The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-09-30


Foreign voters
should consider well the position oftho
two parties, before you cast your votes
on tho second Tuesday Of October. nj
you honestly desire to promote those prin.
ciplea, which are for the beat interests Of
the country At large, you will, without re-
gard to party names or party predictions
vote with that party and for those men,
which you honestly think will bost carry
out those principles. This is but the
plain duty Of every true American citi-
zen, whether native OF adopted. Now
we do not wish 20 dictate to any ono how
he shall voto-that il n matter for each
ono to 20 decide for himsclf-but we do
ask candid honest and unprcjudiccd in
vcstigAtion Of the position Of the two great
parties, on the questions that most con-
cern Us as American citizens.
You are honestly opposed to the spread
Of Slavery and its encroachmont upon the
rights Of free white menj you believe il
is wrong and highly preiudicial 70 the best
interests Of tho country. You believe
Slsyory dcgradcs labor and hence you are
In favor Of keeping the territories free,
that yourselves, your SOM and daughters
may enter IN and posscss them aud build
up for themselves FREQ homes upon the
vast prairica Of the West Ifyou are in
lavor orlrccdom, free labor and free institu-
tons and If you desire 20 transmit these
blessings unimpaircd to your children,
will you vote with a party that is in pow
or in only Q out OF the 10 free states and
in IA ofthe 10 slave statesl party whose
whole strength is in the South, which 10
ruled by southern shareholders Ondwhose
whole energies, Hs the history Of the last
ten years shows, have been directed to-
wards breaking down the barriers for the
protection Of freedom and for the spread
Of slavery over all the territories of tho
United States. Every democrat, who
will not bow TO these behests Of the
Slave Power, ie denounced as a traitor
and driven out of the party fold.
You are In favor ofa Homestead Bill,
the object Of which Is to grant free homes
to actual settlers. Then why do you sup
port the democratic party, which has timo
and again defeated this just and liberal
measured Every time tho proposition has
come up in Congress, southern democrats,
aidedby their northern ullics,h prompt-
ly voted Il down. Tho democracy 90 a
party, are opposed to this measure because
Il encourages free immigration and tends
to build up free states They want the
territories cursed for tho benefit Of the
100000 Shareholders and to the exclusion
Of the 25,0OO,OOO, who are not slavohold-
crs.
The democracy believe that the slave
holdera have a right to take their slaves
into the territories and work them there
by the side Of tho white lsboring man
from the free states and that no power can
exclude them.
Are you opposed to these thingsl then
vote the Republican ticket, for these Sg-
grcssions above mentioned arc what we
are trying toprevent, Republicans deny
that slavery has right TO 90 into the ter
ritories at all, but believe that they should
be kept free for the benefit Of free white
aboring men of whatever land, who are
hereafter 10 possess thrm; and thia il one
Of the cardinal principles Of their faith
Opposition TO SLAVERY AG-
GREsSIoN. They are also in favor Of
dividing up the public lands into small
tracts, say 100 acres each, and giving them
free Of charge TO actual settlers.
The democracy pretcndto be the especial
friends of the foreigners, but this is only
to outoh their votes In ordor TO elect thom-
selves to Office. Farther than this they
care nothing for them. The principles
they advocate and the policy they are try
ing to carry out, are directly hostile to
the rights and interests Of our foreign pop
ulation, us well as rreemen Of every class.
Then dissolve your connection with O
party, which you once honestly believed
was right, but which you now must know
is wrong and which is tending to ensluvC
not only tho black man but the white
man also.