Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-29
As we Expected.

The detection and arrest Of the New
Ysrk. ballot-box.stufsrs, in their infa-
nous AItemp, to swindls the New York
soldiers out Of their vctssAor, worse
than that, make them vote for nas
whose platform Of principles they de-
sPiss, bY frsadpIsntly rsking Lincoln
tickets out OF the envelopes IN which
they were enclosed, aud Substituting 10
their places Meclellan tiekets- has oc.
cssioned howl Of anguish and indigns-
ton from coPpsrhead papers all over
the country This we expected Il We
never knew a9rogss 10 be caught in his
raseality and brought to grief but what
he and oil his friends thought an infa
nous outrage was conmitted--an act Of
despotism psrpetrsted The fines Of
this city is no exception to the general
Fpie.'t reais ar4asa1uusa a1 Hd .afa
Il has been apparent for several days
that the Northern conspirasors against
the Government contemplated raseAlity
Of some description The October else'
tions demonstrated that Mcclellan stood
not the remotsst chance Of an election.
The vote Of Indiana, Ohio, and
Pennsylvania settled his hash
completely and elegantly Common
honesty would have said to bis
friends: II Is no use TO spend any more
money or make any more efforts The
tide 10 against us il 10 folly to resist il
Bat rAscality whispered, there is yet a
easnee; while X is true we cannot hops
70 Succeed honestly, we may triumph By
s tracey aud fraud. whatwas the resul,
A general rasbasg togsther Of Copper
be II State Central Committees Pendle
ton hnrrying over to New York to SCI
eli. tle Mike, anS make speech tia
would, 10 some exteat, relieve bis sup
porters from the odicm Of his pas
record What is the result Of all thsss
movements we do not fully know. Al
We know is that this New York election
fraud comes to light i'm ediately after
wards What is most excellent, the dis
coyery of ah,e raseality is early enough Il
cire,lmvent it. That is what hurts /
the fraud had gone undiscovered unit
the votes we're counted out, the Copper
heads, with the Times at their head
wonld have chuckled over their success
sn Apped tksir fingers at the Union mel
and told shsm to help themselves. A
it is the frzud has proven failure
'fhe party has incurred sll the imam
attaching ss s6eir seandslous crime with
cut reaping any benefit from it. Tn
leaders Of that organization had bette
fee to the M ountains of Hepsidam,
instanter. A st. ,rm of popular indigna
! ton is brewing c hat win soon burst j
fury on their deve ted heads. The tim
is swiftly approach sing when forbesraRe
will cease to be o virtue. Tories, in th
revolution, found Il ie country hot on'
and unhealthy fos their constitution
Are not the COppsrl lsads Of the prsseI
day apprshensivs til 81 the climate ia b,
coming equally us,healthy for them
Psblic opinion is Elow, but it is sure, an
when once it fs stan the odinm of di
loyalty and tire &son upon man, he an
his descendants are ursed forever NOR
The liability Of beil iE detected in the
rascality NO aid have deferred any ht
desperate political gamblers from a
tempting a fraud like th g one recent
discovered By which the New York so
disrs were. TO be swindIssd out of the
votes. 9lt the time the wo'es we're CA
BY the sosaiers, record vas kept Ohio
and for whom they voted, and preserves
This re cord, of course, would have d.
tected the forgery when the tickets wer
counted ont, if il had not been done b
fore But It would have been TOO lat
them tor the soldier vote to be eounte'
and the whole vote would have bee
thrown out This is what the tools
Gov. Seymour desired and intende,
They had some hopes of carrying IL
State of New York for Mcclellan il tA,,