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Show -1 "TP 1 TP ' THBKLECTION-WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR? 0 "When tbe wicked Uule, the people m-urn;" therefore ,fSee vo tnat honest am. upright men are chosen for your officers." We do not, for a rn- meat, wish it under stood that we consider the officers for whom we voted at the election, wicked o dishoneBt; but, as it has been hummed in our ears that 'the officers are a ri-iu desiring desir-ing to get into office so they can hae every ev-ery tiling their own way and that "I would not vote fr thfm," and the like, we deeio it our incumbent duty to say a word or two in their defence, 'the generality of men voted for at the election on Mordty, ar-shrewd ar-shrewd we. will admit, hut we neet men of shrewdness so that the just laws may not he trodden under foct. Yet, we io not want any laws made that will hamper the people in well doing or that will not promote pro-mote the interests of Zwm. If the officers will attend to thrir duties ami asU God om Heavenly Fa'her to guide them iu nl Truth, aurt lisle n to the still Binall voice that continually prompts tfhe honest mind, r lie v will be able to perform the duties incumbent in-cumbent upon them and mete out justice to all. |