The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-10-01

over 1000 voters, of.whom a full third part
are Germans. But this mass meeting Of all the
German, contained scarcely 40 persons, beer "
and boarding guests of Mr.. Peter Keine counted =,
in. OF these 40, however, scarcely the halt !,
were citizens entitled to vote, and these few q
kept themselves back at this notable wing bap
tsn, tina only the committee, so reputable
here, in part consisting Of persons, not citizens,
would come up to the mark IL
Yes, this mass meeting so large that as to
liberal man MIR. Mangold might have treated $;
all from first to last, without discovering on his
way home that he had paid out too many half. =
dimes, yes, not even curtain lecture might Il
have occurred thereon (Which indeed many will +
say) But by all the other Germans, by the 4
large majority of the voters, this tritiIng meet
inr and its result were laughed Awhile the
reason why they called together by the
drum of the German wing press was disap- {
proved by every onc and day, yet is general
ly despiscd, for in the very fact the Americans ,
and Irish charged us to our faces, even before
we could believe it, that the wings would buy {
our press with money and our votes with whis-
| kcy-whilst the report went round that Mr..
| Mangold had indeed sent whiskey into the
country to gain thereby German votes in favor
ofwhigs. lift was true, we have only a"PtM,
therefore it is generally desired that Mr. Man
gold may refute the charge for the honor OF his
countrymen. But under such a state of facts,
we could only show to native born fellow
citizens, that the ma ority of the German voters
were not what desired by the conduct of a
few might well suppose them to be.
Without holding any meeting for this pur-
pose, and without the least concert, the dissent
of the ma ority from the Efforts of these few, |
should itself most clearly show at tn. election, |
whilst those who made the wings believe that
they were the people who could bind the whole
. German vote to the purchased support of the
wing ticket, and whilst they sent to them an
electioneering az ostlc in the county, and sent
= letters into the country, whilst as report says,
they sought to overreach the farmers through
the influence of whishey, and clectioneered on
til: day of election like one possessed-the wings
notwithstanding, again lost the whole election
9 by German votes, so that the Democrats lost
v nothing except the office of Road Supervisor
- This, Mr.. Bernstein, was the result OF the
so called Mass Meeting Of all the Germans, and
{, the proclamation Of the whole wing ticket in the
: year of our Lord 1851, at Dubuque.
: What however, concerns the Temperance
Law, which, as you might have supposed, was
y intended to be defeated by this meeting so often
Re spoken Of, and by voting for the wing ticket
" THIS a great mistake, because not the small
- est advantage could be gained by the entire vote
- Of the adopted citizens for the wing ticket, and
T. least of all, as against the Temperance fanati-
i cism. Whoever Is acquainted with the political
Il relations of this country, and knows the infu
ence of churches and ministers upon the forma-
~ ton Of party, must know that this Temperance
tanatcism GOES not prevail alone in one party
ne not under the same influence, but that, like
70 religinn, it prevails and is defended equal
strong in every party. But in the wing party
x as the representative of the aristocracy. 1t no
re only shows itsefh strongest because there, by
he it, even the interests Of trade and money come
n, most in play; but at the same time, with it
Nativism is also supported as its dearest child.
4. at las
= election Rev. MIR. Holbrook, the Minister o
he the Congre gational Presbyterian Church at thi
q place, with the principal part OF his ehurc
members, IS a most furious Temperance ianatic
e. and at the same time, by large overruling ma
ok iorty. wing. His and his wing brothers, Nativis
Vi and Temperance fanatcisnl, ragged even agains
oh one OF their candidates, Judge Hamilton
. who, in the last election, was considered a
u the most proper and best qualified candidat
it for " County Judge" and who supposed t
nd far surpass his opponent, MIR. Lowell, the demo
a cratic candidate. The why's voted principal
against him, notwithstanding he was himself
We wing, and had received the wing nomination
let and went for the democrat, Lowell, because h.
was Temperance man and native-born citi
Sc zen, while Hamilton not a Temperance
- man, and adopted citizen Many demo
las Gratis, however, struck off Lowell and went 70
We Hamilton And why? upon the very SAM
,at principle upon which the wings made opposition
-, to him. This is example enough that the adopt
= ed c.lzen cannot 90 tor the whole wing tickle
without ensaving himself The celebrated
speech Of Henry Clay at Cincinnati, in tn
year 1888, in which he remarked that g the emf
grant should have other right to deman
here, than to work and to ENJOY the fruit of hi
'e' labor in peace, is to day yet sacred politica
led text in the wing party. How is it possible
ted then, that emigranis vote for it Wha
w, particularly relates to the Temperance Law
n which you, Mr.. bernstein, have assigned a
At an object IN the above mentioned meeting, (upo
md what ground information you have done 50
we here do not know,) but can you Il
wa this law, principally throug h the cxcitemer
so which my known opposition awakened las
hat spring against it, is set aside for whole year
,,d because we elected Mayor and Conino
IAN Council Of independent members of both pal
ne ties, who Immediately, on qualifying, granted I
b;s any who asked for it license for Who'll
md year more.
So The Temperance question had, therefore
No. nothing to do with the election, with th
has oft NE ntioned meeting. How you, Mr.. Bocrt
e,. stein, as already remarked in the sAnzeige
mr. DIES Westerns could convert this meeting e
~ which you could have read in no other papt
md than in the newly purchased wing paper, til
N. SO Iowa States Zeilung,' and which was thel
nc only mentioned neeting) forthwith
md and arbitrarily into mass meeting of all I'll
,ad Germans. And how you could assign to it $
NV worthy a purpose the repeal Of the Tempe
VIZ ance Law; and whilst you pretend to publish
re democratic paper, how you could still congrat,
an late yourself, and could present it signif
ca cant example, that all the Germans here of
rn sudden had become wings; this, Mr.. Boerr
for stein, you may ex2lain-you who can reconc
for sue" ooiiu"ol WIN ue.i'ooia''o P'"ioip'es-"
or here dare not attempt it.
-, But you, Messrs. Editors of the German Tr
,,;c bunc, you who, different from the .1nzeigt
,ha des Westens, have diligently commended fl
his that which is our duty, as Americans, not {
h, Germans-that is to say, not separated accort
49, ing to country and the accident Of birth, but
ou, work together one, and as those closel
united with native born fellow citizens.
rb, receive also the appreciation of every citize
rr.s here, who knows how, and where we have
,l labor for common object, namely, at the ballo
: [, box, and in the primary meetings of the people
; Heartily has it rejoccd me to observe, by tn;
If simple, yet 50 powerful, protest against Germa
- nativeisln, that it is subscribed by so man
,na friends and true fellow soldiers of an earle
NV d,y, never to be forgotten, and to find ther
,ad not only living, but standing heart and hand
h the right ground
A. Finally, Messrs. Dictsch and Werner, yo
" will not only most highly crafty me, but ais
n,a the great majority Of the Democratic cltizen
50 not in Dubuque alone, but in the whole Stat
cir If you VIII insert the nho.e article in your val,
able paper, which we confidently anticipate.
in Most kindly congratuates you, with &C
), quantanccs aud friends
bu Yours, Fl. KOCH.
,o' SLAVERY ABOLISHED IN New GRENADA
g. The recent adoption by the Congress Of Ne
"a Grenada, of law by which slavery is abolish
t'0 ed throughout the republic, has already bee