Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-06-01

JUNE MUNICIPAL ELRcTIoN.-All property
holders and every citizen OF Washington should
vote on the 1st of June.
1st Because it is to the interest of the city
that they should.
I'd. Because it is their duty as good and loyal
men.
Cd. Because citizens born in our midst want
their support and suffrage.
ith. Because men should be elected who have
Il local feeling in common with them.
5th. Because our city and our interests are
involved, and should only be placed il the
hands Of those who we know will do US the
creates: good and enhance the welfare Of our
city. ~ 49,
should vote for Dixon for Collector; tor Doug
las for Register; for Forsyth for Surveyor.
Why! Because they are men who have been
weighed in the balance of public Justice and
not found wanting.
Are these men good and loyal citizens?
For an answer read the resolutions they
adopted as their platform when they accepted
the nomination from the hands and hearts of
The community in which they are known and
read. 1t is there said, emphaticaliy, that they
are loyal and true men.
What is loyalty! ItGoes not consist in loud
mouthed endorsement OF the emancipation
proclamation, forced upon the Chief Magistrate
by radical leaders, and submitted to by all
Union loving people because il is law. Loyalty.
does not consist in condenaning the President,
as the radicals have done, when he issues q
proclamation setting the slaves of rebellious
sections of the country free-but in the same
States and sections are not subject to his proca-
maton-thus shswing the integrity of his pur-
pose to preserve Intact the RICH Is and privi-
ieges under the Constitution of all loyal per-
sons.
Yes. the President In this Proclamation up
holds the Constituton-and by all his acts he
has ever shown to these mistaken radicals that
slavery is an institution not to TO interfered
with, except so far as peoples and sections Of
the country become oatlawed and not under
the sacred pale OF the Constitution, either in
their lives, property or liberty. The President
only nses his Proclamation against rebels! He
preserves intact the rights under the Constitu-
tion. of all loyal St.,tes and peoples.
In 8 word. loyalty consists in obedience to
law. obeying all la ws, and all laws to be OBJ
Hgatory must he founded on justice and truth,
the bulwark of our freedom. The Constitu-
ton is the illumination of our rulers. and by it
their course must he shapcd--in spirit II not in
ie;ter-for from it justice and truthiss in
resplendent glory.
unconditional Union citizens of Washington
ara loyal in the highest sense. They arc free
from all sisms,' ssits'' or sands" Bona fide
Union men in heart, unsullicd in reputation,
and with acknowledged ability to I'LL the hon.
orahle posts to which you will elect them.
Shall we not, then, vote, one and all, for
these citizens Of Washington in preference to
untried mesi-ie mon almost unknown to tn
great working mass of society?
Yes, fellow citizens, stand first by your
country-deny her nothing, not even your
lives-then by your city, and then by your
known and tried citizens, and all will 60 well,
On the first Of June next and for the two years
following. AFOTER.