Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1859 — THE TY OF VOTERS. [ARTICLE]

THE TY OF VOTERS.

■JNext Tuesday, October 11, is the' day for holding our county election, and it behooves every voter to well consider for whom he will cast his voite, and weigh well the conseqqences. As, we said in a former, number, there are two tickets ofl'ered for the suffragcd of the people oi this county, representing two sets ol principles— following in the | footsteps of the fathers of their country, desiring to see a stop put to the'extension of slavery; the other.' walking in the footsteps of a new school of politicians, of whom Cal houn was the founder, are willing,] (>f; indeed, they be not axions,) to pee the foul blot of human slavery spread oyer all our western territocursing the virgin soil once dedicated to freedom!, by its polluting presence. Both tickets are composed of good men. No boniest man can place his hand on his heart and say ought against the character of any man on eitner ticket. But there is a wide difference in the manner in which they were nominated. The Republican ticket was nominated openly ami aboveboard Every Republican hap an opportunity to express hi.-

i choice of candidates, and was pubj licly invited to do so. The Demo- ' cratic ticket Vyas nominated in secret in a seednd-story back room, and “recommended” to the Democracy for their support. So secret was it that one of the. candidates, i living 'in town, did-- not know anyI thing of the meeting until told by a ’ Republican that he had been “reeommended” Secret runners had been sent out through the county, inviting the loaders, the would-be owners, to meet in secret conclave. The rank and fib? were considered 'as too insignificant to he intrusted with the important- state secret' If those IJemoerajts who wei'e passed over in silent Contempt, as tern insignificant to aid in nominating a ticket, vote, for [be one “recommended" to their-support, they are made of different stuff'from what we take them to be. It is, insulting their manhood to suggest such a thing to freemen It is: worse than KnowNothingism, for they placed every member on an eq ua 1 i ty. Next T ties ■ j day will reveal whether the masses ] of the Democratic party can be I bought ami soi l bv their leaders or 1 ( not.