Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-05-06
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For The Wisconsin Herald.
Friends, and .feitow citizens Of Grant:
did expect to be able to visit the several
precints in orr county, TO express to you my
qualification for the signal confidence which
you reposed in me, in elecing me
member of the late Convention to form a
Constitution fer our State, and more par
ticulary for renewal of that confidence, IN
nv recent nomination for the Senate But
circumstances have rendered il impractical
Bile, and consequently shall not probably
see many Of you until after the approach
ing election shall have passed.
My opinion is that when the people are
| DESTROYS Of having the services Of any par
ticular man, it is right and proper for them
to make known their request, and to call
/ such person 10 their aid. But this doctrine,
particularly with the sages of the dominant
party in this government, has been reversed.
When pretenders, claimants and beggars
/ for Office. excresences of the NAL admins
! iration of good and wholesome laws, who,
from their egotism and vanity, fancy that
they were born to rule, begin to itch for
rank, station, dignities, or more plainly, a
fia, or tatier place at the public crib, like
their prototype, Catalina, they surround
themselves with their underlings, deal out
largesses and make bouutiful promises of
promotion, and division ofspoils, upon con-
dition and in consideration that they, the
said underlings will owe allegiance TO them,
and do the filthy work, appertainng TO their
conspiracy for office. i shall speak to the
mass of the people, whom know to be
honest, and to have their own-their coun-
try's good at heart, and call upon you TO
scan with eagle-eyed scrutiny, all of the ma
chinery which partizans, aspirants and dem
voagues are settngTn motion for their own
Individual, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 1t cannot have
escaped the notice of the most casual OBJ
server. that, among our opponents, there is
a strife between Caesar and Pompey TO see
who shall obtain the mastery, and nothing is
more common than to hear the inquiry
made, whether, the several candidates for
the Legislature belong to the one or the
other; just as though, il were matter of
course that every candidate was owned by
the one or the other gentlemen of Patriclan
blood and rank, and wore collar, properly
labelled with his masters name! There is
no doubt but that an effort has been made
To bring chartered men into the field. Hence
the wry faces that were made among some
Of our political opponents, of the wire
working, oflice-seekng order, when il was
announced 10 them that the people of old
Grant had called upon your humble servant
to 90 TO Madison and attend to their cases.
:" am no mans's man." and they know 1t
Grated by that genus of patriots. Knowing
that all things We're made for some use, by
no extraordinary stretch of the imagination
they conceive themselves to be the " PAM
pered goose" aud exclaim.
% See man for nine!m
Wings, aud honest Democrats; if you are
willing to trust men who do not pretend to
set up any preserfp;ipe right to oficc-who
claim nothing, but who are willing TO serve
their country At their country's call-men
who have fought agains, the tyranny and
misrule of the administration for long
term of years, and whose kindred spirits
have Tough, against incalculahle odds upon
the plains of Mexico, facing death with dis
interested, fearless patriotism-if you can
conide in men who are poor in purse, not
having had the keys OF the Sub Treasury,
bu, who are rich in spirit aud in truth, be-
cause they are severally "ao mars man,
I then come up To the hallot box and vote the
/ Wing ticket, aud Twin remain most respect
! fully YOUR oh'I serv't.
GEO. w. LAklN.