Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-10-08
To the Members OF the Anti
Monopoly party who Form
eriy Acted wife tine Republic
can party.

RESPECTED FELLOW CITlZENS -
You have publicly declared that yOt
are constrained 10 leave the Republi
can party in order 10 raise the stan
dard Of political morality, and built
upa party more in sympathy witt
the common people; and 1t Is con
coded that you are honest and sincere
In your declarations. You have de
clared that, as means u the desira
bic ends In view, you will spare par
ty dictaiion and support for office
ouly the best men, and, other things
being equal, the man who Is sought
by tile office, rather than he who
seeks the office by all the arts Of 8
politicians; aud this declaration II
manly and reasonable. You de.
Inand in your officers men soitO are q
me peopte and in syHapathy aoith the
leOpie, and your demand Ii consist
emf and patriotic.
And now, when you are TO choose
who shall represent you In the popu-
lar branch Of National Congress, per.
nit me, who in the humble capacity
If citizen has shared with you the la
bors Of every conflict, and rejoiced
with you in every glorious vitory OF
the Republican party In the past, to
suggest few thoughts I'm reference
to the application Of your professed
principles to the choice you are about
10 tiake.
Ezekiel s. Sampson Is offered as
the choice of the Republicans, while
Il. n. Gates is rendered for your sup.
port as the chosen candidate Of the
Anti-M0nopoly party, and between
these gentlemen you are to choose,
And should not the object OF your
choice be that man who best under
stands your needs and necessities,
md IL most in sympathy with your
interests.
Judge Sampson has grown up from
poor farmers boy Of thirteen year,
Of age; he has struggled rs you have
against poverty and all the disadvan-
tages Of new country, such as this
was twenty years ago, he has snatch.
ed his education, as best he could, IN
the Intervals of honest toll for his
own support; for hin no college
opened its patrician halls; the com.
mon schools were his only means oi
acquiring learning, and by teaching
school he acquired the means d
studying the law. Scarcely had he
married and settled In the practic,
or his profession In a neighborinp
county, when the first Republican
President appealed to the loyal PEG
PIE 10 save capital besieged, and {
country threatened with rebel inva
zion, and in one Of the very
first regiments which responded Il
the call, stood modest Ezekiel S
Sam paon, with the company which
he had gathered among your SOM
aud neighbors.
If he rose it was by the mere fore,
81 hard service and modest worth
No powerful influence demanded hi
promotion, for he had no such back.
ing and he never asked for it him
self; and four years Of active servic,
among those great events Wherlr
the royal troops Of our beloved Iowf
were earning imperishable honors
left him Lieutenant Colonel Of the
same batlle-scarred and decimatet
regiment, in whose full battle lines
he first put on the loyal blue.
What he was iis an officer, may bt
read in the reports and general ord
ers Of his superior officers, always
hearing the same testimony to his
bravery, GOODNESS and good conduct
as an instance Of which we cite Col
Banbury's report of the battle OIL
Chattanooga or Tunnel Hi |, where
the regiment lost nearly half, il
killed wounded and taken prisoner
After stating that he sent two com
pauies to reinforce Lieut.. Col. Samp.
son, who occupied an advance posi-.
ton, and was maintaining himself il
the position assigned him, he tells o
the sudden rush Of the rebels In over
towering numbers, crushing his line
wounding General Matthias, and de
inanding the instant surrender of h il
whole force; he adds:
$ / went into the action with %,
man, u officers. including field anC
staii'. My loss Is two commissioned
officers wounded and eight missing
taken prisonersl including Major
and Adjutant; two enlisted men xii
led, twenty wounded q I'd seventy,
f,nrmissing. Total, kii,ed, wounded
and mis- ing, one hundred and 81