Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-03-31

On Monday next the electors of Iowa vii
be called on to choose between two sets OF
men presented for their suffrage, as well as
to decide whether the Prohibitory law shall
be adopted or rejected. And the Importance
Of this election can scarcely DO overrated.
On the one hand there is presented Messrs.
TrsoALE, DEWEY and SANuELs, perhaps good
men enough. But they are put prominently
forward q. Administration candidates. The
convention that nominated them endorsed
Franklin Pierce and his ,cts, not excepting
his vetoes Of river and harbor appropria-
lions. They never excepted even the Nebras-
ka iniquity, but endorsed every thing
Should you elect these men it will DO trum-
petea from Maine to California as an Admin
ist-ation triumph. Every Locofoco print in
the country will assert that Iowa endorses
tina repeal of the compromise and acquiesces
in the Presidents vstoes of appropriations
for the improvement Of the Mississippi river.
Every free State where elections have been
held since the passage of the Nebraska swim
die. has spoken out in condemnation Of Pierce,
Douglas & Co., not even excepting New
Hampshire. Shall Iowa be the only excep-
ton?
And upon State questions the ground oc-
cupied by these men is still more objectiona-
BILE. Two of them were members of the late
legislature and the convention that nomina-
ted them endorsed tho reasonable acts of
the minority. This minority, among whom
we're Tisdale and Dewey attempted, by trea-
sonable and revolutionary means, subversive
of the Democratic and popular feature of our
\ Government, to disfranchise the State by pre-
u venting an election of Senator. Such revo-
iu.ionary acts deserve the unqualified con-
demnation Of the free and intelligent voters
of Iowa of every party. The free men of
this State will rebuke, signally rebuke, the
men who thus attempted to defeat the popu-
lar will-thsy owe it to themselves, to their
own vindication. They will teach these min
ions of Pierce, Dodge, &c., that the will of the
People expressed through the ballot-box, is
the highest authority, and that their dsaision
is sovereign and paramount.
On the other hand, we present to you
Messrs. MCKAY, LOCKWOOD and HART, for the
same offices. They are fit and capable men
against whom nothing has been urged. Upon
them all opposed to Pierce and Nebraska can
consistently unite. The ground they occupy
upon State and National questions is the
true ground. But for the prompt and ell
cient action Of Mckay and Lockwood, nth
the majority in the late legislature, Iowa
would have had. but one Senator in Congress
during the next two years. Their election
will DO rebuke upon our National Execu-
tive and his narrow nolicy-will rebuke tho
factious minority in the lasse legislature and
crush out the spirit of anarchy ID rsvolu-
ton exhibited last winter.
Remember that you have an unscrupuieus
and unpsinc pied foe to deal with. Exagge-
ration. and falsehood are their principle
weapons. On the eve of the election they
are generally found disseminating falsehoods
and issuing libellous hand bills at too late an
hour to be successfully met with truth. All
publications Of this kind you need not be
tod, deserve NO credencs. Treat them and
the men who circulate them, with deserved
contempt. .d.3a