Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-11-03

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Vote rs Mcy Lhoose 80 Horc AL0itioa
Frop,is1 Frec Etociion Jor Keatachy
Or No Etcction.
Fellow CirlzrSs 1t no longer admit.
Of doubt that the unscrupulous support
ers of the present incumbent Of the prcsi.
dental chair have determined 10 employ for
his reelection to that high office a system of
violence and fraud unknown before in our
history.
They thereby admit that lis honest, legal
recollection is impossible. Thereby they al
ready confess defeat.
The polling Of every Democratic and Con
scrvative vote in the loyal States, will make
his ELECTION, even by violence aud fraud,
impossible We beseech and exhort you to
/ let nothing whatever prevent your casting
/ that vote.
In the State of Indiana, Administration
majorities have been manufactured bv the
indecent exhibition of thousands Of Illegal
votes.
In Maryland military force has been used
to silence the Democratic press, aud the
! Federal Government has dictated the inati
tutions OF Il State.
! III ltIicSSCty TIC I,clbuDIfdn fullulldIe
J for the Vice Presidency, holding by the ap-
pointmcnt and at the pleasure Of the Presi
dent. "a pro-consular office unknown TO any
law of Congress- has assumed the armed
control of polls commanded by him 10 be
opened, and The President Of the United
States, appealed to by the free citizens OF
that State to right such wrongs, has treated
that appeal with coarse contempt.
Last Of all, the legal right Of the soldiers
of the republic freely to join with their tcl-
low citizens in the choice OF a national Chief
| Magistrate is menaccd and made mock
cry. Their camps, thrown open to the poll
teal agents otthe administration, are sought
to be closed to the legal representatives OF
! the Democracy, under prctcXts which lead.
ing organs of the Republican party find
themselves compelled to denounce a, insult
ing to the commen sense OF the nation
The mails are violated to seize the vote
; that have been cast against him, and Il
place his own ballots in their stead an,
when it had been discovered that the vote
, of the army, which our candidate first or
ganlzed and led to victory, were cast il
= great majority for their old commander.
: plot was contrived to seize their votes, al
] rest the agents who had collected them, un
| der pretense ofpunishing frauds which ca
r only be discovered by inspectors Of electio
: with their poll lists before them. whic
c could only be committed and complete
: there, and which can justly be punished on
! ly under the stringent laws and hy the Ui
+ ticers of the States themselves
y In the presence of this odious and uney
4 ampled spectacle the Democratic Nationa
T. Committee call upon ALL of whatever main
c or party creed, lovers Of liberty and tn
/ Unon-now more than ever before ION
D and inseparable TO put forth all thei
: strength in one final and triumphant effor
/ for the salvation Of both.
Welding the most gigantic system of OF
d fetal patronage and corruption which til
G world has ever seen, the administration. i
4 whatever direction it turns, finds itself con
tronted by impending defeat. D..
c Its open completely III acts of fraud an
d violence is Il full confession that Abraham
II Lincoln reelection cannot be accomplish
;. ed by an honest appeal to the unbought wi
II of nation of free men.
y BY such an appeal the reelection of Abr;
N ham Lincoln can yet be prevented in spit
5. of fraud and violence: Such an appeal IL
as Democratic National Committee now NAL
lie to their fellow-citizcns in all the States, b
- more especially to the thousands of true al
n loyal men who, in Maryland, IN Indiana,
10 Ohio, in Kentucky. and in Missouri, nc
10 suffering in their persons, their feeling. al
OF their property, from the reckless usurpati(
Sc lot the Executive and the chartered tyranl
n of his commissioned agents, have alno
e despaired Of the republic.
of The Democracy never despair of the +
I'd public!
The party whose successive triumphs ha'
is marked the stages of the nation greatnes
10 triumphant now, can rescue the nation fro
IS the ruin wrought by the conspiracy of rebe
% at the South and fanatics at the North; ca
m restore to her liberty, and order, and Law
N and plant her feet securely in the paths
10 republican empire.
1t The day star Of victory rose with the ele
Is tious of September, in Maine. The subs
e. ding deluge Of fanaticism will once more ba
the granite peaks of New Hampshire to ii
a sunshine of liberty. The State of Jol
l. Stark and Daniel Webster will give her vo
in November to the Union and the Const
- tuition, to Mcclellan and Pendleton.
re Connecticut, the ancestral home of o,
is noble candidate, led by the spirits Of
y. Trumbull, Sherman, and an Ellswort
as pledges herself, by clean majority in \
+ vember, to assist in the salvation of the r
): public
ey Beyond preadventure is the result in Il
m Empire State, in Pennsylvania, and i'll Ne
k. jersey. There will be no break in the fro
W of this great triple column in the grand a
I'd my of the Union. The Keystone State +
deemed herself in October in Novemb
y, she will lead the redemption of the natio
OF New jersey stands where she has cv
= stood, in war and peace alike, true to Il
OF Union, the Constitution, and the Laws
MS The decisive vote of New York, at Il
tn Chicago Convention, gave to the cause
=. the Union its candidate. lnNovembcr, Il
lie decisive vote of New York will herald Il
ng proclamation of that candidate as Preside
of the Union, which, at all hazards,
In has sworn to preserve.
Gallant little Delaware; Maryland trie
n tempted but alike unterrihed and unseduce
=, and Kentucky are with us.
Spurning with an equal scorn tho treason NJ
n the tyranny which have once more made
rich and rural plains "a dark and bioo
ground" the state of Kentucky stamps h
zee proud foot, and swears she will be free.
rv Missouri, four years ago, the garden OF the IL
~ ther west, an empire in her teeIning future
- day our Mexico, ravagcd in her length q
b. breadth by invaders and opprcssors. VIII
- hope has Missouri save in the triumph
% soldier who can guard her borders, and OF
of statesman who can respect her will? :? Missoi
will give her vote to the Union and ConStit
tion, Mcclellan and Pendleton.
Illinois will stand by her sister of the Miss
"a sippi. lIervo is secure for the cause In viii
-. 40 many thousands of her sons have bled on
ne hundred hattlefolds. The soldier state" of t
pd West will have no more of Abraham Lincoln
The flct that Indiana suffers under the rule
, a Governor Just reelected TO office by the mC
Od stupendous combination of political fraud wi
M military force, cannot shake our confidence
y" that noble state which has carried the banner
Democracy triumphantly through many hl
Mn fought battles.
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