The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-21
THE KENTUCKY ELECTION.
By the Milifary---NegrO
Troops Drive Away VOters--Ex-
cesses of the Anti.SIaVery Party.

States papers to inform our readers Of
the outrages perpetrated by the Adolf
%tionists in the recent election in Ken
Lexington, KY, Aug. I, .1865.-The
most fragrant attempts we're made here
this morning to carry the election by aid
of the military power. A list of pro-
scribed persons had been made out by
some self-constituted Committee of Pub
lie Safety, and was placed in the hands Of
a military officer. Every one whose
name appeared in it was arrested if he
appeared near the polls. There was no
appeal from the list, and a Willingness to
take the test oath of Governor Bramlette
did not save the prescribed. Private
malice, IN many cases, was the only in
stigator of the prescription.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Covington, KY, Aug. 8, 1865.-OR-
GERS and soldiers in the United States
uniform were stationed at the polls at
every voting-placc in the country, and, in
full cooperation with the Abolition party,
took control and directed who should
vote and who should not. Many Of the
best citizens, who ~purposed to vote the
Democratic ticket, were ordered away,
and actually driven from the polls at the
point of the bayonet. At the Cold
Precinct, men were assaulted,
seized, and their hands tied behind them,
and then they were bound with their
backs to trees Our informant was so
held, and suffered in that condition from
8 o'clock in the morning until about 7
o'clock in the evening, Except about
thirty minutes respite at noon), not only
suffering all the pain and agony of such
a confinement, and the intrusion of gnats,
flies and mosquitoes singing him in the
face, without the power to brush them
off, but also the jeers of the Abolition
partisans, and the repeated cursings and
coarse abuse of the Captain in command
on that day at that election precinct.
A Lancaster (Girard county, CORES
pondent of the Louisville Democrat says:
On Sunday evening before the election,
several United States transfers ~(wagons).
loaded with negro soldiers, were drawn
into the county and sent to the several
voting precincts. So soon as the polls
were opened the arms were stacked con-
spicuously in close proximity to the vo-
ting places, the officers of each squad
taking a position neal the stand lat one
precinct the officers actually sitting with
the judges, with their lists in hand, or
with would-be loyal citizens at their sides
to point out their victims as they ap-
preached. At the same time, men of the
same political creed were running around
telling voters of the Union Democratic
party that they ought not to approach
the polls, for their names were on the
list, and, if they did, they knew they
would be arrested. Early in the morning,
several quiet, civil citizens, who were
willing to take all the oaths required.
were arrested and put under guard of
the negro soldiers; and the arresting and
threatening continued until about noon,
when it became certain the Radical ticket
would be successful.
The Louisville correspondent of the
Chicago Times thus writes:
At the usual hour, on the morning of
the election, the polls were opened; but
this was no sooner done than armed
guards of soldiers were placed in close
proximity to them, and although it is al
legged that they were not placed there for
the purpose of direct interference, they
were undoubtedly there for the purpose
of intimidating all who wished to vote
against radical measures, and thus secure
the election of the Abolition candidates.
After this was done, several detectives
were stationed at the different voting
precincts, and they would accuse Demo
cratic voters of being rebels, &C., when
they would at once be arrested and hur-
ried off. Early in the day a number Of
our most influential citizens were arrested
and thus the farce was fully played. The
result was that the Radicals carried the
city, the vote being a small one. In one
ward of this city, the 18th, which has
never before polled over 400 votes, 850
were cast, 663 of which were for the
Radical candidates. The Government
ambulances were freely used as election.
eering chariots, and numbers of soldiers
who had never lived in this State, were
permitted to vote, while old and well
known citizens were refused that priv.
lege.
In one precinct of the 10th ward, 9
gentleman by the name of Mr.. Kierolf
after he had voted the Democratic ticket
was accused of being a rebel, having
printed circulars, &C., for the rebels; anC
he was placed under arrest without the
slightest grounds for the accusations. 1
was then said that his vote would BIZ
/, stricken from the pollbooks, but, insteac
of this, the vote was changed from thu
; Democratic candidates to the Republican
as an examination of the poll-book to-da,
, showed.
A Kentucky contemporary says.
, At Mowers precinct, in Lewis county
the Democrats and Conservatives wer,
chased away from the polls with guns ant
rocks.
In order that we may show our reader
that all testimony on the subject does no
come from the Democratic papers, W
copy the following from the Lexington
correspondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, an Abolition paper:
"Vote as you please, but if you vot'
against Napoleon you'll be shot, Am
t the first consul was elected Emperor by
large majority, not from the fact of hi
! great popularity, or the desire of the PEG
: pie of France to see him on the throne
but from a singular and u~naccountabl
r aversion men seemed to have to beinl
shot. "Vote as you please" said, il
Iefect, a few of the leaders of the Amend
) ment party here yesterday morning, bu
if you vote against our friends Wen hav'
!, you arrested But the people of Ken
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