Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-07-12

We have already published an cxtrac
from the address of Hon. W. F. Coolbaugh
a life long Democrat. giving bis reasons FOL
refusing to aurport Charles Mason for Gov
ernor in 1861. Among other things. Mr.
C0olbauyh said Ever since he fCEarle'
Mason aided TIE Bucbanans. the Dayises
the Cobbs, and the Floyds IN their attempt
to force Slavery upon an unwilling pc pie in
Kansas, and prosecuted that noble champion
Of democracy, Douglas, fear his sytnpatnics
have been too stropgly ~th those arch>irai-
tors to suit the patriotic democracy Of Iowa.
Mr. Cooloaugh further declared that the
election Of Mason then would be more dis
as;rous TO the Union cause thar the loss OF
a great battle"
As further evidence Of Judge Mason 8
disloyalty we now give al extract from O
letter wri ten while Mason WAS on the track
for Governor in 1861. hr Thos. ". Claget',
formerly Judge Of this Judicial district, and
now the editor Of the ke0kuk Constitution.
In unequigocal terms he pronounees Judge
Mason disunionis, and disl1yal to the Ma
,ional Government. Judge Ciaget, said
"Independent Of Judge Masou's eccen-
tricities, heretofore manifested in his roliii-
cal life, some of which have been 50 ably set
forth by Hon. w. r. Coolbaugh Of Burliug-
ton, it is well known that. within three
months. he has declared that he could settle
our national troubles in twenty days: and
when requested to state how he would settle
them, he answered 81 would withdraw
army from the field, and acknowledge
Southern Independence T. The acknow-
ledgment Of Southern Independence By the
National Government is a dissolution of the
onion. Hence Judge Mason is disunion-
ist. II Lea disuatoHtst Is 10 be dtsioyal 20
de National Corernme,t and to be disloy-
al IS to be no Democrat. Democrats, there
fore, are under no obligation to vote for
Judge Mason but on the contrary, By vot-
ing for him for Governor, they will endorse
bis disunion sentiments. and will thereby be
justly chargcable with being disunionis,s
themselves.
Such was the character of the present
Democratic candidate for Governor cf owa.
his own party aud personal friends being
the witnesses. Judge Mason continued to
hold the same sentiments all through the
war. The loyal people Of he country and
the National Government had no bitterer
enemy than he, while JEFF. Davis had no
more ardent aarnirer or the relel s nth
warmer iend than they found in Judge
Mason. And row, while the country IS still
smuggling with the ihroes Of reconstruction,
the grass scarcely grew upon the grares OF
our patriotic dead, and the weeds OF wiiow>
hood and orphannge meet Is upon every
tarn of the street, the Corperheads Of Iowa
put forward this original disunionst. this
alder and abet:or o; The arch traitors. Ba
chanan, Davis, FLOYD. Lee. Hunter and their
associates in crime, this open svmpa,hizer
with treason and rebellion and the bosom
friend Of leading traitors. for the highes, Of
fee in the gift OF a people who sen. seventy
thousand Of their braves, and best to the
field of battle No fonler insult was ever
flung in the faces Of loyal citizens Every
drop Of patrio. blood in the State mus, boil
with Indignation a; this the latest of rebel
outrages Hack- Eye.