Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-09-30
The Time is Short.

III abOus touk WINS VIC CoplC VI thC
West will decide at the ballot box upon
questions of vital importance to their fu-
,ure prosperity and well being. They
will decide SO far as their voice in the
ELECTORAL college of the nation can de-
eide, whether the improvements, the ag-
riculture, the commerce, and the indus
try of this grea, valley in which an en-
pire is planted, and is now struggling for
the gigantic proportions Of strong,
healthy and vigorous manhood against
the prejudice, and interes, Of the East,
and South, shall 60 forward and be advance
ed, promoted ana protected, or whether
they shall be held back, depressed and
prostrated under the operations Of the
iordly and despotic veto for four years en-
suing, most mon enious period in our
history. In short they will decide wheth-
er Gen. Pierce, who Stands upon Plat
form which declares that appropriations
in aid ola general system of Internal In
prorements are unconstitutional; who de-
cares that that Platform is in conformi.
~ with every act and sentiment of his
past life, and who has within this present
year announced to the public the sane
sentiments IN even stronger language;
who is The chosen candidate of the de-
mocracy of the South, the bitter and un-
compromising opponents of all Improve
mcnts by the General Government and
where in case of his election his veto of
all bills for these objects, is universally
pledged by his friends and party, and
whose vote during nine years service in
Congress was in every instance cast a.
gains, all sorts Of improvement bills, even
such as receiv'd the sanction Of Gen. Jack
son and Mr.. Van Buren-whether this
Gen. Pierce who in addition to the above
is devoted to the pernicious principles
Of Free Trade; opposed to protection Of
American Industry, and the creation of
home market by the only means of Sc
curing il, a judicious specific Tariff, and
whose election on this ground is anx-
iously desired by the London Times,
and the commercial interests of Eng
land; whether we say this Gen. Pierce
as he is thus presented to us by the Bal
timore Convention, by its Platform, by
his public declarations and his past po
liiical acts, shall be elected President of
the United States, orwhether Gen. Scott,
on Wing. Platform, pledged to all the
great interests of the West with which
he is familiar, to the Improvement of its
rivers and harbors; to ihat.American pol.
icy which will build up our mannfacto-
RES; bring market for our productions
nearer, land nearer 10 the door of our produ-
GERS; and in short send the car Of wes-
tern advancement, and prosperity bound
ing forward in conformity with its
growth. requirements, and the spirit of
this age of steam and lightning, shall pre-
side over this country for the mex. four
years.
Voters of the West. of Iowa-Dcm-
ocrats! pause and reflect; read and ex-
anime; refer to the records and history
of your country. and see if these things
be so. before you commit an act which
you cannot recall-before you contribute
to put il in the power Of man who is
stranger to your wants: an Eastern man
who has never been in the West; whose
sympathies and pledges are all with the
South and the East; who does not be.
lieye lhst your gigantic rivers on which
floats more than half of all the commerce
OF The nation, are National thoroughfares.
because the water is fresh instead OF salt,
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