North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-10-26

MILITARY DEsP orIsN THaoueuour fHE
STArE-McCLELLAN MEETING. BRokEx 3
pPAND McCLELLAN MEN ARREsTED :
-UNIoS MrN DRAGcfr FROM
THEIR BEDS AT MIDNIGHT
INDIANAPOLIS. Octo
BY SOLDIERS.

INDIANAPOLIS, October 81.
Indiana Is conceded to be the battle ground
of the pre- ,idental election. Mr., Lincoln IN
tends to carry Indiana at all hazards. So his
friends say. and so appearances indicate. -
Military subjngation hoIds-M,Iitary despo'-
lsn rules. This city is full e armed men,
and the Capitol grounds are crow ded. They
swarrned al the corners of all the principle
streets. They hold possession of the depot
Armed men stand on the platform as you en-
ter the cars al either door You buy YOUR
tickets watched by soldiers, with bayonets
fixed. They guard the entrance 20 the pas
senger rooms, Thousands of them have
been sent home from the army. Mere of
them are desired and expected.
If a fair vote is allowed the state is Demo-
cratic by fifteen thousand, How much chance
there is fol fair vote facts will tell In this
city, the capital Of tile state, whore lie gov
ernor lives, where the Lincoln men have a
wigwam built for their express accumulation
and where they hold nightly meeting but one
/ emocratIc meeting has been held since NJ c
CleIan was Nominated, and that was broken
up by drunken soldiers, and rather than has
ten civil war, the Union men have yielded 10
military force, hold no meetings and can hold
none. II is believed here that it is designed
to So exasperate The people as to produce an
outbreak and Justify martial law to control
the election by bayonets.
The people here are hushcI to the verge Of
desperation. The draft is going on, and the
conscrlpts, instead Of being allowed ten DAYS
as is usual in other state are hurrie! away at
once. A meeting was held IN one Of The
towns to petition Gov. Morton to ailaw the
drafted men the usual ten days. That night
train OF cars filled with soldiers was sent
out from the capital 10 the middle Of he
night they surrounded the house and arrest
ed the chairman of the meeting, young man
by the name Of wolf, and hurried him off 10 Il
military prison, At the depnt near Trrre
Hautr, saw a crowd OF men should think
Numbering two hundred, filled the depot -
Earnest, anxious, resOlute lorkng men as
have gathered together since the news Of the
battle of Lexington in ll16 vbrated on the
air. Their story was short one. A neigh.
Dor of theirs, Mr.. Humphreys, for the crime
Of being Mcclellan man, had been sc jzed at
midnight by military fnrce, sent from the
capital, dragged from lis bed, not allowed t."
Communicate with family or friends, laughed
at when he demanded for what he waS arres
ted, and hurried away to confinement. The
place to place men gathered IN clusters,
some riding fifty miles between midnight and
morning, in hopes 10 intercept the train at
another station. They were an hour too late
Other prominent III N had been arrested III
the same manner, with the intention to strike
tsrr"r on all sides Mr.. Bingham, one Of the
state committee, and editor Of the Sentinel,
was arrested III the same way.
A military train is kept ON hand fer these
arrests. They are made usually in the
qlght.
1t Is estimated that a thousand spies, or
detectives, as jaey are called, in the pay Of
the government, are abroad in the state
They are spies on every mans utter0nce -
they fument controversies, induce men to
speak against the government, and charge
them With treason, and become witnesses in
the case was in the town Of Hartford the
orher day. The Democrats had erected u
splendid Mcclellan pole of hickory. train
filled with Mort"n's soldiers stopped willie
was a: the depot. The Mcclellan pole was
in full sight, bearing aloft the stars md
stripes a portion Of the soldiers got cut Of
the car, cut the pole down with an axe tore
up the flag, end trampIed it in the m;re and
then proceeded on their journey to arrest
somebody. The flag was rescued, cut up in
Mcclellan.
An immense mass meeting was held at
Vincennes. Vallandigham was invited to be
present, and accepted the invitation 1t was
openly declared that if he came he would be
arrested. | heard an officer say that he
would shoot him with his own hand if he
arose to speek. The result was that r1ure
than ten THOUSAND people were present.
Nalandigham was not there. Had he been
present, and hair of his he ad been touched
civil war would have been inaugurated in ten
minutes. ..-.
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ANOTHER HERO AND SOLDIER FOR
McllIEI,IAN