Year: 1859

prepared theif respective platforms,
and presented their candidates but
as yet no considerable activity has
been manifested by either in opening
the campaign. The battle must soon,
however, begin in earnest, to close
only with the election the enthusiasm
with which our tickets greeted every
where, and the approval accorded to
the manly and explicit declaration of
the principles ofour party as embodied
in the platform, are such as to leave
little doubt that it must result in the
complete triumph of Republicanism
and Freedom.


Of the men on the Republican tick
ct it is hardly necessary for me to
speak-they arc all well known with
yon at the North, as with us at the
Capital. They are men of true and
tried worth of spotless integrity :;
of undoubted ability men whose
present reputation is a sufficient guar
antee of their fitness for the respective
posts for which they arc nominated.
Of him least known in your section
of the State, Caleb Baldwin, a common
sentiment in the counties both in the
southeast and western part of the
State pronounces him second to none
of his colleagues OH the ticket in abil-
ity, integrity and moral and social
worth, and his name is received with
a welcome amounting almost to en-
thusiastic.


But while we have thus much to
congratulate ourselves on in our tick
et our opponents, too, hatter them
selves that they have made most judi
cious selections of candidates, and es-
TEEN themselves still more fortunate
in the manufacture of a platform that
says nothing franhly-insinuates much,
and leaves every one who reads it in
profound darkness as to its meaning
Just what they need. Their real prin-
ciples their leaders dare not frankly
avow and they wish a margin in
their platform that they may adapt
particular views to the particular sec
tions in which they are to be used.


OF their candidates it is well known
that Mason and Wilson are stiff ad-
ministratiOn men, endorsing Dred
Scottish and Lccomptonism in all
their hdeous deformity and blackness;
that Dodge stands in the same cate
CORY that Babbitt is man of little
ability and no character, and that
Cole is so black in his democracy that
his name might appropriately be
spelled otherwise. For the reputation
of this latter candidate, he would have
done we'll to decline a nomination
but he is now before the people, and
must stand upon his merits, if he has
any, for the position to which he as
pires. Already are some of the facts
connected with his brief practice in
this State made public through the
Burlington Hawkeye, and new ones
connected with his history and prac-
tice are daily becoming known, which
must tend largely to his damage. As
a quibbling, tonguey, tricky lawyer,
he stands unrivalled at this bar but
his course is so ungentlcmanly and
uncourteous to his fellow practitioners
as to have called forth from Chief JUS
tce Wright, at the December term of
the Supreme Court here in session, a
severe rebukc. Without professional
courtesy, full of partizan zeal, with
no manly devotion to principle,
with no integrity of purpose, he is
not man fit to be trusted with the
final adjudication of questions in which
party interests may sometimes be at
stake, or private ends advanced. More
of him hereafter.


The Stationery contracts on behalf
of the State have been let, and the
result is in itself complete reiuta-
tion of the charges continually made
against Republican extravaganza and
Republican corruption. That the con-
tracts were absolutely let to the lo,cest
bidders, that the prices were from %
TO 80 per cent. lower than before OBJ
tanned even with the increased dis
tance from the eastern market of the
point of delivery, and that the amount
of the contract is but about one third
of the amount of last letting, have ST.
lenced for once all bowling democrats.
There is to be grand convention
of the unterrified in this city on
the 2Sth inst, to devise ways and
means for the coming campaign to
invent new side issues to distract at
tention from the real questions before
the people, and to play smash gen.
orally with the Republican party.
Whether their many lodges, of which
Augustus Caesar is the consolidated
and fitting embodiment, are to be sue,
cessful, remains to be seen. More
anon. Yours, y.


The First Annual Fair of the Floyd
County Agricultural! Society will be
held in St Charles City on Wednes-
: day and Thursday, the 9th and 9th oi
October next.