Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-19
From the New York World, Nov. 81
Frauds I'm Delaware


A bold attempt was made in Delaware to
overawe the voters and carry the State eleotion
tor the Republicans BY military terror. The
Administration thought IL important that a
Border Slave State should present A shov of
inoorsl3g Its emancipation policy. . Soldiers
from other states, enlisted to fight the rebels,
were used TO repel Democrats from the polls and
10 ifghten ana coerce timid voters. The fol-
lowing statement copied from the Philadelnhia
Hosn.Hg journal, presents q part of the facts:
ne information which we have from Della
ware SHOWS mat most shameful outrage hAa
been committed against the freedom of tbe
elective rights of the people of that State. On
Monday afternoon four companies of the Marv.
land Home Guards, under Colonel Wallace
gentlemen whose patriotism prompta them 10
refuse peremptorily to leave their State TO fiQht
their southern foes, but does not restrain them
from the invasion Of the soil of sister State
ior political purposes), encamped at Seaford.
onortIy afterWard three etesmboats loaded
Win soldiers, among whom were the Sixth
new York ami the Twelfth PonnsyIyanis Cav.
airy, arrived st the same town. Thence they
were conveyed oy railroad and wagons to every
Young precinct IN Kent and Sussex counties,
anu' except at Seaford, where General Wool
was In person, placed under the orders of the
most unsctupulous advocates of the Addition
party. In some OF the precincts the Democrats
were driven away from the polls, as in Balti,
more Hundred, In Sussex county: in others the
most prominent and influential Democratic were
arrested and kept under guard until the polls
were closed Wv ro'''
lnis occurred in Dover Hundred. Kent
county, and Dagsboro' Hundred. SUSSEX county.
In this latter Hundred some thirty Democrats
we're 90 treated, among them Mr.. Aaron n.
Marvel, late Auditor of the State. and the
Democratic sheriff elect. InDoyer. ibe can't Il
OF the State, the soldiers made two bayonet
charges, the first to stop a 6sticuff between
two citizens, the second in mere vantonness,
when there was no fighting.
"lhe only disturbance which occurred Mt
these polls was caused by the Hon. @. p. Fish-
er, the Abolition candidate for Congress-, who
e1acked and threw down a Democrat named
Weeks In the most of the precincts Demo-
crata were not allowed to accompany votere to
the polls, while Abolitonists took forcible nos.
session Of all timid voters, surrounded them
with soldiers, and forced them TO vote their
ticket" - Z - -
The fact that this unwarrantable interference
WIN the freedom Of elections failed its purpose
does not mitigate its guilt. The Democra attic
Candidate for Governor and member of Con.
gress are elected by small msj6ri.ies: had the
polls been free their majority would have beer
1900 or 1000 Il is consoliDg to know thas tbis
nefarious scheme Of carrying an election for
the Administration by military terror proved
abortive; but 10 is nevertheless an act which no
right thinking man can contemplate without in
dignation. The only safeguard of our rights 10
IN the fact that the defeat Of the Republican
party was so general. II only two OF three Of
tne smaller States had gone Democratic, the
election In those States would propably have
been annulled by the arrest OF the new officers
on trumped up charges Of treason,