Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1859 — TO REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

TO REPUBLICANS.

Republican voters! you have re posed in fancied security too king. There is danger-j-imminee; uanrrer--that oui county ticket will be defeated, We do not say this idly and without foundations but honestly believe that, unless the Republicans t'wti out jn full force at the polls next Tuesday, the setting sun will witness ’heir defeat and shame. Some of our reasons for believing it are these: The Democracy have been secretly al work in electioneer : ing for several weeks'. They knew that by ®pemy find honestly work ing for a ticket nominated in a legitimate manner, they would arouse the sleeping lion of Republicanism to overthrow them. To prove that they are at work secretly we have only to say that their tickets wire printed in Monticello yesterday. They go twenty-eight miles from home to procure the printing of a five-dollar job, for fear th 1 Republicans would know: they wore at work. How different this from the course of the Republicans. Their tickets are already distributed throughout the eobnty. All we ask is an open field and a fair fight.

Another causeiwe have to fear is tlic fact that the Democracy expect to carry this county ■through the aid of a large force of transient voters* working on the railroad in the south end of the county —how large the force is we do not know, but a Jasper county Democrat said in Monticello that it was two hundred and fifty. The leaders of the Democracy about this town. t (, O’ have been for sometime chuckling,over their anticipated success, and one ‘of them has pledged himself to the Demo cratic candidate for Clerk to insure his election.

Reppblicans! shall this be? Shall your proud flag, hitherto unspotted by cowardice, be trampled under the feet of the foe? Will you desert your standard-bearers lighing gal lantly in your cause—the cause of Freedom —and allow them to be struck down while you are standing aloof with folded arms? Shall the friends of slavery; corruption, ballotbox sluliing, ‘ Lecompton frauds, Swamp Land fraiuds, Treasury-eat-ers, defaulters, once more rule in Jasper county? No! nd!, no! a thousand times, NO! Let jit echo and re-echo Over our broadfprairies, until every lover of his country hears the mighty shout and raises his'arins to heaven and cries NO! Let the welkin ring with the inspiring cry. Let EVERY REPUBLICAN devote one day to the cause. Let it be seen that every one is at the polls. If this be done, otirs is the victory—if not, we fear thnjt We will Lave too good a cause to hang our heads in sha me. Besides this, there is another reason why the Republicans should exert every nerve. Your candidates 1 hate Been villified and abused, their

characters have been bitterly assailed by their pornjcal and personal enemies. Public policy and private justice demand that their irresponsi ble slanderers should be rebuked.