Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-03-28

ers that ever INFESTED theJcaplal OF any STATE III
this Union.
II The following communication, intended for
the Mineral Point Democrat was handed US by Its
editor in consequence of the present suspension OF
the publication of that paper.
PLArrEvILLE March 81, 1855.
| To the Editor Of the Grant Co. Herald
| In your issue or the 9th instant, discover an
article headed Sc Judicial Election" &c, which |
cannot pass in silence, as l am of the signers
of the call for Judge CRAwFoRD to become a can
d;date for reelection the place he occupies.
You state that the signers pretty nearly
| all his Judge Crawford's) party friends" and
nearly all endorsers of the negro catching law"
Now, sir. venture TO say that nearly" half
the signers of that call firm and constant sup
porters of the Republican party of this State and
this | am satisfied must have been known TO you
az the time you penned the article referred to- had
you given the subject the least reflection instead
of beir.g governed by partzan feeling in support
of party nominee for that position.
Again, twothrds of the sgners of that call are
and ever have been opposed TO the late Kansas
Nebraska bill, and the Fugitive Slave law of $50,
and in penning the article to which allude you
must have peat 1t blind or designedly been
guilty of malignant falsehood fabricated to car
ry out the designs of a corrupt party press, with
out regard TO the means used for that purpose
In either event you have been guilty of an act
that reflects credit upon public chroncler of
events, and does not in any country characterize
the gentleman TO say nothing of the stab at Judge
Crawford's integrity in the intimation that some
of the slgners are snitors have suits pending
in the Court of which he constitutes one-third
which is too groveling absurd and maglgnant for
reply
Ii those attacks on the gentlemen who signed
the call, and the Judge himself constituted all that
is Objectionable in the article alluded to, thew
would not have elected word from me, but when
it is assumed by public journal that political
cabal of legislators, assembled at Madison can
make partizan nomination for Judge of The
Supreme Court of the State and thus dictate 10
the people who shall be their Judge, and when
respectable and intelligent class of the citizens of
the State OF all parties, concurring in the former
political creed of the Herald on the subject of
keeping judicial elections free from party
politics, FIT to call out distinguished citizen
of the State as candidate for the same Office the
act is denounced glazing monster operation
which ought TO be met on the spot and driven in
to the wilderness" cannot pass it in silence.
Now, is it the fact that the supporters of Mr..
Cole hold the doctrine that political unto of the
Legislature possess the exclusive right to saw for
whom the suffrages of the people of this State
shall be cast and should any class of our fellow
citizens see fit to another for their surag es
to the same office, that it is glaring monster
operation, and should be met on the spot and
driven into the wilderness % Have we come to
this. that those whom we had supposed were
the servants of the people their masters? and
that we, the people, are bound, foreclosed and
estopped by their acts why, the Gar of Russia
claims no greater power; no despotsm on earth
has ever existed more tyrannicalI And are such
raonstrous doctrines to be swallowed by the frees
of Wisconsin
Whatever be the opinions of others, Mr. Editor,
for one bow to no such mandates and when
am driven TO do so, shall emigrae to the domin-
ions of the Gar, for the tyranny of one is much
more endurable than the tyranny of forty des-
pots In conclusion must add, that am a better
Anti Fugitiue Stare La,c man than the Editor of
the Herald for J. unlike him, never for one mo-
ment acquiesced in that act. My motto has ever
been g war against that act :" and so far as the
Nebraska bill is concerned, | am sure he can be
no more strongly opposed TO it tlan
STEPHEN O. PAINE.