Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-09-29
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To the Democracy of .NMscat5ss.
On Tuesday next i, becomes your duty az |
f,eemen, to select. from among your numoer'
a Representative to the Legistat ure-one 10
whom your rights and interests are to becon'
fded; and upon The choice you then MAKE
much for your veal or woe depends. In
republican government, like ours, where the
people selec, the trainers Of the laws by which
they are to be governed, it is duty incumbent
upon them to weigh we'll he'character. quah-
fica.ions, and principles Of those who ask that
this high and important trust be conf'ded TO
their ca,e-to examine and see that IN the
maintenance Of the principles they profess
our sacred risbts may remain insiolate, and
the wel-being and prosperity of our common
country promoted. In community like ours,
composed Of persons from every Stale In the
Union, thrown together as strangers, each
bringing with them an attachment for' or q
prejudice against that form of local or Stale
government under which they were reared, the
selection of Representative imposes upon US
a task which calls for calm and serious dellb-
misunderstanding that we should cast aside
every personal consideration, and select that
man the tenor of whose life affords the best
evidence that under his guardianship that
which we mos,ly desire and need may be &C
complished. In the correct and honest exer-
else Of this ines,imable privilegeyinhsrited by
birth, consists our superiority over other ma
,ions of the earth. This right was made our
Inheritance, not that we should reward our
personal friends for some favor bestowed upon
US, but that we should have the wisdom Of the
great mass in the selection Of the ag enss for
the enactment and enforcement Of our laws.
Then should we trife with this privilege =
Should we exercise the privileges bestowed
upon us for the benefit Of the whole, for the
qualification of personal feeling, at tho per-
il Of the great mass9 No. While we con-
cede that 10 our friends we owe much, let US
renec, that to our country we owe more, and
determine that our votes shall be cast with
that due consideration which its importance
demands.
Many there are to be found among US. who
are Of opinion that in selecting our legislators
party politics should be smothered, and men
selected for qualifications alone, without re-
gard to their political principles. Such feel
ing might have placed Aaron Burr or Benedict
Arnold in the Presidential Chair. Burr Ger.
tainly had the qualifications, but was that suf-
fcient? VIVA. mischief he could have crea-
ted, had he been called to that station. NO
talents qualifying man for station does not
make him worthy OF it.
We have been presented, by the Democrat
ic convention, with the name Of EDWARD
f. FAY, as candidate for the House Of Rep
resen,a,ives. He is we'll qualified for the dis
a'e"r"'erlor TO his competitor in talents. the
principles which he processes, being so wide.
'y different from those Of his competitor, and
being those Which We profess, would Justify
US in giving him our undivided support.
The other names on the ticket are equally
qualified and unexceptionable. Let US then,
reflect that we are choosing between federal
whiggery and Democracy, and resolve to rise
or fall, sink or swim, in support of Democrat.
ic principles, aud Democratic mea to carrv
them out.