Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-08-06
Our Duty.
To the Vice Presidents of the Loyal Ma
tloaat League of Flovd Countv:

t,onal League of Floyd County:
The election is approaching and it
behooves all loyal citizens to be at
work that the result may contribute
to the benefit Of the State and Nation.
The opposing parties have held
their conventions and have presented
to the people the nominees for the va
rious Offices, accompanied with dec
laration of their principles if success
full.
Much indignation has been felt and
expressed at the result of the Union
or Republican Convention. This feel.
ing is directed entirely against the
nominees, and not against the platform
upon which they stand.
Sharing in this feeling myself, am
unable to see any alternative but to
vote the ticket placed in nomination
by that convention; every principle
of patriotism requires that we should
do so. .-. ...... r... ..... 4.
Admitting that all the charges
made against Col. Stone are true, his
loyalty is undoubted the associations
and influences by which he will be
surrounded are eminently loyal he is
placed upon a platform which pledges
him unequivocally to an earnest, thor
ough and unfagging support Of the
Government and the war.
Whatever may be the personal fall
ings of any of the candidates, we
cannot afford to canvass them now.
The single issue before US is not one
of men, but Of principles
In voting for Colonel Stone we do
it because he is the only tangible rep
resentation Of loyalty and patriotism
through whom we can express Our
idea of loyaly and patriotism effect
lively and powerfully.
In voting for the candidates of the
other convention, we give,-whether
we mean it or not form and pow
er to disloyalty and treason.
In that convention, which it wonld
be unfair to call Democratic, those
who sympathize with the rebellion
and it's authors were triumphant, and
the completeness of that triumph con.
sisted in the nomination Of that tick.
ct for which they are soliciting our
SURFACES.
Mr.. Fisher, it is true, has declined
the nomination for Governor, but who
ever succeeds him will do so because
he lacks that measure of loyalty which
induced Mr.. Fisher to decline. The
platform announced by that conven.
ton is avowedly and unreservedly
disloyal, and whoever accepts a nomi
nation upon it, whatever his private
and social virtues may be, howeve,
great his ability, publicly declares bis
lack of loyalty and patriotism.
These two platforms are the anti
podes of each other. We must &c
over wholly to one or the other, there
is no middle course Voting the one
ticket, we vote to support the Govern
ment voting the other, we aim at
its destruction. 1t is important that
every aid, which can be, should be CIV
en- to the government. We cannot
overestimate the moral effect of an cleo
tion by the people in its expression
of confidence in an appreciation Of the
Government and the measures it has
or shall adopt. Victories over rebels
in the field are best supported by vic.
tories over rebel sympathizers at home
therefore urge upon you, gentle.
men, to see that the Union sentiment
of your several townships is thorough
ly aroused,-and on the day Of tho
election see that every Union voter j:
at the polls. Every vote polled foI
the Union ticket is blow struck al
the rebellion every vote omitted to
be polled counts one against the Un
ion !! Very Truly,
WIN. b. Fairfield,
Pres. Floyd Co. Loyal National League