The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-12-08
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upon this question, for the reason that
we have never entertained a doubt that
those preferences and wishes were in con-
sonance with the almost unanimous de-
sire of the party throughout the State.
We have never doubted, and do not now
doubt, that nineteen-twentieths of the Re-
publicans ofIowa coincide with the Repub-
llcans of Buchanan county in the desire
universally expressed by the latter, hat
JAMES HARLAN should be reelected to
the seat he now holds. But having
learned that q movement, sub rosa, is
being made to supercede Mr.. HARLAN.
and knowing how potent the reflection Of
the general feeling through the press
was for the election of Senator GRIMES.
we think it best that the press should
again shadow forth the desires of the
party.
We say, then, that almost without a
single exception, the Republicans of Blu
chanan county anxiously desire the return
OF Mr.. HARLAN, for another term, to the
United States Senate. They care nothing
about men, or about localities, or Sec
lions The man most able, most capable
of comforting dignity upon the State and
the party-tbe man who with ability will
support, and firmly and faithfully strive
to carry forward, the principles of the
party-such a man can depend upon the
vote and the influence Of the Republicans
OF Buchanan county, no matter in what
locality, in which section of the State, he
may reside. They were among the first
to declare in favor of Senator GRIMes two
years ago, though claims of locality were
then urged upon them, because they be-
lieved that no other man in the State
would more ably or more faithfully MAIN
tain the dignity, or subserve the inter-
ests, of the State, than Mr.. GRIMES. And
for the same reasons they now declare for
JAMES HARLAN, and will give him the
two votes which they have in the legis-
lature.
The course Of Mr.. HARLAN, during
the time he has been in the Senate, has
proven him a man of ability, industry
and honesty. He is able in debate, and
his speeches have drawn expressions of
commentator from the ablest men in the
Senate, and from the press of the coun-
try. He has given more character, and
greater weight, in the national councils,
TO the State, than three-score DoDGEs and
JoNEsEs could have given her. His voice
and his vote have never failed when the
occasion required them, and the interests
of free-labor and of the great west have
not lacked his honest and persistent ef-
forts. The anti-slavery sentiment Of the
State never has been, and never will be,
misrepresented and violated by him, as
it always was by his predecessors. and
while he has calmly and dispassionately
reasoned the great question, he has not
the less firmly stood by the Republican
party and its principles. He has what
we now want in our Representatives. what
Senator SUMNER calls backbone" and
so long as he and JAMES w. GRIMES &C.
cupy their present positions, Iowa will
have no occasion to blush, as she has of
ten before done, for doughface Senators.
Mr.. HARLAN aided very much, by his
efforts in the late canvass, in the achieve
ment of the Republican triumph in the
STATE. We lost several legislators through
local divisions, and would undoubtedly
have lost others, had it not been for his
gallant efforts. These alone we do not
think sufficient to call for official eleva-
ton, for we think hat every man should
be willing to do his utmost for his prin-
ciples, and ne who is induced to exer-
ton simply by the hope of personal re-
ward, is not worthy to be the exponent Of
great principles. But with everything
else to commend him, it is not inadmis-
sible to speak of Mr.. HARLAN's recent
cxertions. By his mastery exposition,
on the stump. of the principles Of the
two political parties of the country, by
the weight and power of his arguments,
by the candor of his speech. and the dig
nity of his bearing, he did much, very
much, to confound the democracy and
infuse vigor into the Republicans. We
well remember when be stood before the
great audience which greeted him here.
and laying down a broad and massive
foundation, proceeded calmly, dispassion-
a,ely, eloquenily, without invective or
to build up regularly and sym
Ineirically his superstructure Of logical
and invincible argument. how rapt and
/. Ienli,e his hearers were, how u%niver-