The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-10-01
DuBUQUE, Aug. 30.
To the German Tribune.

WORTHY MESsRS. EDITORS IN .7Hzetger
of the 10th August contains an article, headed
i" Rebellion of the Germans IN which IS stated
as follows: To-day we received, by an Iowa
paper, the Information that, on the 2oth July, a
mass meeting of all the Germans held at
Dubuque, in which Peter Kiene presided, and
MIR. Mangcid was secretary. :-------------=
Mr. Boernstein, do not know what Iowa
paper brought you this information, but so
much | do know, and we all know it here, that
the assertion is untrue. We have indeed read
m an unchristened and new-modelled German
Wing paper, as you also appear to have done,
an article about a German meeting held at this
place, at which the above named president and
secretary otliciated. We know, also, the reso
lutions got up at this meeting, and we have no.
ticed the boldness with which Mr.. kaufman has
announced to the world this .fcant meet
ing, unworthy of notice, as mass meeting
But we here cannot understand how this meet
ing, (whose real design you will understand
better below could be announced in the
.4n-eiger, as mass meeting Of all the Germans.
We indeed understand that Peter Kiepe, and
also Mr.. M1ngod, put themselves at the head
OF this meeting; and that Mr.. kaufman sup
ported the proposition introduced by MIR.
Bachlinger, and prepared for him before
hand to 90 for the whole Wing ticket for all
this, there was a good reason, and it was
throughout (as you may be assured, Mir. Boern
stein), not political movement necessary for
the public veal, but purely plan designed for
the private interests Of the above named per.
sons. President Kene and Secretary Mangold
had sold our hitherto independent Democratic
paper, the .Noeth. Western Democrat, to the
Wing party a. this place. The leaders Of this
party gave it over to Mr. kaufman, on the
/ condt:ol of changing the title, North Wsstcrn
Democrat (hatetul to them) and of putting out
the full Wing ticket for the com II election.
But in order that the shrewd Whirs might
have security, either that Mr. kaufman, who was
wholly unknown here, and had been but little
time in America, should perform his duty as a
servant Of the Wings, that is, should make
majority Of the Germans in Iowa, wings, or, if
not, that they might get again the money ad
vanced by them for that purpose, the above
named gentlemen, President and Secretary
with some others interested in the matter, had
to give security for all the money that the
Wings advanced, that is, they gave to Mr..
Piatt Smith, Wing leader, notes for 1920, pay
able within ora ,,.r-, a"d, besideo, at the
tune, bound themselves for another note of $50,
which Mr. kaufman owed, for which, on their
part, they took mortgage on the press.
: You can now understand, Mr.. bernstein,
that these gentlemen, who were obliged thus to
obligale themselves, for the manuiactury by
which German Wings were to be manufactured,
only managed for their own interest, when
they presen ed the whole Wing ticket, and la
bored to give it a victory over the Democratic
ticket, because that was a condition of the sale
Of the press to the Wings.
1t may be then understood that, when the
year is past and the credit expired, that the
Germans are no more Wings than they were at
the last election, notwithstanding President
Kiene, Mangold, and the Wing ticket (Which
they will never be, for which pledge x1y head)
then the Wings will demand back their money,
and these gentlemen must then feel round dill
gently in the money purse, to pay out consider
ably more than they have received aud for this
purpose they hold upon Mr.. kaufman and the
press, lien back, to be used at their will. To
avoid this, instead. as you might believe, some
good public purpose was the motive Of their
trade, and which changed these old Democrats
so suddenly into apostles of Whggery. The
patriotic address of Mr. Peter kicne about the
humbuggery Of the Democratic party towards
the Germans, and the chit chat Of kaufman, en-
tirely unacquaiDted with the political influences
and the worth or unworth Of our parties, at the
meeting before mentioned, had indeed no other
object than to coop mp this manGuvre for the
sale of the press, which they were ashamed to
present by itself, and to throw sand in the eyes
of their fellow citizens.
lou Inlay lecl SURE, 1hT. DOeIiSjClil, Llldt L
know well all the circumstances above stated, |
because only two days before this change of the
press, the wings sought even to win me over in
favor thereof And this indeed, through such |
favors and such an amount of money as would |
have secured to me at length in my aged, hard
fought days, my most ardent desire, hearth
of my own, free from care forever, but, which
must also have forever disgraced my old and
dear bought name, "Antipfaffen. For scarce
a fourth part Of the offered to me, Mr.
kaufman has done what refused with contempt
But what concerns the intelligence, Mr.. Boern-
stein, which through your paper has been al
ready spread through many papers, there exists
the following circumstances:
1t is true that ON the evening OF the Soth
July, at the Beer and Boarding house OF MIR.
Peter Keine meeting of many Germans took
place. But the design of some four persons,
hree citizens and writer for the wing paper,
Who aimed at Mass Meeting for the purpose
# taking up the wing ticket to the German
yoters, as had been planned with the wing q
,arty, failed entirely, because the Germans i
NEW the motive, and would not be used as tools !;
or the advantage of others, and would not be
isgraced with the reproach Of being bought by
he wings in
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