The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-08-04

We give the following extract from an ar
ticle in the New York TsS1sae, addressed
to the friends of freedom in this State. II
would b. impossible to exsggeesse The in
terest and anxiety with which our friends
al over the Union will await iatorma,ion
Of the result Of to-dsy's election. The sp-
pressed and persecuted citizens OF Kansas
turn their imploring gaze this way; the sur
wing relatives OF those who have been
murdered in that Territory for no crime ex-
cept that OF asserting their right as Ameri.
can citizens, look anxiously for US to pro-
nounce condemnation on the unparalleled
outrages they have endured and which they
still continue to suffer, and thousands of
men in the Slave States. now suffering un-
der tyranny against which they dare no.
whisper complaint, expect to be encour-
aged in in their latent but earnest OPPOSE
ton, by the resolute and emphatic tones OF
the fair and free daughter Of the Missouri
Compromise. Let the voters Of Iowa speak
their real and homes, sentiments to-day, and
the hearts of all such cxpectants will De
unexpressibIy chcered. We will not be-
leve there is man in our county, who 10
opposed to the banefol administration OF
franklin Pierce, who viii give virtual
endorsement OF that administration by vo-
ting the ticket presented by the pro-slave.
nv party. We will not believe that any
man whose sentiments fully coincide with
those OF the Republicans on the great and
paramount question at issue. will let any
influences of temporary, irrelevant or
personal nature. prevent him from support
ing the entire Republican ticket. We sin
cerely believe that the issue to be decided
BY the impending and approaching eiec-
tons, is the most important that has been
submitted TO the people of this country
since the adoption Of the consutution,-and
unless the virtue of patriotism be mere
sham, and the almost sacred importance OF
the bslloi-box mere exaggeration of Of
fice.seeking poliucians, there never was
time when the duty imposed upon every cit
izen OF voting according to the dictates OF his
honest judgement was so Imperative a. It
is now. We give the appeal from the TT
bane as a sample of many similar articles
in the journals Of our eastern cotemPora-
ries.
FsIEsps OF FRExoxr AND FREEDOM IN
IowA.-Itis OF fearful importance that you
carry your State at the August Election
nov at hand. We do not ask you to do il
in Novenber--we kaor you wiil-butthree
or four thousand votes withheld now, in
Counties where the local result is ineyita-
BILE, by men who seyerally think their stay
ing at home to mind their crops can make
no difference, may cast a fearful shadow
over the face of the land. We need not
use many words, for you who read this par
agraph understand the matter, and will not
fail TO vote; but you have neiehbors and &C
quaintances. See them-speak to them
make them promise to come to the polls
and if they should still fail, have Jour ar
engagements perfected beforehand for send
ing them. Men who live near afflicted
Kansas. by the generous spirits of her mar
tyrs in prison as traitors, or filing untme-
" graves because Of their love Of Freedom,
We implore you to do your whole duty.