Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-10-18

Never within our recollection, have the leaders
Of the self STYLED Democratic Party, been Wig
ilent and untiriug in their electioneering opera
tons as at the present time. Not man Is per
united to enter town, who is not taken by the
bu,tonhoe by candidate for office, or some one
in their employ, and lectured upon the course 10
be pursued. or entredted 10 stick to their party
at this time when all their help is needed Free
Soil Democrats are told that the Republican Move
ment is only Wing guil-trap TO catch votes for
the candidate of that party. Wings are told that
il is only the fulhIment of bargain between the
Wing leaders and Booth Giddings Chase and 9th
ers TO transfer the Wing Party, to the Abolition
lists The terms, turn-coats, woody heads, aboI-
tioni.ts, and every other epithet OF derision is
used 10 brighten those who have Heretofore voted
with the Democratic Party, from their intentions
10 support the Republican nominees Men far
wiser than themselves and much better posted up
Oh the Nebraska question stgmatised as igno-
Iamuses. Every prominent Democrat who oppo.
the Douglas iniquity, is called disappointed
office seeker. unworthy OF the name of Democrat.
who leaves the party for the purpose of office.
Candidates tor the Legislature, who support DR..
Horn, the regular Nebraska candidate for Con
gress, who approve the Platform which he
u.t-u states senator, will claim to
be anti Nebraska, in hopes thereby to catch the
votes of those they tit 10 call ''wooly heads "
Even men whose positions in society would seem
10 require moderation, at least in politics, forget
the positions they occupy. and make use of mis-
sizes that may denolish other castles than those al
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ted nor opportunity lost, that can be used to
aivan,age by office holders, Office seekers or those
Ia their employ.
We have but little fears that they viii make
their games win, but we wish the true friends of
human liberty TO understand with what they have
10 contend. Democrats who are opposed to slave
Ty extension cannot be made TO believe that the
principles of the Nebraska bill are any more
Democratic in 1881 than they were in Is49
when that party adopted what they now call hum
bag resolutions against the extension OF slavery,
and the epethets of swooly heads and Niger
lovers will not prevent their opposition at the
polls TO all friends of the Nebraska swindIe The
cry that that measure is no party test will not
WIN so long as the candidates support man for
Congress who stands upon that platform and no
other The result of the elections in other States
is an unmstakable evidence that the people
are right this great issue, and we have no
doubt the verdict thus pronounced against the
Nebraska meas of Douglas, Pierce &C. which
measure is sustained by the self styled Democratic
Party of Wisconsin, will be concurred in by the
ireemen OF the mining district, tones not to be
misunderstood by those who have no wool on
the TOP of their heads" when they are so ready
10 bestow it upon others.
The candidates of the Republican Party, in
point of ability, honesty and patriotism, will lose
nothing by comparison with their opponents,
besides they have the advantage of having princi-
pies that are known, while those of the other par
" heretofore so proud of their Platforms, are
now prcfessedly without compass, chart or pi-
lot, save Douglas and Nebraska ~-