Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-03
The Last Call.

We shall not have another opportunity to
speak to the people Of this county before
the election.
We cannot let this paper go to press with
out giving one more atterance to our earnest
convictions of the importance of the cleo
ton on Monday, and urging our citizens to
give the subject at least a candid considera-
ton before suffering that election to go by
default or casting their votes inditferently on
one side or the other. We speak to wise
conscientious men, who will act upon their
convictions Of right, if they are persuaded
that question of right and wrong is really
involved in this matter.
We speak the words of soberness and truth
when We say to such men, that they will on
Monday give their solemn testimony on the
side of wrong, or on the side of right; on the
side of tyranny, or on the side of justice, as
they then vote for Brannan or Behan
We ask you, if any one of you now re
presented the West in Congress, and if the
elections next Monday, for Superintendents
in Iowa, wherever party nominations were
made, were general y to result in favor of the
Democratic candidates, would you not regard
it rs the strongest evidence that the people
of Iowa were at least Indifferent to the pol
Icy of the Administration on the exciting
questions now before Congress? And by
the temper of Iowa would they judge that
of the Northwest generally.
If the people of the North and West had
not expressed so emphalically and unani-
rlously their honest indignation at the viii
lanies of Lecolnpton, does any one dream
that the noble rhalapx of the immortal one
hundred and twenty, would have presented
snch m unbroken front against the Admin
iStra,ion on the lst Of April And if now
thepeop.e of Iowawho are so deeplyinterested
In the result, reward their heroism by going
bodily over to the enemy, what will be the
effect of such desertion on the struggling
band at Washington, and on the weak and
wavering everywhere? Think of these
things, friends, candidly and seriously. At
the terrible battle of Lepsie, in those last
mourntul days Of Napoleon's career, when
his star was setting 10 blood, at three o'clock
In the afternoon, in the hottest of the fight.
when with one hundred thousand men he
had stood at bay against five hundred thou
sand since sunrise, AMI the fate of the battle
was yet trembling in the balance, sudd NV
twelve thousand SAY in Napoleon's ranks
dashed over to the enemy, and wheeling as
they retired, poured from their guns a point
blank murderous discharge into the bosoms
of their former comrades ,and turned the day,
and the sun of republicanism set for enc hun
dred years on all Austrian and German Eu-
rope.
All day long have the friends of true re.
pnblicanism been fighting hand to hand in
Congress against overwhelming odds s.; it is
now near the set of day the fate of the
battle is yet hanging uncertain in the balance;
the friends of freedom are now struggling
in their last stronghold. Will the Republic
cans of this county like those treacherous
saxons, wheel over to the enemy and dis
charge their fire into the hearts of their own
comradesl
Will they vote for an Administration
Democrat or for true stanch Republican