Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-08-31
Communicated.

Mr.. EDrToR:-I read with much satisfaction a
communication in your last paper, in which the
want of candor and proper regard to fact, your
wing contemporary, exhibited in their proper
light. 1t must be bad cause that requires any
thing other than truth and fairness to support it;
and certainly thus far, your eghbor has not added
much lustre to the cause which he so zeaousy
supports He appears by no means disposed that
the charitable construction of ignorance shall be
put upon his acts, and | can therefore attribute
them to no other motive, than a design to pervert.
His last paper (ssued before the remarks of your
correspondent could be hoped TO have any effect.)
abounds in the usual quantity of misrepresentation.
1t is in fact hardly worth while to notice them, for
the knowledge of every reader will give them their
proper weight and influence; but | cannot orbear
to direct attention to one point in the budget to
which | allude.
The editor wish es to convey the impression, that
the Democrats party IN this county, were par
tia to the county commissioner system, and oppo-
nents of the supervisor system, now in vogue. No
charge could be more unfounded or made with less
regard TO truth, for it is well known that there
no party in this county opposed to the present sys-
tenn. Had The democrats been opposed to it they
had nothing to do but vote against it, and ii would
have been defeated. The vote of this county on
the matter, will at dispcI the nsnuation that
the Democratic party could have been opposed to
it. Indeed Mr. Editor, if take the Territory
generally the boot is on the other leg, for whilst
the success in passing the presentlaw, is in great
measure to be attributed, to the exertion of the de-
mocratic member IN the Legislature from Racine
county, Its most strenuous opponent the Rev.
Alfred Brunson, a real blue light Doty Wing from
Crawford county, than whom more violent wing,
one more after the editor of the Amerc ms own
heart, does not exist. The people of this county
have not forgotten the fact which | related above
that mainly to the efforts of Messrs. Bullen and
Deming, and the other Democratic members from
Racine county, are they indebted for the abolish
ment of the County Commissioner system, and the
adoption of the Supervisor system in It's place.
Nor will the people of this county forget, that J.
ID. Doty recommended in his message, that all
power in the government of their county affairs be
taken from the people, and that his sherils and us
tees Of the peace, should have sole control of a
fars-and that this editor Of the American who
PrQfcSScS so violent attachment to the Democra-
TIC Supervisor SYSTEM is noisy adherent of the
measures OF Gov. Doty q because he approves of
Them" lie saw nothing to condemn in the re-
communication of Gov. Doty; at least if he did he
never gave the public any ntnaation of it, and the
conclusion must therefore be that he approves of
it.
1t requ emily happens that those who are the least
active IN the battles for popular rights, IRE most
clamorous for the credit when those rights are won;
n do IL H.
cipa share in the contest endcavor to detract from
the merit Of those who really were foremost in the
fight.
The editor Of the American endeavors to cast
odlum upon the Telegraph, by the assertion that it
upheld the county commissioner system-was OPP
posed to the Supervisor system, &c. | presume
Mr. Editor you fully adequate to the task if
you think 1t necessary of defending yourself from
any attack of that kind but sir cannot forbear to
say word on this point, a reader of your
paper, at the time when the editor of the American
was engaged in an avocation. for which trust he
was better qualified than his present, and | can
bear testimony to the firm and determined course
your paper with regard to this point. believe
it was the first paper that agitaed the question
in the Territory, and | am convinced that the peo-
pie of this county and such other counties as have
adopted the system, are indebted to great extent
TOR 1t, TO the manner in which you brought the mat
ter before the people. SO far from endeavorng TO
conceal the character of the Commissioner system,
you boldly attributed the evils under which we la
bored, to that system, and urged upon the people
the necessity Of reform. But it is time wasted to
relate facts, which must be known to ALL
The people will probably give the proper credit
to this advenurer who comes into the field when
the battle is won, and endeavors to detract from
the merit of those who were foremost in the fnht
Our ;poDor,;no ,1,orob,o,a -. ..J