Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-08-24
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
Received from Judge A. W. Hubbard

GENTLEMEN Your letter of the Sd
inst. informing me of my nomination
as the candidate of the Republican par
/ ty of the 9th Congressional District by
the Convention which met at Webster
! City on the LIST inst. has been received.
l accept the nomination, fully endors-
ing the platform of principles adopted
by the Convention. ..aW. p 0'|'.
i am deeply grateful to the Conven-
ton and the Republicans of the Dis
trict for this endorsement and renewed
manifestation of their confidence. t., d
In my judgment, this political con-
test is OF as vital Importance to the best
interest of the Nation as any through
which we have passed during the last
five years, and the issues involved
should be fully understood by the poo
pie. .., r... t..i .,.nal.a. 2ugrl.
The great point of contest may be
stated in single sentence. q" Which
shall govern in the councils of the Ma
ton, loyalty, or disloyalty?n Dr. er1us
The rebel forces have been beaten in
the field, but the spirit of the rebellion
still lives. 1t has not been destroyed.
They have been overpowered, but in
feeling the leaders are still defiant, AFRO
giant, and unrepeutant. -....r a.s.: .....
The Presidential plan Of re-construc-
ton, as finally, fully developed, pro-
poses to admit these men back into the
Halls of the National Legislature With
out conditions or guarantees. asa.a..g..
Accept it, and those who by violence
and perjury attempted to destroy this
Government; who for four long years
wagcd n most wicked, inhuman, and
murtlerous war for the establishment of
! Il slayeholding empire upon the ruins
of the Republic; who murdered thous-
0nds OF our soldiers in cold blood, and
starved other thousands in loathsome
prison-pens, within sight of store hous-
es filled with plenty; who contrived
base schemes to introduce the wasting
pcstilence Of yellow-fever into our Nor
thern cities, and while protesting to ac-
cept the issue forced upon them by our
brave soldiers, assassinated our honored
| Chief,-filled with bitter and deadly
hate towards the Government and its
defenders, fresh from the rebel Congress
and rebel camps, without, any curtail-
nent of representation or political pow
er, will become our law makers and the
protectors of the widows and orphans
of those they have murdered. ,.... III,
If successful, this plan will make
treason honorable, and loyalty odiols
1t will elevate traitors and debase ant
humiliate loyal men. cannot endorse
it. ID. ..,...,..r-.......f
The Congressional plan as embodied
in The Constitutional amendment, ask:
"That representation, north and south
least and west, shall be based on those
eligible to participate in political pow
"er, that the civil rights of all persons
h native born and naturaliZed, shall b'
Il maintained, the national debt anc
"pension list shall be preserved invio
"late; the rebel debt shall be repudia
"ted, and the exclusion from office o
"those who having once taken and bro
/ ken an oath of fidelity to. the nation
"could not be trusted in the faithful
fulfilment hereafter of another SINH
lar obligation" ..........,. ...
/ Those who sustained the country du
4 ring the late terrible civil war, sustain
this amendment, while those who tool
sides with rebellion and sought to de
stroy and overthrow the nation ar
banding together with their sympathi
GERS all over the country to defeat it,
This issue must now be decided b.
the people. / have no fears of the re
! suit. The loyal men of the nation MUS
, and will govern it. ''TRAiToRs mus
he punished and TREASON made obi
: Gus !''"@ ''' .1" a..
4, E.-ta E..e Very respectfully, ! IA.
y Your obi Sery't,
/ Efa. ..n.". e. ."..s"# A. w. II UBBARD.
At { pa,, HEAD ! con,u,ttss sos lm