Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-03
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THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. {
ATTENTION, VOTERS!
Address of the National Democratic
Committee TO the People Of the
United states.
Final Appeal Of the Campaign

Final Appeal Of the Campaign
FELLOW CITIZENS: 1t no longer admits
of doubt that the unscrupulOus support
ers of the present incumbent of the Presi-
Dental chair have determined to employ
for his reelection to that high office sys-
TEN of violence and fraud unknown before
in our history.
They thereby admit that his honest, legal
reelection is impossible. Thereby they al
ready confess defeat.
The polling of every Democratic and
conservative vote in the loyal States will
make his reelection, even by violence and
fraud, impossible. We beseech and exhort
you to let nothing whatever prevent your
casting that vote.
In the State of Indiana Administration
majorities have been manufactured by the
indecent exhibition of thousands of illegal
votes.
In Maryland military force has been used
to silence the Democratic press, and the
Federal Government has dictated the insti-
tutions of a State.
In Tennessee, the Republican candidate
for the Vice. e-Presidency, holding, by the ap-
pointment and at the pleasure of the Presi-
dent, a pro consular office, unknown TO any
law of Congress, has assumed the armed
control of polls commanded by him to be
opened, and the President OF the United
States, appealed to by the free citizens of
that State to right such wrongs, has treated
that appeal with coarse contempt.
Last of all, the legal right of the soldiers of
the republic freely to join with their fellow
citizens in the choice of national Chief
Magistrate is menaced and made mockery.
Their camps, thrown open to the political
agents of the Administration, are sought
to be closed to the legal representatives of
the Democracy, under preteXts which
leading organs of the Republican party
find themselves compelled to denounce as
insulting to the common sense OF the nation.
The mails are violated to seize the votes that
have been cast against him, and to place his
own ballots in their stead; and when it had
been discovered that the votes of the army,
which our candidate first organized and led
to victory, were cast in great majority for
their old commander, plot was contrived
to seize their votes, arrest the agents who
had collected them, under pretense of pun
ishing frauds which can only be discovered
by inspectors of election with their poll
lists before them, which could only be COM
mitted and completed there, and which can
Justly be punished only under the stringent
laws and by the officers Of the States them
selves.
In the presence of this odious and unex-
ampled spectacle the Democratic National
Committee call upon all, OF whatever name
or party creed, lovers of liberty and the
Union, now more truly than ever before
zone and inseparable," to put forth all their
strength in one final and triumphant effort
for the salvation of both.
WELDING the most gigantic system of
official patronage and corruption which the
world has ever seen, the Administration, in
whatever direction it turns, finds itself con-
tronted by impending defeat.
Its open completely in acts OF fraud and
violence is a full confession that Abraham
Lincoln's reelection cannot be accomplish
ed by an honest appeal to the unbought
will of nation of freemen.
By such an appeal the reelection of Abra-
ham Lincoln can yet be prevented, in spite
of fraud and violence. Such an appeal the
Democratic Nat onal Committee now make
to their fellow citizens in all the States, but
more especially to the thousands of true and
loyal men who, in Maryland, in Indiana, in
Ohio, in Kentucky, and in Missouri, now
suffering in their persons, their feelings,
and their property, from the reckless usur-
pations of the Executive and the chartered
tyranny of his commissioned agents, have
almost despaired of the republic.
The Democracy never despairs OF the re-
public.
The party whose successive triumphs
have marked the stages of the nations
greatness, triumphant now, can rescue the
nation from the ruin wrought by the con-
spiracy of rebels at the South and fanatics
at the North; can restore to her liberty, and
order, and law, and plant her feet securely
in the paths of republican empire.
The day star of victory rose with the
elections of September, in Maine. The sub
siding deluge of fanaticism will once more
bare the granite peaks of New Hampshire
to the sunshine of liberty. The State of
John Stark and Daniel Webster will give
her vote in November to the Union and the
Constitution, to Mcclellan and Pendleton.
Connecticut, the ancestral home of our
noble candidate led by the spirits of
Trumbull, Sherman, and an Ellsworth,
pledges herself, by a clean majority in No
yember, to assist in the salvation of the Re-
public.
Beyond peradventure is the result in the
Empire State, in Pennsylvania, and in New
Jersey. There will be no break in the front
of this great triple column in the grand
army OF the Union. The Keystone State
redeemed herself in October; in November
she will lead the redemption of the nation.
New Jersey stands where she has ever
stood, in war and peace alike, true to the
Union, the Constitution, and the Law.
The decisive vote of New York, at the
Chicago Convention, gave to the cause OF
the Union its candidate. In November, the
decisive vote of New York will herald the
proclamation of that candidate as Presi-
dent of the Union, which, ''at all hazards"
he has sworn to preserve. ail-
Gallant little Delaware; Maryland, tried,
tempted, but alike unterrified and unse-
duced, and Kentucky, are surely with us.
Spurning with an equal scorn the treason
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