Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-08-19
WHO SHALL RULE

Two weeks from next Wednesday the voters
of Trinity will be asked to decide who shall ad-
minister the county government for the two years
commencing on the first of March next. 1t
therefore becomes all who are entitled to the
right of suffrage to speedily determine which of
the two sets of candidates in the field they will
or should support.
The Union party, in accordance with a time
houored usage. met in Convention and nomina-
ted full ticket That ticket meets with no
opposition from the great majority Of the party
who are sincere Union men, and not merely
members of the organization for the purpose of
receiving the loaves and fishes when Offices are
to be parceled out. But we will add that there
is disaffection in the ranks to this extent \ few
defeated candidates who have chronic hanker-
ing after Office decided to bolt the action of the
Union Convention not on the ground of any
unfairness or rregularty on the part of the peo-
pie through their delegates in Convention, but
because they were not chosen because the Con-
vention very reasonably considered that there
were other men who could fill tie positions
sought for as well they, or believed that they,
or some os them, had been lingering at the pub
lie crib about as long they deserved Once
in office, always in Office, is their motto. None
are so fit or capable to administer the laws and
receive the emo oluments we, say these worthless.
For all such day of reckoning will come there
will be other Conventions TO nominate hereafter,
and whether done in the name OF the Union party
or not, these berayers of trust and wilful viola
tors of every honorable rule of duty will be
called to an account by the very voters they have
so shamefully deceived.
Before going further we desire to utter a word
of caution to Union men throughout the county
Some or at least one of the very to whom
| we refer in the interest of the opposition
party, is endeavoring to deceive unwary Union
men 0v as secretly as possible proclaimlng that
there is not a shadow of chance for the success
Of the regular ticket that its nominees will not
probably carry one-eghth of the precincts in the
county. Brand this falsehood whenever or
wherever YOU hear it. And further, back your
opinion by an offer to venture all you possess
that every man on the Union ticket will be elect
ed There is not a man in the county, whether
n member of the opposition party or a renegade
from the Union ranks, who cares to stake his al!
or the most trifing amount on that very
proposition. We do not give this advice without
proper consideration. We have too much faith
in the signs of the times and in the integrity OF
the great mass of Union men to believe that they
VIII prove faltnless 10 lHclr trusts now. Inc
Union party is one man organization 1t may
lose one or five or a dozen of these heretofore
:. popular adherents and still come out of the
race victorious. The action of such men only
creates a disgust for the backsliders and an am
btion to work more fervently than ever for the
overthrow of the opposition. whether it comes
in fair fight with honorable opponents, or men
who have proved treacherous to every trust re-
posed in them And it drives candid. right
thi nj on fron a which will harbOr
in turn be dictated to by such renegadeS and
fasifiers of years of action. We particularly
warn Union men not to be deceived by such
babblers.
\ few words in regard to the opposition to the
Union ticket, and we shall close for the present.
The names of all q independent opposition
candidates in the field. from Collector to Road
overseer appear in another column. Among
these find two who have heretofore worked
and voted with the Union partv-the candidates
for Sheriff and Treasurer While we regret that
they have been induced, or if not induced by
others have allowed themselves to be made sub
lects for sacrifice can but warn them that
certain defeat them in the face. The time
will come when they will curse the hour that
they deserted the regular organization and lis
tened to tine promptngs of men void of political
honor. We repeat that the Union party is no one
man organization. and the 9Th day of September
will bear witness that we have not prophesied
falsely.
The remainder of the opposition candidates
are men who from the commencement OF the re-
bellion to its close were leading members of an
organization which openly and unblushingly
aided and sympathzed with traitors whose
hands arc vet red with the blood of hundreds OF
thousands of your brethren who fell in defense
of the Union-who were fighting with bullets
and bayonetS the very same enemy which you
fought at the balot-box. BE not lured from the
ranks of the organization in which you have
done noble service for four years by the syren
song of - no issues" Put the Democratic party
in power again and you will soon discover that
there are issues" deep and momentous to he
settled Union men. beware Like their lead
er, the arbitrator Valandigham. they now pre-
tend to rejoice that slavery is destroyed and the
Union saved Be not lured from your duty 10y
their hypocritica manifestations.