The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-11-03

the administration winch every Gener;
in the field was bound to sustain an
carry out
The resolutions-not up TO our stand
ard in all things, and yet accepted by u
and those who thought as we did, 70
the sake of harmony-were unanimousl
adopted whereupon the friends of Tut
tie, regardless Of the anomaly, attemptet
TO place him uoon them. We all foug h
over the attempt for five hours. We ex
posed the Inconsistency Of Brigade
General upon declared anti war plat
form. We examined his record, ant
appealed TO the convention, and the re
suit was that be was beaten for the nom
inatlon by thirty-four majority. 1t il
useless to say that at any one time ht
was nominated, for it is notorious tha
there was much irregularity in voting
and if his friends had been in MAORI
ty once. they could easily have shown i
on second trial We nominated good
ticket, appointed an efficient committee
and came home TO labor for the princi-
Piles of our party.
But the uneasy politicians. defeated
fairly in convention, SET TO work to de-
moralze the party by procuring the
withdrawal of its nominees By mi .rep.
resentstion. by personal appeals, by
promises Of great majorities for Tuttle,
Mr.. Fisher was led to decline, and then
came the demand for second conven.
| ton. The committee was known TO be
against Tuttle, as originally made up,
and every Tuttle paper in the State De,
. clared ii had not the least power to fll
The vacancy. 1t was advised in oracular
phraseology MOTTO attempt to dictate to
the party by nomination. but when it
did nominate, and nominated General Tut
tie, not note Of dissent was heard from
those who had argued us into thorough
advocacy Of their doctrines. Sill, the
HERALD and the few straightforward
papers Of the State said nothing, but
holsted the ticket under some pretence
or other, and went to work upon Aboli-
tionism. We did not give our support
to Tuttle, for we knew that his friends
did not want that, but we. exposed the
cowardice of Stone and his meanness, the
baseuess Of the Abolition party, and al
lowed our party friends North and South,
TO make all the capital they could by
saying that the HERALD did not support
Tuttle, because lie was not an extremist
But here in Dubuque we manage our
affairs in our own way nominated radi
g1 n Gpn al
work vigorously. Not in one single
paragraph did we interfere with an out
side county. but carried on straight.
forward fight against the common enemy.
The battle became interesting. Gen.
Tutte put out letter so nearly Admins
trallon in sentiment as 10 lead us all to
believe ii forgery, and some of his own
friends to brand ii as such but when it
was found TO be authentic, they gulped it
down with placid countenance, and be.
fore the close, had grown so enamored of
il as 10 cut it up into watchwords for
universal currency and admiration !
The election came at last, and with it
a prlcking Of the bubble, Hopes fiat
tering tale was proven the sorrest OF all
talsehoods, and the Democratic party Of
Iowa. once but step from the portals OF
power, lay PROSTATE under the feet Of its
conquerors.
Lee county, for which Tutlle was to
carve out 1900 majority, has escaped
with but 100. Des Moines County, ours
last year by a small figure, is the proper,
ty OF the enemy by hundreds. Davis,
which at one time aspired to lead Dubu-
que, is driven into the tens, while Van
Buren, and Polk, and Jasper and War
ren counties. which had advanced step
by step in the right path, are recorded
against us overwhelmingly.
Only those counties hold their heads
erect which opposed to the last the
schemes Of Johnston, Gillaspy and com
pany.
Dubuque sends 1895, and Allamakee
800, and Jackson 100, while Wapello
and Marion, with majorities not one third
that OF Lee, stand firm, or at the worst,
recede but a step.
The game of '6l is tried on with intin-
'S'y "o'oc saNNcSs, anu the Denloefatlc
party which could not have avoided de.
feat, is disintegrated and demoraized be-
yond precedent We have stopped but
have not conquered We have been
guilty of acting a ialsehood and that
gratuitously
Now, gentlemen trimmers Of the Dem
ocratic party, let US have one word with
you. There is but one radical distinc-
ton between Democracy and Republi.
canism at the present day. The one is
opposed, with Douglas. 10 the war whose
only end is disunion, eternal and ire
vocable - while the other is for it TO the
destruction Of slavery or country. live
90 10 find war party, We must search
for tic Republican organization, for that
is better war party than ours. We are
anti'var or we are nothing We cannot
support all the measures they support
aud endeavor TO divide votes with them
on technicalites. War leads ia lis train
arson and murder and pilsge aud brutal
ity. II we oppose the war. we oppose
its sdjuncts il we sustain il, we can not
cut the limb between ourselves and the
trunk.
1t is a calamtous policy 10 oppose a
just war, but that term does not apply 10