Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-14
Election Fraud. i'm Delaware.

HO1 The AGENTS Of The r drral Administration
Employed the Military 70 Intmidate Voters
and DriUe Democrats from the Polls
The following is from the New York World of
November 3:
A bold attempt made In Delaware tn over
awe The voters and carry the State election for
the Republicans by military terror The All
ministra.ion thought it important that border
slave State should present show of indorsing
its emancipation policy Soldiers from other
States, enlisted to fight the rebels were used TO
repel Democrats from the p Us aud 10 irighten
and coerce timid voters. The following state
ment. copied from the Philadelphia Eueninq Jour
nal. presents part OF the facts
The Information which We have from Della
ware shows that most shame 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 Toes, but does not restrain them from
the invasion of the soil OF n sister State tor polit
ical purpOses) encamDed SeafOrd
Shortly afterwards three steamboats, loaded
with soldiers, among whom the 9th New
DIRK aud the 18th PENNSYLVANIA cavalry, arrived
at the same town. Thence they were conveyed
by railroad and wagons To every voting precinct
IA Kent and Sussex counties, and, except at Sea-
ford. where Gen. Wool was in person. placed un
der the orders OF the most INSCRIPTIONS advo-
Gates OF the abolition party. la some of the
precincts abe Democrats were driven away from
the polls, as IN Baltimore Hundred, in Sussex
county; IN Others, the most prominent and inhu
entail Democrats were arrested and kept under
guard until the polls were closed
This occurred in Dover Hundred Kent
county. aud in Dagsboro' Hundred, Sussex
county. In this latter Hundred some thirty
Democrats we're so treated. among them Mr..
Aaron B. Marvel. late Auditor OF the State, and
the Democratic Sheriff elect
Ill Dover. the capital of the State the sol.
dierS made two bayonet charges, the first to stop
"A hsticuff between two citizens, the second in
mere wantonness when thele was no fighting.
The only disturbance which occurred ut these
polls was caused 10y the Hon. G. = Fisher the
Abolition candidate for Congress, who attack,
and threw down Democrat named Weeks Ia
most of the precincts Democrats were not allow
ed 10 accompany voters to the polls while Abo-
ltionsts took iorcihle possession of all timid vo-
tiers, surrounded them with soldiers, and forced
them 10 vote their ticket"
The tact that this unwarrantabIe 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 majOrilies; had the polls
been free their minority would have been 500
or 1000. IL is cOnsoing TO know that this ne
iari0us scheme OF carrying an election for the
administration BY military proved abortive:
but it Is nevertheless an act which no right think
ing man can Contemplate without Indignation.
The only saieSua of our rights is in the fact
that the defeat OF the Republican party WIS so
general Ii only two or three of the smaller
States had gone Democratic, the election in those
States would probably have been annulleiby the
arrest OF the new officers trumped up charges
of treason.