Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-10-04
"still Harping on NV Daughter"

ne Democrat agonlSed through TWO or fnree
mortal columns, last week, in grinding out that
same old tune, about the connection between
Know Nothingism and Republication. True,
we have heretofore shown very clearly that there
was even more evidence to connect Barstowism
with w-Nothingism, than there was to con-
meet Republicanism with the order Button all
that the Democrat is wisely silent, and labors like
a porpoise to get our side as deep in the mud as
it feels its own to be in the mire. We have con-
fdencc in, the intelligence of the voters of this
section, that they understand exactly the state OF
the case which is all that is necessary so far as
our interests are concerned. We have no reply
then to make to the Democrat, except to correct
some false differences and one or two falsehoods
of fact, made no doubt by mistake.
1t SAYS the only answer Mr.. Wood was requi-
red to make was that he held Republicanism pa
ramount, and yet it knows that Mr.. Wood was
asked distinctly whether he would support and
vote for Foreigner, if one were nominated, and
that he answered distinctly, YES, making no re.
scrvation on account of religion. 1t knows this
and knows also that the foreigners in the con-
vention as also the very men who were contest
satisfied with his position.
AS to the resolution, we penned it ourself and
intended it for full and unequivocal repudia-
ton of all secret political societies favorng pro-
scription of any kind, and it was SO understood,
received and passed by the Convention. Had
we been a pettifoggcr no doubt we could have
better prepared it to withstand the pettfoggng il
has undergone at the hands of the Democrat
But it was prepared for men of sense, who will
have no difficulty in understanding it. As to the
negative not being put, it is simply not so. The
negative was put, but unlike the Democratic
convention, it received no response. Is
| Speaking of the Democratic Convention and
the resolution it passed on this subject, the Dc.
mocrat says
"They denied a seat upon their floor to every
and any delegate who should refuse to atfix to
this resolution his sign manual" aAa
This is sheer fiction. By inquiring Of the Know
Nothing delegates to that convention from this
city the editor Of the Democrat will learn thai
they put no sign manual to any such resolution
and that so far from being denied a seat in the
Convention, they were looked up to and venera
ted rs Barstow's leading friends. True the mo-
yer of the resolution proposed that mode of put
ting the members ON record, but the members
did not exactly like that mode of doing the thing
and so they lodged the record. VIII the Demo
crat tell us ,ohy they lodged itl
In another place, speaking of the support o
the Republican ticket by the Milwaukee Know
Nothing organ, it says:
"And since the nominations it is supporting
them with all its energies and Abilities"
We have been in the daily receipt of the pa
per in question since its commencement, and tc
the best of our observation the Republican tick
ct has been noticed either directly or indirectly
but just once in its columns. On the other hand
Republicans and Republcanism, and Abolition
lists and Abolitionism, have been abused with as
much relish as ever the Democrat entered upon
such work. The Barstow ticket has had ten
times the aid and comfort from it that the Repub
lican ticket has had.
| Every person in this section knows that in this
section Barstow's warmest friends arc men who
have always been understood to be Know Moth
ings, and we presume such is the case elsewhere
We have any amount Of even democratic autho-
rity to show very intimate connection between
Barstow and the order and the extent to which
he depends on it for success, which if we deem
it worth while, may give hereafter. But we
do not feel as if it were necessary to waste q
great deal of time or room on the subject. Our
naturaized citizens we deem quite as competent
to understand this matter for themselves, as Ell
Their we or the Democrat are to understand it for
them. They know that the Known Nothing vote
will go just where its members individually
please, some on one side and some ON the other,
and whichever party is successful it is not at all
probable that the rights of naturazcd voters will
be ever impaired intcrfered with in the slight
est degree. They understand that a set of men
who have been growing rich out of the plumber OF
the school lands, lunatic asylum contracts, &c
want to have power for another term or longer
and that to accomplish it they will be very apt to
play the demagogue on acknowledgement or any
other ism which promises success. They under.
stand all this and we have no doubt will vote in
diligently, and as TO them may seem best under
all the circumstances