TO-MORROW’S ELECTION: Gen. Butler in Command; Troops Detailed to Prevent Rebel Incursions (11/7/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 11/7/1864

[Homer_J_Simpson]

HEADQUARTERS CITY OF NEW-YORK, Nov. 5, 1864.

GENERAL ORDERS No. 1. -- In obedience to the orders of the President, and by the assignment of Maj.-Gen. DIX, Commanding Department of the East, Maj.-Gen. BUYLER assumes command of the troops arriving and about to arrive, detailed for duty is the State of New-York, to meet existing emergencies.

To correct misapprehension, to soothe the fears of the weak and timid, to allay the nervousness of the ill-advised, to silence all false rumors circulated by, bad men for wicked purposes, and to contradict once and for all false statements adapted to injure the Government in the respect and confidence of the people -- the Commanding-General takes occasion to declare that troops have been detailed for duty in this district sufficient to preserve the peace of the United States, to protect public property, to prevent and punish incursions into our borders and to insure calm quiet.

If it were not within the information of the Government that raids, like in quality and object to that made at St. Alban's, were in contemplation, there would have been no necessity for precautionary preparations.

The Commanding-General has been pained to see publications by some, not too well-informed persons, that the presence of the troops of the United States might by possibility have an effect upon the free exercise of the duty of voting at the ensuing election.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The soldiers of the United States are specially to see to it that there is no interference with the election unless the civil authorities are overcome with force by bad men.

The armies of the United States are "ministers of good and not of evil." They are safeguards of constitutional liberty, which is FREEDOM TO DO RIGHT, NOT WRONG.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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To-Morrow’s Election: Gen. Butler in Command in the State of New-York – 2
The Frontier War: Excitement at Suspension Bridge – 2
Gen. Sherman’s Army: Victory over General Hood – 2-4
Southern News: Capture of Plymouth, North Carolina, by our Troops – 4
News from Washington – 4
Editorial: To-Morrow’s Election – 4
Editorial: The Public Peace – Butler in Command – His Order – 4-5
Editorial: The Noble Dead – 5
The Rum-Shops and the Election – 5
Another Disaster on the Erie Railroad – 5

[John S Mosby]

Ad infinitum. Perpetual false “history” from the Slimes. What a “class”. Note the Solid South in Tuesday’s massive victory for the cleaning out of the corrupt descendants of the Radicals.