Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-28
The Progress of Despoti.m.


The telegraph, under the rigid censor
ship of the Administration. is just now do
ing a great deal of tall lying for electioneer-
ing purposes. The dispatches from Wash
ington and New York are big with prom
ises and prophecies of future military sue
cesses, the immediate crushing of the rebel
lion, and other cheerful delusions. One of
the biggest eIectioneering lies that has yet
appeared, came yesterday in the shape of a
dispatch to The New York Tribune, the IA
ther of lies. This story claims that stu
pendous frauds have been discovered in
Baltimore, and that the frauds consist in
Democrats substituting MCCLELLAN tickets
for the LINCOLN ballots originally voted by
the New York soldiers, whole box full of
such fraudulent tickets" having been found
in the moral city of Baltimore, where LIN
coins word is the supreme law. So great
was the agitation of the Washington patri-
ots at the discovery of this ''fraud," that
the court-martial assembled in Washington
to Investigate the blockade swindles at Bal
timore, was ordered in hot haste to suspend
their inquiries into the frauds upon the
Treasury, and make haste to investigate
the alleged frauds against LINCOLN.
There can remain no doubt in the mind
of any reasonable man that this whole affair
is an electioneering falsehood and humbug
from beginning to end; and that if any
fraud has been attempted, it is the work of
LrNcoLN's own officials, detectives, spies
and underlings. 1t is notorious that the
whole machinery of the army vote is under
the entire control of the Administration
and its friends. They furnish the tickets;
they see them voted; they take charge of
them afterwards; they forward the ballots
through their own partisans; they control
the mails, and they exercise the strictest
censorship over alkthe express companies
within the lines of the army; and while it
iseasy for Abolitionists to perpetrate frauds,
it would be utterly impossible for Demo-
Gratis to obtain the necessary facilities, even
If they had the disposition to do 1t. The
city of Baltimore is under more perfect
military surveillance than is the city of
Paris, and it is absolutely impossible that
any such frauds as are alleged could be COM
mitted there except by LINcoLN's friends
and officials.
This affair bears upon its face evidence Of
being gigantic swindle by the Admins
trationists to cheat the soldiers out Of their
votes and impose upon the people. We
have no doubt if any such tickets were
found as alleged, they were prepared by
the Abolitionists, and discovered by the
Abolitionists, for the purpose of furnishing
q pretext for the Administration to stop all
Democratic votes from the army while in
transit. The Administration, through its
conveniently subservient military commits
sions, constitutes itself the judge of the
election in New York State before the cleo
tion takes place, and it will throw out all
democratic ballots or substitute LINCOLN
ballots for them, after they have left the
hands the soldiers. The evidence has been
accommodating for months that the Admins
tration purposes to maintain itself in power
by force and fraud, usurpation, outrage and
corruption, and this last attempt at swind-
ling is the eliminating point of the testi-
mony. It Is q warning to the country that
an Administration reelected by such means
cannot fail ito destroy everyyestige ofliberty,
law, order and good government; that every
good citizen, every patriot and lover Of his
country, without regard to party ties, should
exert himself TO the utmost toaccomplish
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