Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-07-24
The Madison Convention.

eroies, means and official powers of Gov
eminent to the end of overspreading the
Continent Of America with negroes, held
at Madison on the 18th inst, was more
largely attended than was expected, con
sidering the busy season. Reasonable har-
mony and enthusiasm prevailed.
We are disappointed that more wind
broken, political libertines were not pre-
sent. We are glad Of it because their We
ry touch entails hereditary leprosy that
generations unborn are as doomed to suf-
fer from as are the ancestors. They have
generally been bought up however, by the
opposite side, where they viii be kept on
State pay, where it is best to leave them
for the present, and where it only costs the
people of the State about 100000 a yeal
to keep them.
Of those who serve God like the very
devil, or else the devil like a very god, on
Iy few happened to be on hand, we al
lude to fanatics. Their incendiary propo
sails were promptly voted down.
The first resolution is wretchedly sha-
pen. The writer is a fool or else labors
under the mistaken idea that he is learn
ed eliminating" what whoppers,of q
word! The Dictionary says it is derived
from the Latin culn,en, which means the
summit, or topmost part. We shall use
the geological word outcropping, which
has some sort Of earthly meaning in Eng
lish.
We preferred that the Convention dc
clare for modification Of the Fugitive
Slave Law, rather than for its repeal. Let
that law be amended so as to provide fol
trial by jury for the slaves liberty, and il
is well enough It is an abomlnable law
however in another particular: we refar
to the part providing for the United States
to pay expenses for the recovery Of rtna-
way negroes. That provision might be
expurgated; negroes are property, and
when they run away they ought to be re-
covered at claimants expense, same as our
horses are. It's mean law, but by amen
ding may be well enough-so may the
devils decalogue.
The clause recommending no support to
be given to any man, "whose personal cha
racter and conduct is not a guaranty that
he is reliable" is the most worthy and sem
sible. We never saw the like in any plat
form pefore,---in fact platforms are intend
ed to accomplish an opposite purpose--a
selection of the chief raseals and those
most certain to be without any personal
character whereon to rely. We are down
on platforms for empty mountebanks to
mount upon, but there can be no harm
done by an honest declaration of principles,
such as the one framed at Madison.
We copy from the Milwaukee Sentinel,
the following report of proceedings Of the
Convention:
N. M. Donaldson, of Fond du Lac Co.,
wing, was Chairman of the Committee on
organization.
The permanent officers were as follows:
President John Walworth, of Green
Go, (democrat,) editor of the Monroe Sen
tineI.
Vice President-S. Wakely, Walworh
Co, Albert Smith, Milwaukee CO., VIM.
Blake, Dodge Co., Cha's Roeser, Manitowoc
Co, j. 7. Mills, Grant Co., HALLS, Sank
Co, w. w. Noyes, Columbia Co., j. o.
Bartlett, Racine Co., N. w. Dane, Dane
Co.
Secretaries H. Rublee, Dane Co., L. J.
Frisba, Washington Co. y
The following committee on resolutions
was appointed.
j, A. Sleeper, David Atwood, r. A.
Bird, II. Dinwiddie, s. II. Baird, Chas.
Holt, G. Adolph.
During the day and evening, the conven-
vention not breaking up till ten P. M.
speeches Were made by the follwing per-
sons, many of them eliciting hearty APP
plauses.
L. p. Harvey, Geo. B. Ely and j. A..
Sleeper, of Rock; Martin Mitchell of Fond
du Lac, NJ, II. Orion, w. A. White, and
ii. S. Orion of Dane; j. II. Paine and S.
NJ. Booth of Milwaukee; r. Dunn of La
tayette; Mckee, of Jefferson; johnson, of
Sank; Clement; of Racine; Stebbins, of
kenosha, and j. T. Mills, of Grant Co.
The following is the set of resolutions as
adopted by the Convention.
Resolved, That the repeated and lone
continued eneroachments of the slave pow
er eliminating (outcropping) at last in the
repeal of the law of Freedom in all of the
hitherto unorganized territories of the u
mon, forces upon us the conviction that
there Is no escape from the alternative of
freedom or Slavery as political issue.
which Is to determine whether the future
administration of the government shall be
devoted TO the one or the other.
Resolved, That we accept this issue. for
ced upon us by the slave power, and in de-
fence OF freedom will cooperate and he
known as Republicans, pledged to the &C
eomphshment of the following purposes.
l. To bring the. administration Of The
government back to the control Of frst
PRINCIPLES. Ai'9'