The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-10-01

w:ipped; and that your opponents were
right IN their opinions, aud that you were
wrong? . .
Ii the Democratic party more favorable
to the improvement Of the Western rivers
and harbors, than it was Of old; or, are
you forsaking this principle with the rest!
Do you remember tho stirring times
when Henry Clay was. defeated by the
abuse aud lies OF that party you arc called
on to support ~ ....-.. .
Have you forgotten that they charged
him with being corrupt and being the
murderer Of Cillcy?
Do you remember that they called him
black leg and swindler, and printed
pictures Of head with two faces with
Clay's name under it?
Have you forgotten that the Democrats
stigmatized your best men Is traitors to
the country, and charged them with being
in the pay Of English Capitalists?
Have you forgotten how the members
Of that party treated you?
They called you Tories and "Sons of
Tories and represented you az enemies
to the laboriug classes.
| Don't you remember the thousands Of
lies they told about you, and the vituper-
alive abuse they hesped upon your heads
for years?
But you may say that the principles
for which you commended in past times
have become obsolete. Is this so?
The Democrats contend that they have
not changed their opinions, but that you
have chsDged-yours.
Show them BY your votes that you have
not forsaken single measure Of that Clio
rious old Wing Party, and that you are
not willing to support any of those iniqu
i,ous doctrines against which you have
fought SO often, ii the good old davs -
the wing party.
..ut you may Say "a. .!.s. you are opposed
10 the position Of the Republican part!
IN the slavery question. If so, you ar,
no follower Of the great "Harry Of tn
Vest
In his last. speeches in Congress, Hen
~ Clay used this emphatic language:
"The Constitution never created, 10
does it continue slavery.
You csnnot put your finger upon an,
part of the Constitution which convey
the right o. the power to carry slave
from one of the States Of tho Union l.
any Territory of the United States.
If slaves are voluntarily carried int
such Il jurisdiction, their chanins instant
~ drop off, and they become free. eman
cipssed, liberated from their bondage
The Republican party claim no NOR
and no less than our noble old champion
contended for in his last days when oil
5 age had -erept on him, after suffering dur
ing his life time abuse aud blackguardism
hcaped upon him by this same party tina
nos asks your support.
II, in view of these facts, land wei
you know they are facts,) you can serv
this old monster, the Democratic party
you have not the "pluck' that Wing
used to have.
, II you have no more manliness than t
lick the hand that struck you for $
many years, all can say to you, is, tina
you have become apostates to your polti
, cal opinions, and gone after strange god.
The shiny reptile of the Nile, the God O
the Egyptians, was not more hideous an
filthy, than the Democratic party is an
always was, and you know it aud said SC
when you were arrayed against it.
; Ii after the insults and abuse you hav
received as Wings from this rotten oil
party; if after being charged with ever
thing mean and low by it; and stigms
J TIED for years with epithets at which de
eency revolts; you can support the nomi
nees Of your despicab!e old foe, in God
, name 60 and do it: but ,cont
. AN OLD LINE WING.