The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-10-29
Afraid. to Publish the Truth.

The Argus carefully suppressed the tele-
graphic account of the gross frauds perpt-
trated by the New York Copperhead Commits
sIoners upon the soldiers right of suffragc.
The law OF New York, approved by Gov.
Seymour, providing for the vote Of the soldiers
on the Presidential question, does not, like
our law, allow the soldier out of the State, en-
the 9th Of Nov, to deposit ballot for Pres. :
Dental electors with his own hand, but it pr,
vides for his voting at home, by PROXY. and Q
has the right to say for whom that proxy vote
shall be cast. The Commissioners, appointed
by the Governor, went to their respectiN 9
fields of operation, with proper blanks to lie
q oil 10 by the soldiers, giving the directions
conts nplated in the law.
Tns telegraph has told, or rather one Of TIE
State Agents has told, under oath, how these
patriotic O. Commissioners; these friends of a
pure and free ballot, have played fase and
loose with the soldiers most sacred rights, in
making up counterfeit returns, and in substi-
tuting McClellan's name for Lincoln's SO as 10
swell the copperhead vote. A grosser outra, Q
has never been attempted since the outrag,
in Kansas. This glaring fraud shews how the
so-called Democrats love the soldiers K
plains the nature of that sympathy which
was expressed for the soldiers by the Chicago
Convention. That sympathy consists 10 refus-
al to reinforce them in the field in denouncing
the cause In which they are engaged; in COM
pairing them to robbers, cut-throats and bur-
glars, and in cheating them outiof their right
TO vote for accuse to uphold which they have
cheerfully exposed their lives. This is the
latest development Of Democratic sympathy
for the soldiers of Democratic respect for a
free ballot; of Democratic regard for the pur-
ty Of the elective franchisei go 44s
And now mark: when all this enormous
wickedness Is exposed; when one of the ac-
tors makes full disclosure and the damnabe
plot is uncovered, and the news is sent over
the wires for the information of the people,
the Portland Argus REFUSES TO PUBLISH 1T,
but carefully suppresses It from its readers
This is the way the readers of copperhead pa
pers are treated by those 10 whom they con-
Ade, and to whom they look for light and In
formation.
In the sams paper from which the evidence
Of these gigantic frauds was excluded, tie
public Intelligence is iusulted by publication
Of such silly aud nonsensical twaddle as that
q regiment of Massachusetts soldiers roCe
through Indiana on election day, voting f r
the Union ticket at every poll they came to =
that two hundred soldiers thus cast six thous-
and votes The editor of the argus don't
believed word of such stuff; he knows it is a
whole-cloth lie from beginning to end, manu-
featured for purposes of mischief, to exasper-
ate ignorant Democrats and bring them up to
the lighting pitch BY making them believe
the rights Of the people are being overborne
by federal soldiers. We repeat, the editor of
Argus knows better he don't believe word
OF it; in publishing such stuff he is sinnil g
against his own conscience.
In the same paper, too, is found those
Boosting accounts of entire New York regi-
ments going for Mcclellan We low have
the key to this singular fact. We know how
II Is done. 1t is no work of the soldiers.
They vote against Mcclellan, but Democratic
Commissioners, appointed by Gov. Seymour,
steal their votes and substitute others upon
which the soldier looks with loathing but the
Argus virtually countenances the fraud in its
refusal to publishits exposure.