8, 1st Sess.

35th Cong.Vol.

I., p.

104.
That the pro-slavery cabal would permit power to slip from their grasp without some extraordinary effort was scarcely to be expected.

When the official returns were brought from the various voting-places to the Governor's office, there came from Oxford, a single precinct in Johnson County, "a roll of paper, forty or fifty feet long, containing names as thickly as they could be written," and a large part of which were afterwards discovered to have been literally copied from an old Cincinnati directory.