Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-07


EDrToR SENTINEL: | inclose a slip cut from
the Cincinnati Commercial Is it ignorance or
efrontery that causes that sheet 10 persist in its
lying statements (several times reitcrated)? |
have not the full official statement Of the polls Of
the recent election $50 called) in this State; but
l have seen sufficient to render it certain th"t the
total vote will not exceed so, 100. There was
polled at the last Presidential election, lac, 400;
this leaves &c. 900 votes u~npolled, assuming that
election TO be a fair criterion, but IL Is not. By
the Auditors report of last year, there were in
this Sfate about ls3 900 legal voters. and they
are pearlv all here vet. OF course, all these
suppressed votes were Democrats. and, it they
had voted, would have carried the Democratic
ticket by an immense majority, even under all
the Disadvantages under which We labor, and
they are manifold and outrageous. aai
| have no doubt that, if all the acts of petty
tyranny and oppression committed in this State.
BY petty military despots. were collected together
and published. they would fill a large volume
No man living in Kentucky that has anv re
gard for truth and decency, will pretend that
there was the least approach to anything like fair
ness in our election. In this precinct the Demo
Gratis, seeing on the Saturday evening previous to
the election how things we're managed, unani-
mously resolved TO abstain from voting. Thew
knew they could not poll a full and fair vote. and
ther efore concluded the best policy 10 be to treat
NE N0Dlt tilllS rs ~ WTtltneu farce OEe vote
only was given for Wickliffe. We could have
given over fifty. In all the largest precincts Of
tine county the Democratic ticket was not en-
tered on the poll books. In several. large bodies
Of soldiers were stationed. As it is, Brsmlette's
vote is little over one third the voting population
OF the State, and bad a fair canvass been had.
one-third of these would have goue Cor Wickiiffe.
No donbt he receiveSa great many Illegal votes
There was liule restriction about voting for the
so called Union ticket Undoubtedly the min
plank in the platform lbnt not printed) is IA most
bitter, unrelenting prejudice and hatred against
Democracy BrduIletie is rs good a Republican
a. you need want, but if you intimate to those
that voted for him about here that thew are all as
practically of the Black Republicans. most of
them will get as sad as hops.
1t is pretended hat the soldiers enlisted in this
State will account for the small vote. But this
will not do. Our county is considerably above
the average in point of volunteers furnished. and
vet had there been a fair election, we would have
cast a much larger vote than at any previous
election This j. certain. So it is, no doubt,
over the whole State. with few exceptions |
have studied the elections in this State (where l
was born and raised, closely for many wears, and
have no doubt whatever that had the State been
canvassed as usual, and a perfectly fair election
held. Wickliffe would have carried three fonrihs
Of the counties and the State by a tremendous
majority, certainly not less than 81, 900, perhaps
rs. 900 to 100. 900
In conclusion. | would earnestly ilquire-an
inquiry that now nearly everybody about here is
making: What is to hinder the Administrations
from CARRYING the next Presidential election bv
preciselv such means as used in Kentucky, unless
the people awake in time? b