Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-10-03
To HE REPUBLICANS OF WUSCA.
TINE COUNTY.

I S~~o
present as fit time to call your atten-
ton to few facts which present them
selves on the eve of the approaching
election.
While we do not deem it necessary
to remind you of the indispensableness
Of an united effort at the polls, yet in
view Of the past, We cannot forbear re-
calling to your memory the lessons
evolved by the late election in this
county demonstratiye of the fact, that
We must now work with indefatigable
zeal if you would secure the success of
the Republican ticket on the 18th Of
next October.
! OUR COUNTY TICKET.
Our candidates are before you ; they
are good and true men; nothing can
be gained, while much will be lost to
us, by exchanging them for any Of our
opponents.
Our candidate for the Senate, J: A.
PARvIN, is a tried man. He has rep
resented this county in the Legislature
and in the Constitutional Convention.
He is honest and capable; nothing
more need be said Of him, for all of
you know him.
HENRY REECE is also a man Of pure
Republican faith. Ably discharging
his duties as postmaster of the city of
Muscatine, his adherence to right amid
the wild fluctuations of the Democratic
party, worked too bright contrast be-
tween himself and the followers of
Douglass, and he was prescribed by the
Administration of Gen. Pierce. He
was Postmaster by virtue Of an appoint
ment made, after the people by large
majority had voted for his appointment
yet he was removed because he would
not swear by the new Democratic creed
contained in Douglasses Knnsas-.Nt-
braska Bill. The people asked for
bis appointments they did not ask for
his removal but, because he would not
worship at the shrine of Slavery, he
was removed and one from the pure
stock Of old Virginia appointed in his
place-not at the request of the people,
but at the request Of the secret reporters
of the Pierce Administration, in Mus
catine. Republicans, it is for you to
elect Mr.. Reese to an Office where he
may use his influence and his vote for
the election Of a good and true man to
the United States Senate in place Of &.
W. Jones.
| WIN. LUEDY is known to most Of us.
He was declared to be the unanimous
choice of the Republicans of Cedar and
Muscatine Counties in their Convention
at Wilton. Honest, capable, and an
unAinching Republican, our interests
in his hand. will be safe. Let this suf-
fee as to our candidates but let us
not forget that great and to us vital
interests are at stake, and call upon US,
as we value our Country, our freedom
and our religion, to put forth our utmost
exertions for the success Of our ticket.
:, UNITED STATES SENATOR.
Of the matters which will devolve
,, upon the next legislature, not the least
is the election Of United States Senator
The vote Of this county may fix the
|, political complexion Of the legislature.
. If we elect our ticket we may secure a
> Republican Senator-onc whose voice
, shall ring with Harlan's through the
!, Council Chambers of the Nation, il
: behalf of free soil, free homes and free
men: if we permit our opponents tt
triumph in this county, We may lose
e the Senator and be mlsrepresented ano
: disgraced for another six years by
Z Senator Jones. The vote of Senator
!, from Iowa, may make another Slave
+ State; this We are determined to pre-
:, vent, if it can be prevented by consti.
f tutional means. We do not design moi
o wish to war against the rights of Slave
!: States with slavery where it now ex'
e lists in the States, we have nothing tx
g do, yet we understand the Republican
Party to be opposed to the admission
Of any more States, with the ,vither
ing, bighting, dananing leprosy O.
= slavery engrafted upon its constitution
=, That Iowa may be represented witt
?. these views and purposes-that sh
Is sustain her republican char acter abroad
lie by continued Republican Administra