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the soldiers in the field, to be taken previous to the day of election. Agents were appointed by the state government to the localities where the soldiers were stationed, to receive the votes. The informers of the United States government immediately brought charges of fraud against some of these agents, and they were seized by the military authorities, sent to Washington, cast into prison, and held to be tried by a military commission. The governor of New York immediately appointed Amasa J. Parker and two other most respectable citizens as commissioners, to proceed to Washington in behalf of the state and investigate the difficulties. They informed the governor that several hundred ballots, which had been seized, were given up, and that they visited the principal agent of the state of New York in his prison, through the permission of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. They reported thus: The undersigned availed themselves of the permit granted them to visit Colonel North,