pertinent to remark in this connection,
that JOHN  J. ADAM,  now the Democratic candidate  for Auditor General, was  then Auditor
General; and that GE>. B. COOPER,  now the
Democratic candidate for Congress in the  first
Congressional District, was then the Democratic
State Treasurer, and that both of these Democratic candidates for election in 1858, were connected with the fraudulent compromise of the
Detroit and Pontiac Railroad debt, by which the
State was swindled as above shown.  They are
also among the "half dozes? old hackneyed broiken-downi politicians, as  bankrutpt  its moral
cttaracter as they are in political integri'y,'
spoken of by the Hon. Moses Hawks, one of the
strictest Democrats in the State.
Do  the people of Michigan desire to see such
men again foisted upon the State?
A SAMPLE CANDIDATE, WITH VOUCIHERS.
The  Democratic party have  placed Edward
Kanter in nomination for the important office of
State Treasurer-an office requiring the highest
order of business talents, as wefl as the most sterling and unwavering  iniegrity.  The following
vouchers, paid by the Democratic,-State Auditr
in 1853, show two things; first, the business capacity of the Democratic candidate for Treasurer;
and, second, the dishonesty of the Democratic
party officials in paying for the first translation.
when they knew it was not properly done:
STATE OF 31.tlG.AN,
1853.                     To, Edward Kanter, Dr.
ean'y. For translation of the Governor's Annual
Message into the German Language,... $75 0(O
(Upon the above voucher is the following endorsement:}
"Allowed and paid at $50 00, Feb. 11, 1853."
Here follows another voucher  for the same
worl  done over again, and paid  for.again, to
Amount of gr.Fox's a llowances,........... $2,173 15
Th e amou      nt  of  his c ollections from trespa s.
ers,      as shown by s me     repor t, is only.......... 29 00
Balanc e  against th e State,...............  $2,144 Is
To be increased by amount paid to Mr. Furlong, for services,............................ 25 00
2,169 15
To A. & E. Goul d,  as Aatorneys in                    pretended
cases, and interest,......................... 1,331 74
Loss t         o the State,.........................  3. 500  89
A GRAND SWINDLE OF $300,000.
I     n  1888   the State loaned     i     ts credit to  the Detmri t  and  Pon tiac Railroad to    the  amoun t of one
hundred thousand dollars, and took ample mortgage security for the payment with the interest.
In 1848 the Democratic State officers fixed up a
compromise or settlement of the whole amount,
by which the $100,000 ample mortgage security
was surrendered by the State, and the sum of
$32,000 only was received in full payment for
Mkhe whole original debt, and interest for ten
years, which had not been paid. Thus, the
State lost the original $100,000 and $60,000t interest, less the $32,000 received on the settlement. The difference over the $32,000 went into
Mhe hands of Democratic officials and favorites.
The whole amount, with compound interest to
this date, would increase the money in the Treasury over $300,000!
The Hon. Moses Hawks, the Democratic editor
of the Allegan Record, and still a leading Democrat in the northwestern part of the State, in the
.ecord of February 15th, 1849, characterised
this transaction as the work of " about half a
&zen old hackneyed broken-down politicians, as
bankrupt in moral character as they are in poStical integrity: some of whom have often been
foisted into ofce by the intrigues and profuse
whole amount and irterest sunk in this swindle is
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another party, because the first translation was
imperfect and worthless:
STrATE OF MICeGAI,
1853.                          To Dr. Rudolph, Dr.
Jan'y.  For re-lranslwn of Mr. Kanter's transla           tion of the Governor's Annual Message, $40 00
Endorsed: "Allowed and paid Feb. 11,1853."
Both these vouchers were audited and paid the
same day, and of course it must have been known
that one of them was a fraud upon the Treasury,
though a favor to a political partizan.  Do the
people of the State desire to elect to office men
engaged in such fraud and incompetency?
A SWINDLE OF $1,200-PROHIBITED BY
THE CONSTITUTION.
The Constitution, chapter 4, section 22, ex pressly prohibits payment  for  "constructive"
printing; but in the face of this plain provision
of the constitution, the Democratic State officials
of 1854-it has been found by examining the
vouchers  on file-paid a fraudulent claim for
constructive printing-or, in other words, paid
twice for the same work, as proved  by the following vouchers:
SrAT  OF MsIunGN, per Sec. of State,
1854.                       To GEO. W. PECK, rlR.
!)ec. 23. To printing Census Statistics, &c., 1854,
composition 3,030,000 emrs, at 3c,....$999 90
Endorsed "Allowed and paid Dec. 29,1854.1"
Here follows another voucher which includes
pay for exactly the same work at -exactly the
same  price-there  being only one composition
for the same charges for printing:
STATE OF MIICH.GAN, per State Ag. Soc.,
1854.                       To GEO. W. PECF_, DP.
Dec. 23. To printing Report of Mich. State Agri          cultural Society, composition 4,858,          770 ems,at 33c,....................$1,6Q3 39
Endorsed Correct, and paid Dec.29, 1854.
The amount of $999 90 was here allowed in
the second voucher, after having been paid in the
first-the Census  certificates being included in
the report of the State Agricultural Societywhich with the interest to this time would have
amounted to $1,280. This sum, which justly
belongs to the Treasury, was fraudulently paid
over to a political partisan, upon a false voucher,
for constructive printing, expressly prohibited
by the constitution!
1852. Priipal account,.............. 602 7F
"    Interest..............1110 72
- 1,713 
Total small items in 5 years, to 1852...... 3,076 K
Original sales of UniversitY lands,............ 612,519 14
Reduced by forfeiture and appsisal,..........  110,397 8
Actual sales,....................$503,121 
The actual amount received on account of these sales of
University lands, according to the reports of Commssioner
of Land Office.............................$271,771 84
Amount received by State Treasurer of the
above as shown by his book..............  246,161 33
mu-nt stolen by Commissioner of Land Office, $25,610 S1
These amounts of fraud upon the University
Fund have been discovered in albrief examination
of the records and reports, and it is confidently
believed that a more thorough examination would
result in still more startling developments. We
now come to the
The  peculations,  frauds and pilfering,,s from
this sacred fund, seems to have been still more
numerous than from the University fund. We
add a brief statement of the condition of the
fund at various times, showing the deficiencies:
Dec. 1,1842. Receiptsonaccountofprincipal,$121,332 73
Amount loaned,....$84,820 03
"    "~  Amount in Treasury, 30,533 59
115,353 59
Stole on account of principal,..........  $5,979 4:
On account of Interest.
Received on account of interest,.............92,127 0
School moneys appropriated,......$69)141 80
Expenses,..................... 10,502 74
In hands of agents,................  1,777 72
Uncurrent funds,.................. 958 00
82,380 26
9,746 7
The above deficiencies are  reported in  the report of Franklin Sawyer, Jr., Superintendent of
Public Instruction for 1842. These are frauds
up to 1842, but to exhibit the total losses in
these funds down to the year 1854, when the
Republican party assumed control of State affairs, we will show the aggregate of receipts and
expenditures.
GRAND THEFT OF $155,70O  57 FROM
THE EDUCATIONAL FUND.
A  careful examination of the official reports
show that the most sacred of all our funds-those
set apart for the education of the youth of Michigan-have not escaped from the thieving and
plundering practices of former Democratic administrations.
UNIVERSITY FUND.
The interest and other items on account of
University Fund received, but not accounted for,
as shown by official record, are as follows:
1847, Interest account..................... $221 24
1848.  Penalty    ".....................  136 29
1849. Interest   "......................186 54
1851. Interest   "............... $689 53           I 
"   Principal.............. 129 50
819 03
1. —The Principal.
Receipts, according to Report of Land Office,.$737,72t 84
Of which was loaned,.............. $84,820 00
Expenses paid,................ 13,587 40
I     n Tre asury,  Nov. 30, 1857,....... 630,742 94  
729,150 3~
Deficiency on account of principal,........ 8.571 50
2. —The Interest.
Total receipts are given at................$667,931 00
Expenditure,.......... $605,837 07
In Treasury, Nov.  30,'f57, 36lll". 3,430 78
- 642,267 8i
Deficiency on interest account,............. 25,663 15
On account of Principal, as above,........... 8,571 50
SalesofUniv. lands,asabove, 25,610 51
Int. and Prin., in small items, as noted above, 3,076 57
Total Principal and Interest..............  62,92I 7
PRIMARY SCHOOL FUND. 
Add "in hands of Agents," 1842,*........... 1,777 72
"  Uncurrent funds,...........      958 p0
Us  worthless  loans  to individuals, suxteen
years ago,f........................... 11.1900 0
$7,,557 45
Ad odimpound interest on $30-602 13; of the
above fbr 16 years,.......................  62.785 38
Add compound interest on $46.955 32 for lbcur
years,..............'.................... 157365 74
GRAND TOTAL.......$1515,708 57;!;
Fiyrst 10.ears, lots in sage o f Railroads,.... $2,000,000 00
Amdmount  (f interest on  ba3lance1,  Lot paid
over..................................    73,446 14
Fad mdunleu ntaeco0nts 2allowed Dec., 1854....... 60,000 00
13lx twice paid to Feck, and interest,.........  675 00
Fraluduilent re issue of Bonds in'-8M,: and in teres.................................. 3,000 00
Elo  Co. Flat C       ap fraud................ 1,377 28
Cost of a Fox hunt,........................  3,500 89
r][ttroit aDD Pontiac Railroa~d swindle........ 300,000 00
Paid Kanter for not translating (~(Werns
message TT............................... 50 00
Cnstrulve pr'ntig to Go. W. Peck,..... 1 280 00
Gratiid t.heta from Edtonal funds........ 155,708 57
Governmen,.  Stock Bank Frau-d............  100,000 00
To^.,atl  a     n/,yt7 d1 (i  t eastey frosm
Teaubcawhhit p e  f egtiaLs.............  $2,699, 037 88
WHAT THE REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE.
That the administration of State affairs, since
the Republican party assumed control in 1855,
have been eminently honest, wise and  frugal, is
a matter of pride with every member of the Republicart party, as well as with every tax-payer in
the  State   Upon the question of finances and expendituaes, we invite the most exacting scrutiny
o f  the  opponents of the administration-with the
fullest knowledge  that not one dollar has- been
stolen from the Treasury-as was so frequently
practised under Democratic rule-and that every
dollar has been properly accounted for, and the
various  disbursements made in accordance with
acts of the Legislature and the provisions of law.
The various reckless charges  made  by  the
Dcneocratic organs, are of the  most groundless
character, and only prove  the desperation  to
which they are reduced in the impudent attempt
to be restored to power, after havirng PLUN DEPRED the State of nearly THREE MILLIONS
OF DROLLARS, before they were ousted in ] 854.
It now remains for the tax-payers of the State to
say whether the former practice of robbery  and
plunder of the State Treasury shall be re-installed
| bv restoring the Democratic party to power and
office; or whether the affairs of the State shall
be continued in the hands of the Republican par ty wnose nominees are known to be men of purity
of character and integrity of purpose.
WHAT BECAME  OF  SS8S,62 71.
When the Democratic plarty surrendered power
in 1854, the last report of the State Treasurer
showed $553,004 08 in the Treasury, which re port was faise-the real amount being only $469, 041 37.  The discrepancy  of $83,962 71 being
spent and paid out during the month of Decem ber, 185,4, in paying the fraudulent allowances to
Gilbert & Co., Rhceinix  Bank, Job  Brookfield
Geo. W. Peck, A. Gould, Elwood & Co., Bronson
Knight & Ingalls, &c., which amounts and transac tions are referred to in previous pages.  As there
is nothing to conceal with regard to the financial
affairs   of the State under the Republican party,
we present a concise statement of them fiom offi eial sources,-allowing $83,962 71 of fraudulent
payments by  Democrats in December, 1854, to
stand, as reported, in the hand of the Republican
Treasurer:
GOVERNMENT STOCK BANK FRAUD-TO    KENS OF DEMOCRATIC HONESTY.
The fraud by which the people of the State
were swindled out of from $65,000 to $100,000
by the Government Stock Bank operation, is already familiar to the tax-payers who lost the
aruaount.  The facts       a re simply    these: the Government Stock Bank, located at Ann Arbor, deposited public stocks, with the State Treasurer
to secure the redemptioa of its citculation. The
stocks were  used  to  redeem the  circulating
notes, when the State officeris in 1854, instead of
eanceling the notes and burning them, as the
law required, took them from the State Treasury
vaults andput thorn into circulation again, on
their own account and for their own private
benefit. Of course there was no Stocks for
their  redemption, and the people who held the
notes had to lose them.  The swindlers them.
selves have boasted of their using $65,000, but
the total amount of notes thus fraudulently put
afloat is believed to be $100,000! and the peo ple now hold this amount of Government Stock
bi as tokens of Democratic honesty!
GRAND RECAPITTULATION —A BIRD'S
EYE  VIEW.
We will' here recapitulate the frauds heretofore
referred to, in order to give a bird's enye view of
Democratic  honesty and financeering in our
State affairs. As will be seen in future pages,
the amount dishonestly abstracted from the Treasury by Democratic officials previous to 1854,
amounts to $319,733 70more thaen enough topey
off the State debt, and would pay all expenses of
State government  at $100,000 a year, for ovetr
twenty-six years to come, or open a free school for
every scholar in the State for an almost indefinite time, or build twenty magnificent colleges,
or buy every poor man in the State a magnificent
farm.    The amount, with inter est, is nearly
Yree Million of Dollars! l
*The Report o-f 1842 reports 1; ai han ds of ag.ents.' th e
sum  of $1,777 72, whlich arpears it hale  Preen in ihe
hands of one Befson, for the rec overy of w-hch a Suit
wr  commenced; but we find no account o f tle svtit having been terminated, or the  money  reeelved:-so we
plaoe the amount to the loss of the fund.
t-These loans, amounting to $11.900, a,s slowen bv the
records, were made m(ostly to polit,cal partsas and favoites, without any adequate seeur;ty being exac-ted for
.the payment, and apparently wi thout any expectation
that it would ever be returned to the Treasurv.  In fact
appears to have   been disbutrsed witlh  he dishonest in
tention of defrauding the  Treasury to reward Political
,svlites,. 
Comrnparison of the Raceipts and Disburs.inents - General Swegles.  The people have listened to
for the fiscal years 1855, 1856 and 1857.       a large amount of insane  groans of the DeioThe amoant in the Treasury at the close of          cratic leaders and journals, about the appropria the fiscalyear endinrg Nov.30,1854, was.  $553,004 08 tions to complete these buildings; but  these,
Receipts during the fiscal yearl85,........ 588,396 93 roans-mere  scare crows to frighten-do not
?otal i..............,..  141,401 01 avail much in the way of political capital among
Disbursements fr same period,............ 62A,777 88 the people who  acknowledge  the wisdom'tnd                                                   necessity  of these Beneficent Institutions, and
e,aviing on hanid ait the close of the fi,cal year
18.55,and at the commencement of 1856,.. 56   13 are willing to appropriate the requisite anibunt
Amount received( durieg the fiscal year of         of money for the purpose  of endowing' them.
1856, was............................511       0 In fact, the people of Michigai, in framiug th6
Total,......................... 1,02 89  3 Constitution under Democratic auspices, provided
Disbtursements fo., s.'me perl, cd 5........,...] 639,879 06 for these Institutions, ard they feel proud eof                                                   their ability to pattern after all Civilized andLeaving OD hand at the close of the fecal year      Christian States in providing Deaf; Dumb, Blind
of 1856, and at the co.men,rnemeni of 1857,,88,015',77
Receipts or fiscal year 185'.c..,.450,653 85 and Insane Asylurlis for the comfort and relief of
Reeps ler15,.45 62  5those who have been deprived of their natural
'o.ai...................f. 838,669 62  aculties for the enjoyment of the various blessD';b:trss..i eni f, r same period............. 679979 g9 ins of life anrd liberty guaranteed by our Repub1p:vin- on handl a.t close o(f lsal year 18.57,     ltcan form of Government.  It would seenm that
acf  tommencement o(f the next;......... $158,6 49  nore but those  bereft of reason, or deaf to ali
The surplus, it will be seen was thus reduced  the impulses of humanity and the influences of
as follows:                                         the Christian religion, would  ever interpose ob18s5......................................$ 36,380 9'jections  to just appropriations for such noble
i5t.................................... 128,o607 36 purposes;  yet we find  the  moral and  mental
18557.................................. 229,  appiness-the  improvement  and restoration',
oal................... 394,313.5 the misery and misfortune of these classes of in                                                   dividuals thrown into the scale with political
WHAT  WAS  DONE  WInTH THE  MeONEY,  capital for the D)emocratic party.  Thus all the
benevolent attempts of Michigan  to follow the
The~tei~.oeat,,ic T,)re,ses have- rais-da blindi                 
Tne Den ocraoic prest  sh e  riextde a blin  example of her sister States, in providing Asyand  insane howl about thl  expenditures of the I r            t u a
that h.ve come.to the ~te Treasu           ms for the unfortunate, are sought to be crush-*
m~oneys that rhave ccome into the State T.easur-v                                    11.
moneys   1,54,  hich idco m uto  -ho the Tre u i  ed out by vile detraction and falsehoods, merely
siiiee i854, wl-,ich  induce~s us to sh~ow the le,,tl- <. -
in.e'd proper  uses to wic   hev have ben.{- that the Dliimdering, pilfering Shylocks of the   matelind. oess T          *h her e  be * n.  -  Democratic party may regain access to the vaults
app~lied. Theile has been, Daid durin~ the tl-r,3e' c     
ed.  ofheehas          benpa id d uring the three of the State Treasury, and again practice their
ye~r,of state debts, iia part. whichIi were madei
by the Democrfate ic p arty many years agoh w d fre    frauds upon the peoples' money, to enrich themby the Democratic party many ve —r- ago,. and -,orslvs ThenrossmooerToctdi
oLmhc-i-  p   u r        p      o     s es, a s   follows: selves.  The enormous sum of over Two  aaod a
other purposes, as folclows                        oth" purpses   slowHalf Aiiiilio7  of Dollar.rs which should be  inm
f~S;~*, debkts. mad~e'by Ilemzo.,r'4t.........................$i60D 305;- 02
Ex    s eq of two   1,i.l, tre.............$.....-   4t111 5  the Treasury, but which has been pilfered awar
.  e priso,  r eair  nd a,htio...........  696    o by Democratic officials as shown in former pa       l,~~ (t~ (k1 rrca  f.,r.i uve~.          e...........  43.770 4(i 1s- re-ought to be a convincing argumnent to them
, tbat having been caunht in the mal-adminristra       ~Expae.es o,,,,ry..................  4 45   ton of public  affairs,  thie people do not agai
Saiane~.,,f,tl4,,              e Is.......... 42,   2  require their services in the same wav-at least
P'.L>hng l ws aq  igilat,;ne m'inting,...11,24 77 -lot until the Iteneficelt Public Works  and AsyAsylrd, 1 t i.; 1e'..' -umb and ine,).  61':.579 9&
A2r.iUc..ulnu,tl t,lle,e    bn...................... 93. 159 46  lnres o! ti tState    are   fluirhid, and the old State
MoIeys pi t  ont ies,                    25.,935 78  State debt c,'eated by the Democrats, is paid off,
Salte Pi7 on expene..........,................ 59.   c  by a ivw vears of prudent and honest administra     I nt,:.-esC     dem')cr-' I2                  tior of at aes  by the Repu;blican patrty.
Aslde from these, the, e are nomeas stale —
disbursements, as providad by the o stitui                    TER APPOPRIATIONS.
. i      nOTHIER AP PROPRIATIONS.
and the laws,S such, as onr acec~lun: of the Sta2.te l' 
A.icnd  the    Sooietuc,    gas on   cnotn  of t je ta  Besides the appropriations to the Asylums. it
cntu i*     ~olo'etys I ees   fro'n Jut ol, will be discovered that the Republicans have taStste Librarv, S Coropers,  Feos Teahers' Inst-l  ken up a lar,ge amount of the State debt contutet, Spoethc Taxes refided to Upper Peninso        ac,ted  by.he  Democratic  party  in years
lar, W-of Iunties  Miliiar          naat r   y oratart n Educas             ton  Posae  1 ormal   h boo  &0  t  t past..   Thegv have  also paid a larg,e amount
X e   or.,-na,  c, &,...   of fIreerest o; thie State debt, which would have
been extinguished long ago had all the money
THE BENEFICENT  PUBLIC'  WORKS.                 f auduie tlv ttken from  the Treasury been ap-.
By tle foregoing.tablee t w,til be seei  that applied by the Democratic  party to that object.
large- appropriat ions have. been made: to corn- Nemlv hall a million of dollers, in interest, has
ptete the Asylums, which w'ee- coiiimenc.ed by been paid by the Republican  administration on
.he Democratic party,  and u:nvon which they ex- the "Trust Fun"'alone, which the Democratic
pendeud about $2,00(0 in 1853 an 825,631 54 in partv borrowed to carry ota the government, and
1854, as appears by the lst reports of Autitor to ebhibit a full Treasary and furnish a arger
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pile to pilfer from-perhaps upon the principle
that small slices from a large d16af would not be
so easily missed!
The cost of en!argement of the State Prison,
facilities to meet the wants of the State, in pros
viding for criminals, has been largely increased
in re-building portions built under the management of Democratic agents, and found to be entirely worthless.  The expenses for the salary of
State officers and the expenses of the judiciary
are regulated by the Constitution and the acts of
of Democratic Legislatures. The endowment of
an Agricultural College for the education of the
farmers' sons of Michigan in the enoblidg pursuits of agriculture and tilling of the soil, is an
endowment that will reflect honor and credit upon the State of Michigan, whose pioneer example has already been followed by several of her
sister States, much  older in the confederacy.
This being a pioneer enterprise by this State,
the Democratic journals, for political  capital,
have made it a point to offer up hideous forebodings of the result, with no untried effort to render ift odious and unpopular,  by falsehood and
misrepresentation,-yet the far more numerous
applications than the present limited facilities of
the College will accommodate, by the farmers
jfiom all parts of the State, for the education of
their sons at their own peculiar Institution, sufficiently demonstrates that the Agricultural College meets with the confidence and hearty approval of the great agricultural interests of the
whole  State, without regard to, and above all
merely party or political considerations.
The awards of the Board of State Auditors
have been published in detail in the annual reports, and will bear the test of the most riged
investigation for integrity and legality.  On the
subject of expenditures, the State Central Committee refer with the utmost pride and confi                             -
dence,  that they have been properly made by
the representatives of the Republican party.
DECREASED RECEIPTS.
Decrease in 1856,........................ 48,976 91
Amount sold in 1856,............ 110,671 98
"    "    1857............ 50,254 55
Decrease in 1857,........................ 60,,417 42
Making the total aggregate decrease of sales
as compared............................ 359,421 18
The sales of these lands: jor 1854 exceed the combined
amounts of 1855,1856 and 1857, in the sum of $89,100 31.
Notwithstanding this decrease in the receipts
of the Treasury, the Republican administration
has promptly met  the State indebtedness as it
fell due, also the iaterest on old Demnocratic State
debts, and thus protected the faith and credit of
the State; and also made the  necessarily large
expenditures for the various Asylums. The
credit of the  State  was neve r so  good a s at   pre se nt, inwe  the  marke t  whre  the  bonds are held,
being quoted highe r, comparatively,  than   those
of any o t her   St at  e  in the Union.
WHERE THEY GOT MONEY TO SPECU                  LATE WITH.
The Democratic leaders boast that they left
towards  a  half a million  sur plu s in  the Treasury.
It will be well to lo ok, and  see wh ere they got
the  money- whet her by f rugal  aud prudent management of affairs, or by  borrowin g i t, a nd pay ing interest upon it.
In his Annu al Repo rt for 1 852, the  Audi to r
General Reports  that the  Dem ocrat ic party had
borrowed a large amount to carry on the government, and stated in his Report that "the amount
due the Educat iona l  Funds are c       onside red permanent loans, and will so remain." They thus
comm enc ed   a system   of appropriating these
Funds by law, which would have been well
enough, ha d they not in vo lved the  Sta te for th e
DIrterest, while   a the   officials used the amount  for
pri vate  speculations without returning any interest to  the S    t              ate for t he u se of it.  The indebtedness                 to the Trust Funds increase    as follows:
1852, due Trust Funds,    $263,080 53
1853,    "        "        466,956  26
1854,    a,             660,174 74
Thus it will be seen how rapidly the Democrats accumulated frnds, and where they got
them from-and how so large a surplus in the
Treasury.   The   fraud upon      the Treasury amounted to over $70,000! wh ich went into   the pockets of individual speculators!  For these large
amounts of money in their hands, for several
years up to 1854, they paid into  the Treasury
only the insignificant sum of $1,553 86! whereas the Republicans, in only three years time, for
the unexpended balances of money on hand,
have paid into the Treasury the sum of SIXTYONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRRD AND
EIGHTY-FOUR DOLLARS AND FIFTY-FIVE
CENTS, being at the rate of 17 per cent, while
the Democrats paid at the rate of less than
one-fourth per cent! Had the Democrats paid
interest for the money they had, at the same per
cent, it would have added more than SEVENTYTHREE THIOUSAND DOLLARS to the Treasury. The Democratic officials used the surplus
funds for private speculations,.loaning them
The great source of revenue to swell the receipts in 1854, the last year of Democratic rule,
was the sale of public lands, which, owing to immigration setting in another direction, has been
falling off ever since.
Receipts, 1854,................... $610,699 97
" 18541...................     588.396 93
Diminution for 1855.....................$22,303 04
Receipts, 18 56,...................5 11,271 70
Diminution for 1856,.......................   77,125 23
Receipts,1857,......... 450,653 85
Diminution, 1857,.......................... 60,617 85
Decrease in three years,.............. 160,046 12
,Comparative 7Tble,f the -Sale of Prim-zry School, Unei,e?  s/ty, Normal School and Asylumn Lands, for 1854, 1855,
1856 arid 1857.
Amount sold in 1854,............$409,675 73
:~  I"    1855,............ 159,648 89
Decrease in1855, $250,026 84
Amount sold in 185         5,........... 159,648 89
" "c    1856a........... 110,671 98 
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out at from 5 to 8 per cent, and pocketed the
amount, while the Republicans have procured
the higheet rate of interest possible where the
funds were deposited, and placed the amount
in the Treasury where  it properly  belongs.
This is a fair sample of the honesty with which
the two parties have managed the affairs of the
State for the interest of the tax payers.
The people have now an opportunity at the
ballot boxes, to choose betweenthe two.  If they
want the old system of peculations, fraud and
pilfering of the public funds, and  all kinds of
dishonest management in State affairs, they will
restore the Democratic party to power; if they
want the affairs of the State prudently and honestly managed,  as they have been since 1854,
they will elect the Republican ticket.
became  due, besides meeting all the    other  rea
quirements of the State, including the large
sums for the   building of t he  Asylums.   This,
with a largely decreased revenue,  as show i n  in a
former article, will be sufficient proof that nothing has been squandered, but all expenditures
have been wisely and judiciously expended.
During the year 1858, $97,000 of the bonds issued to the Detroit and Pontiac Railroad ini 1838,
for which the security was afserwards fraudulently given up, has fallen due, besides $99,000 00
of University Bonds, all of which have been satisfactorily provided for without increasing the
State indebtedness a single dollar.
RATE OF TAXATION UNDER DEMOCRA  TIC  AND  REPUBLICAN   ADMINISTRA  TIONS-100 PER CENT IN FAVOR OF
REPUBLICANS!
The question of taxation is one which appeals
immediately to the pockets of the people. The
amount of taxes levied to carry on the governmeut, by any party in power, for a series of
years, is a good indication of the honesty and
frugality of the administration. With this view
of comparing taxation by the  late and present
administration, we subjoin the following official
table, covering a period of ten years:
DENIOCRATIC.
ABOUT THE STATE DEBT!!
It is an interesting fact, to the pockets of taxpayers, to see how the State debt has been managed by the Republican and by the Democratic
party. A brief statement of the subject will
place it before thG public in a light that must be
convincing to the people as to which party had
better have the management of State affairs.  In
the Annual Report of John J. Adam, Auditor
General, for 1849, he reports the State debt, exclusive of assets, at $2,071,962 90.  From this
time onward, until 1854, the State debt increared, as well as the debt to the Trust Funds, as
we have already shown.  Thus, exclusive of due 
to Trust Funds:
Report of J. J. Adam, 1849,       $1,795,520 46
'     J. Swegl,es, Jr., 1853,  2,339,392 07
J. Swegles, Jr., 1854,   2,531,545 70
There is no account in the disbursement of
money for these years, of any for the payment
-of much of the of interest upon the State indebtedness,  although the  party leaders  and
presses always pretended to the people that they
were promptly paying the interest.  It appears
from this that they never paid interest, but al"lowed it to accumulate and increase the debt,
while they were boasting of the large amount Qf
funds in the Treasury!  We appeal to the taxpayers to say if this was wise policy.  While
Ktiey were paying interest on  the money  on hand,
Key were using it for private speculations and
"Aheating the State out of the Interest!
I per cent
Year.  Valuation.sax. ill
mills.
iS48,*-......... $29,90)8769 300    $150,7163 991  5.04
1849.......... I28,999,202 00 102,404 00. 3.53
1850.......... 29,384,270 00       113,768 00    3 87
1851..........  30,976,270 00      106,000 001   3.42
S e 18542,,.' 30,976 270 00     110 000 00    3.55
1853........... 10,          6    00o 00    0.08
1854;...          120,362,47400 30,000 00    0.25
Total, 390,969,729 y  00      622,892 0      1,59
REPUBLICaN.
1855,11.11I      120,362,474 001     40,000 00 0.33
1856,.......I ~137,663,009 001     65,000 00 0.47
1857,. i 137,663,009 00 85,065 00                  0 61
Total,. 395R,688,492  0 0e,    190,065 00    047
For  7 years under Democratic rule,  a verage  State tax per
year,................................... $88 984 00
Average rate per cent, or mills per dollar, 1lY mills!
For the perio d of th ree years under Republican  rule, av eragl e State  tax per year. only.............at r  $63,335 00
Average rate per cent, or mills per dollar, only 47-100
of a mill!!
Total valuation, 7 years Democratic,.....$390;969,929 00
1   " 3 years Republican...... 395,688,492 00
Total tax, 7 years Democratic,.$622,892 00
"  3 years Republican,. 190,065 00
These       figures     are d eemed  a c omplete answer
to all the charges by the Damocrats of exhorbitant taxation by the Republicans. These figures
show that the average annual tax by the Republicans, since they have been in power, has been
$25,629 less than during the seven years of preceding rule by the Democrats, when  they had
the benefit of very large receipts from the sale
of public lands,  amounting to $90,000 more  in
the single year 1854, from this source. than from
the same source for the whole three years of
1855-6 and 7.  The  rate of taxation for three
THE STATE DEBT THEN AND NOW.
According to the Report of John Swegles, Jr.,
Auditor General, 1854, and the Report of the
present Republican State Treasurer, and also the
Auditor General, the State debt for the two periods was as follows:
Democratic Report, 1854,          $2,531,545 70
Repu'aiican   do  I 8 57,   ]    2,269,467 48
Republiican do 1857,              2,269,467 48
Less now than in 1854,        $262,078 22
Besides the amount that the original debt has
,been reduced, the Republicans have paid about
$272,00': 00 Interest on the public debt as it
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purposes, with which the State administration has
nothing to do.  The result is about the same in
all the counties.
years of Republican rule —and that upon a valuadon of over $96,000,000 greater-has been a
dfference of more th/an one hundred per cent in
favor of the Republicans, as compared with previous years!  The  Democrats  may point to a
low rate of tax for the last two years of their
rule.  This is readily explained.   They omitted
t levy some $40,000 these two years, for Asylm purposes, as the law expressly comitmianded
them to do.  This was  the way they made a
show of light taxes for twe years.  The average
rate of tax by the Democrats for seveii years was
1.59 or over one and a half nills upon the dollar.
The average by Republicans has been 47-100 of
a mill upon the dollar.  Tle difference in47 cents,
and one dollar and 59 cents, shows thle difference
in taxation under Democratic and Reoublican administ,rations.
of the Upper Peninsula, shall Le applied in paying
ANOTHER VIEW  OF TAXES.                     the interest upon the primnary school, university,
The Democratic presses attempt  to charge and other educational funds, and interest and printhe onerouis taggregate taxes in certain localities cipal of the State debt," &c., &c.  The specific
aponr the State administration, whereas thle fault  taxes fiom the mining companies are paid back to
if there is any, is with counties  and towns and the counties in the Upper Peninslla for local imcities.  To show what proportion of the tax paid   provemrents; as provided  by law.   The  speccife
is for State purposes, we will take for' a sample  taxes, therefore, cannot be applied to cariyi.ng on
the county of Wavyne, which is intensely Demo- the government, and that Democratic  tf, u1crtr is
oratic in its local administration.                effectually silenced by the Constitution, as quoted
157. T(et camtv tax,....................... $ta,96.- t, above.
185. Total Sate tax.................-I..11,832 30
The county tax is about seven times gt eater  INCREASE, OF  B[.SINESS AND EXPENSES.
than the State tax.  But we will take thc city of    Tte  gieat bulk of State expenses connected
Detroit for a brighter example of Democratic  with the departments, arises from tle reto:n   and
taxation, as compared with the Republican State collection of taxes, and the expenises increase in
admnistration.  Allow  that the city pays one- ratio with thle business.  In order to show  the
half of the State und County tax, which is comn- extia-vagance  of the Democratic adinriistration
parati'vely not far from the fact, and the taxes  of afflairs, and the economy of th-e  Republic=m
~bw  as follovsi for the city for 1857             aiciinistration, a comparison  of business  fr
o.unty lax for ta he ci,y,. -.          3,2 33 three years under each is submitted.
Si, a ~c  ~'     "................... 5.9?'[ 15
Oit........,................v         12,)72 43      Aitoeint of Uipaid Taxes returned.
;Sers r.......1,........................ 4.651 00 18a5,Derocraet- 4.....................................140,549 89
~%hoo!'c~                   38~~.3 i 35._3,'.......................... 13965 43
R............................ 12,.,701 f5 18547..........................
Side w:,ik txa x...........,................ 5.,                                              38,492 68
)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
267.169 21
155, ~Re p,ian.....................lt0,s8 55
This is a ratio of less than one to 45 of State 5,'..........................),2681 o05
t.,x-or in other words,  while the Republican 1-8572......,C1 00
State administration call upon the tax-payvers of                                            604,986 60
Detroit to pay ONE DOLLAR in taxes, the De;-n                                                 -
cratic government of the  couity of Wayne and   Here it will be observed the business has very
of th.e city of Detroit, call upon them ifor FOR- nearliv doulied in three years under the RepilbTY-FIVE DOLLARS!!  The Democratic Jo0   licanl administration.
n'als and politicians would have  the people be                  eriq o  the  
lieve that the State Republtici administration is                               Ice Desticon.
to bc held responsible for all these taxes, whle    The Democratic journals and politicians have
i' fast it hnas nothing to do with oniy one dollar  been seized with anll agonizing cold sweet on  the
in 45 of it!                                        subject of $25,97 for ice for the offices iin 1857.
A  similar comparison, bv the _LaRsing  State  To show, acecording to their (wn logic, that the
Republican, of the county of Ingham, where there  Democrats actually swindled the  State out of
is no large city tax, shows that the sixteen men nearly $30 for ice in 1 854, we subufit a comparain the county who are assessed the highest-while tive statement:
they pay t total of $715 79 in taxes, only the in- lsemoerats-Jce in 1854........................$41 53
sigificant sum of $27'80 of the above is State Republieans-Ie in 1857.........25 97
tax! leaving $687 99 of the amrnount paid for local                                               15 56
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and that the thing was a; downright swindle front
beginning to end.  Mr. S.Dow Elwood has since
admitted the fraud.  This is the kind of authority
upon which electioneeringDemoratic documnients
are circulated, making charges against the integ-.
rity of the Republican administration!! Will the
people, or "tax-payers and voters of Michigan,"
heed the falsehoods issuing from such sources,
when no proofs bevond their bare assertions are
.offered to sustain their charges?  Another document to the people, purporting to be "issues be-.
fore them,"  and issued by order of the same
"State Central Committee," from the Jacksonian
print, at Pontiac, is alother budget offabrications,
enrtitled to the same credit as the above mentioner
and no more.  Any other similar document that
may appear against the Republicans, previous to
election day, will be of the like character, ard' unworthy of belief or consideration.
forth and are extensively circulating a four page
base coinage as bogus, to say that it was written THE HAND  SLED  AND WHEELBARROW
by Seamuel N.  cGatt, an avowed Democrat of                          QUESTION.
the Douglas, Dred Scott, Slavery extending per-   The Democratic journals have charged  xtrava,
suasion.  This "Republican," alias "Jefferson," gance and attempted to make  themnselves jolly
was elected a Democrattie Justice in Pontiac in over the fact that the Republican State oicers.,
1838-w.ent to Detroit and was elected a Justice  purchased a hand sled at $7, for the economrny and
in 1841; and was remnoved by Governor Barry convenience of conveying docunents and matefor gross. mafeasan ce isc office, on the 21 st June,  rials fiomn and to the State Capitol, fire-proof of1842, upon charges which appear at full length  fices, &c. &c.  That the premeditated dishonestyupon file in the State department.  lie was sub- of those making such charges may be.seen, we
sequently distinguished in connection with ex-  compare similai acco icts in 1854  wth those of
traoi-dinai-y bills for stati.one',-y,  poaket knives, 1857:
&C., for the Legislature in Detroit.                1854.
_:              Feby. 24  Wheelbar..................... $ 1  2
May'2.  Hobbs r  heelarrow.............25...
THilE CIHARACrER OF ANOTIIER DOC-.................. 9 o0
UMENT.                        Nov. 30   iesonforan d Ct.......... 17 06
Those who would be returned, as plunderers, I     ti fr 8t4 ([m ieat...................  8 37
to the State Treasury, have issued another docu- Total r 1857, (I epublican,)................ 7'00
ment, called "Facts for the tax-payers and voters    favo (f Pepubicans...................21  7.
of Mithigan," which is only a tissue of gross misrepresentationrs, falsehoods and unfounded charges
against the Republican adrinistration,. This doc- THE COST 0F A DEMOCRATIC WELL.
ument beiiig thrown broadcast over the State is  t In the accounts audited in 1854 are the foiow-.
signed by the Demnocratic State Central Con,i~- irg, showing thie cost of a Democratic well.
tee, headed by the name of zliechael Shoemraker, en eb 4. Diggirn,    well, ( ( f(oot,).................  $80 45
a tool of James Buchanan, and drawing thousanrds           tone and lauing................... 4 00
-mue, Ci'np~r, in i~e~~itrin~ well... 6 00"
upon thousands ofdollars from the oeople's money  i   O" 12. T    iamuel  (oper  k);epairi. a ell  8..n
No-.To, $ Ooe,fo takin,g,I) and rei~ayving
each year, as Collector of the Port of Detroit.        6    we a.d fu           rhn.one, 0 feet.... 67 59
Hle is the man who, iII payiig off a deputy in his 
ofSce, retainrd $10, on a voucher of $40, which                                                167 9%1
he sent to Washington as the expenses of his of-   The current price in this part of the State, for
fice!  Whether the 25 per cent thus retainamed digging and  stoniDngup  a wel is one dlollar-per
fi-om the wages of employees is for the purpose of foot for the first twentv feet, and one dollar an&
issuing the above noticed false political docurnent  twenty-five cents per  oot for the next ten feet.
or for private gain, or for the purpose of corrupt- The we]4 actually cost only $32 50 according 
ing the ballot boxes at the a proching election  ordinary puices, leaving a surplus of $135 45 ae.
and endorsing the pro-silavery policy of James I  the amount plundered out of the State.
Buchanan, we shall leave for the public to judge.      I
Another name, upon whose authority the above          A PUMPING ADMINISTRATION.
mentioned veracious and,aluableo document is   The peculiar facilities of the retiring adfnais-.
issued, is that of S. Dow Elwood, who made out tration of 1854, for fraudulently pumping money
a false voucher for $1,076, for 315 reams filat cap from the Treasury under color of law-see Job
paper, in 18654, and got if allowed and paid by a Brookfield, Phbenix Bank, Peck,  litwood & Co.,
dishonest Board of Democratic State Auditors,  and other transaCtions)-has already been shown..
who knew the paper had never been furnisied,, It is therefore supposed that the following item 
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185f —-Democratic,......................$5,679 18
1857-Eepublican,......................    176 91
ID favor of Republicans,................... 1,502 2.7
The same quality of super-royal paper audited
to the Democrats in 1854 at twenty-eight dollars
per ream, the Republicans procured for twentyS7X dollars.  This is only another proof of the
frugality of the Republican administration. A
careful examination of all the charges of extravagance against the Republican administration, result in the discovery that they are utterly false
and unfounded, showing comparatively a large
savng by them in the ordinary expenses of the
State.
' for pumps during a single year, was only the in* troduction of a new system of suction from the
Treasury vaults;
1854.
wFeb. 24. B. B. & W. R Noyes, for pumps,........$16 93
~ flay 12. McKibbin a   Go., "...........28 48
" Hobbs"> "...........75
H. Angel,'4...........2 50
C). B. Rice,'........6 16
'-Nov 30. M H. Webster,.                     105 00
H. Angel, "...........3 50
Total fear Democratic pumps, 1854,.... 163 32
Whether the amount for pumps for each year
,previous, under Democratic rule, was much larger
,than for 1854, or whether it was a trifle less for
-some of the years, we have not the time to go
into a thorough examination of the items to see.
One thing is very ccrtain.  This large number of
pumps were not  among               t      h e    avet wt the assets            to te rethrinu
Democratic party. The Republican officials have
never been able to find them. W~hethey they
were -for the private use of political friends and
favorites, outside of the circle of State officials,
~: or w,hether the amounts were fictitious charges
as another mode  of pumping money  from the
Treasury vaults into the pockets of officials, is a
question clouded in the utmost conjecture.
We  only refer to this charge of extravagance,
'as we have to others, to show the dishonesty of
those making it.   To show the thing in a proper
light we  place items of expenses  for  the same
things, for 1854 and 1857, in juxtaposition, and
leave it with the tax-payers to judge how much
foundation there is for the charges:
1854.      1857.
Democratic. Republican.
Auditor General.................$ 122 90    $ 77 65
SecretaryofState.............. 186 50   225 00
Treasurer and deputy.......... 179 74    101 GO
Cornm. of Land Office,............. 1,106 89    240 09
Supt. Public Instruction,........ 547 21 50 0
2 143 24         693  65
2,143 24
In favor of Repeblicans,....................  1,449 59
Again we compare:
1854.  Extra clerk hire, and extra att'y fees....$6,448 73
1857.  By Republicans, for same items,....... 2,775 38
3,663 40
A SPIRITUAL ADMINISTRATION.
lBuying the year ] 854 there is a large numbker
of blind items audited, as supplied to "State offi  cers,"> designated " sundrie~s," which is the only
vindication of their character, excepting the bu  siness of the persons to whom the accounts were
. audited. Some bills amounting to about one
hundred dollars, were furnished by Win. Hinman,
then a dealer tit Spririons Liquo0rs! We leave
it for the public to judge of this transaction.
RATHER EXPENSIVE CHAIRS.
As a samplpe of the pretended cost of trans  porting five chains from Detroit to Lansing, and
their entire expense, we make the following ex -tracts from the audited accounts for 1854:
Feb. 24. Expense of Swegles to Detroit, to buy fur           niture.............................. $15 00
Bill for 5 offiee chairs, Jt  R.                                  We Tillman, ad.... 101 50
.:May 12. To John Whiteley, for transportation of
furniture  from  Detroit,...........................  90 2,
206 77
Smething over eighteen dollars a piece for
~ he transportation of five office chairs, weighing
perhaps 50 pounds each, from Detroit to Lanl ting, besides paying for them, looks rather ex travagalnt, and should silence Democratic charges
...i of extravagance against the Republican party.
TESTIMKONY ENOUGI{.
We might extend this showing, with the same
results, through the entire range of expenses by
the two administrations-but the foregoing proof
of positive dishonesty and fraud, to the amount
of nearly three millions of dollars, as specified,
besides a thousand smaller matters not included
in the Grand Recapitulation, is evidence enough
of the character of the preceding and the present
administrations.  We might go on and show from
the record that just before the Treasury plunderers left in 1854, they allowed over $750 O0  to twe
deputies in the departments-to one for 195, and
the other for 196 "extra" days' work, making
391 "extra" days allowed to two persons!!-but
would that be any plainer proof of fraud than has
already been given? We think not, and therefore
will not follow the subject any further, but leave
it with the tax-payers at the ballot boxes in November.
Tl~ GOLD PEN AND SUPER-ROYAL
QUESTION.
The Treasury eaters, in their despair to regain
...seoess to the Treasury, have charged the Repub-:hican party with extravagance in the purchase of
opens and super-royal paper.  The accounts for
these items under Democratic and Republican
rule, compare as follows: 
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paraded long lists of figures about  gold-pens,
pencils, super royal, fiat-cap, letter, foolscap and
wrapping paper, and other necessary articles,
we challenge them to call a Democratic witness
upon the stand, who is possessed of person7al
knowledge on all these subjects.  From the 28th
of February, 1 855, to Sept. 3d, 185S8, Mr. CHAS.
W. BUTLER,  a Democrat of the strictest sect,
acted as Deputy Auditor General for Col. Whitney Jones, the Auditor, and with a full knowledge of the wants of the department, he made
out, during that time, the orders for supplies,
and is perfectly familiar with and fully cognizant
of the whole subject.  He knows what artictes
have been  bought and paid for.  He  knows
whether an  extravagant pr         ic     e h    as been  paid.
He knows whether any frauds have been practiced upon the treasury in the payment of these
bills.   Mr. Butler had special instructions to
show all vouchers called for by Democratic wo.,der-seekers, and to answer al questions touching
expenditures, &c., &c.  The editors of the,sing State Journal (Democratic), and the Demnooratic politicians, have been invited to free access, through Mr. Butler, of their own party, to
the whole file of vouchers and facts connected
with  th     e      Republican  administrati on   since 1854,
to discover whatever they could, if there existed
any wrong.  They have done so, and la to discl      ose a single dishonest   transac tion!
Mr. Butler, on  lea ving the of fice  of Deputy
Auditor General, on the 30th September past,
was fully endorsed by the Lansing State Journal
as a soued and honest Demnocrat. We challenge
the  accusers  of th       e          Republican administration
to call Mr. Ce HARLES  W. BUTLER upon0,he witness' stand, to give hi s tes timony for or    against
t     he i ntegrity          of the Republican  administration
up     on all          thes       e subjects of which he haspersonal
knowledge. Let the  accusers of the Re         publican
party face tbie music.
The National Finanees.
, In  connection  with the former Democratic  extravagance of      ou r S   tat e adminis tration, it is    well
t            o look t o the unparalleled extravagance  of the
present National        administration;  as the result of
the approaching State election  will be  claimed as
an endorsement or condemnation of the profligate
waste of money by James Buchanan. To exhibit
this wastefulness to the easy comprehension of the
people, we contrast it wNith former history.
It is                       startling to look  at the sncre ase in the expenditulres of the Government,  ad the contrast
between"I economical Democracy " and the party
charged with the profusion and wasteful disbursement:
Monroe's Administration, (foar years,)... 46,432,382 75
Adams' ".            51,671,933 99
Jack-son's is lleconld'terrm,).. 1.....4.'10451,735 81
Van Buren's"................ 110,678,427 81
Harison's ",......................785,163 312 8
Polk's     a....:....... 165 451i013 3
Taylor's  "; 1st year, 29,724,261 92?
(Fsillmore,)   Ed your, 39,623fi95 00 J 158,161,528 71
Pierce's Administration,........................... 262,820,622 35
NOW to show what James Buchanan spent in
the past year of his extravagant and; corrupt ad- -
ministration, we submit a statement of the money
in the Treasury, left by Pierce when he retired,
and what has come into his hands since, from the;"
natural revenues of the customs, public lands,,appropriations by Congress, public loans, &c.
Received from Piere,................... 26,000,O0 00.
- Revenues,..............  64 000000 00
Treasury 20otesi.........wt  a  2f,000.000 0o
"' ~' Loan,.................. 20,000,060 00
Total received by Buchanan,........ 130,000,000 00
Asked for and not granted by C,on?gr-ss...  8,000,000 00'
138,0001000 O00
The Money all Gone.
By  the issue of twenty millions of treasury,
notes, and the twenty million loan by the last
HCongress, the permanent national debt was inccre.sed afrty millions of dollars in the first year
of  Buchanan's administration.  The  vast sum of
one hundred and thirty million of dollars, plaoed
d   a the hands of the President, as slown above,
was all expended, and he asked for the appropriation of eight millions more, which Congressrefused to grant.   But this amount has been
spent, and will come in in the appropriation for
the next year as "deficiences "-making an at
gregate of one hundred and thirty-eight miion
of dollars in one year.  At  this ratio, for the
four years which Mr. Buchanan is saddled upon
tie nation, his expenses  for the term will be
FIVE  HUNDRED  AND  FIFTY-TWO  MIL.
LION OF DOLLARS, or over  three hundred
and nineteen millions more than the expense of.
the weak and corrupt administration of Frankliu
Pierce!
HOW THE MONEY WAS SPENT  WILL
THE FREEMEN OF MICHIGAN EI)ORSE
IT?
When we consider that the United States is at
peace  with all the  world- with no unusual demands for expenditures tom,carry on the government, it will be folly in the partisans of the naional administration to attempt to vindicate itag ains t the  charge of  gross corruption  in  squan
dering th e publ ic funds.- No such attempt is
made by any intelligent  citizen  wh o  is wtelI informed in the facts.  It is -a painful  duty to state
the  purposes for w hich the  gr eat majo rity of t he
money has been  ap.plied.   A due regard for our
national rationtion before the    civilized  world;
would snwpress the stateme nt; but as we doenyrthat the heart of the nation responds to these
acts of a corrupt party, it is a duty we owe to
mankind to make a clean breast of it and state
the truth.   The money has been spent in an un-,holy attetropt to  rivit THE CHAINS OF Elks
MAN SLAVERY upon the FREE PEOPLE OF
KANSAS, and to extend the cursed institution.
of Slaeery over more free territory/ I  As  humiliating as the statement mav be to every patriot and lover of hiss country and her glorious,
fame, it is the truth;.and one of- the lealitng
issues before  the people  of  Michigan at  thMis
election, is the  endorsemnent, or  thle  indignant;
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fled, by which slavery was  never to march its
bloody track across the line of 36 deg. 30  mmin.
By the "Missouri Compromise," all the territory
north of that line was dedicaten th freedom fore'.er, without a cottest with slavery.   But  ia
1854, the demand  of the slave-breeders of the
South became rampant for more dominion.   Slavery fixed its grasping eyes upon the free territory of KANSAS, as a v.'ctim to be despoiled of its
beauty and its freedom. To accomplish this, the
South demanded the repeal of the compact of
1820. Douglas led the van, and Cl'atlos E.
Stwart foilowed as a volunteer to trample down
the Missouri Compromise line, which  was the
last barrier to the unmolested spread of slavery
toward the North. The free men of the North
took up their abode in Kansas.  At the first territorial eloection, the pro-la,ery border-rulfas
of Missouri suvrmeed across the  line, took possesesion of the voting places, and drove the free
voters away at the point ef the bowie-knife and
with pistols, at the expense of life and property.
The national Democratic  administretion, which
was bound to afford prteetion to the actual settiers in Kansas, in their just rights, laughed at
their cries for Drotein, and sent a standing
army to drive back and annoy the settlers, and
prote  t and assist the intruding border-rufflans
from  Afissouri in their wicked depredation
against liberty!
The Legislature thus elected, and composed of
pro-slaveryites, actually residing in the State of
Missouri, met and macted the most odioqs and
oppressive Slavery Code that icould be devised
This was done under the protection of the Democratic party. Wher the people protested against
their oppression, thev woee pointed to the bristling bayonets of the United States army,  commanded by pro-slavery officers.  We cannot stop
to particularize the long catalogue of outrages and
wrongs upon that people during  1855, 1856 and
i857.  The history is familiar to the country.  It
was one continued series of outrages by the national Democratic admlinistratio  party, through
its willing officials, s elected and a ppoint ed for the
work. It would be a weedless waste of words to
recallt to the public mind, the fraudulent election
returns-the  Kickapoo, Oxford, Delaware Crossing, and other glaring frauds upon th   e  ballot
boxes —by which thousands of pro-slavery votes
were returned from precincts where there were
not as many dozens of actual settlers. It is mot
necessary to recall the black-hearted and downright perjury of Calhoun and numerous other
Democratic officials, or the " candle-box " operation, to rob the free men of Kansas of their rights,
and force slavery upon them. We will not stop
to rehearse the many acts of violence and bloodshed by slavery advocates, or the frauds of the
'"Lecoinpton Convextion," which forged a proslavery Constitution. We will pass to the treachery of James Buchanan. He seIt Gov. Walker
to Kansa~s with positive instrucetions to tell the
people they should have the opportunity of a
direct vote upon the acceptance or rejection of any
Constitution which the Conventionl might frame.
eoftdemmnat ion  of  this a;trocious and wicked condact of Jame s Buchanan    and the   p      ar ty   that sustains his administration.
WSJ1 the people of Michigar, endorse the extravagant, wasteful and corrupt s          inavlerinq of
one, thundred and thirty-eight M.ill2io.ss of dolltars
to extend.slavery, by Toting for the nominees of
tlhe Democratic party, or will thev place their
seal of condemnation upon their acts by voting
for the Republican candidates? 
DEMOCRATIC TABLE FOR REDUCING TiHE
.NATIONAL TREASwURY, FOR THE BEN  EFIT OF SLAVERY, BY JAMES BU  CHIANA.7
it spends —
$,I3S,000,0, a year!
1,1,500,000 a month!
2,654,000 a week!
377,000 a day!
13,70S an hour!
261 a minute!
4 35 a second!
We woul         d simply a   ask, whe ther t he tax-payers
,of Miechigan wish to endorse and continue the
ekpeiiditure of the public funds for such purposoes, by voting for the Democratic ticket at the
approaching election?
Rate for each Inhabitant.
-Under the administration Of Gen. Harrison in
1841, and under that of Taylor and Fillmore in
150, the, ratio of national expeves in the Unite,d States, was only ooze dollar and twenty-twovo
cents per head to each inhabitant.  Under the
slavery extending administration of James Buchananl, the head  and leader of the Democrat ic
Martyr the average of national expenses for each
anividual is about  FIVE  DOLLARS AND
FUfTY CENTS each!!
R77opays the cost?
As about three-quarters or more of the ex-penses of the Government are paid by the free Northern States, it can be very easily seen that the free
laborers of the North are thus made te pay enormous amounts each year, to protect and extend
tMe institution of human slavery, whichl is the
"leading policy of that party.  Are the people of
Michigaz an xious to vote this large expenditure
for slavery, by voting for the slavery-extendingw
Democratic party?  Let them answer in emphatic
terms at the ballot box.
THE REAL ISSUTE,
SLAVERY iN KANSAK -DE HIOCRATiTC POLICY.
The story of Kans   can be told in a brief
space.  The policy of the Democratic party is
to extend the dominion of human slavery over
Ihe free territories of the United States.  It reqaires no argument to prove  this proposition.
The  history of Democratic party tactics for half
a century is living proof.  In 1820 a compact
between slavery and freedom was formed and rati 
intg be published in the newspapeis of this city                      "JAIMES BUCHANAN,
"JAMES HOPKINS,
"Wm. JENKINS.
"The  foregoing resolutions being read were
unanimously adopted; after whieh  the meeting
adjourned.   "WALTER FRANKLIN,  Cb'n.
i4'Attest, Wm. J.NKIrNS, Sece'/."
James Buchanan Nvowo.
Ill 1856, James Buchanan endorsed the Cim -
cinnati platform, which recognized "the right of
the people of all the Territories, including Kansas
and Nebraska,  acting through the         legally and
fairly expressed mwill of a majority of actual in habitants, to form a Constitution, with or without
domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Unin
upon terms of perfect equality with the other
States."
In 1857, James Buchlanan, with  cold-hearted
affiontery, denied "the right of the people" to
vote upon a constitution that said they shold
have slavery, although the  "fairly expressed
L.will of a majority" of more, than  ten thousand
had repeatedly said they did not want a slavery
constitution.  It was here that James Buchanan,
backed by the Democratic party, exerted the entitre influence of his high position, and the money
in the national treasury, to defeat the will of the
majority, anid force the  Lecmpton constitution
upupon them without allowing them a chance to
vote it down!!  Such is the Democratic policy.
In beautiful contrast with his Lancaster resolutions of 1819, hlie said in  his celebrated Kansas
message, that " SLAVERY existed at that period
(1854) and still exists IN KANSAS SUNDER
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES.'his point has at last beenFIRlfL Y
LDECILDED  by the highest tribuzal (Judge Taney) kniown to o'r laws.  How it COULD EVeR
IIAVE BEEN DOUBTED IS A  J~YSI:E~iY."
And in his letter to Professor Siliman, lie relterated the above, and added, Q SLAVBRY
EXISTS IN KANSAS BY VIRTUE OF THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
"I Kansas is, therefore, as much A SLAVE
STATE as GEORGIA or SOUTH CAROLINA."
This simply shows Buchanan a quiet citizen of
Pennsylvania, anid Buchanan the President of
the United States, a traitor to freedom, in the
hands of the southern slave-breeders, ready to
do their utmiiost bidding.
Walker, as well as Stanton, the  Terr, itorial
Secretary, pledged the people of Kansas as instructed.  When, subsequently, they attempted
to execute their pledges, they were removed bvy
Buchanan for doing so.  The whole power of the
(]overxrnment, by Executive patronage and the iNational Treasury, was brought to bear to force the
odious Lecompton Slavery Constitution upon the
people, without the privilege of a vote for or
agazii?st it!!
In this    wockeld and inf amous attempt    toforge
the chains  of kuma, slavery upon the energies of
an unwiling people, the  Democrati c p arty set a
price upon Liberty, in a precedent that should
arouse the indignation of every free voter of the
Nortlh, whetheb  of the Republican or Democratic
party. The alarming precedent established was
thiis:  They would admit Kansas as a State into
the Union, with only 35,000 inhabitants, orb condition that she would accept the infous Lecompton Constitution, which established and
protected HIUMAN SLAVERY, IN  ALL ITS
BLIGHTING FORMS.   WHEREAS, if Kansas
refused to thus submit to have a slavery constitution forced upon her, she could not be admitted
until she obtained a population of ]00,000! This
is the price set upon freedom by the Democratic
party. In this infamous foray upon the freedom
of Kansas, the national expenditures have been
run up to the alrming amount of one hundred
and tliirty-eight millions of dollars a vear.  We
need not refer to thie frauds, corruptions, bribery,
of the abst Congress to carry even the EnglishLeconmpton bill through, which was but another
form of the or'ig;nal and unadulterated " Lecompton," itself.
av,Taw<s Buzchlanan 29 Years Attio.
Daring the memorable contest of the Missouri
Compromise, in the winter of 1819,ip public meeting was held in Lancaster, Penn., the home of
James Buchanan.  He was then on the side of
freedom.  At that meeting, he was chairman of
the committee to draft resolutions on the subject.
He submitted the following:
"]Resoi. ved, That the Representatives in Congress firom this district be, and they are hereby
requested to use their utmost endeavor, as members of the National Legislature, to prevent the
existeaee of slavery in any of the Territories or
States which may be created by Congress."
[The second resolution requested the next Legislature to instruct the members of Congress
from the entire State to do the same! Then lollowed]
"Reso!)ed, That in the opinion of this mrieeting, the members of Congress who, at the last
session, sustained the cause of justice, humanity
and patriotism, in opposing the introduction of
Slavery into the State then endeavoring to be
formed out of the Missouri Territory, are entitled
to the warmest thanks of every friend to humanity.
"Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet
THE DEMIOCRATIC STATUTES OF KANSAS.
That the free voters of Michigan may have a
facit idea of what kind of a system the  cohorts
of slavery, through the Democratic party, wit
James Buchanan at its head, wished to forge upon
the people of Kansas, without a privilege of
voting against it, we subjoin the following m,l
extracts from the code which  they prepared.
Howv does it suit the tastes of the people of
Michigan? Do they wish to endorse the effor
of the Democrats to force it down the throats of
the people of Kansas, by voting for the Democratic State, Congressional, or County ticket?
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-  SE-. 6.  If any person shall entice, decoy, brethren in Kansas, and free to roU on the car of
"or carry out of any State or other Territory of liberty and equal rights.
"the United States, any slave beloaging to an- 
"other, with intent to procure or effect the free-          FREEMEN  OF  MICHIGAN!! -  The
" dom of such slave, or to deprive the owner most important issue now before you to decide
"thereof of the services of such slave, and shall at the  approaching  eleetion, is this one of the
"bring such slave into this Territory, he shall be policy of the National Democratic party towards
"adjudged guilty of qra,nd larceny, in the same  Kansas, in the attempt to extend the dominion
"manner as if such slave shall have been brought of slavery!  The  Democratic party asks your
"by stuch person, and on conviction thereof, the endorsement of all the wrongs towards Kansas,
"person offending shall SUFFER DEATH,  or which we have but briefly alluded to.  By voting
"be imprisoned at hard labor for not less thant the Democratic ticket you give your consent to
ten years.                                        these wrongs, as well as to the future attempts 6f
"Sec. o. If any free person, by speaking or by the party to extend slavery, which  now has no
"writinmg. shall assert or maintain that persons barrier to check its progress over free territory.
have not the right toholdslavesinthisTerritory,  Kansas is yet a territory, and her battle for fiee print, publish, write, circulate, or cause to be  dotn has yet to be fought.  It may be in the next
"introduced into this Territory, written, printed, Congess-it may be in some future time.  The
"published or circulated in this Territory, any South and the Democratic party have set a price
book, paper, magazine, pamphlet or circular, upon freedom-upon free States!  The price is
containing any denial of the right of persons to a fearful one.   Vote for no  doubtf}d champiob
"hold slaves in this territory, such person shall o freedom.   No man on the  )emocratic ticket,
"be deemed guilty o'felony, and be punished by surrounded with all the influences of party or"imprisonment at hard labor for a term of not  anization, is safe on this question. Hows often
"less than two years."                             gaiain  ssaeo   hsqesin o1fe
"less than two yearsow         ice."t              have the North been betrayed on this question
"Sec. 1 3. No person                  who is c onscientiously    by her chosen representatives of the Democratic
"opposed to holding slaves, or who does not ad- party!E
"         r          it the right to lhold slaves in t he territory, pEorL   O   MICHIGAN-wo  lo' e freedom  "shall sit as a juror, &c., &cOF
shall si as ajuror, &c., &c"          you are now called upon  to place your solemn
Such is the genius of modern "Democracy" seal of condlemnation upon the slavery policy of
ader its present corrupt leaders.  The party  the Democratic party.   You can only do so by
stands convicted before the country of the most voting  against the regular nominations of that
flagrant outrages upon the rights of the people. party.  It is the on ly effectual way of saying to
In our State, it has wantonly squandered the  thie wire-pullers that you do not approveof their
public funds for private uses, and grossly be- rioting in the house of freedom.  To make  the
t,aayed the confidence of the people who so long  rebuke emphatic and effective, vote against the
entrusted it with the affairs of the State.  In whole ticket, from the lowest to the highest canthe Nation, the same party has wantonly bank- didate.  Your sentiments will not then be misrupted the public Treasury in its extravagant understood.  The people of Ohio, Indiana and
and unholy efforts to spread the curse of human  Pennsylvania have just spoken  on this subject.
Slavery over Free Territory.  It has betrayed Indiana which voted for Buchanan in 1856, has
the rights of the people in denying those of rebuked his wickedness.  Ohio rolls up a majorKansas the common  and sacred privilege of ity of 25,000 against Lecompton.  The people
choosing their own constitution.  It has offered of PetnnsylvaniBuchmans own State-have
a reward for treason against the constitution, and wiped out "Democracy" and rebuked their once
abeautoriy   o  th   naion byvolnterin awiped out "Democracy," and rebuked their once
the authority of the nation, by volunteering -t "favorite son" in the thundering tones of almost
fee pardon to traitors, and is' now using the peo-countless majorities against the participators in
ples' money to shield the disgusting, demoraliz  the Lecompton iniquities!   ~   Pennsylvania!
i.ng and heathenish sin of polygamy in the Territo- which  voted for Buchanan in 1 856, now repuries of the United States! If not rebuked, the diates his policy by 40,000 or 50,000 majority! I
next foray of Democracy will be upon the Island Will the people of Michigan be less fearless, less
of Cuba. for the sole and only purpose of adding patriotic?  Let every voter for freedom be at
a new market for human chattle to the territory the  olls.  Let  Michigan strive with the Empire
of the Union.  Human  slavery is the pole-star  State, with Illinois and with freedom loving New
of the Democratic party, as now organized. ~Its England, for the largest majority for free soil, at
outrages upon Kanzas are only more proofs of,ts the \ovember elections.
fixed policy.                                                        Bv order of the
It becomes every Free Voter of the North-           REPUBLICAN  STATE  CENTRAL  COM.
to whatever party he may belong-to proclaim                                ____              _
his disapprobation  of this policy, thirough the
egitimate means of the ballot box.  Ths privi- LA-VSLV6   STATE   P REPUBLICAiV,
lege is reserved to all.  Let the ides of November       BY  HOS E  R  &                   RR
proclaim to a corrupt slavery propogandinn national administrational that the people of MIichi-    PbU.iL.StED WEL-tkY~  AT L,.-t-nr IIGA'.
gan are indeed free-free to rebuke the wanton
outrages upon the rights ofPteir s                  tr       uggling TERMS —!per yeat,' inadvance
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