Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-03-09
To Republicans of the Town
ShiDs. Individuality.

We have word to say TO you which we
have delayed saying longer thai we intend
ID. We wish you to read it carefully over,
at least. We desire each man of you to TAX
it to himself, individually. It is not
addressed to you generally, as q party, but
ssverally and particularly as individuals. 81
There are numbers of you in the prime of
life, middle aged men, farmers, mechanics,
store-keepers, doctors, and laborers of diff.
ferent kinds, who are reasonably looking
At no distant day for some mark Of honor
and distinction from your party. We are
talking directly to you.
There are scores of you, young and ardent
Republicans, who are fred with all the
generous ardor and enthusiasm for your
party with which the cause of liberty and
union must necessarily inspire young and
independent American freemen who have
never yet eat dirt or rolled in the dust for
the sake Of Office or position. We are talk
ing to you directly and emphatically. You
are among the "seven thousand" true men,
"whose knees have not bowed unto Baal
and whose mouths have not kissed him"
Most of you have read in the New York
Tribune its earnest appeals to Republicans
to organize in time. The National Repub-
licap Convention meets next May-only two
months time Every day now passing bears
on its wings some important event which
the whole country should study. We need
that our party should be so organized that
as the day flies westward from sea to sea
they should listen to its news as one man,
ana that every event that transpires in the
great political centres should be transmitted
to every county, township and school dis
trict as by an electric current. We want Re-
publican clubs, and We want young men t"
do their work.
We have Young Mems Republican Club
for the county, began in this city. Now We
need Republican club in every township.
This club sho Id form in the next two weeks.
1t should procure the leading papers and the
speeches of Seward, Lincoln, Hickman,
Winter Davis and other leading men. 1t
should also procure and circulate the treas
enable and disunion speeches of Iverson of
Georgia, Lamar of Mississippi, and other
leading Democrats, to show the people the
true sentiments of that hypocritical, fanati.
cal, doubled-faced party. 1t should also
procure Douglas "Sedition Act" which he
proposes to present, Charles OConner's
officiating speech, and the platform recently
laid down by Democratic caucus in Con
gress for the Charleston Convention, anG
other Democratic documents 1t should also
canvass each school district thoroughly anG
make preparations for the fall campaign
Now, then, Republicans of Sweetland
Montpelier, Fulton, Wilton, Moscow, Wap
sinonoc, Goshen, Pike, Lake, Orono, Sew
enty-Six and Cedar, let two or three ia eact
of your townships b gin, right, away = call
ameeting and organize o club, raise funds
and send on for such documents as you MAY
desire, and circulate them freely, and pu
yourselves in correspondence with tn,
County Committee. Let no grass grow
under your feet till this is done, and let Vi
redeem this county from the misrule OF
Doughface Locofocoism!