Year: 1862

From the Burlington (Iowa) Argus.
c A Brighter Day has Dawned.


There never was a people bowed down {
= tn Q lowest depth of despair by rent nation
, a horrible civil war. their liberties bein


taken from them by vile minions of power


that had more cause to rejoice with profoun


JOY than the true friend of American free
dom, at the glorious result of the fall elec


tion in this year of grace 1862. For month


before the elections took place, the Demo
cracy all over tho country were the victim


of the most atrocious ISLANDERS and persecu.
tions by the Abolition press and Abolition


leaders. Every epithet that black hearted


malice could suggest was freely used, anG


charges of treason upon the whole party


were Of daily occurrence. Men of influence


for no other crime than that of being Dem


ocrats. who were determined to stand fast tc


the principles they knew to be right, were


arrested without the form of law. torn from


their families and friends, and hurried of


thousands of miles to distant PRISONS


Threats of mob violence vera almost daily


uttered against others and against newspapers


whose editors would not be bought or caioled
into silence. when the very Temple of Liber-


ty was attempted to be pulled down. More


than once was it dec Jared, that our persons


and property should meet with the summary


vengeance of Abolition intolerance, unless


we would bend the supple knee, and becom Q
the fawning sycopan.s of the dastardly foes
OF free government. 1t was boldly pro-
claimed in the streets of Burlington, that
his paper should not be published We
were denounced as traitors 'secessionsts'
and every vile epithet that wicked ma
lignancv could invent in order to -injure US,
and infame rabbie to destroy our press
In like manner was every Democratic paper
throughout the land treated, and in many
instances these cowardly threats were put
into execution. They attemp pied like their
predecessors, the Federalists of the days of
old John Adams, to muzzle the press; they,
like them. i'm prisoned m On for the liberty of
speech. and established a reign of terror
throughout the land. AS then. they sub
verted and attempted to overthrow the Con-
But as in 1900, the Democracy
stood firm in the majesty Of their strength,
and in the recent elections have taken the
first step towards expellng from power, the
betrayers of the peoples confidence


The late elections mark new era in the
history of the country. A change has come
'o'er the spirit of the Dreams ofa people who
are the descendants Of that glorious band Of
patriots, who swore upon the altar of their
6 rod eternal hostility to every form of ty-
ranny over the mind of man. Let the ma
ton of freemen rejoice in this triumph Of
ours at the ballot box, for no bastile any
longer waits to receive them for the honest
utterances of political opinions; not much
longer will there be suspension Of the grea.
writ of liberty--the habeas corpus; trials by
Jury will again be every mans right, and no !,
more trampiing under foot the sacred guar
a mites of constitutional liberty: All follow
IN the wake of this great democratic victory


The late elections have admonishe6 the
corrupt ad m in istratiou at Washington that,
,nder the miserable preteuce of the ,oar
'o,oer it will not be permitted to suspend
he Constitution and render our government


more intolerable and unlimited despotism
han was exercised by any of the despots of
he dark ages. The people know no war
,ower or peace power that set aside the
fundamental law Of the land, which is i'm
nutab.e-the same in war as in peace. equal
v designed for adversely or prosperity


In thunder tones have the people con-
emued the abolition and rsurpation schemes
f President Lincoln and the fanatical dem
gogues whom he has chosen to conduct his
administration. This verdict of the people
q ust put barrier to further encroac hm ents
pom their rights.


Let democrats rejoice, for the long night
t political despotism is passing away, and
he bright sun of better future is casting
IS ravs above the black horizon of Abolition
ule. Let the people take warning by the
xample of the terrible past, and shun the
uaves and the charlatans who are the au-
aors of our awful calamities. In this hour
our great triumph we can we'll afford to be
,asnanm Gus to those who have so shame
lilly and villainously prosecuted US. Dam
cracy IS always as liberal and tolerant as
bolitlonism is tyrannical and despotic. A
Fighter Gay has dawned.