The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-09-23

your election, do so on the ground that
you are a Mahony Democrat. If your
opponents might not know your position,
your friends and supporters certainly
must.
eth-The Mahony Democracy Of Du-
buque, where you reside, and are most
intimately known, claim you rs one Of
them, and the loyal Democratic there
concede you to be such.
9tb-It would take but few words for
you to say that you support the Govern.
ment, and the measures it is taking to
suppress the rebellion, that you are in
favor of the Union Internationally, and
at all hazards that those who claim that
you, like them. hold that the rebellion is
Justfiabe-that the government should
not have commenced, and should not
now continue TO defend itself against the
rebels, but that it should have acceded,
and should now accede to their demands,
as proper and just, or, at least politic,.
it would take but few words for you TO-
say that those who claim that you enter
tain these sentiments, claim that for.
which you have given them no authors
~. Frequent opportunities have occurr--
ed, and you have been invited and urg-
ed, to say even those few words but no.
such words have you ever said, that I
have ever heard, or that the people Of
this Judicial District have ever heard.
1O-Yst you have not left the public
without clue to your sentiments for.
at the close of the Summer Term of tha,
Bowen Collegiate Institute, at Hopkin--
ton, you delivered written speech on
The Form Of our Government" in
which you promulgated the (odiousl
doctrine Of" State Rights" which has
led to this Civil War-claiming sub
stantially that the States are SovereignA
and the Federal Government subordi-.
nate /; that the States have all rights and,
powers, and the Federal Gov
eminent no rights and powers, except
ing such as the States expressly surren-
dered to the Federal Government in the
Constitution the inference from which
would be that the Sovereign" States
are justi6able. in opposing any demands
which they, in their " Sovereign " wis
dom, may consider an infringement on
their Sovereign rights.
| address you in this manner, candid
ly. earnestly, and respectfully, to state
the fact that the loyal men OF this Judi
cial District have their doubts about
your being heartily in favor of the Gov
ernment, and ofsuppressing the rebellion
at all hazards, and to state plainly the
reason Of those doubts. l, as one of the
voters Of the Ninth Judicial District,
wish this campaign. VASTLY more i'm
portant than any mere political campaign
ever was, to be conducted honestly.
honorably and fairly. A Democrat and
Republican are the same to me. if they
are equally loyal. do not wish to be
msled into the supposition that you
sympathize with traitors, or lack sympa-
thy with loyal men and loyal measures,
if such suppositlon would be erroneous.
lfyou are as loyal as your opponent on
the Judicial ticket an your influence is
cast in favor of crushing out the rebel
lion as unequiyocally as his--f you will
publicly pledge yourself NOT TO VOTE FOR
d. A. MAnoNY, but to oppose the princi-
Piles which distinguish the Democracy
he teaches from the Democracy of Doug
las, and Dickinson, and Stanton, and
Butler-I publicly pledge myself to cast
my vote and my influence in favor of
you, instead of Mr.. Burt, in order to dis
courage all partizanship at such crisis
as this.
If motif you remain silent, as here
tofore, when your perishing country de-
mands that every one should "cry aloud
and spare not" If you leave il to be
understood that you are supporting i'm
prisoned traitors, and claiming the sup.
port of traitors who ought to be in pris-
on-you cannot complain if l accept the
united testimony of your more intimate
friends, and place you on the list of MA
HoNY DEMOCRATS.
Yours Respectfully.
j. L. McCREERY.
| DELHI Sept. 18th, 1862.