Year: 1863

For Delegate to Congress--George E. Cole.


AS independent journalists, it cannot be
expected that we have no preference, or
that we will not advocate the claims of any
of the candidates before the people for the
Delegateship. We deem it our duty, as
such, to express our preference. While
we do not claim to be influenced and gov
erned by all the dogmas or isms of party
nor to be publishing partisan paper, it is
no doubt we'll known that our private
views are democratic, and that thus far our
predictions would naturally be for the
Democratic candidate. However, in an
nouncing ourselves favorable to the cleo
ton of Geo. E. Cole as the next Delegate
to Congress from this Territory, and our
intention of supporting him for the posi-
ton, we do not do it from partizan feelings
alone. We have enjoyed the personal ao-
quaintance of Mr.. Cole for several years,
and know him to possess what we deem
the essential requirements in an officer
Honesty, Capability and Fai:hfulness and
that if elected he will perform his duty to
his constituents honorably; that he VIII
represent their interests and wants in an
ineligible manner, and that he will per-
form all his obligations to them without
regard to his own private interests.


We have not yet seen the platform upon
which be was nominated; but we know
enough of Mr. Cole to feel assured that he
would not accept of a nomination upon
any platform that could divide US; that he
would not stand upon one that was not
soundly and CoNsTITUTIoNALLY UNION.
We know, too, that if elected-and we
feel assured that he will be-he will not be
the representative of any clique Or section,
but that the interests of the WHOLE PEo-
PIE whom he represents will be alike at
tended to.


We have had enough Of oficial-clique
rule in our Territory, and we believe the
people have had enough of it. We have
seen and heard enough of the swinding
carried on by the present officials of the
Territory to siclen the heart of any true
lover of his country and we believe the
great mass of the people of the Territory
will agree with us that these men who
have sought and gained positions under
the Government, and in times like these,
abused the trust reposed in them, and used
the Government funds for their own per-
sonal and pecuniary aggrandizement, are
worse than traitors of the deepest dye, and
that their actions have a more distracting
effect upon the people. Their acts have
proved their professions of loyalty to be
hypocrisy of the most dangerous character,
and this should cors;gn them to political
graves-deep down in the darkest cavern
of the political charnel house, where The
stencil of their rotten deeds which now
''smell to heaven" can never even "as-
cend to earth"


Mr.. Cole is the nominee of the Demo
cratic Union party, in opposition to a nom
inee of this clique. He stands upon a plat
form which we have every reason to be-
lieve no Union man can object to and as
such we will support him; believing that
by his election the Vaccinations of a cor
rupt body will be subverted, and knowing
that the interests of the Territory and the
cause of the Union will have in him
more able and worthy advocate than in
any other candidate now in the field


SouND ON THE UN1oN.-The follow
ing resolution adopted by the Democratic
Convention of Clark county shows that the
Democracy there are sound on the Union.
This resolution is in substance, embodied in
the platform adopted at the Vancouver
Democratic Convention:


9Th. ''ResoIred, That the Democracy Of
Clarke county are for the Union, and the
whole Union, and in favor of the yigoro is
prosecution of the efforts of the Govern
ment in crushing the present unholy and
wicked rebellion, when such efforts are not
actuated by any other motives than sin
gle desire to maintain the honor and digni
ty of the nation ard enforcement Of its
laws. That we are opposed to the conclu-
sion of any peace involving in its terms
the acknowledgment of the independence
Of the so called Southern Confederacy, and
that we hereby pledge ourselves that, come
veal or woe, in life ard death, now and
foraver, to stand by and defend the flag of
our country in its hour Of peril


READ the Eastern news in another part
of our paper. We have no room for COM
ments, and will simply say that the opera
tons in the vicinity Of Ficksburg are fully
up to what we expected from the brave
troops of the southwest Everything is
r.vo.oLlo 30 tLa ear1v oocuY1ation Of that