Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-06-02
Ertracts from letter to the Editor, dated
WASHINGTON, d. c., May II, 1S47

w ASH ~ ~ MAY IL, IC9 l.
Yes, have heard with regret and NOR
tiication the fate of the constitution and trust
that the prediction that the important principles
which it contained, will be embodied in another,
enacted without delay in the statutes of the state
will be fulfilled l had myself arrived at the same
conclusion, for could not persuade myself that the
defamation and sophistry which have so alarmed
our fellow citizens, could have any lasting effect
Indeed, felt quite confident that a calm review
of the whole ground vast majority of the people,
Gncuding many candid whigs) will call for the
very provisions which have caused SO much noise
and i'll humor | allude more particularly to the
exemption and wiie's property article, and that for
the election of Judges No federalist in the terrific
ry can hope to weave into the next constitution
provision favorable to rag currency and yet mnch
Of the opposition from that party doubtless origina
ted from their hostility to the antbank features of
the rejected constitution. question also whether
the stock gamblers OF that party feel at all sanguine
in succeeding to have the next constitution any
more favorable to legislative power in the creation
of state debts.
Touching all these matters l. as citizen Of Wis
consin, would rather see them secured by the con-
stitution, than depend on the vascatons of le-
gislaton which is always more or less governed by
the variable features of party warfare.
II know Of no better way to punish
these men who have been so active in alarming the
people and disappearing the constitution than
to show to the people what Wisconsin has lost by
its reection-to demonstrate to them the ease with
which any one or more of its parts could have been
amended without involving any expense, &c. &c;
above all to show to our friends the injury which
has been done to the harmony of the democracy by
the Incorporate brawlers who, for their own selfish
purposes, have introduced novel and distracting is
and stirred up bitter feelings among those who
have heretofore labored in the same cause.
You will have seen that the rejection of the con
stitution hes furnished matter for much rejoicing
by federal editors, who have made up their minds
to receive young Wisconsin as a recruit to their
ranks On the other hand, every democrat in these
parts ard throughout the Union has been made sor
rowful by the unlocked for disappointment; for all
had confidently looked for the aid ofanew democra-
tic state in the next Congress
We have no fears here on the subject of the no.
mination of Gen. Taylor for the Presidency IN
the first place the leading wings are not exactly sa
tsfed with his politics in the next, it is not by
any means certain that old Rough is ready" to
be made political hobby for those who have de-
nounced the war with Mexico and given SO much
comfort to those whom the old man has been fight
ing SO bravely-and lastly most of the rufle shirts
who believe the people can be dazzIed by golden
epauetts, have their eyes fixed on the hero of Vera
Cruz and Cerro GorGo. Yours truly S.