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Shawnee State University Digital Commons @ Shawnee State University Scioto Simon Pure (Portsmouth, Ohio), 1844 Historic Portsmouth Newspaper Collection 9-25-1838 Scioto Simon Pure (Portsmouth, Ohio) Extra - September 25, 1838 Portsmouth Clay Clubs Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.shawnee.edu/scioto_simon_pure Recommended Citation Portsmouth Clay Clubs, "Scioto Simon Pure (Portsmouth, Ohio) Extra - September 25, 1838" (1838). Scioto Simon Pure (Portsmouth, Ohio), 1844. 16. https://digitalcommons.shawnee.edu/scioto_simon_pure/16 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Historic Portsmouth Newspaper Collection at Digital Commons @ Shawnee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scioto Simon Pure (Portsmouth, Ohio), 1844 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Shawnee State University. For more information, please contact svarney@shawnee.edu. RAW HEAD & BLOODY BONES. 'rhe following are extracts from a Handbill dated 25th September, 1838, signed by JoHN Woon (a brother-in-law to William K. Bond and Director in the Bank of Chillicothe) and others, which Handbill Mr. Bond has caused to be secretly circulated in remote parts of the district. "Allen Latham, if elected, will aspire no farther than to eecond the President's will-a true collar man-and to be e-lected he is now making every exertion, fair and foul ---and to cap the climax of perfidy (as we are informed and be-lieve) it is the intention of Mr. Latham and his coadjutors to import into the di!trict a horde of mercenary hired voters to oppose the suffrages of the free people, and like the Hessians of old, to fight against the freedom of the Ballot box! ! !" "FELLOW CITIZENs-Under these circumstances, it re-quires every man to ·be up and doing. Ev-,ry whig vote should ·be polled on the ninth day of October, for HEAVEN .only ·knows what the effect may be of the almost unearthly ef-forts that our opponents are making." "Then to the Polls, and go with the devotion of those who feel that it is the SABBATH of your Liberty." "To Col. Bond, an honest, capable and faithful public ser• vant, who will represent your wishes and interests, if elected -a member of the 26th Congress, we respectfully point your atteiuion." Signed, by 11Silnnus Church, JoHN Woo»" (brother-in-law ,to William K. Bond) and others, among whom ia the son of an old Hessian taken in the Battle of Trenton. Extract from a paper signed by WILLIAM CREIGHTON, Jr . (partner of Col. Bond) and others, dated October 8th, ,1836. "Those who signed the paper referred to, with a fu]I knowledge of the facts of the case, ·have left us no other alternative but to write LIAR 9a..._their fnroh~ " {Signed) "JoHN LIGGET, S. W: ELY, W .. CREIGHTON, JR, and others." 1 

Scioto Simon Pure (Portsmouth, Ohio) Extra - September 25, 1838

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Scioto Simon Pure (Portsmouth, Ohio) Extra - September 25, 1838

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