Year: 1864




teen 50 shall not stop here to enquire


In February last, my friends from several counties


of the District called upon and solicited my name


candidate before the people for the position of Rep


resentative in Congress. The high character Of the


gentlemen who tender ID their support, and the


nmiry with which my friends Joined in the solicitation


induced me 70 accept the canvass and my name was
{ announced a candidate for Congress. Being at the


time absent from command sick furlough,


able devote a very few days only, the


and the public press of four Of the counties Of this


District being completely subsidized by my competitor


through the official patronage al his disposal, it was


morally impossible for to reach the puplc mind


and disabuse il Of the false impressions produced in


the way have indicated. The limits of this address


forbid anything beyond reference to a few Of


the disgracefu expedients that invoked to


nascad tie public mind. A wholesale denial of the


facts relating my connection with the military


vice freely indulged in such assertions that


had been present in a single action with my


mand that had failed TO discharge my duty Of
/ ficer and that was detested by the under my
authority were debantly made; and in support of


those assertions the testimony of man, who had dis
graced himself by repeated acts of cowardice, and


who had finally been dismissed from the Nineteenth


regiment for misbehayor in the face OF the enemy"


brought the Of the election and cndors


cd by the nine public prints that supported my COM


petor, and although the put forth by this


man Withemyrc refuted by the unanimous testi-


mony Of every commissioned officer Of the regiment to
which he had belonged, yet papers that had given
currency the falshood have never seen proper to
make the correction that justice and honor demand.


In support of the truth of these statements refer to
the unsolicited letters already published from the Off


comprised IN tue "Old Iron Brigade of the
Army of the Potomac, and to the official documents
accompanying the same


These ndiscriminate assaults upon soldier, from
occupying civil Offices, reaping the emoluments
of those Offices by virtue alone Of the sacrifices made
by in the military service, disgrace to human
nature and outrage upon every feeling that exists in
the breasts of Not content with this whole
sale TRADE against me, the who depenlen.
upon the of my competitor for their continued
hold upon the public patronage, absolutely engaged
in the commission of the most revolving frauds in
ducting the nominating election in Of the counties
of the District, in consequence of which, the right of
my friends to express their preference for me was by
stealth and reckless chicanery, taken from them In
townships where the adherents of my competitor had
the entire control Of the election, the ballots of those
" no well known 10 favor my election were
thrown upon the floor instead of being placed in the
ballot-box Tins was done secretly, and IN number
OF the townships Of Randolph county iyestgations
were set on foot bE frenis, 10 ascertain ut eNlcHI
of the fraud thus perpetrated and where many
thirty and forty ties asccrained TO have been
polled for given precinct, less than half that
number were reported when the result sent up to
the county seat, thus establishing beyond cavH the
that fair expression of the popular voice had
been allowed In addition to this direct evidence of
fraud and the manner in which it has been brought
about further fact is established that eight
hundred more votes cast in the county of Ran
doiph, than there were Union in the county, ac-
cording the OF the election held year and
half before. These facts establish the existence of
double fraud. The of nv friends excluded
from the ballot and instead of the aggregate vote
OF the county having been diminished thereby, the
yerv opposite result obtained. Instead of losing by
throwing the votes ofmy friends, the county alb
solutely gains nearly five hundred year and
half, and that in a time OF war, when other counties
Of the District had lost hundreds of I MON votes in
consequence of eulistments in the These aston
ishng revelations, on being presented to the men who
engaged in this Infamous proceeding, was denied hy
some while it openly and unreservedy confessed
bv others On the subject being referred by of
the widely circulated and influential journals of
the District the editor of the paper published at the
county seat the county in which the fraud had been
committed, addressed communication TO the news
paper first referred TO challenging investigation Of
IN
county and asserting that the poll books open
he scrutiny Of every who had doubts the sub
ect Agreeably this invitation to investigate the
natter steps at once taken TO ferret out the
raud and when its existence hal been clearly estab
ished in ber of the voting preeints, the Chair
nan Of the Central COMMITTEES of the County call
d upon and requested exhibit the poll books for the
,recincts. where this fraud discovered and al
hough he asserted that he had them in his possession
unable bring them forth, ami refused to give
NY account as to what had become Of them


In support of these statements refer the aiIda
its of men whose veracity be called question
nd also the of the last general election held
4 Randolph courty all of which has already been
pread before the country through the public press
Nowiths tandrg these frauds, unprecedented as they
re by anything that has to hight since the infa-
nous canAIe-box voting in Kansas while that Terri
prv was under borier-rufan rule. ] was still noml-
ted rly and in accordance with all the established
saces of the party in the Disict-In 1860 and again
, 1862, JrLIas claimed AMI accepted as the
omnee Of the party exactly the same basis of COM
utation that gives 10 the late election Those
sagcs the party had been revoked and the re-
ent election took place in accordance with them no
ropoSjticn establish different method of computing
result Of she having been made, except in the
ounty os WAYNE, and there the old plan re-en-.
orsed, the proposition to establish method,
Meeting with favor whatever. But when the friends
{ JrLIA> found that he fairly defeated il they
ihered to the past usages Of the party. resored
lew expJdent and resolved to thrust their eaadIiate
pon the country the risk OF everything, ani in vio
alton OF the very plan that they so profuse in
of, two and four years ago.


All this is simply evidence of a fixed discrimination
n the part Of JCLI,S and his friends rule ruin.
believed by many OF my friends from the first
hat he would abide the result Of the nomination,
n case it went against him, and when the question
vas pu; hrs newspaper in the city Of Richmond, II
efused pledge itself to INV support IN receive
4 the nomination. The same disposition clearly
nanifestd in other papers, in his interest IN the
District The paper printed by his brother. in Centre


le declared that the resolution of the Central Conn
ntee vt WAYNE county, rrovfiing Tor taking tte sob
iers vote. a uuty ani inicatesi that il would I
70, submit any snch rule In the lrhi OF these
acts i surprised sas Mr.. JULIAN has had his
pot up tie sanf late Of tie party. HIS friends,
u their indecent haste serve the hand that dis
snses the patronsge upon which they subsist assume
be the coa;rolers Of the Affairs Of the party. and