The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-11-11
TERRORISM IN INDIANA.
Events Before the late Election

| Correspondence Of tic ". 4. World ~
INpIASAPoLIs, Oct. 3.--Mr. Lincoln intends
to carry Indiana at al hazards. SO his friends
say, and SO appearances indicate. Military
| subjugation holds--military. despotism rules
This city is full Of armed men, and the Capt.
t5l grounds are crowded. They swarm at the
corners of all the principal streets. They hold
possession Of the depot. Armed men stand on
the platform as you enter the cars at either
door. You buy your tickets watched by SOL
dlers, with bayonets fixed. They guard the
entrance to the passenger ROOMS. Thousands of
them have been sent home from the army
More Of them are desired and expected.
/ If a fair vote is allowed the State is Demo-
cratic by fifteen thousand. How much chance
thers is for a fair vote facts will tell.
The people here are pushed to the verge OF
desperation. The draft is going on, and the
Iconscripts instead IF being allowed ten days, as
is usual in other States, are hurried away at
once A meeting was held in one OF the towns
to petition Governor Morton to allow the draft
ed mon the usual ten days. That night train
Of cars filed with soldiers was sent out from
the capital. In the middle of the night they
surrounded the house and arrested the chairman
of the meeting, young man by the name OF
Wolf, and hurried him off to d military prison.
At the depot near Terre Haute saw a crowd
OF men, should think numbering two hum
dred, who filed the depst Earnest, anxious,
resolute looking men as have gathered together
since the news of the battle of Lexington IN
1776 yibrated on the air. Their slory was
short one. A neighbor of theirs Rtr. fIamph-
reys, for the crime of being Mcclellan man,
had been seized at night by a military turce
sent from the capital, dragged from his bed, not
allo wed TO communicate with family or friends,
laughed at when he demanded for what ile was
arrested, and hurried away to coniinement.-
The alarm spread from house. to. house, and
from place to place; men gathered in clusters.
some riding fifty miles between midnight ana
morning, in hopes to intercept the train at a
mother station. They were an hour too late
Other prominent men had been arrested IN the
same manner with the intention to strike terror
on all sides. Bingham, oae of the State Com
mittee, and editor Of the Sentinel, was arrested
made without warning No man feels safe AZ
is estimated that thousand spies or detectives,
as they are called, in the pay Of the Govern
nent, are abroad in the State.
An immense mass meeting was held st Ein-
ceunes Vallandigham was invited tc be pres
ent, and accepted the invitation. 1t was open
ly declared that if he came he would be arres-
ted heard an officer say he would shoot hlm
with his own hand if he arose to speak. The
result was that more than tan thousand people
were present. Vallandigham was not there
Had he been present, and a hair OF ms head
been touched, civil war would have been inau-
gurated in ten minutes.
never lived before under military despotism
can understand the feeling of the French dur
| ing the Reign of Terror when no man who
laid his head on pillow at night had any guar
antee that it would not roll into a basket before
. morning, or at the very least, that he wouid
not be dragged to dungeon. No man feels
safe. Terror spreads over the land.