The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-03-24
ELECTIONS IN 1852.

| The present year is very important one Tor
the people of this country. Genearl, State
District, County, Township and Charter cleo
tions, are 10 take place. To insure the selec-
| ion of proper and competent men, who will
.romp'ly, inteligently and impartially, admin
.ster the laws Of the country, it is highly impor-
tant and absolutely necessary, that the people
should feel an interest in the subject and par
ticipate in the elections.
We have heard much said within The last
two years, about dissolution OF the Union and
destruction of our liberties but from the de-
iority Of our people have assumed, upon the
slavery question, we have beheld the enemies,
or, misguided friends Of the country silenced,
domestic agitati, frowned down and our well
tried and glorious institutions, preserved from
the internal confagration which threatened at
one time to consume them--proving conclusively
that. the people are Just and the true conserva-
tors of the government. So ng the people
remain just and properly appreciate high sense
Of duty and obligation to themselves and their
country, there can be no approximations for the
safety and perpetuity of the Union. 1t is as
impregnablc to the shafts Of foreign, or domes-
tic prejudice as Gibrater is to the feeble arrow
Of the savage. Noalarms can startle the fears
Of the patriot He behods in the ballot box
and at the tribunal of public opinion, the sterl
ing proofs of his countries virtue and durability
But there may come time, when the people
will become careless of their duty; when they
will say to themselves, our oOtes ,ciu make no
difference in the result; others ,oiH hare 1t all
their o,cn 'ony; 1t makes no difference to as ho,o
the result goes; business requires as to remain
at home; party has brought .forpard men
,chom zoe don't regard; and therefore we will
not 90 to the election.
This is all wrong; and If the liberties Of
America, should ever become extinct, it will not
doubt be attributable TO this cause and no other
There is but one remedy for this evil and that
remedy is with the people. They are the great
moral aud political regenerators of the body po-
litic and the ballot box is the great medicine
chest, from which may be collected all the COM
ponent parts, necessary to make up this univer-
sal panacea. Certainly then, none will ques-
ton, the propriety and necessity, Of uniform
and rigid adherence, to the ballot box as the
great Sar;or Of the countryside broad, impen-
trablc and immovable superstructure, upon
which our institutions are erected and through
which our liberties are to be preserved, or oes-
troyed. We feel the more deeply the i,npor,
lance of this subject, as we Frequently hear
men say, elections are Of no Importance. There
must be something radically defective in their
education, when they can honestly make this
acknowledgment And in order that this i'm
preston shall not have an undue influence
upon the rising generation, it becomes the
solemn duty Of every citizen of the country.
whether in public, or private life, to correct such
impressions.
Let our people bear in mind then, that the
present year we are to elect President and
Vice Present of the United States State, Dis
trict, County, Township and City officers. Let
them bear in mind, that they are to be taken from
their midst and must come from one Of the two
great parties Of the country.
And let them not forget, TO which party
Jefferson, Madison and Jackson belonged