Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-17
Election Frauds i'm Delaware.

Hop the Agents of the Federal Administration
Employed the Military TO Intimidate Voters
and Drire Democrats from the Polls.
The following is from the New York World of
November s:
A bold attempt was made in Delaware to over
awe the voters and carry the State election for
the Republicans by military terror. The Ad
ministra!on thought it important that border
slave State should present a show of indorsng
its emancipation policy. Soldiers from other
repel Democrats from the polls and TO frighten
and coerce timid voters. The following state
ment, copied from the Philadelphia EUening Jour
nal, presents part of the facts:
1.-The information which we have from Della
ware shows that a most shameful outrage has
been committed against the freedom of the cleo
tive rights of the people of that State. On Mon
day afternoon four companies of the MARYLAND
Home Guards, under Col. Wallace (gentlemen
whose patriotism prompts them TO refuse per
emptorily to leave their State to fight their
Southern foes, but does not restrain them IRON
the invasion of the soil of sister State for polit
ical purposes) encamoed at Seaford
"ShOrty afterwards three steamboats, loaded
with soldiers, among whom were the 9th New
York and the 10Th Pennsylvania cavalry, arrived
at the same town. Thence they we're CONVEYED
by railroad and wagons to every voting precinct
in Kent and Sussex counties, and, except at Sea
ford, where Gen. Wool was in person, placed up
der the orders OF the most INSCRIPTIONS adyo-
Gates of the abolition party. In some Of the
precincts lhe Democrats were driven away from
the polls, as in Baltimore Hundred, in Sussex
county; in Others, the most prominent and infiu.
entail Democrats we're arrested and kept under
guard until the polls were closed
"This occurred in Dover Hundred, Kent
county, and in Dagsboro' Hundred, Sussex
county. in this latter Hundred some thirty
Democrats were so treated, among them Mr..
Aaron b. Marvel, late Auditor of the State, and
the Democratic Sheriff elect.
"In Dover, the capital of the State the sol
diers made two bayonet charges, the first to stop
a fsticuf between two citizens, the second in
mere want0nness, when there was no fighting
1.-THE only disturbance which occurred at these
polls was caused by the Hon. G.. p Fisher, the
Abolition candidate for Congress. who attack,
and threw down a Democrat named Weeks In
| most of the precincts Democrats were not allow.
ed to accompany voters TO the polls, while Abo.
litionists took forcibe possession of all timid vo
tiers, surrounded them with soldiers and forced
them 10 vote their ticket"
The fact that this unwarrantable interference
with the freedom of elections failed of its pur.
pose does not mitigate its guilt. The Democratic
candidate for Governor and member of Congress
are elected by small majorities; had the polls
been free their majority would have been | SOC
or 1900. IL is consoling TO know that this ne
farious scheme Of carrying an election for the
administration by military terror proved abortiye;
but il is nevertheless act which no right think
ing man can contemplate without indignation
The only safeguard of our rights is in the fact
that the defeat of the Republican party was so
general. IL only two or three Of the smaller
States had gone Democratic, the election in those
States would probably have been annulled by the
arrest of the new officers on trumped up charge:
of treason.