The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-10-06
Republicans to Your Duty,

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the highest duty of citizen--to select
men to make your laws, care for your in
terests, and advance your principles and
policy. The election is an important
one. Its result will affect not only local
and State affairs, but also those Of the
Nation. Its interests are those of the
whole country, and the Republicans Of
the Union are waiting to hear words Of
cheer from their brethren in Iowa. Shall
we say to them that our State stands firm
ly by the side of New Hampshire and
| Vermont and Maine, as she has done
since the great battle Of freedom com
menced in earnest, and that we shall
stand there in the great contest TO come
off next year ? Or shall We dispirit them
now by desertion, just when they need
the force and energy, and earnestness
and enthusiasm that can only be derived
from an united army. Iowa was in the
front ranks in the contest OF sc, will she
occupy any other position now, when the
great strife of go approaches ? Will
she be the first TO prove iaithless to the
great cause of freedom and equal rights,
for which she was the first to declare p
Will she 60 back now to pro-slavery al
legiance, when the great cause in which
she has been engaged is SO nearly sue
cessful, and when her banner, carried
where it has been wont TO float, will in
fuse SO much of hope and confidence in
the free labor army +? 1t cannot be pos
sible. She will be true to her instincts,
TO her impulses, to her interests, TO the
great cause. She will say to New Eng
land that the North West stands as uni
tedly and as firmly as she in opposition
to the demands of slavery--in anlagon-
ism to Democratic profigacy aud corrup-
ton. M Ga#
But let the Republicans OF Buchanan
County remember that upon them may
rest the responsibility of the position
which the State is to assume. Let them
remember that upon them may devolve
The task of deciding whether Iowa's
voice shall be unanimous in favor of the
interests of free labor Let them remem-
Der thattheir action may decide the ques
ton of freedom or slavery in the nearfu-
turc. They may decide who is to be
United States Senator and he may de-
eide questions of momentous interest
and results for the country and for free :
DOM. Let every man, then, throw aside
personal prejudices, if he has them, and
come maniully up to the support of his
principles. Let every Republican come
to the polls, and unhesitatingly cast a
vote against slavery propagandism by
supporting d. G. HASTINGS and GEORGE
w. BEMIs. If they were not men every
way worthy Of your support, still you
should regard the weight your vote has
in the way Of principle, and cast it for
them. But you will not vote for unwor
thy men. They are both men of ability !;
men of honest anti-slavery convictions !;
men who cannot be corrupted ;men who
will look sharply to the peoples inter-
ests men who will cast their votes uni
formly in favor Of an economical admin
istration of public affairs; men who viii
endeavor to simplify Legislative enact
ments, SO that they can be readily under
stood men who will vote to revise the
present system Of county government,
and give us a system less absolute, and
more Democratic, in its character /; men
who, we feel assured, have the practical
knowledge and working talent, to make
good Legislators, and will be ever on the
alert to guard the peoples interests
Such are the men offered for your suf-
frages and with the great principles I'M
volved in their election. no good Re-
publcan--no one who has the slightest
regard for the interests of free labor
can withhold his vote from them. Re-
collect that the great efforts now making
by the Democracy are conferred main y
upon the lower house of the legislature.
for the purpose Of securing an United
States Senator. TO carry this point ELL
wooD's old electoneering lies llaso again
been resurreeted from the deep where
they were buried by the Democracy's
own admissions last year, and are now
again shouted out from every stump, on
! ly for the purpose of covering up the ma
tional significance ofFthe contest Do
not be fooled by any such pretexts.--
Your candidates are honest, and can as
safely be trusted for retrenchment, if re-
trenchment is needed. rs their opponents
Therefore see TO it that they me elected,