The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-06

in Camden. Political intrigue has been reduced
to an exact science, and the honors and profits
OF Office have been too often peddled out by
few who have manipulated the wires with more
SKIN than devotion to principle. There have
been good men there, and the men elected to
the Legislature have usually been right men.
III is the way in which they have been selected
that seems to give offense.
CAMDEN, August a. 1869.
To the People of Camden County
Thomas Jefferson said that British insoence
had given 'the last stab to agonizing affection"
and we can, with force as well as feeling,
use this language to those men, self-elected
leaders of the Republican party in this county,
who have ruled us with rod of iron, and who,
instead of advancing the Republican standard in
New Jersey, have by supineness, by selfshness
and Incidence, given over our gallant State into
the hands OF the common enemy. Let no man
asperse our motives, because we are driven in
sincerity but in sorrow, and by the power OF
Justice, to take our appeal to the people of Cam
den county
We do not envy the men whom we have ele-
waited to high places, if from these places they
choose to regard the masses OF the people as
asses, ready saddled and bridled, whose willing
backs bend in order that any demagogue may
ride forward into power.
II is because that we believe manhood is more
precious than money that we cry out against
our blind leaders who believe II is the chleI emu
of man (not to glorify God) but to ge. into a
fat place. and take all their family there also
into the ark of Office.
IL is because we love and revere the simple
and sublime declaration of Republican principles
that animated Paul, Ga shining and Christian
Republican,, when he declared that OF one
blood God created all the nations of the earth it
is because we solemnly believe that all men are
and were created equal, that we here and now
pledge our sacred honors that we will, to the
bitter end, make war upon the insolence the
imbecility and the fragrant injustice, the con-
tempt of the popular will that has ruled the ac-
tions of men who never were controlled by love
of the people. These men scorn human con-
science, and know no political creed but the
loaves and fishes of office. They are led and
actuated by unhallowed ambition, not by pure
and unselfsh patriotism that is willing to do and
dare, and die at the call of ones country 1t is
because we believe in the dignity of labor that
we beseech labor to speak out for its own honor,
of the will of the majority Soldiers will you
be "bribed without pence, and cheated without
common sense" longer? Strike a blow for
yourselves, and defeat the Ring
Men of Camden county, the proclamation of
our emancipation is uttered by the brain and
soul of those who think and labor. The Repub-
lican Invincibles lead the van for liberty for all
to do their own political thinking. viii you
men of New Jersey think for yourselves? Our
motto is-"Doacn aoib the Ring" and we say
up with the Flag which we nail to the mast, and
write upon it, '"The time has come when those
who toll and they who think in the Republican
party shall rule it." Let us do our duty, and the
Rings will no longer control Camden county,
the State or the nation.
We move onward, animated by that just
audacty which belongs to strong hearts and a
manly purpose. We are ready to meet defeat
in good cause, if it must come, or to welcome
the victory that follows the brave, and we go
forward conscious that right makes might and
may God defend the right.