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Fraud.

--In 1857 the vote of the city of Philadelphia for Governor summed up, all told, fifty two thousand and eighty five. In the late election, though many thousands of the voters were absent in the army, the vote of the city is given at eighty-one thousand four hundred and fifty-seven. No other evidence is needed to prove that the Lincolnites "stuffed" the ballot boxes by the wholesale. There is no doubt but that such frauds secured the election of Gov. Curtin. While he carries the State by twenty thousand majority, one branch of the Legislature is tied, while the other has a Republican majority of one. The Abolition gain is large in the cities.

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