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The Daily Dispatch: November 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], Sentence for election Fraud. (search)
Sentence for election Fraud. --In Philadelphia on Tuesday last, Wm. Byerly, for defeating a Congressman in that city by forging returns against him, was sentenced. The Ledger says: Mr. Byerly was directed to stand up to receive his sentence. Judge Thompson remarked he was happy to say that this was the first time an offence of this character had ever been sustained against a party in this country. In a community like this, and under institutions like ours, which depend upon the honesty and integrity of those who are selected to perform any high and important duty, there was no offence which more directly struck at the perpetuity of our institutions than that which had been laid to the defendant's charge. His act could not be justified. It had been alleged that it could not be possible for the defendant to do this thing, as he was unable to read and write with facility, and that, therefore, he had been the subject of a conspiracy. The jury had decided otherwise. They