The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-15
JUNE, 1889

ffederate States, In either civil or military
i capacity; or into the service of the so-called
! Provisional Government of Kentucky. in
either a civil or military capacity, or bav.
ing heretofore entered such service Of ei.
ther the Confederate States or Provisional
Government, shall continue in such ser.
vice after this act takes effect, or shall
take up or continue in arms against the
military forces Of the United States or the
State Of Kentucky, or shall shall give vol.
untary aid and assistance to those in arms
against said forces, shall be deemed ohave
expatriated himself, and shall no longer be
citizen of Kentucky, nor shall he be again
citizen, except by permission Of the
Legislature, by general or special statute.
SEC. 2: That whenever Q person attempts,
o.;I or is called on to exercise any of the con.
sttutional or legal rights and privileges
belonging only to citizens of Kentucky, he
may be required to negative on oath the
expafriation provided in the first section of
this act; and upon his failure or refusal to
do 80, shall not be permitted to exercise
any such right or privilege.
SEC. 3. This act to be Of force in thirtv
days from and after it's passage.
In accordance with this act, it was the
right OF every citizen, to require person
o1erlng to vote, to negative on oath the ex.
patriation provision of the law or in other
words to declare on oath that he had not
Deen in the rebel army, nor given volun.
tary assistance to the rebels. Every per-
son subscribing to the oath, demanded was
entitled to vote, and there is no evidence
that any such person was prevented from
voting. But the difficulty is that the great
majority OF the supporters of the Secession
ticket in Kentucky could not take oath
without committing perjury, and hence
they absented themselves from the polls
This IS the true explanation of the falling
Off in the vote OF Kentucky.
And IS there any man, is there any in.
telligent Copperhead even, who can make
a plausible argument in favor of a man
VINO has been in arms against the Govern
ment of the United States, and against the
State of Kentucky exercising the right of
suffrage in loyal State. VIII the Louis
vile Democrat pretend to say that rebel
soldiers returned to Kentucky, or citizens
OF Kentucky who sympathize with, and
nave been giving aid and comfort to the
rebels, had right to vote at the election
ON Monday? This is the question. If they
could not take the oath it is plain they
had no right to vote. If they could, they
We're not prevented from voting. There
Is therefore no ground for complaint;
and no loyal citizen will complain. 1t is
only those who desire the success of the
rebellion-who are opposed to furnishing
another man or another dollar-who do
complain; and these are dissatisfied be-
cause men who could not swear that they
have not fought against the Government
or given aid and comfort to the enemy,
were not permitted to vote for men to ad-
minister the affairs of Kentucky, who are
VIGOROUSLY committed against the support
of the Government. .-.. ....
The complaint that the military authors
ties interiered in the election is easily dis
posed Of In the first place we quote a
clause from General Burnside's order,
which bears directly upon this point:
GAS it is not the intention Of the Com
manding General to interfere with the pro-
per expression of public opinion, all dis
cretion in the conduct of the election will
be, as usual, in the hands of the legally ap-
pointed Judges at the polls, who will be
held strictly responsible that no disloyal
person he allowed to vote, and to this end
the military power is ordered to give them
its utmost support"
. In the next place, turning to the result
the Lexington District, we find there
were three candidates running. One of
these was Gen. Boyle, who fills an import
ant command in Kentucky. Now it will
not be claimed that the military interfered
to prevent citizens voting for him. Yet we
lind Mr.. Clay, the Union candidate, receiy-
ed five hundred more votes than Boyle and
Buckner together. This was plainly the
result OF an overwhelming Union senti-
ment in the district. @
In the absence of details, we are not pre-
pared to say to what extent the vote has
fallen Off in Kentucky; but we are satisfied
that the result in the State is fair express
sion of the legal voters. Rebels are not le-
gal voters, and those who could not take
the oath authorized by the Legislature. are
clearly, in the meaning of the law, rebels.
But all this bowling 0: the Copperheads
only shows what a terrible blow to them is
this great and overwhelming Union victo-
ry in Kentucky. They confidently antici-
pated the transfer of that State to the con-
troll of sympathizers with the rebels. In
this they are disappointed; and hence their
efforts to break the force of their fall, and
to weaken its effect upon the Vallandig-
ham party in Ohio, by charging the defeat
to military interference.-Csncinad Gdz. sf
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