American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-27
DEsERTERs vOTING.

DESENlE lERS tOIANS.
In a late number of this paper there
was published list of deserters and non
reporters in this county, accompanied by
the law of Congress upon the subject
which declares that they-if they fail to
report under forthcoming proclamation
of the President, " shall be deemed and
taken to have voluntarily reinquished
and forfeited their rights of citizenship,
and their right to become citizen" &c.
The appearance of this exhibit at this
time seems to have somewhat disturbed
the temper of our neighbor of the Her
aid, who favors its readers with quite a
lengthy editorial on the subject, the bur-
then of which is to prove that all such
legislation is unconstitutional, and there.
fore of no binding effect, and finally to
urge the election officers in the various
districts to disregard said law and receive
the votes of all such Of course this is
not done-so the Herald would have us
believe-because these desertcrs are DEM
ocrats Oh! no but simply because our
neighbor'of the Herald is jealous of the
Constitutional rights of the citizen OF
course that's all ! For as we are told by
the same article the Editor don't know
the politics of these individuals-of course
he don't, for he says SO True, if the
detection came largely from the Republi-
can ranks it would be most likely to ex-
hibit itself in such townships as Buffalo,
Clinton, Penn, Concord, Fairview, Wash.
ingron, Clay and Muddycreek,, which run
up ashaggregatb Republican majority
of 700-in round numbers, yet in these
eight populace townships there arc only
three delinquents - dU from Fairview
and two of these are NJ 'Laiferties =
Where then do the large list--one hund.
red and sixty four in all--come from p
Winfield, where the Democratic @ ticket
has two to one, furnishes twenty-five
among them we see the names of five Cy-
pliers, two Gallahers, with Higgins,
Sweeny, &C.; but from all this, of course
our neighbor could not form any idea of
the politics of these individuals Take
Oakland next, and we find fourteen abb
sconded--it, too, is Democratic town
ship. In its list VIC find the names OF
tho Conways, Arthur and Patrick y Dou-
gan O'Donnell, (Francis and Edward J
M'Elwee, &C., but then these names would
be no evidence of the politics of their
owners-of course not. Then comes
good old Donegal-where they "ate the
potatoes skins and alI'' 'thd we find on
inspection that this old democratic strong
hold furnishes thirteen Of these patriotic
names and amongst them We find that
of Boyle, (F'rancis, Patrick, and NealeJ O.
with Ccyle, M'Elheney, M'Crea M'Bride
&C., but still our neighbor is in the dark
as to the political partialities of these
men! Next comes Clearfcld, where on
some occasions tho Republican cause has
not even single el1ctor and on others
barely SIC uotes, but which can generally
be relied on to roll up ge hundred and
thirty or forty for " slavery, whiskey and
the devil" as ono of their leaders used to
express it-this loyal O. district furnish-
es thirty-seUea Of this battalion and
among them we find four Gallahers,
(Sqnire John is not one of them taoo
Coyles, two Duffey's, (Aicy and Dennis
two Geary's, tsuo McLaughin's tro Nc
Creas, tvs M'Donals, with Callen, q
Goats, a Haggerty, . Hickey, (Patrick)
McLafferty, McKeag, Mccormick,
Mcbride, Sweeny, Vinroe, &C.
Strange indeed that in all this our neigh
bor could see nothing to enable him to
form an opinion as to the political bear
ing of this class Of persons! But VIC
mast take his word for it and give him