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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Seymour or search for Seymour in all documents.
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The two Dogberries.
Governor Seymour has followed the impetuous Kentucky Bramblette (a small briar) in issuing his proclamation against military interference at the polls.
Bramblette tells the civil officers of Kentucky that they must not permit military interference at the polls; that if military officials present themselves so to interfere, they must be arrested; but that if they come with force too great the sheriffs holding elections at such place, so militarily beset, shall close the polls and go their ways.
Governor Seymour does not speak of the contingency of superior force, but tells the sheriffs they must, in case of military interference, exercise the "full force of law," and call out, "if need be," "the power of their districts."
These Dogberry Executive officers, in their orders to the sheriffs to " comprehend" all military persons about the polls, do not comprehend their situations nor the circumstances surrounding them.--States and State rights have been long