Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-07-24
TO the Republicans Of


Hon. Peter Melendy, Chairman o.
the Republican Union State Contra
Committee, has issued the following
stirring address to the republican,
of Iowa.
The presidential campaign which
has been inaugurated is hereby less
momentous than the campaign which
closed with the downfall of the
rebellion at Appomattox Court
House. In the former no less
than the latter, the preservation
of the nations liberties, is the
objective point. In both, failure i'm
perils. if it does not destroy those
liberties.
The reconstruction policy of Con-
gress happily successful in several
states, in some others has failed of
adoption. In all the states recently
in rebellion, there is need of the care
and moral support Of an administra-
ton in sympathy with that policy
until its aptitude to secure order,
tranquility and the enforcement of
the law Shall have commended it
to the approval of the people.
der whose auspices the most glorious
chapter of our natural history has
been written, rebellion overthrown,
secession destroyed, slavery abolish
ed, again proclaims its devotion to
the cause of equal rights. To the
preservation of the national honor, it
gives its sacred pledge. It declares
its sympathy with the labor of the
nation by insisting upon the equal
ization and reduction Of taxation.
Economy and the reform of financial
abuses are demanded as the surest re-
lief to industry.
Announcing q liberal policy to
foreign immigration and declaring
that the irgis of the government
should be extended over all Ameri-
can citizens of whatever descent and
wherever found, it declares its hos
pitality in the future as in the past,
to any determinations founded upon
the adventitious distinctions of race
and caste.
With unparalleled unanimity the
republican party has selected for its
standard bearer, Ulysses S. Grant.
In this it has simply ratified tie
choi; of the people. The instincts
of the nation suggested Il man whose
fitness had been demonstrated by the
meritOrious performance of every
duty to which he hau been called,
both in the cabinet and i'm the field.
Associated with him we have one
whose personal purity, whose de-
yOtion to the cause of liberty, whose
consistency in all his political action,
and whose large possession of the
public confidence, demonstrated the
appropriateness Of his selection.
In the coming election, the voters
Of this stete are called upon to decide
a graver question than was ever be-
fore submitted to the electors of
Iowa. Your sufTrages are to determ-
inc whether the word "whiten shall
he stricken from the constitution.
Let it be met boldly and answered
as becomes lovers of liberty and equal
rights. Let not our adversaries as
sail us with the taunt that we pre-.
scribe for the south what we will not
submit to ourselves. Conuuering
prejudice let US be the first state to
adopt by popular vote the great
principal of impartial suffrage.
Republicans The campaign is fair
ly opened, the necessity for work is
immediate and pressing Let not
the assurance of success beget apathy
and Indifference. We must not only
succeed, but succeed overwhelming
ly. To this end, thorough organiza-
ton aud active personal effort are
necessary. Let every republican he.
come n canvasser. Whether our ma.
iority shall be overwhelming or in
significant will depend upon the
amount of spirit and energy which
shall prevade our ownp arty. Apath-
etic friends will be rs fatal as open
enemies.
Let the majority pledged by oul
delegation in the National Conven.
ton be realized and surpassed
Not content with simple victory let
us by earnest work, 10y labor OF prep
aratiOn, by infusing personal intercsr
and individual energy into the cam
paign, secure, as we may, n sigma
and decisive triumph.