[rustbucket]

Election tampering apparently went on in the 1862 elections too. I tend to give the following claims some weight, given Beast Butler's admissions concerning the 1864 vote.

Senator Powell of KY on Jan 6, 1864 (pg 104 of the Congressional Globe):

I will tell my worthy friend that officers of the sixty-fifth regiment of Indiana located at that time in other precincts of that county [in Kentucky] went and took their pens and struck from the poll-book every Democratic candidate. They would allow no man to cast his vote unless he voted for the other ticket. The ticket of the Democratic Party was headed by Mr. Wycliffe, my honorable colleague during the last Congress in the other end of the Capitol, and I never heard anybody accuse him of disunionism.

Senator Saulsbury (DE) on Jan 6, 1864 (pg 105):

In one of the voting districts of the county in which I live, at the opening of the polls the judge of the election announced that the military had made this order, and that he faithfully intended to execute it, and that he should administer this oath to every voter at that poll. One party in the State did not vote at all. Ninety-five persons appeared and took the oath, and nineteen belonging to the party to which the gentleman belongs refused to take the oath, although prescribed by the military, and offered to be administered by the judge of the election, and thereupon a provost marshal was sent for, who appeared on the ground and threatened to arrest the judge of elections if he administered that oath to those persons. They were, I presume, assumed to be loyal.

Senator Saulsbury (DE) on Jan 6, 1864 (pg 102):

I, sir, had to vote under crossed bayonets; soldiers were stationed at the polls, and at some of the voting places at that election peaceable citizens were assaulted by your soldiery. At one of the voting places the judges of the election, who had declined to take the vote of an unnaturalized foreigner, who, according to the constitution and laws of our State, had not a right to vote, were threatened that if they did not take that vote the ballot-box should be broken; and the vote was taken.

[#3Fan]

I tend to give the following claims some weight, given Beast Butler's admissions concerning the 1864 vote.

Why were southerners trying to vote in New York?

[4CJ]

I will tell my worthy friend that officers of the sixty-fifth regiment of Indiana located at that time in other precincts of that county [in Kentucky] went and took their pens and struck from the poll-book every Democratic candidate. They would allow no man to cast his vote unless he voted for the other ticket.

That's the REPUBLICAN government the Union was fighting for. We condemn countries doing the same.