Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1865-10-04
TO Election Off
GERS and Union
8 Committees!

| lDESERTER,S CANNOT VOTEtl

Democrat, urges all "skedadlcrs" and de :
serters TO vote. at the ensuing election
and takes, the position that they cannot
bc prevented BY law from voting. 1t
also notifies all election officers that they
will be indicted il they reject the votes
| Of these persons. 'i
That there may be no mistake on tbs
subject of the disfranchisement of all d..
serters and skedadlers. we present the 2ls.
Section Of the Actof Congress, approved
March 8, 1865, which provides emph.ti-
sally aud distinctly as follows: ah %
I SECTION 2f-and be it further enacted
That in addition to the other lawful PEN
a!ties Of the crime Of desertiOn from the
military and naval service, all persons who
have deserted the military or naval service,
all persons who have deserted the military
or naval service of the United States, who
shall not return to said service or report
themselves to ths Provest Marshall with
ip sixty days after the Proclamation. here
matter mentioned, shall be deemed and
taken to have voluntarily reiinquisLed
and forfeited their rights sef citizenship,
and their rights to become citizens; and
such deserters shall be forever incapable
of holding any of6ce,oF trust and profit
under tAe United States, OF OF exercising
any rights of citizens thereof; and all
persons who shall hereafter depart the mil
itlry service or naval serviee, and all per-
Sons who being duly enrolled, shall de-
part the district ia which he IS enrolled,
or go beyond the limits OF the United
States, With intent to avoid any draft into
the military or naval service, duly ordered
shall be liable to the peual;iss Of this sec
tiCn And the President is hereby au-
thori1ed and required forthwith, on the
passage Of this act, to issse bis proclama-
ton setting forth the The provisions Of
this section, in which proclamation the
President is requested TO notify all deser-
ters returning within sixty days as afore-
said, that they shall be pardoned on con-
dition Of freturning to.theiI. regiments and
companies or such other organizations as
,hey may be assigned to, Until they have
served FOR period cf time equal to their
on giual term Of enlistment l--e
On the ith of March, 1865, in che
dience TO the provisions of the section Of
the lax quoted above the President Of
the United States issued his proclamation
,.orderis9 ana 4'sq@iriaJ all desertsrs TO
return to their posts, or 10 report them
selves to Provost Mar7hals' for duty, ou
or before The 1lth Of Nay, 1865. That
proclamation. and the act of Congress
upon which it was based, we're published
in all the authorized newspapers of the
l:th Distri,'. Thus all parties interest
ed had full kgowlel-e Of their rjS7.ts and
ample waning Of .he penaity that would
ensuc in case they neglected to avail
themselves Of the privilege Of reporting
on or before the lIth of May, 1866
The Democrat quotes STATE laws in sup
port of its position, We quoted United
States laws a maa who is not citizen
Of the United States, cinno. be citizen
of Pennsylrania. This point has been
frequently decided BY the SGpremG Court,
and will be SO decided again. The per-
nicious doctrnc that State laws are bind
ing even when eontrovertel by United
States laws was the cause Of the rebellion,
and it seems that our secesh friends down
town still persist il maintaining it, al
though it has dsIuged the land in blood.
OFFICIAL LIST or DgsERTERs or JU,
NIATA County DysTRANCHIsED BY
Law. RI bono.
We present below an Official list Of the
deserters and skedadders, citizens Of dif-
ferent election districts in Juniata Coun-
ty, who are disqualified from voting at
tae election to be held Oct 10Th, 1865.
The election officers in each district are
enjoined to preserve this list, and as tae
deserters named therein offer to vote, 1t
is the duty of such election officers promp-
tly to reject and report'all such ballots.
OryIcz Psovosr M,RsHAL, 18th Dist,
Harrisburg, Pa, Oct. 4, 1865. I
l certify that the following List of de-
scrters from the draft for Juniata County,
l4th Congressional District, is correct
transcript from the records of this Office.
W. II. PATTERSON,
Captain & Provost Mar 14th Dist, Pa. &.
BEALE-Wilson PETER aged %, ',abo .er
Henry Hermea, aged 80. Farmer.
BLACK LoG-Michael Stewart, 90, laborer
Sanuel Martz, q. laboror; Robert S. Kelley, 1