Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-03-13

made, in the Assembly OF our State,
(led off by Baker, Dem, and Orion,
Wing, representatives from Dane Couh-
TT, to cast censure upon our Senators in
Congress, whose names do not appear
to the vote taken upon Douglas amend
ment to the Nebraska Bill. Their alb
sence, on this occasion, may be justifia-
BILE, or it may not, we have not the means
of knowing now at hand; but permit us
to ask the honorable(?) gentlemen(D
have they never cause to be absent
from the Assembly Hall, when questions
were being taken which involved
the interest Of their constitu-
ents2 Might not Senators Dodge
and Walker have been detained from
the Senate chamber through sickness, or
other equally justiiable cause? And
is it not common practice among po-
liticians, to take advantage of the alb
sence of certain members, as the most
befitting time in which to perfect their
schemes? So far as our Western Sem
ator is concerned, we doubt not he is
prepared to "giye an account Of his ste
wardship" at all times, and that the
cause for this particular absence from
the Senate, can be given in manner
satisfactory to all, if we except such
men as Messrs. Baker and Orion, and
politicians Of similar kidney, who would
probably be better satisfied to grant our
worthy and venerable Senator, ''leave
of absence" altogether. 1t is by no favor
of theirs, that he occupies his present
position, and in no way is he particular
ly obligated to make them an explanation
for either his omissions of duty. His
constituency are the people at large,
from whom we have yet TO hear the
first complaint of his official course Of
conduct. Gen. Dodge is the last man
in the U. S. Senate, who would shirk
from what he conscientiousiy believed
to be his duty-of which the past acts
of his long and useful life, are the most
ample proof. And no man has labored
more faithfully, or accomplished more
for his constituents than has Gen. Dodge
whatever he has been called upon to
do, when consistent with his princi pies
and the rights of others, he has done
promptly and efficiently; and especially
do the citizens Of the West, appreciate
his valuable services in their behalf
Upon all the antagonistic questions be-
tween the North and South, he has stood
manfully and unswervingly by the
principles of the Free North
and that, too, even at time
when the highest Office in the gift of his
country, was being offered as the price.
IN exchange for principle.
We copy the above from the Potosi
Republican, paper of which the Demo-
cracy of Western Wisconsin ought to be
proud. We have never yet known our
cotemporary, the Republican, to put forth
leader that did not speak the senti-
ments of its readers and Of The honest
portion OF all parties. We have never
Known Its columns blurred and biacken.
ed with liquor fillibusterisms, Young a.
merica aS0as nor modern Democratic mig,
gerlsms, such as the Douglas school of
mischief seeks to thrust down our threats
as live Goals.
But, since the Legislative attempts TO
injure General DoDap by falsely accu-
sing him of lodging the vote on the Ne
braska Bill, the Wisconsin Senate have
themselves lodged the same question by
their vote to lag on The table the Assem-
bly, Resolutions against Douglas Bill
since which DoDcE has given his vote,
like man, against the Nebraska Bill Of
Douglas. Everybody knows that a vote
to lay on the table, is ouly sly way Of
lodging, and if ii means anything, it
means disapprobation of the Bill. So
the Wisconsin Senate have rendered
themselves superlatively ridiculous by
lodging the very question they had been
charging Senator DoDeE with evading,
while he voted out like man. They
shuiiied the deck and dealt the cards he
played an open hand and won the game. !
Euchred, caught in their own trap,--we
recommend them to read Dre!lincourt on
death and toothache