The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-09-29

eering. He admits that as man Judge
TABOR challenges his respect-that as an
officer he has been faithful and able
that as citizen he is above reproach-
and yet the editor must play the bigot
for expediency's sake, and appeal to the
religious prejudices of the people, ask
ing them to put such a man down be-
cause he does not think as the editor
thinks. Does Judge TABOR shirk any
moral obligations? Can the editor ac-
cuse him of doing mean, base, or dis
honest act? Can he accuse him of NAL
feasance in Office. Of violation of the
public trust? He acknowledges he can
not, but calls upon the people to vote
him down because of his theological
opinions. What has these to do with
the question of politics-with his fitness
for official station? Certainly not any
thing. And if it has, how much better
does his competitor stand than Judge IA
Dor? Every man in this community
knows that Mr.. RoszELL's theological
opinions accord with those of Judge IA
Dor s-that he deserves as much animal
version upon this point as does the latter
that he voted in the Board of Educa
ton to exclude the Bible from the public
schools-and that his example in the
community, in reference to these matters,
is not near as favorable as Judge Ia
BORIS, who attends church regularly and
sends his children to Sunday School,
while Mr.. RoszELL does not do either.
Why spare him, then, if the editor is sin
cere in his depreciation of such opinions
as both candidates entertain? Why sin
gle out Judge TABOR AS a target for these
shafts of intolerance, and let the other 60
unattached Is he any more honest !?
Has he made better citizen Is he n
better man in any respect? Does he
carry out the great moral law of the BIZ
BILE, of christianity, Of humanity" do
unto others as you would that they should
do unto you, more faithfully than
Judge TABOR Has he the confidence
and respect of his fellow-men to great
er extent than Judge TABOR? No one
pretends so. Why then this attack npon
TABOR ? Does not every one know why !?
Does not every man know that it is sim
ply because they cannot find other capt.
tai to make against him Have they not
acknowledged that he has been faithful
and honest as an officer, and because of
that acknowledgment have shut them
selves off from attacking him in that re-
gard i? They have therefore determined
to pander to prejudice, and this Civilian
article is the result. But it cannot win
The people of this county will not, we
feel assured, tolerate any thing SO des-
picable. They will not believe that the
Democracy of the country is a religious
party, as Henry Clay Dean claimed it
was. They will not believe that the
Democracy Of Buchanan comfy is re-
ligious party, every one of the leaders of
which. in the village of Independence,
except Mr.. HEDGES, stand just where
Judge TABOR and Mr.. RoszELL stand on
theological points. Nor will they believe
that Mr.. HEDGES animadversons against
that discourse are sincere, when he thus
spreads it before the public, putting it
into the hands of every voter, and send
ing it into every family. Why, if he
thinks the doctrines contained therein to
be demoralizing, should he scatter it
abroad as he has done ? The fact is,
that there is nothing in that discourse
that a Universalist would not endorse.
that he would not preach. 1t is Uni
versalist discourse. and not an Atheistic
al doctrine can be found in it. Let the
people read it and see if there is. Let
them read it and see if there is any thing
there that sustains charge Of Atheism
against Judge TABOR. 1t does not war
rant Mr.. Hedges attack, and that gentle
man has descended lower in making il
than We ever thought he could descend.
We gave him credit for being honorable
and high minded, and we think now
that the blame OF this lies elsewhere. and
that Mr.. HEDGES has fathered it against