Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-04-24
Political FOOtings.

Jerusalem, what bubbling in the popular
caldron is going on all over the State. Legis-
lative extravaganza is in the mouth of every
taxpayer. Last fall nobody could see any
cause for expanding 2 or hundred thousand
dollars in legislatio n,-now every one is in
fearful suspense at the reality of having to
submit his realty and personally for toll. IT
as Job, that might laugh and grow fat, be-
cause six or seven tax-milis are tolled from
every dollar of my neighbours propertyp'
Temperance men and liquor men seem 10 be
joining hands in conden-nirg tie defeat of the
Prohibitory Law. II certainly was unexpect-
ed, as all had become reconclled to give the
law trial. Liquor has left its legitimate
channels, and gone TO electioneering. People
are tired of contending with saloons at every
election. They are chartered to carry a set OF
men through to office, just like steamboats, are
chartered to carry soldiers in time of war
! This is what has turned the sober masses a.
gainst them. The people never will submit tc
an ecclesiastical interference, much less an in
| reference of liquor-selers. That boat will
soon sink, and all will go down that ride on it
just like an ecclesiastical boat would, wher
Incorporated.
The Democrats roar louder about the Ne
braska Bill to repeal the Missouri Compro-
mise, than the Wings do; also, they talk more
about the Ubiquitous Fugitive Slave Law E.
ven the Abo'itionists are e4ualled by Demo
Gratis in denouncing this favorite Administra.
ton neutrality-suspicious. because they have
more to sacrifice by its adoption, which the
people never will submit to, wi .hout break
From telling indications, taxation grievan.
ces. Nebraska iniquity, and liquor-selling are
| TO be the popular isms to defend and oppose
all over the Union at the coming elections
| We can see no other issues ahead. Reactions
will come after while, but reactions never
carry peoples opinions back to where the,
were one or two years before. Like revolu
tons, they are always forward We thought
then that one step ahead in political opinion
would be irretrievable ruin to national or Gen.
tralized democracy, which party had the mos
strength
All the liquor combinations and niger in
terests and official plunderers combined canno
confederate or re-unite the broken fragments
of the two great parties They are dissolved
and preparing to form new sections.-so,vet
into their original or natural elements. each Il
be resolved into a new compound, like grease
and ley into soap. 1t seems to us that ever,
effort to bring men back to their allegiance t,
former faith must widen the gap. Witnes
the efforts of late to stihe the Abolitionists a
Milwaukee; the temporary overthrow and dis
regard of the popular will upon the Liquo
Law; also, the perfect abortion al enforcin,
Fugitive Slave law, By which even the oppo
nents of abolition and temperance were bro'
TO unite in helping to bring 10, judgment tn
violators of popular WILL
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