The Portland daily press., 1863-11-17
| scurrilous Attack upon the Government.

n ScuITuOus Attdck upon thc oVscahhhcht
The Advertiser of this city, which repre-
sents nobody, is the organ OF nobody, can
affect nobody, and therefore is worthy the Sc
rious attention of nobody, has leader on
'the mock election in Maryland" in which the
Government at Washington is said to be San
imitation of Napoleon LII, who carried his
election at the point Of the bayonet, and then
called on the world to observe the unanimous
voice of France"
The venomous Copperhead who controls
the Advertiser says, "the brief story is that
Maryland was over-run with troops at her
voting places, by orders from headquarters y
"the polls were controlled with fixed bayonets
and by force;" democrats were driven from
the polls, arrested at discretion, and locked
up like so many sheep in pens;" "the judges
of elections were forced to act under military
supervision, who made reports under military
forms;" that Maryland "was deprived by mil
itary force of the fair expression of her peo-
ple." Again, exclaims this vile defamer of his
country and consorter with rebels and trail
tors, Maryland, we say, has been crushed by
military force, and her election was but
mock election and farce"
Probably larger number of vile, unmtiga-
ted ISLANDERS, misrepresentation and false
hoods were never before crowded together
into so small space as are found in the arti-
Gle referred to, and it is from no design Of its
author that it will do no mischief and misead
no intelligect person, but simply because that
concern has sunken so low that no more i'm
portance is attached to its teachings than
would be to the rawlings of maniac in mad
house.
The simple truth is, not a bayonet was used
in Maryland to prevent any man from voting,
and voting in his own way, who had a right
to vote. Men who have been convicted of
reasonable completely have no right to vote
Rebels should have no voice in the control OF
loyal state, but not even rebel sympathisers
were interfered with. The only use of the
military was TO protect Union men; to keep
the way to the ballot-boxes open to all good
citizens to prevent violence. and to aid the
judges of elections in securing fair ballot
and in making correct returns, without moes-
tation from rebel DULLES and such unwashed
scoundrels as massacred the brave men of the
Massachusetts, Sixth on the 10Th April 1861.
and laid their plans to assassinate Abraham
Lincoln at an earlier date.
The presiding genius of the Advertiser, who
has had much to say about ripping up mems
bowels, and sending them into the presence of
their God in just two minutes, has a salutary
dread OF all efficient methods of preserving
order, and would consider it perfectly demo-
cratic to place every balot-box In Maryland
at the mercy of Plug Uglies, provided by SO
doing, an expression adverse to emancipation
and in favor of perpetual negro slavery could
be secured. The men in Maryland and Mis-
souri, who are sick of the curse of slavery and
wish to get rid of it, and to purge their state
of it, come in for his denunciation and vile
abuse. But let him foam and rage. He is
impotent. The American people have written
the doom of rebellion and treason, and all who
aid or abet them. lie cannot escape that
doom.