St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-01-12
St. Charles City, Iowa, Jan. IL, 1860.
The Presidency.

We notice that some of the papers
in the Southern part of this State are
out in favor of Simon Cameron, Of
Pennsylvania, as a Republican candi
date for the Presidency. That Cam.
eron is an aspiring man we have
known for long time, and we have
no doubt that he and his agents are
busy in b" fixing the fints " Of the West
ern press-in other words, moulding a
Western public opinion in his favor.
But, gentlemen Editors Of Iowa, this
will not do. The antecedents of ST.
mon Cameron are not satisfactory.
Such times as these demand repre-
sentative man for the Presidential can
didate Of the Republican party. The
doctrine Of availability has been prac.
tised upon by both the great leading
political parties, until the nation, both
in character and in finance, has been
brought upon the brink Of ruin.
We believe that the Republicans
will be able to elect whoever they
may nominate for President-then
throw aside "availability" and give
us positire man-one whose history
and principles are well known and
are thoroughly tried-a man who may
be fully regarded as the embodiment Of
the principles and the measures of the
party. That man is unqucstionably
WIN. H. Seward.
Does the reader ask our reasons for
this opinion-we answer The slave
ry propagandists-now the Democrat
ic party--have made the selection for
us. 1t is around Stewards unoffend-
ing head that all their wrath is con-
centrated. So much do they hate and
fear him that they are continually
threatening dissolution Of the Union
should Republicans dare to exercise
their rights under the Constitution and
elect him for President.
Our former predictions were for
Edward Bates Of Missouri, as a West
ern man and a man representing our
sentiments. Our available e" man
was John G. Fremont, man who will
draw more votes than any other one
the Republicans can put in nomina.
ton. But our positire man is VIM. II.
Seward, and believing that the Repub-
lic.ns can elect any man they may
nominate, we 60 for Seward heart and
soul.
Six months ago it was difficult to
tell who would or who should be the
Republican candidate for President,
but not SO now. AS said before, the
Southern press and Southern leaders
have made northumberland indeed
it is their one continual howl--that, if
the freemen of the North dare to dis
regard their impudent dictation. and
elect to the Presidency VIM. II. Sc
ward, they will secedc from or destroy
the Union, and smash up things gen
orally. In our opinion this settles the
question for us.
Thus threatened and bullied, men
who never preferred Seward to other
we'll known and long tried Republi-
cans for the Presidency, have now but
one fixed and unalterable determine
ton in regard to who shall be their
Standard-Bearer in 1860. They in
tend to prove that they not only clear
ly understand their constitutional
rights and privileges, but that they
have the necessary nerve to maintain
them. They will not threaten, or bull
ly, or play the braggadocio. All that
they leave to the men who quailed
before old John Brown and his seven
teen miserable Abolitionists, and who
have been marching troops up and
down the country to brighten away
the shadow of danger which had no
substance, save in their cowardly ap-
prehensions, and the absence of all
selfreliance in the hour of danger.
They intend to vindicate their self-res-
pect and to show their estimate of bull
lying threats by electing to the Presi-
dency the very man the South would
ostracise. They will then leave to
him and his co-administrators of the
Government, the punishment Of trea-
son whenever and wherever it dares
to exhibit itself. And they have no
fears for the result. Barking dogs