Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-09-23
who Shall have the Vote of
Town.

Who Shall have the Vote of
Shall Franklin Pierce have the vote
Of Iowa! This is a practical question.
It is very important one. We put i,
plainly, and wish every voter, Wing and
Democratic too, to give i. candid and Sc
rious attention, and then as he answers
il, favorable or Otherwise, so let him act,
theoretically and efficiently until the I'd
day of November.
Why should Gen. Pierce have the
vote of Iowa? Because Iowa has been
or now is Democratic State? No, YER
ily! Thisis the poorest of all reasons.
No sovereign State can be SO irrevocably
conveyed away to party, as to render
her going for any particular man mat.
teraof fatal necessity. Gen. Pierce and
no one else has title to Iowa. If they
have, is must or certainly ought to be,
for reasons other than mere party.
Still this is the only reason we imag-
Inc that any ore can suggest. We have
heard no other assigned, and believe none
can be. hwould crafty US much to be
informed if there be any. Gen. Pierce,
10, or vas before his nomination, I'M
known to the people of Iowa. Not a
solitary Democrat in the whole State
thought of him in that connection, and
probably none knew of him in any. He
was not certainly the choice of the De-
mocracy of the State. Neither in his
character or in his history is there any,
thing to commend him to our people,
A cold hearted, scheming, ambitious Of
fee seeker and politician merely, he is
wanting in those noble, generous, and
manly traits which are so congenial, and
so popular with the people of the West.
His history, as developed since his sud-
den elevation into public notice, will be
sough, in vain, for single act calcula-
ted TO change that character.
In fact Gen. Pierce is notorious and
a remarkable parsonage in consequence
only Of wanting every talent and attri-
butte which could render HIM acceptable
TO the West. 1t would be impossible to
find public man in the country whose
whole life has been SO uniformly hostile
TO our section of the Union. Nine
years in Congress, he never voted for a
Western measure, but invariably against
,hem. Appropriations for her Rivers
and Harbors always found in him bit.
ter opponent. The settler lie always
treated with cold and sullen contempt
The widow of the lamented Harrison
he would have sent from the National
mansion TO her Western home in sor.
row and peEniless. Such are some oil
the acts of Franklin Pierce, on the
strength Of which he claims the vote Of
Iowa. Such are his principles. and
they are the principles Of the Platform
on which he stands.
Will Iowa give him her vote! Can
she forget so lar her own self-respec,
and her interest, as TO sustain man OPP
posed TO her Improvements. franklin
Pierce too is welded to the Free Trade,
absurd, anii-Tariff doctrines OF the
South, and opposed to Protection to
American Labor. Will the people Of
the Des Moines support such man.
If SO, farewell to our hopes of cheaper
goods and market in our own State
Elect him and distant will be the day
when we can hope for judicious Far
III. under the operation and benign in.
nnence of which our manufacturing liz
terests will start into being, furnishing
us with our fabrics at cost, and receiving
At consumption prices our produce il
exchange.
Think o. these things. Voters of 10
wa! Think for yourselves. Be not de
luded by the soph,stries. and misrepre
sentations of those politicians who ar.
going about deceiving the People, OF
these important subjects. Your interests
for wears TO come are at stake and de