Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-07-19
Turn out and Vote for
the Amendments!

THERE IS DANGER OF LOSING TIL
PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO OUR STATE
CONSTITUTION! !
This danger arises mostly from
APATHY, or OYER-CONFIDENCE. There
is, no doubt, very large majority of
the qualified voters in favor Of those
Amendments, but OF what avail will
that be unless the votes are polled ?
Our people are TOO Sure of success
they are not alive TO the canvas, they
ure not making their arrangements to
vote, they have no tickets, and very
many know not when or how to vote
the ticket they approve. BY such a
lack of earnest, concentrated, lntelli-
gent ACTION, the majority party as
well as the larger army has often
been surprised and routed.
But POSITIVE OPPOSITION is also too
evident. In every Stale, a majority
Of the so-called Democratic party has
in one way or another opposed the
policy Of allowing Soldiers to vote.
Not one modern Democratic paper in
Pennsylvauia-nOr their State Com
vention-nOr any County Convention
that we are aware Of has APPROVED
OF the measure. On the contrary, u
number of the leading men and news
papers have (and do,) more or less
openly or sccretly, OPPOSED it. Nor,
can this opposition he much wondered
at-tOr NINE OFT or TEN soldiers will
Vote AGAINST this false Democracy :;
and those who want the Rebellion to
Sustain Itself until after the Presidcn-
ilal Election, would naturally desire
to reduce the ADMINISTRATORS vote as
much as possible. The Soldier Vote
OF ONO Was 10000 Anti" Democratic"
majority d: in the same ratio. PcnnSvl-
wanna would give $4,000 or 90. 900 in
addition TO Curtiu's lj.000) majority
for crushing out the Rebellion and its
cause utterly and speedily as possible.
Need we wonder, then, that Berks,
Columbia, Northampton, Wcstmore-
land and other county leaders Of the
majority openly denounce the policy
of Soldiers voting in the field ?
Thus much for plain facts aud fair
differences. Consider them.
1t is, moreover, ALLEGED that there
are combinations-k .G.C's and other
secret cabals-conspiring to lull into
false security the soldiers friends, at
the same time they are rallying their
forces to defeat the measure. They
say (with probable TRUTH that the
soldiers vote would kill their party:
hence, quite naturally, they oppose
soldiers voting. They also say-vil-
lainouS and wilful lalsehood, that if
the amendments carry, black soldiers
can vote: these men know that only
whites are ''quali!icd electors when
at home, and the amendments do but
confirm the right Of whites" to vote
in the field, without in any way ex-
tending the right to colored soldiers.
Preposterously false as this bugbear
is, ii is yet used to prejudice that class
who think that the only constitutional
and scriptural use of the African is to
help the Rebellion!
Now, is it not obviously proper
that an alarm should be raised, and
the success of the Amendments made
sure? 1t would be sad to lose them. !
Think how tiendish would be the !
axultation of Copperheads and Rebels
if Pennsylvania should confirm Wood !
ward decision against Soldiers'yotes! .
How unjust to our 100 days men, who
would thereby be deprived Of their
privilege of voting, next
October What bar to enlistments
or the next call, to know that man
yho risks all that is dear in life for
lis country, will be punished by his
deprivation of any voice in the cleo
ion of rulers. Think how it wsuld
lnnervc the arms and sadden and
'icken the hearts Of our brothers, at
he gates Of Richmond and of Allan
a, to learn that the people Of the Old
\ keystone had, bya deliberate vote at
heir quiet homes, decided to ostracise
rom the ballot-box the very men by
whose valor and suffering and hazard
hey have country!
10 avert such fatal mistake,we
iave but TWO WEEKS to wake up and
simulate to proper efforts the honest
masses ~, who favor the Amendments.
1 hey can be carried by a majority
perfectly overwhelming-or they NAV
be lost by a tritiing vote. Awakci
arouse. ensure their success One
'ote, now, may be worth two in Oct
1r Nov: Remember Tuesday, Aug.
"a, is the day for the election.
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