Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-10-07
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For the Gazette.
Shall we have a Republican to Repre-
sent us in the Senate?

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Shall we have a Republican to Repre-
sent us in the Senate?
Republicans of Delaware do you know
that our opponents count on Republican votes
to carry this Senatorial District ? They say
that, as by your assistance, the district was
carried by them two years ago-when they
falsely represented to you that no partizan leg
islation could take place,-so now, when there
is a SENATOR IN CONGRESS TO BE ELECTED, and
by an adjourned session, they may district the
State, you will again assist in electing their
man, and thus perhaps give them control
of the State Senate. This the Democrats
every where count on. The 10th district they
say, they intend to carry, by the aid of the Re
publicans-not the Republicans of the whole
district-but by Republican votes in Dlauare
County,-and mainly here in the town of Del
awarel AT an important election like this,
when the vital principles of your faith are at
stake,-when the success of those principles
may be obtained, or lost, by your vote-will
you abandon them, and cast your votes for
a man who viii exert all his influence to defeat
them, merely because you have been solicited
by a personal friend to do so Can you, for
mere friendship, consent to violate your solemn
convictions of duty, and pervert the sacred
trust committed to you as citizens, by voting
for a man, who, you know, will, if elected, op-
pose to the utmost those principles and meas
ures which you believe are for the welfare OF
the country? Do you desire to unite with
your political opponents in celebrating the vic
tory they expect, BY your Uotes, to achieve on
Tuesday next?
Look back, and see what was accomplished
by electing the Democratic candidate two
years ago. Was there any party measure too
ultra, or extreme for his support? l think
not. He even went so far as to vote for the
Resolution endorsing Duchanan's administra-
ton in these words :" Resolved, That we still
have entire confidence in the disinterestedness,
the integrity, and the abilities of the present
Chief Magistrate of these United States, and
that his administration commands our cordial
and undivided support" This was after all
the outrages that this same administration had
resorted to in Kansas to force a pro-slavery
constitution upon a free people had been per-
petrated And after the President had writ
ten that Kansas was now as much a slave Ter
ritory as Georgia or South Carolina!
Senator Pugh, who supported and defended
these outrages-even going so far as to say
that the Slave-code enacted by the Kansas
bogus Legislature, was such as was necessary
wherever slavery existed-is a candidate for
reelection. The candidate in this District
may tell you that he is not in favor of Pugh,
but he means no more by this that he will not
support him in caucus he will of course go
with the party for whoever shall be the nomi-
nee. But even if it should not be Pugh, have
we any reason to expect a better man? A
man who would vote "a cordial and undivided
support of Buchanan's administration, would
of course select a United States Senator of
like principles.
No, Freemen of Delaware, we cannot over
look these consequences that are to result from
our votes, with an eye single to the promotion
Of the public tCelfare and not to crafty a per-
sonal preference, or to pay for supposed per-
sonal f%avors, at the expense of the duty we
owe our country.
No fair minded man, no candidate who has
a due regard for the sacred right of suffrage.
viii ask or expect the votes of those whose
principles he opposes, or fail to respect the
patriotism and courage of those who firmly adj
here to their principles regardless of all con-
siderations of personal friendship.
A REPUBLICAN.