Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-11-05
Falsehoods for the Election.

Ihe heptOhcon runs over this week
with little falschoods in view of the Elec.
lion.
|. That Mcclellan 6rst suggested the
draft The Inference is that bo was for
U. s. conscriptou. 1t is not true. II was
a State proceeding and not one by the
United States which was in question when
he held command Nobody ever denied
the power of the States to make drafts.
2. That the Republicans have major
ity Of 39l in Pennsylvania upon the home
vote. 1t is untrue and known 10 be so.--
The leading Republic an newspapers ad-
NIT Democratic majority, aid the full
official returns as published prove it.
B. The Roorback about sending "Bo-
gus tickets from this county to the Army.
Not one word of this was believed when
published
But coming down from general politics
to the cases of our arrested citizens, the
fertility of the Republican in producing
'"tho thing which is not" is wonderful,
/. That twenty FIVE Of the prisoners
brought to Harrisburg for trial had sap
parently reponted," and their ''peniteDce"
had so affected the Military Commis.
sion that upon their presenting themselves
and 'manifestiDg desire to take the oath
of allegiance" they had been sworn and
parolled to 60 home.
This budget of falsehOods is copied from
the Inquirer, and then the substance ser.
we'd up again in an editorial. Now the
truth is, that the Military Commission
had nothing to 90 with discharging the
prisoners; that most of them were dis.
charged at Fort Miflin and not at Har-
risburg that several were discharg-
ed on account Of sickness that thc"pou.
itence' aledged, or the pretence of it,
ne YER had any existence and that the
oath of allegiance was simply imposed az a
condition Of discharge.
Gen. Couch at Chambcrsbuug ordered
two Of his officers 10 examine the cases of
hese ,nen and report TO him the names
of those against whom the charges were
least important in order 10 their discharge
This was done and the discharges then
ordered, the prisoners thus far having
! rothing to do with the entire proceeding.
2. That SAMUEL KLINE, one of the de-
PENDANTS tried, "became pcnitens, made
lull confession, and Mrowed himself upon
the mercy Of the Court" Here is more
"penitence" as we'll as bad gramm ar, and
| Just as Little truth as before. Kline made
a speech in his own defence before the
Com mission, which is said to have been
manly and !orcible. He "th'omed' hun
self into q speech, instead Of into The con-
fessional.
3, Sundry hints and iuuondos of claw.
yeas' and "leading Democrat" here
having encouraged conspiracy" in the
county, and that developments" on the
trials ''aS making somebody quail The
quailing may be in quite another quarter
before this business is concluded-in a
quarter where both grammer and veracity
apsear to be at discount. There is not
one particle Of evidence in the trias that
any man in Bloomsbury ever advised or
encouraged resistance to the conscription
law or to any other law-And the fact is
exactly to the contrary as to the Claw.
yers' and "leadiug Democrats. There
was hea's declaration given in the
Ranlz, trial that Col. FREEZE had said
.'Illinois had seceeded and the State Of
New York was about to 90 out of The I'm
ion" If any thing more absurd than
this can be produced, it must be the state
ment By the Republican that such idiotic
stuff is to make men in Bloomsbury
'stremble 10 their boots !"