Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-01-12

seven majority, when thequartermastcr's ac-
counts showed that there were but forty one
ratiops issued to the whole company. serv-
ants, and hangers-on included. With the
proofs Of such frauds, and with the evidence
Of polls having been taken possession of by
the military in different parts Of the state,
and with the evidence, too, that the judges
of elections had made false returns mat least
one county, the governor Bradford, pro-
claimed it as the law, and General Wallace,
without even waiting for the sembance Of
legislative action, seized one of the finest
buildings in the most fashionable portion of
the city Of Baltimore, and levied a tax on
the people for the quartering and support Of
the negroes Just taken from them and made
free by the instrument adopted by direct
military interference.
THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
Without going back even as far as the ac-
knowledged causeless suppression Of the
ErHiRg Transcript, | wish to revert only to
actions Of later period The Egeamg
BHbctia, started on the wreck of the IrdaS-
c,fpt, was suppressed to make way for pa
THE L0yaliSt. This paper was peculiarly
under his protection and rejecting his SEN
timents; and furnishing vehicle for CON
veying to the public some occasional effu
sions from the pen of the general himself
In the meantime Democratic paper The
EUening Post had been started, forming a
nucleus for the Democratic sentiment Of the
state and acknowledged officially by the
Democratic Central Committee of Maryland
as the organ of the party. Alarmed at the
growing strength of the Mcclellan organiza-
lions, warned by the close vote Of the pre-
vious election, thinking that its continued
publication would encourage the Democracy
to vote for Mcclellan. and parhaps chagrin-
ed at the contracted circulation Of his own
organ, and the want of appreciation of his
own productions, under the plea Of protect
ing the proprictors from injury, he issued
an order Of suppression, justifying his ac-
ton by a resort to falsehood. And Mr..
Lincoln approved the outrage. Let the
Senate inquire Of Mr.. Lincoln his reason
for this
ARRESTS OF MCCLELLAN MEN.
During the late presidential campaign
numerous instances could be cited of tho
arrest of men in Maryland for favoring tho
| election of General Mcclellan. Men were
arrested for daring to cheer for him, or la
Dor for his election. Public meetings were
broken up by bands of hired rufians. an(
the outrages were approved by the author
|
were notified before the election that they
would be arrested if they persisted in run.
ming, and everything was done that could
/ be to intimidate both candidates and voters
HOW LINCOLN CARRIED TIE STATE.
The election, as might have been expect
ed, was a mere farce. Republican ticket,
| bore peculiar mark, so as to be know
when folded, and all who did not cast one Of
those tickets were sure Of insult, if not per
sonal violence, and subsequent arrest. re
give you an idea of how the voting wa,
DONE | will relate colloquy which, among
many others, was witness to. A voter
Iapproached a poll and after taking the pre-
scribed oath, and answering the written
questions, was subjected to the following
catechism from the judge of election
A. V | am. mr. ''D :" '"''' VI
Q. Were you in Baltimore on the 10th
of April? A. | was.
Q. Were you engaged in the riot on that
day? \. was not.
q. Were you in favor of the troops pas
sing through? A. was.
@. Would you have risked your life to
protect the troops i'll passing through? a.
| would.
After momcntary pause the judge
continued
@. Don't you know that Pendleton is
rebel? A. No.
Judge-Wel, he is He made speeches
in Congress against voting supplies 70 the
army, and L IN compelled to decide that you
can't vote that ticket.
This is but one instance Numbers can
be cited in which such questions as these
were asked Which would you prefer, a
greenback or a gold dollar? If the voter
preferred, as naturally he would, the gold
dollar, he was not permitted to vote, on the
ground that "such sentiment tended to
deprecate the currency" Again: Does
your wife sympathize with the rebels To
question the right to ask such questions not
only deprived the voter Of his right of sut-
fragc, but rendered him liable to commit
ment to jail, authority to do which was as
sumed by the judges Soldiers in ambulan-
ces rode round the city on election day, vo.
ting at nearly every election precinct, some
Of whom boasted of having voted from fifty
to eighty times. Thus "A commander who
could not be trusted to face an enemy man
aged excellently to extort by cruelty and
gain by fraud an Endorsement of his master
at Washington.
EVERY DAY OCCURRENCES.
Any one who reads the Baltimore papers
cannot fail to have been impressed with the
number of arrests daily chronicled without
comment--of men arrested for cursing MIR.
Lincoln. A military commission, or Star
Chamber, is kept daily in session to try Ca
ses coming under the cognizance of the mar
shals. A poor drunken man walking along
the streets happens to utter an eXecration
upon the head of "the anointed," and he is
picked up, thrown into loathsome prison,
and there kept until it is the pleasure of the
provost-marshal, or the convenience of some
other official, to grant him an ''exam-
ination," when he is punished with an al
lotted number of days imprisonment at
hard labor. He may lie in prison tormonths
without he has friends who, by their impor-
tunities, or by employing one Of clique Of
radical Republican lawyers to work up the
case in his behalf. The resentment of an
insult from negro soldier calls forth upon
an unfortunate Democrat the full rigor of
the "law'-i e., the will Of Mr. Lincoln 5
agent in Maryland.
ARREST OF A MARYLAND SENATOR.
At the late election, despite the fraud and
force used, the Democracy gained signal
triumphs in several counties. The Senate
of Maryland was Democratic by two major
ity. This would defeat many Of the intolcr-
ant measures Of the abolition faction, and to
overcome it General Wallace sits down and
writes letter to one, timid man, telling
him that, as he had been member of the
Legislature of 1860, that he was not loyal
man and must not take his seat in the SEN
ate. AS the general-who must be acknowl-
edged as the Judge of all matters Of conscience
in Maryland-had intimated consignment
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