The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-11-02
Auguste Belmont Confident of
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McCIelIan,s Election.
A special from Washington. to the Her
aid says:
at is a subject of much comment ia
political circles that Mr.. Auguste Bel
mont, who has hitherto been extremely
cautious about risking anything upon the
Presidential election, is now Offering to
bet heavily upon the election of Nc
Clellan."
The tide ever since the State elections
has been setting in is strongly for McClel-
Ian, and his friends have the best prospects
for success. The, Republicans have no
hope Of electing Lincoln except by the
perpetration of such FRAUDS as have dis
graced Indiana. With a fair vote, Nc
Clellan will carry %two.thirds of the cleo
toral votes. 1t would also seem from this
that the leaders of the Democracy have
som hope of q fair vote. This hope is
not founded upon the %supposition that
the despots in power will not use any IN
hueuce at their command to secure their
election by fraud or violence: We have
proof thatthey intend to use these inhu-
ences at all hazards by their recent con-
duct in regard to the election in Tennes-
see. But in a Presidential election they
labor under a disadvantage that did not
trouble them at the recent State elections.
Then. soldiers from other States could
vote in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana
Ns.c, these votes will be needed in their
own States. More than this, the i'm
mense frauds. perpetrated in Indiana,
lave awakened the people, and a stricter
surveillance of the ballot box and the bal.
lots will be had. In one voting precinct
in Indiana the Abolition Judges returned
the entire Democratic vote of the precinct
at 1913. Since that time 400 legal resi-
dents Of that precinct hare 0sde their
affidavit that thcy Uoted the entire Demo.
cratic ticket. In the counting of the
vote,-which had to be done publicly
II more ballots were,.found in the box
than there were names of voters on the
roll. The drunken Abolition ballot-box
suffers had made a mistake. This is but
a sampleifof the frauds perpetrated in In
diana. The election is being contested,
and, if the Judiciary yet remains uneor-
Morton viii be. hurled from the
seat he has attempted to retain by cor
and fraud.
But, as we sid before, the fact of these
frauds coming to light, will open the eyes
of the people and induce them to aratch
yell tie ballot Dor. This, with the fact
that the soldiers will give a majority for
Mcclellan, and with the additional fact
that thousands upon thousands of persons
who do not declare it openly, will private
ly walk to the ballot box and east their
votes for Mcclellan, Pendleton, Peace
and a restored Union, renders it certain,
almost beyond the possibility of doubt,
Mcclellan will DE the mex Presi-
dent Of the United States. 1t is, no
doubt, partially upon these grounds, but
moro upon the fact, that Auguste Bel
mont has advices from all parts of the
country as tolthe the actual state of pub
lie feeling, that INDUCES him to venture
more money than any other man in Amer
lea commands, upon the final result
THE SKIES ARE BRIGHT. The
Goddess of Liberty will once more be en-
upon the American continent
The Prince of Peace will nee more have
& resting place on earth. The rivers Of
blood that have been flowing for the last
four years will be dried up ct their foun-
tains. The-ocean Of widows and orphans
tears will be known no more. Soon the
glad tidings viii fash through the land
the pure, white banner of PEACE
floats over the continent and over a re-
and happy Union ; that no more
shall be heard, the trampling of marshal
ed hosts for the deadly fray, the groans of
the wounded and the terrible walls of the
nor be seen, burning and desolated
devastated fields, the CHASTITY
dead, the starving and naked women and
children, or the vacant hearthstone.-
And, Oh ! when under the guidance of
noble soldier and statesman, McClel
Ian, comes the word that we have Peace
and a restored Union, such rejoicings will
60 up all over our broad land as the world
has never witnessed. God grant that the
time may soon come.