Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-11-15
For the Wisconsin Herald.
The Crawford Delegation.

tempted to bring our Legislative Del
egation. or this place, or both, into dis
'repute by intimating through your pa
per, that there was general or uni
versal shaking among the people
here, and that our Representatives re-
fused to represent their constituents,
or at least part of them, by shaking
themselves. And you seemed to at
tribute the stubborness or unwilling
ness of one of them to shake rather
TO his sterling democracy, than any
thing else. But can but think, from
an intimate acquaintance with the
place, the people. and the political
parties, that both you and your cores
pendent, Jefferson" are in error.
Now the fact is, the shaking has
not been so general or universal, as
tie distant reader would naturally in
fer from the insinuation of Jefferson
nor was the unwillingness of one of
our two delegates TO shake. attributa-
BILE to his democracy. If democracy
would keep man from shaking with
the ague, why did it not keep the other
delegate from shaking? He is as ster-
ling democrat as his colleague. But
in fact parties have nothing TO do with
the ague, or the ague with parties
At least there is no visible evidence
of any respect of persons, in this re-
spect hereabouts. Both parties have
shaken, among who have shaken, and
both parties have escaped among those
who have escaped. And tits difficult
to tell which party has shaken the
most. But if the question must be
decided, as to which party has suffered
the most in the premises. from casu-
al glance over the scene Of suffering,
| think the ague has shaken more
democrats than whigs-if for no other
reason, because there are more of
them. But | have not confidence
enough in the matter to risk any thing
as to the odds. But if nothing will
do Jefferson but to have cur Repre-
sentativcs represent us in shaking,
when we do shake, as well as in other
matters, | would inform him that the
shaking Of our Representatives has
been in as great and even greater pro-
portion than the shaking of those they
represent. We have two delegates to
the Legislature. one of them shook
and the other did not. That is 10 say,
one half Of our dele CATION has shaken,
but it is extremely doubtful whether
one half of the people have shaken
I now allude to the inhabitants Of this
prairie. But if we INCLUDE their
whole constituency, they have gone
beyond the due proportion, for, out OF
this town there has been no shaking,
or at least but very little. Indeed. al
ter counting noses in this town it turns
cut that though we have bad more
sickness than in six years before, prob
ably not one fourth of the people have
shaken and yet one half of our dele
CATION have done SO.
Now, sir, have no objection TO a
fair shake in all shakabIe mattcrs;F
and if il is necessary for fair and full
representation that our Representa-
tiyes shake in proportion to the sha-
king OF their constituents, then have
no objection TO their shaking. But /
have objections to having our place
represented as being 50 sickly that our
Representatives to represent as in ;his
particular, must have q universal
shaking-because this is not the fact,
and of course not fair shake. 1t is
bad enough to be sick, or have any
portion Of our people sick. without be-
ing represented worse than it really is.
PRAIRIE Dr. CHEN.
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