New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-26
The Elections In Michigan and Wisconsin aud

their lesson
Kalamazoo, Hi,h Dec. Is 1850
To Tie s.:er 81 Tle Tri5s.a<
Although many lessons have been taught US by
the recent elections none are more significant than
these taught By the elections in y shigan and
Wisconsin In the former State Ia oae District
the peculiar friend and reptesenttye Of Gen Cass
was oaaG.ds.e Gen Cass travelled with the
candidate over the District aud barangued The
people in ms behalf The candidate received she
supueft of some 200 Webster Hunker Wings in
sno about Detroit Cas- showcred letters over
TIE District in which he endeayered to impose on
TIE understanding Of men by relating she sense
les warnings that the Union was in danger. The
WIGS took up Mr. Penniman. perfectly retired
ard private man from a country town He enter
cd the canvass under the banner Of - No more
Slave States, 40 more Slave Territory-no
liberation OF the sins or burdens Of Slavery
when the general government is responsible
for its existence and Repeal Of the Fugitive
Slave Law The result was total and complete
overthrow of Cass and all his minions as total. as
canplete and as humiliating as the overthrow OF
Webster IN Mann District
In the Third District OF Michigan similar bat
tie was fought respecting the same antagonstic
comGture OF the Cass Hunkers
In the Second District, the Cass party were sue
cessful in electiug their candidate because ne was
n Quasi Free Soiler, and while IN Congress before
took around against Cass and in favor of the Will
mot Proyjso, and because bitterly opposed by the
Cass Hunkers before his nomination as Free
Soler 1t is true that at the time of his nonlina-
ton he repudiated his former views and promised
the most slayish subserviency to Casssm, but
Stuart was elected by practicing insidlously the
same detcstabe game In the remote and smaller
Counties OF his District, that was so shamelcssly
practiced BY Cass aud Buel In SIS when they
heralded their meetings hy flaming piacards head
ed CAss BUEL AND FREE SOIL MEETING,
cause now powerless in the same District. In the
County of Kalamazoo however, where STUART
resides and where the Hunker Convention that
nominated him was held, where his llckSpltte
speech was made aud his subserylency 10 Casa
acknowledged, he was beaten by 300 votes his
opnonent Mr. WILLIAMS was the nominee OIL the
Wings and Free Sellers, and was defeated In con,
sequence Of ethe great confidence his friends had
in his election and ignorance on their part as 10
how widely the imposition was practiced IN re-
gard TO SruARTs real position. The election in
this District therefore is as triumphant vindca-
ton of the principles they represented as either
OF PrNNlHAN or CoNGER. 1t is submission on
the part of the wire pullers of the District
that Cass's doctrines cannot prevail. Nosane man
in the District believes that if an out and out
CAss man. such as BuEL and HAscALL in the
other Districts, had been nominated that he could
have polled two iifths of the votes.
In WISCONSIN the battle assumed q dttterent
aspect. There instead of Wings, in two Districts,
DoTY's and DURKEE's, the Cass men had the
hardihood to run regular Cass Hunkers against
those gentlemen. But they were true TO the prln'
ciples of Justice and humanity. When others
proved recreant they had proved true, and all the
aggregate forces TINT could be brought against
i. INr.,4, al tl1ty
sustaining them.
In the other District of Wisconsin the contest
was ike that in the Second District In Michigan,
the member elect EASTMAN, protesting to be ms
true TO Freedom and the North as his W mig OPP
nopent Mr. COLE The only District saved IN
Wisconsin by the Locos was saved by spurnlnS
and repudatng the Cass doctrines
Michigan and Wisconsin contain nearly a mil
hon of people, living on nearly the same parallels
Of latitude MS the constituents OF Preston King
and Horace Mann This million OF men VIII be
represented under the census OF 200 by ten
REPRESENTATIVES. The fiat has gone forth from all
their forests and prairies thar submission, com.
promise, dooghfacism, is no part OF their creed
and that no representative OF Cass aud his doc
ttines can be longer tolerated.
If the elections in New Yors, Massachusetts
and Ohio have taught the Wings OF tho North no
lesson let them seek instruction rom the At
West" and appreciate It, me lesson ls' thet
the Wing party exists, has vitality, has the cont'
dence of the masses where it allies itseli to pro-
gress, justice, truth, when it ceases to be the
apologist and propaganda OF Slavery, when it
boldly and monfully resists the further iaunda,
ton Of Slavery and its woes over virgin SOL
consecraed by God and Nature to Freedom. I lac
converse lesson during the last levy weeks mas
been impressed with equal pungency aud power
that the Wing party has no Strength, no vigor,
hardly an existence, where it has proved treaco-
erous to the principles it everywhere Mt the North
was few years since eager to proclaim and SIN.
cere in defending DANE 0FDiNANoE