Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-10-25
10 the Adopted Irish citizens OF the LIST


We the undersigned, adopted citizens OF Irish
birth, and residents OF Kenosha Comfy, teel it a
duty we owe our countrymen in this Congress-
iona District to call their serious attention to
the public services and private virtues of Char
les Durkee, now candidate for Congress in this
district. Every man who reads the proceedings
of the House of Representatives, knows that
Mr.. Durkee was always at his post working in
cessantly for some really good measure, and
never absent or silent when anything that could
lessen the burden of taxation was Introduced
He is essentially the peoples Representative
democrat in its most literal sense. When he
speaks, you may be sure it is on some important
question that concerns the interests of the work.
ing classes, recommending Congress- to encour-
age the emigration of foreigners to this country,
or bringing in his report on cheap postage, which
alone should entitle him to the votes of our coun
trymen, who, more than all would be benefited
by measure which would diminish the presen,
exorbitant rates of foreign postage. You may
be told by men styling themselves Democrats,
that you must not vote for Mr.. Durkee, because
he is not the regular nominee of the party In
the name of Heaven look coolly into the reasons
assigned by those mock democrats for setting him
aside. He is, they say, land reformer; he
wishes ogive the public domain TO the People;
he desires to put an end to land speculation by
rich capitalists; he strives that every poor man
shall have farm of his own; he is the friend OF
the working man, and behold his greatest crime
is that he is favorable TO the emancipation of the
negro Will we, lrishmen, who have just esca-
ped the lash of the Saxon hell over our heads
for 700 years, endorse the views of these men,
who under the name of democracy, will tell yon
they are for the largest liberty, and give prac-
ticcl illustration of their creed, by exposing for
sale myriads of human beings, whom God, in his
wisdom, has seen fit 10 clothe in sthe Swallowed
livery of the burning SUM-, and for this reason "a
lone must they be exposed for sale in the public
marts oflhe most civilized southern cities E.
terna disgrace will fall upon US, if we do rot
support a man who endeavors to blot out from
our adopted country the foul stain of slavery,
which prevents her from taking that elevated po
sition among the nations of the earth she would
otherwise assume.
Let us, by our vote for Mr.. Durkee, show
that we are deserving of our adopted country,
and that we can appreciate his services in the
cause ofhumanity.
Will it lessen him in your minds that GER
tain clique has not thought proper to nominate
him? Rather let that circumstance tend to raise
him in your estimation that man can be found
with sufficient moral courage to stand out bold
ly for the suffrages of the people nntrammelled
by party and uncontrolled by any other influence
than his own honest convictions
Remember too, that when the famine ragged
in our unfortunate country, he contributed large
ly to relieve our perishing countrymen: and
when in '48 an armed effort was made to wresl
the Island from the grasp of England, to aid the
noble cause, he laid down one hundred dollars
offering at the same time to pay that sum month.
ly as long as the struggle continued
Almost every Irishman in this City, has been
at one time or another indebted 10 his kindness.
He has encouraged them to stop here, and both
by acts and advice he has always been their con-
sistent friend, to which they are all willing to
bear testimony.
Among the many generous qualities of the
mind possessed by Irishmen, Gratitude, stands
foremost. Then let US by our unanimous vote
for Mr.. Durkee show, that we still possess this
virtue, and. that our high sense of his merits in
public and private capacity; will raise us above
the influences ola party who make use of us for
their own interested purposes.