Valley Spirit

In a few days the time for holding the annual election will be here. It comes this year on Tuesday, Oct. 8th. Remember the day and be prepared to do your duty to your country and your party. Matters of great importance for the present and the future will be decided on that day. The acts and doings of the State Administration will be endorsed or condemned. The flag of the good old Union-loving Democratic party will be thrown to the breeze in triumph; or will continue to trail in the dust. If it trails, sectionalism, Abolitionism and fanaticism will triumph.

Fellow Democrats, the issue is upon you. It must be met, and should be met in a spirit of exalted patriotism and devotion to country; whilst you have given men and money without stint, to put down and rebuke the sectionalism of the South, rise in the majesty of your power and rebuke at the ballot box the sectionalism of the North.

The issue is forced upon you, to decide in favor of Democracy or of Sectional Black Republicanism and Abolitionism.

The cry of "no party," is one of the most flimsy devices of the enemy, to gull the people, whilst this and other similar schemes are continually prated around by the Republican party; they are at this very time more intensely and uncompromisingly partizan than they have every been in the past. And in the very face of these unblushing protestations of 'Union' and 'no party,' they have offered and are now most industriously laboring and planning by all means in their power for the election of a ticket composed entirely of partizans of the strictest sect, whose greatest recommendation is their devotion to Republicanism--their opposition to Democratic men and measures.

Is there anything in the nominees of that party to induce Democrats to support them? Is there anything in their principles or the acts of their State or National Administration, that entitles them to a preference over Democratic candidates?

We most unhesitatingly say there is not. We present to you a ticket of which any party should be proud. Men well known to you, and we believe very favorable know. Men eminently qualified for the positions for which they are offered. Men of ability and character, and the foulest enemy dare not dispute it. Men whose lives have been devoted to the good of the country and for the supremacy of the laws--men, in whose hands the interests of the people will be safe.