Year: 1861

1t is known to the most of our read
ers that the candidates put in nom,na-
tion upon the Union State ticket have
declined. This leaves the electors q


the State only to choose as between the


two tickets headed respectively by
Judge Mason and Mr.. Kirkwood. We


know Judge Mason to yield to no man


in his devotion to the Union, while he


will faithfully execute every law upon


the Statute book of the State, and
throw no obstacle in the way of having
the laws of Congress executed to the
letter. Such man we can support as
people, heartily, earnestly; confident
that the Government of the State or
Nation if entrusted to such hands can
receive no shock to impair it's harmony
or retard its progress and efficiency in
the maintenance of law and bringing or
der out of chaos. But the man who
knowingly violates laws and inculcates
the doctrine that others may do so with
impunity, is not friend of Republican
institutions and Constitutional govern
ment, and consequently is not entitled
to the sympathy and support of true
and loyal men. u l~.4-. ....a.


Judge Mason ia his letter of accept
ance, says:


'Iyield to none in strength of my attach.
ment to the Federal Union deprecata the
secession Of any Of the States as earnestly as
any living man. Untold misery aad national
ruin will be the inevitable result of final sep
aration. War the great destroyer of all re-
publics, both ancient and modern, can never
long be avoided when we cease to belong to
one common family, with one common head
and one common arbiter. "Thc Union must
aud shall be preserved" should be the de-
termined sentiment of every patriot-of every
citizen. Throughout the northern States this
sentiment now seems universal. All parties
profess it, all true men feel it."


Again he says: .."..,..os


81 do not justify the Southern people in the
course they have taken to obtain remedy
for what they consider their grievances
They have not only committed great crime,
but they have made a great mistake, and
have thus called down upon their own heads
a power that might otherwise have been sue
cess;ully exerted in their defense. only hold
that their ofeLces should not be treated as
by those who Lave SO nnch
reason to ask forgiveness for their own, nor
need | deny that after all ether remedies
shall have failed, civil war. with all it's hor-
rors may rightfully be invoked, if in that
manner a disintegration Of the Republic can
be prevented" 15... H.. a.. s..


AS we understand the Union reso-
lutions they point to precisely the class
of men that Judge Mason refers to as
having reason to ask forgiveness;-in
short, to the radical abolitionists of the
country, with whom no true patriot can
affiliate in political action; in party
drill and in party organization. The
sympathies of Mr.. Kirkwood are with
the radical abolitionists Of the country.
Old John Brown and his associates in
crime had his sympathies--his aid and
his active cooperation. Coppic one of
the guilty culprits whose fanatical
course has done much to involve the
nation in civil war, he positively re-
fused to let be taken from the State on
a requisition from the Gov. of Va; and
he has repeatedly and publicly declared
that he would sooner his right arm
should drop from Its socket than aid in
executing amy la,o for the rendition Of
fugitive slaves. His position is that of
the radical abolitionists of the country,
and is not the man for the conserva-
tism of the times.


Col, Merritt on the ticket with Judge
Mason for Lieut.. Gov, is now showing
to the world his devotion to the Union
by periling his life upon the battle
fields of the country in its defense.
John R. Needham, the candidate on the
ticket with MIR. Kirkwood for that
office is the editor of the Oskaloosa
Herald, and in his issue Of the 10th
ult, gave vent to the sentiments which
we copy below.-Such sentiments are
contrary to the resolutions adopted at
the Union Convention at Des Moines