The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-04-27
Shall the Soldiers Come Home to Vote?

| We notice that most of the Copperhead
papers and public speakers, in the State
of Indiana, are commencing at this early
day to cry out against the soldiers Of this
State being sent home to vote, at the APP
preaching State and Presidential Elect
ions, and we take this early opportunity
to inform them, that all such labor is
time lost, wind and precious ink wasted
The Copperheads in our last legislature
refused to allow the vote of the soldiers to
be taken in the field, or away from his
own precinct thereby DISTINGUISHING him,
or compelling him to return to his home
and vote. Our constitution says that no
person loses his residence because of
being absent Their from in the service
of the United States. The object of their
acts as Legislators, and their efforts now,
is not to compel the Soldier to come
home to vote, but to prevent him from
voting at all, for they well knew that it
was no easy task for $4,000 voters to
travel from one hundred to one thousand
miles to get to vote. My cunning Cop
perhead politician, you need give yourself
no further trouble about that matter; the
soldiers from Indiana uW come home to
vote. You said they should come home
IF they roted, they say, zoe wW come home 10
yote. The authorities both civil and
military would be unworthy their country
and her Institutions, should they refuse
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the comforts of home, and with their
lives in their hands, have gone forth to
brave every peril for their country, the
greatest OF American privileges. that of
casting their votes for rulers who will
maintain that country for which they
fight, These Copperheads have for
gotten the Saviours command that 1.-The
greatest among you is he that serveth."
The authorities will send Indiana soldiers
home to vote. We say this without know
ing any thing Of the matter from any
official quarter, but we think that the
vivil and military authorities both State
and National have more respects for a
citizen who has manifested by his actions
that he Is true patriot, than to see him
thus DISTINGUISHED. 1t would be a sim
gular exhibition, to see that portion of
the people who are giving aid and comfort
to enemies in arms against a free gov
eminent, while refusing to sustain their
country against this enemy, permitted to
stay at home to control elections against
the will of $4,000 brave men who are
absent from home in its defense. Such
thing viii not be done, for Indiana
soldiers fully understand that it is as i'm
portant to defeat JEFF Davis friends in
the North At the ballot box, as it is to
defeat his soldiers in the field with bullets
And commanders who cannot also
understand this, and who will not send
these brave soldiers home to vote are
unfit to command free men, fighting for
freedom The soldiers from Indiana
will come home TO vote and there will /
not be left any contingency by which the /
butternuts can carry their nefarioas /
schemes. and they had as well abandon /
their deylish designs at once. for terrible /
viii be the retrihution that viii be visited /
upon the heads of that party and those |
men who not only refuse TO aid their /
country when struggling with desperate /
enemy. but assist that enemy to destroy /
the government which has protected /
them in all their rights from their early
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