Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-11-02
Startling Disclosures!
HOW THE DEMOCRATS EXPEC
TED TO CARRY \. YORK
FRAUDS UPON THE SOLDIERS n!

Astounding discoveries have been made.
during the past week, b. the Government,
of gigantic fraud in regard to the soldiers
vote in the State of New York The eyi-
dence leaves no doubt that agents of the
Democratic leaders of that State. at Wash
ingt0n, at Baltimore, at Harpers Ferry,
and in the Army of the Potomac have put
up many thousands Of ballots, purporting 10
he those of soldiers, and forged the signatures
OF soldiers who have fallen in battle or died in
the hospitals. and OF persons who haveBoex-
istence at all TO papers transmitting. pr0xles
for Mcclellan and Seymour When it Is
stated that New ork soldiers can vote by
proxy--iu other words, by enclosing their
tickets in an envelope and sending it home
it will be readily understood how this
fraud could be successfully carried through.
Several Of the agents engaged in this meta
rious conspiracy have been arrested and are
now in iail, and Others wiz be arrested as soon
as the necessary proof can be collected. The
crime IS pronounced by Judge Advocate
Holt, zone Of the most serious character. .
\ Military Commission has already con
vcned at Baltimore, with Gen Doubleday
as presiding officer, for the trial of two
of the leading actors. One cf them.
named Donohue. has plead guilty Of having
signed certain blanks with the name of c.
5 Fortune, Captain. Thus the crime is es-
tabliShed beyond the possibility Of doubt.
and it is to be hoped that prompt punish
ment VIII follow this outrageous villainy.
Another device, in perfect keeping with,
ana doubtless part and parcel Of this same
game of rascality, has also been exposed by
Gen. Dix, who in "a general order, dated at
New York. October 28th, says
Satisfactory information has been re-
ceived by the Major General Commanding,
that rebel agents in Canada design 10 send
into the United States, and colonize. at dit
terent points large numbers oi refugees, de-
serters and enemies Of the Government,
with q view toyote at the approaching Pres
ideutiai election. and it's not unlikely when
this service to the rebel cause has been per
formed, that they may be organized for the
purpose OF shooting uown peaceable citizens,
and plundering private property, as in re-
cent predatory incurslons on the Detroit rlv
er and at St Albans. Against these Unmit-
igated outrages on the purity Of the elective
franchise. and these nefarious acts Of rob
berry. ircendiarism, and murder, ii is the
determination OF the Major-Generai COM
manding to guard by every possible precaG-
ton, and to visit ON the perpetrators, if
they shall be detected, the most signal pun
ishment All the classes of persons emu
merated, whether citizens of the insurgent
States. who have been in the rebel service
or engaged in acts of hostility to the Gov
ernment. deserters from the military ser
vice of the United States, or men drafted
or are subject to draft who have fed to
avoid their duty to their country, and are
! liable to punishment for the crimes they
have already committed. no effort will be
spared to arrest.
1t is hy such villainous means that the
Copperheads expected to carry New York
for Mcclellan. and explains the seeming con-
| idence which the leaders Of that State had
in doing So We do not see how honest
Democrats can longer stand by men who are
guilty of attempting such outrages against the
soldiers and the country.