"Found at or hanging about or approaching any poll or place of election, It directs them to prevent all violence or dis turbance about the polls, &c. "To meet such disturbances. the judges of election, as I have already stated, are clothed with ample power, and I had received no previous intimation that there was any reason to apprehend a disturbance of any kind at the polls on the day of election. In the absence of any military display, there would certainly seem to be a little cause for such apprehensions as ever before existed. A preparation by the government, by military means to provide for such a contingency, will be quite as likely to provoke as to subdue such a disposition.Not only so, but the military thus required to prevent violence or disturbances about the polls must necessarily be empowered to arrest the parties they may charge with such disorder, and they are still left, in effect, "the exclusive judges as to who shall be arrested"-a power they may as readily abuse as any other. Wyoming...... 31,968 114,556 1,767 11,198 8,984 20,182 17 St. Lawrence. 83, 689) Franklin....... 30,837 114,526 1,838|12,023| 5,879 17,902 90,686 23 Onandaga... 28 Monroe....... 26,294 116,982,088 12,809 9,645 22,454 100648 Cortland. Orleans... 15 Renssellaer 28,717 129,365 2,015 11,470 9,539 21,009 86,328 Washington... 45,904 232, 331 2,260 11,966 11,149 23,115 27 Chemung Alleghany Steuben..... 30 Erie.. Odell's Dist., "I regret, therefore, that I can perceive no such change in the general principles of the order as to induce me to change the aforegoing proclamation. A. W. BRADFORD. "Baltimore, Monday evening, Nov. 2, 1863." Be it remembered, that the tyrant, SCHENCK forbid the newspapers to publish this proclamation, and Gov. BRVDFORD was forced to print it in handbill form, and then the "military authorities' suppressed it. Is not this a refinement on despotism," when a loyal Gov- 3 First..... ernor of a loyal state is denied the privilege of proclaiming to the official agents of his state, their sworn duties under the laws thereof, and those laws are trampled under foot by military candidates for civil offices? And yet, the President had the magnanimity to modify General SCHENCK's order-not because he thought it wrong-but to make it just as despotic-and that modification was suppressed, and the officers who did it were not even censured. der the infliction of such villainous despotism, we confess our faith in free government is very much shattered. Un In Delaware, the Democrats finding their rights usurped by military authority-the laws under which they lived, trampled under foot came out in an address, (which we have before us, but must omit) declining to go through with the farce of voting by bayonet, and thus their rights went by default. THE CONSCRIPTION-ITS UNFAIRNESS-IS In New York, and we presume elsewhere, the draft is being used as a political machine -to draft more Democrats than Republicans. This is shown upon the face of things, and when we consider the fact that the names of Democrats have been known to be placed in duplicates, and in some instances in triplicates, 26,917 41,881 135, 488 2,419 15,405 10, 447 25, 852 141971 141,9712,536 9,642 11,783 21,425 6,967 Second.. 9,817 Third...... 10,084 Fourth.. 11,760 17,400 12,090 28,851 Fifth... Eleventh Thirteenth..... 17,958 Fifteenth 10,566 Nineteenth.... 6,697 132,242 2,697 7,506 8,915 16,421 It will be seen that in the six Democratic | lowing states, together with the quota assigned districts, with a total vote of 94,248, and a to each. It is needless to say that if the quotas have been correctly distributed among the Democratic aggregate majority of 17,108, the several states, they ought to bear something draft calls for 24,688, while in the six Re- like a uniform ratio to the population of the publican districts the total vote is 130,414—or total vote is 130,414-or states. Instead of this, we find by the rule of 36,266 more votes than in the six Democratic dis- proportion that the ratio of New York is largely in excess over that of other states. tricts, and the Republican majority is 19,228, the draft only calls for 12,387-or within a fraction of just one half the number to be drawn from the six Democratic districts, containing nearly 40,000 less voters. States: New Hampshire If this is not a clear case of political fraud, New York.... then there is no such thing as fraud. Again, it will be seen that New York, which is "intensely Copperhead," according to the chaste diction of the Abolitionists had furnished an excess over all calls of 22,761, exclusive of the militia, which have at different times been furnished for short periods, while many of the intensely Republican districts were short, by large odds. Still, the Administration insisted on drawing from "Copperhead" New York city 12,580 more. New Jersey. Indiana Iowa....... Population. Reps. Quota. 1,231,066 10 15,126 628,279 5 7,581 326,073 3 3,768 315,098 3 3,331 460,147 4 5,432 174,620 2 2,034 "The excess required of New York, estimating it upon the representation in Congress, is as follows: As compared with Massachusetts..... The following table shows what New York As compared with Pennsylvania.. had done under the four calls: 13,488 13,376 21,442 25,958 18,280 28,581 1,844 26,650 As compared with Iowa.. 14,343 And yet the disloyal Abolitionists cry give us more. On this subject the New York World, from which we obtained the above figures, remarks: "The citizens of New York protest against the inequality and injustice of this distribution of a very onerous burden, which must be accompanied by so many cases of individual hardships. They protest against this attempt to use the military power of the government as a party engine to get rid of political opponents who cannot be voted down. We maintain that when the government resorts to a method of raising troops which is, to say the least, of doubtful constitutionality, it ought to give evidence of pure and honest intentions, and an eye single to the public advantage. The National Intelligencer, one of the most candid papers in the Union, and which was never charged with being a Democratic paper, in commenting on these facts, says: As compared with Rhode Island.. PALPABLE FRAUDS. 9,146 "In order that every reader may see for himself the bases of the calculations from which we educe the conclusion that the quota assigned to New York is excessive, we cite the figures, giving the representative population and the aggregate population of the fol- Increase in three years,....... 2 386,267 461,246 74,979 476,446 } 15,200 523,669 135,000 658,669 182, 223 Now let us take Ohio for three Presidential | October, 1863, and the following may and no doubt does, show a good reason for their reti decades: Total vote of 1852, Total vote of 1856, Increase in four years, Total vote in 1860,. Increase in four years, 353,428 cence. Capt. BENJ. F. SELLS, of the 122d Ohio V., 33,069 Company D, was arrested on the 1st of Octo442,441 ber, on the 56,944 "Charge-Conduct prejudicial to good or [This was an unprecedented exciting can- der and military discipline." vass which brought out a full vote.] Total home vote in 1863, 435,786 120,000 555,786 113,339 The same ratio of increase is exhibited in Maine. Add for voters gone to the war,............. Increase in three years,. And from the specifications we take the following: "Specification 4th. In this, that he, the said Captain B. F. Sells, 'D' Company, 122d 0. V. I., in the service of the U. S.; did utter and use the following language, to-wit: I am going to vote for Vallandigham, and so are all my company, except a few, or words to that efNow, it is impossible to reconcile these blis- fect. This at or near Martinsburg, Va., on or tering facts with honesty and fairness. did ply officers and men with arguments in favor of voting for Vallandigham, and did use the following language, to.wit: Vallandigham is a loyal man, and I will vote for him, or words to that effect. "This at or near Martinsburg, Va., on or about the 14th day of August, 1862. (Signed) ORLANDO C. FARQUAR, Capt. Co. G, 122d Regt. O. V. I. about the 13th day of August, 1863. Does any sane, fair-minded man believe that said Capt. B. F. Sells, 'D' Company, 122d "Specification 8th. In this, that he, the Pennsylvania has increased her voting popula-Regt. G. V. I., in the service of the U. S., tion within the three years last past, 182,223? when her increase from 1852 to 1956 was but 74,979, when emigration was going on swimmingly, and from 1856 to 1860 her voting population increased but 15,200, owing to a falling off in emigration, yet within the last three years when emigration had almost entirely ceased, she is represented by the vote forced by shoddy and bayonets, to have increased her voting population over 182,000! This is monstrous. The vote in Ohio was equally monstrous. From 1852 to 1856 her voting population increased but 33,069, and from 1856 to 1860, which epoch called out the fullest vote cast in America, the increase was but 56,944, yet for the last three years, with no aid from emigration, the vote which she is represented to have cast, shows an increase of 113,339!— The Democratic vote in Pennsylvania at the recent election, was Over that of 1852, Over that of 1856, Over combined vote of 1860,.. 56,333 24,117 59,253 THREATS FROM SHOULDER STRAPS TO CON- The future historian will be thunderstruck at reading such threatening diatribes of which the following is but a sample of a large class, stimulated as we have remarked elsewhere, no doubt, by the harangues of Adjutant Thomas. The following, purporting to have been written to R. B. Charles, by one of the Wisconsin soldiers on the Potomac, appeared with grandiloquent headings and preface in the Fond du Lac (Wis.) Commonwealth, of April 29, 1863 : We will attend to the rebels, if you will take care of the Copperheads at "home. When we get home, if moral suasion "has not taught them better manners we will "treat them to a dish of our own preparing; "for we consider them the worst of traitors. "There are honorable traitors over the river (the Rappahannock), but those in the north are the most damnable of the devil's imps. "We are not lying on the ground for nothing, "tell them. Our business is to exterminate "traitors; we shall not consider it finished so The following is an extract of a letter over | phia Hospital, and was summarily discharged the signature of J. W. McKay, of the 25th therefrom, for no other reason, says the PhilWisconsin Infantry, and published in the Re- adelphia Age, than appears in the following publican papers with approving comments, ap- official note, which was proved a lie just after peared about the same time as the above: the election: "We warn Northern "Copperheads" to keep hands off; ruin to their friendship is better than ruin to our country, and if they force us to deal with them as enemies, we shall do our work for all coming time." Enough! The heart sickens at the recital of such bloodthirsty threats with no higher motive than to gain a few votes. MONEY USED TO CARRY THE ELECTIONS. : PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30, 1863. "SIR: Having heard from Mr. Sands, of the Chestnut Hill Union Committee, that you voted the Democratic ticket, and expressed yourself inimical to the present Government, you are hereby notified that after November Read the following from the Providence (R you can no longer be a sutler to this Hospital. I.) Post: "MONEY.-The Republicans admit that they used $40,000 in this city on Wednesday. We guess they used more. They gave as high as $25 for a vote, and there was no competition, either. We are glad that men who are willing to sell out are beginning to ask a high price. "In East Providence the price ran high, notwithstanding the fact that our friends did not use a dollar. "In Warwick the Republicans found Colonel Butler a hard man to beat, and offered thirty dollars for a vote all day. "In North Providence the Republicans spent fifteen to twenty thousand dollars." Can a party which sanctions such rascality be a friend to Republican institutions? PHILLIP, of Macedon, used money to destroy the liberties of the Athenians, and ADDISON in speaking of which says: "A man who is furnished with arguments from the Mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. Philip of Macedon refuted by it all the wisdom of the Republic of Athens, confounded their statesmen, struck their orators dumb, and at length argued them out of their liberties." History seems to be repeating itself very rapidly and unfortunately for our once great country. Our political opponents now in power seem to only have studied the very worst side of it. The saying that "when the wicked rule the people mourn," originated from just such history as our rulers are repeating. NO POLITICS IN THIS WAR. One CASPER HAWES, a disabled soldier, obtained the situation as sutler in the Philadel By order of the surgeon in charge. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, THOMAS C. BRAINARD, Ass't Surgeon U. S..A., and Executive Officer. No politics in this war! 1863, the Milwaukee Sentinel, the leading AbJust prior to the election in Wisconsin, in olition paper of the state, kept standing in its columns, in flaming capitals, this line: "Those who vote must fight." This was intended as a fraud on those of our foreign born citizens who had not become sufficiently acquainted with the laws, customs and "regulations” to know its falsity. The object was to create an impression among this class of citizens that the act of voting would of itself send them into the army. In this way thousands of Democratic voters were kept away from the polls. It may be a fine thing to laugh over and to impugn their "loyalty," as the organs of that party were wont to do, but the army records show that this class of citizens have been as free to volunteer as those excessive "loyal" Republicans, who always cry "go," but never say "come.” ABOLITION ROORBACKS The Abolitionists have been in the habit,just before the elections, of starting some wonderful"roorback," detailing some great Union victory over the rebels, with a view to obtain votes, by making the people believe they were really doing something and were entitled to confidence. Just before the Chicago election, in April, 1863, that party caused it to be telegraphed west that Charleston was taken, when they knew it was not The knowledge of this: false news was charged upon the administration and has never been denied. Similar roorbacks, for similar purposes, were started and circula ted about the taking of Vicksburg and other | house that read it-make it too hot for them to places, when the conspirators knew them to be stay there-turn them out.' false THE UNION LEAGUE MACHINERY. { } DR. LEIBER ON SOLDIERS VOTING. Dr. LEIBER, in his work entitled "Civil JOHN W. FORNEY, early in 1863, stated Liberty and Self-Government," says : that # It will be remembered that all along the radicals had denied that the Union Leagues were a political organization. But FORNEY boldly admits what all outsiders know. Now, how do these Union Leaguers propose to carry the elections? Let them speak for themselves. At one of their meetings in Cincinnati March 1863, Judge WOODFUFF, who presided, said: The American flag [Greeley's 'flaunting lie'] and the laws [excepting such as they don't like] maintained, and THE ELECTION CARRIED, EVEN AT THE PRICE OF BLOOD, for upon this everything depended.” Mr. HANCOCK, who disgraced the profession of school teacher, spoke at the same meeting, and declared: * An election can have no value whatever if the following conditions are not fulfilled: The question must have been fairly before the people for a period sufficiently long to discuss the matter thoroughly,, and under circumstances to allow discussion. The liberty of the press, therefore, is a condition sine cially necessary that the army be in abeyance, It is espeas it were, with reference to all subjects and movements appertaining to the question at isthe garrison from every place where a common sue. The English law requires the removal of election for parliament is going on. E * qua non. * * "All elections must be superintended by election judges and officers, independent of the ized powers of the government. The indecenExecutive, or any other organized or unorgancy as well as the absurdity and immorality of the government recommending what is to be voted, ought never to be permitted. If any one of these conditions be omitted, the whole election or voting is vitiated." ་ * And again, says the Doctor in another part of his celebrated work: "He believed that mob law was wholesome, ever, not only requires short approbations and sometimes!"" A Col. GUTHRIE also spoke: "He informed those present that the League was military as well as political-that they were drilling nightly, and were prepared for any emergency." After appointing delegates to attend the Grand Council of the Union Leagues of the United States at Chicago on the 25th of March, Professor ALLYN, of the Weslyan Seminary a teacher of young ladies, said: "But this time we must make it all right, and carry the election by any measures necessary to do it?? We omit much of the filthiness of low profanity that marked much of what was said, and will close with this League by copying the following proposition they had up for discussionalus "A perfect dependence of the forces, howlimited authority of the Executive over them, but it is further necessary-because they are under strict discipline, and therefore under a strong influence of the Executive-that these forces, and especially the army, be not allowed to become deliberative bodies, and that they be not allowed to vote as military bodies.WHEREVER THESE GUARANTEES HAVE BEEN DISREGARDED, LIBERTY HAS FALLEN!!! GEN. MILROY ON "HOME TRAITORS." In April, 1863, Gen. MILROY, no doubt per order, (he has certainly never been censured for it) published a letter (a poor way for a General to fight) in which he thus sets forth the bloody purposes of himself and partizans: everywhere, in warning these traitors at home "I join with my fellow soldiers of the Union [all Democrats who do not vote the Abolition ticket are called "traitors"] that when we have crushed armed treason at the South, and restored the sovereignty of our government over these misguided States, (which under God we are sure to do) we will, upon our return while our hands are in, also exterminate treason in the North, by arms, if need be, and seal, by the blood of traitors, wherever found, the permanent peace of our country and the perpetuity of free [negro] government to all future generations. R. H. MILROY." |