North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-09-27
COL. DAVIS AND HIS rRADUcERs.
He Squelches Thems
DoYLEsTowN, Pa, Sept. 10th, 1865

DoYLEsTowN, Pa, Sept. 10th, 1865.
EDITORS OF THE AGE: ..-....-a-... ......
My attention has been called to the fol-
lowing article, published 10 the Press, OF
your city, Ct the l54h inst, viz: -s.. r-
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: Colonel
W. W. ii. DAVIS, the Cupperhsad candidate
for Auditor General, ha, now resumed foil
charge OF the Doylestoa Democrat, a news
paper which he has owned Tor many years,
and which heretofore and now sympathizes
with the rebels Tue peculiar force of the
Democrdt, slnce Colonel DAVIS has returned
TO preside over its columns, Consists in as
sertiDg that the rebels have not been whipped
that tnev shoHid be received back TO the
UnIon with all their rights restored that
slavery Is rot aud never cau be abolished,
and that, in justice to the rebels, the debt
which they incurred in struggling .or their
'rights" is as legal as the debt which was
piled on the people by the national authori-
Ties while wag,og q crusade Oh the people Of
the South aud II tn national debt 10 to be-
paid. SO also must the debts of the Southern
States be lrqutdated.
Mendaclty cannot 60 beyond this. All
that is printed above 10 a stupendols LIE
from beginning TO end. | never thought =,
uttered, or advocated such sentiments, nor
we're they ever published, in the Democrat,
In late issue Of the Harrisburg Tel graph
that paper also charges me with opposing
the Amendment to the Constitution giving
soldiers the right to vote. This is as base q
Nha A. hn e shoa Al.
tion vas at Danville, suffering from q se-
we're wound, but made it my business to 60
to Doylestown to vote, and voted for the
amendment. The Bucks County InteLisen-
Ger Of the 9th Of August, 1864, said: .
General j ohm Davis, ofSvuthampton, and
his son, Col. W. W. III. Davis, bulh voted
openly for the amend ment.
The Doylestown Democrat did. not oppose
the amendment. The Bucks County INTEL
LIcEScER, the Republican organ Of this
county, is the only newspaper in Bucks, to
my knowledge, that ever opposed the right
uf soldiers TO vote. The following article is
from that paper Of November IL, 1861, viz !:
The State law Of Pennsylvanis,s providing
for the holding IF elections in military en-
campments, though doubtless enacted with
good motives, has been productive Of great
sev,i and contention. Until the October elec
tiun. there had never been an opportunity Of
testing it's operallYns Voting was then car
ried on in most, of the Pennsyl lvaaia regi.
ments at the seat Of war, or encamped else
where at distance fr,,m hume. In many
cases the votes were honestly received and
counted. and the Result properly certified and
returned to the legal authorities. 10 others,
and particularly III the regiments partly o.
wholly formed in PhiiarieIphm, the elections
were ct ctnducted 1ns mnsc shameful and ras-
cally manner. Some Of the rcgimenta. re
turns show hundreds Of votes for candidates
on one ticket, while those of opr osite politics
receive few rr none. AS the result in the
city itself was doubtful, and the candidates
vere iinelys % bes elected or defeated by she
army vote, there we're strong Inducements
offered for, corrupt politicians TO practice
their vii lainous arts. Ii now seems probable
that the d'fiicdl,ies thus raised will have 10
be settled by the courts, at the COST OF great
labor and much time. VIZ hope the, L.gisla
lure will prevent such EVIL IN future by the
TOTAL ABOLITION OF ELECTIONS IN
CAMP. " q" '...'' t''
/ cannot account for the malignant HOSTILE
ty OF the editor Of the Harrisburg Telegraph
toward me, except becaIse my grandfather
was one Of the soldiers that captured the
Hessians at Trenton ip 1915 Mr. Bsrgner
Is very 10th to forget old grievances. ,a- ssr
- =. - .. W. VIII. DAvfa.ps