Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-11-11
LINcoLS's MODE oF MANAGING
ELECTIONS.
a Hebei Paper wishes IT. Northern
Brethren Joy on ssTheir new Form
OF Government.
Iron II. RieAzaoad WAig, SoEeIni,sr ~


a. every government derives liz lover from the
consent OF the governed, ard a. they consent q
this one, u y al right A despotism tempered
BY epigrams Was long the constitution Of France
before the revo'utiou-here, IN 1.-The lard Of the
brave, We see despoilsm tempered only by its
orn little jokes-Hoosier JOKES. racy with whisky
Of the corn
Life on this continent i fast: history is in
hurry to turn out social and political revolutions,
as Il were By machinery and steam, ike hassa
chusetts boots and shoes. Otherwise, one might
end it hard 10 believe thst within less than four
years the very people We used 20 know a. eti
zens, with certain rights. laws, franchise. have
sunk into generation Of obedient subjects, grow
cling submissively before the fOotst0ol, not OF
some high and aroescended monarch-nOt even
Of a conquering cheitan-bui OF an snnointed
HoOsier.
The mode in which thai Illinois msjo-sy
"msn,ge1 his election in bis own way, doing
What he will With his own. excites some wonder
no, wonder at the despotc authority which he
thinks II right 20 exercise, but al the thin veil OF
Legality, the faint souvenir OF popular sovereign
", which he still deems il polite 10 spread over
the transaction He may as well make short
work with that old worn rubbish. and pro
claim himself At once Emperor by the grace OF
the devil
Let vs. see little how that performance, watch
they still effect to call an election, is going for
ward Every province OF the empire especihlly
il believed 90 be somewhat FESTIVE under the
new order OF things. Is strongly garrsoBed by
armed men from other and more loyal provinces
For instance. Indiana has tue privilege Of qtar-
tering some Massachu setts troops Just as in the
Austrian dominiOns Nenetia - held down by
Croats and Bohemans, while Hungary is Ora
goone1 by Tyrolisus and Italians Now in the
late ELECTION las Il was called-lor officers of
that estate" as .he district Is still termed We
learn from the candid letter of worthy Massa
chusetts trooper that the chief function OF him
selt and ms comrades there was 20 vote and vote
again Tor Governor Morton. as II they were cit-
zens OF indiana. -fi~ Plainly
there il no need that the Emperor should permit
tbis voting; be might well have nominated
his perfect Morton in Washington. and sent s3me
MASSACHUSETTS, regiment u indnct him into his
office.
The same system vi popular election is now
universally established aud in good working or
der nil over the north country, wherever 0isaf
tected subjects are known 10 Turk and plot. But
there il also a very large number of men OF
voting age in the army and navy. We have al
ready seen how military officers haze been ar
rested and cashiered for presuming to procure for
soldiers in their commands what are called cop
perhesd tickets"-;bat il, the documents pre-
hscribed to be filled up by soldiers in camp to
proxies at home, authorizing those proxies TO
vote for them. The offending officers had given
out some of these documents filled up with the
name. not OF the reigning emperor, but OF Nc
Clelan, a pretender Soldiers are 10 be sup
piled by their officers only with the loyal tickets;
and those who'do not wish to vote for their SOW
ereign may fnd tickets how best they can or not
vote at all
As for the navy. We have some details Of the
working of this election among the forty thou
| sand seamen anu marines. reaublished in yester
days Examiner from the New ! ork Herald.
Naval officers come on board ship: muster all
hands: inform them "thet II they want 10 vote
for the present administration. they may vote;
but il they wished 10 vote against 1t they could
not be allowed The privilege" That was in the
squadron 1t Beaufort. Ga BOARD the Minnesota,
sgain, At Hampton Roads: All the sailors on
board who hailed from New York and desired 10
vote acre desired TO iay aft On theqUarter deck.
whereupoB the commodore addressed them:
All those who wish 20 vote Tor the Union ticket
remain ait: all the rest 20 forward out of
this " And so all the other ships aud squad
rons Those Who are loyal 10 Lincoln are fur
nshed by Lincoln's officers with the due
tickets-but the officers carry no "Outlawed pa
| pers"--f anv disloya traitor wishes To vote for
the pretended, lie must get them shore To
be sure be is not allowed to 90 on shore, and no
! body Is permitted to come of to him from the
shore with asy reasonable papers. that he
will exercise his franchise under difficulties
Again. one cannot but wonder that the sovereign
| should still submit to such pretenses OF popular
election: but probably he does it by way of lit
tie joke-and il ~ not \ bad one. AT the end Of
his next term, however, and beginning of the
third one-supposing that any memory of fran
chIses and votlngs still exists in that country
he can cause an officer 10 pipe up all hands to
the gangway: the loyal men TO cheer for his
majesty aud get their grog; but any dsloyal
traitor 10 get, instead OF grog, three dozen we'll
laid
Some may imagine that the progress of des-
potic power IN that country must alarm the peo-
/ pie of every province eqGally-those OF New
York and Massachusetts, as we'll as of Indiana
and Ohio BY 10 means. The despotism repre-
/ sents and is in fact the despotsm Of New York
aud New England over Indiana and Ohio it
represents the power Of the sbolitionists TO rule
/ the Democrats with a rod OF iron, and to make
/ the dynasty perpetual in their own crowd
/ Herein the American empire differs from that Of
Austria: for whereas in the latter Venice is CO.
creed 10y Huugarians and Hungary by Nenetans,
/ in the other empire New England has no fear
whatever that Indiana regiments will ever dra
\ COON there. as Mass achusetts regiments are now
keeping down the people os Indiana la other
words this is not the despotism of a dynssty-it
Is the despotlsm OF a section and a faction, which
4 Ia thousand times worse
/ No wonder the Hoosier Emperor, thus backed
and encouraged. lays his hand on heavy. With
large army and navy. and Seward tor prime
minister, he has advanced far on the road of alb
solute power; all the old and well known agen-
cies OF tyranny are already familiar TO his al
mnstration Amongst the rest plots The gun
powder, the rye house the meal tub plots all
sink into insgnfcsnce like everything else in
those decrepid old countries) compared with the
gigantic conspiracy" Just dragged TO light-a
most foul and unnatural plot. it seems, whose OBJ
ject appears 10 have been 10 supply Mcclellan
voting tickets TO the army and navy, so as in
some measure 20 counteract the regular court
electioneering OF the commodores aud colonies
IL IS quite probable that some OF these nefari-
Gus plotters may be hanged SO 1t goes And
the speed nj which X goes almost makes YOU
dizzy 10 look At Already the new regime ~ the
north has gone far out OF sight of any European
experience The alleged Interference OF Louis
Napoleon with the voting on his election As
emperor never approached. in open. coarse. bra
zen brutality to this managing of the election in
Lincolns own ~ay." in the land of the free ana
The home OF the brave We trust they like Il.
bO, confess that xe should not Nav NAV il
not be srrmised that they are pigeon lvered,
anu lack gall - make oppression bi,terl' Other
wise some brave Democrat. devoting himself for
his country, would surely with bullet or poignard
lid the world OF that grotesquey horrible Frank
enstein-prostTste that obscene image with front
Of brass aud feet Of clay-and tIy whether the
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