Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-10-18


organs of the Barstow, Pierce and Kansas De-
mocracy of this State, at the present juncture,
when their tether is growing shorter and shorter.
and their range more and more circumscribed.
They have apparently exhausted invention, and
now content themselves with stale repetitions OF
their trunped-up accusations against the Repub-
lican party and cause. They have rung all the
changes upon Know Nothingism and Abolition
ism, and have now only to go over again with the
same ringing, until election. Our neighbor of
the Democrat grows almost frantic, In his futile
attempts Look at his last paper, and see the
lchoice selection of adjectives and expletives he
makes, in sundry little squibs, which are intended
to be smart Heaven save the mark Look at
the glorifcation over the supposed victory of the
Pierce Democracy in Ohio that same Democracy
Eof which Wilson Shannon, the new Governor of
Kansas, is the chosen representative; who has
already shown his adhesion to the principles of
the Democracy, by declaring that Slavery ought
to be established in Kansas, and that he should
see that the hcinous laws of the mob Legislature,
for that purpose, were duly executed. Such is
the Democracy-and such are its principles
over whose supposed victory in Ohio, our neigh
Dor, in common with the other Democratic papers
of the State, set up such spasmodic cheer, last
week!
We said it was instructive, to look over these
organs. We may learn how supremacy ridicu-
lous men may make themselves, in their attempts
to hoodwink and cajole an enlightened commu-
nity-how dishonest they are forced to be, when
trying to uphold cause that their common sense,
| if not their eonsciences, tells them is unworthy
and rotten to the core--what shifts they are put
to, in trying to ''serve both God and Mammon''
making their doctrines palatabe the freedom
loving instincts of the North, and yet not losing
their position with the Slavery extensionists of
the South. They feel and see that the feelings
and sentiments of the masses are against them
that every honest man can see through their
flimsy pretexts and read Alright their selfish mo-
tiyes. This consciousness makes them reckless,
and they strike at random in their desperation.
We have an important election pending, and
our opponents profess to be acting from principle
and in good faith. They are charged with cor
rupton in the administration of our State affairs
and with aiding and abetting great wrong and
injustice in the administration of the General
Government. And how do they meet these dis
tinct and unequivocal charges! Do they show
or attempt to show, that these charges are I'M
founded or untrue' No, nothing of the kind.
They do not even attempt to show that their
position is right and in consonance with the wish
of the people, and the interests of the country,
but they set to work and exhaust the voeabula-
ry of Bilhngsgate, in heaping opprobrous cpl
thets upon the Republican Party and its mem
bers. Not argument is raised in defence of their,
own cause, or the position they occupy, but their
whole force is expended III calling us names and
raising false and side issues It'll by this course
they hope to carry the election this fall and keep
in place men who have proved themselves un-
worthy, and unfit to be trusted with the interests
of the people. Whether they shall succeed re-
mains with the intelligent voters of the State to
determine
1--WE ourselves can point to 100 acts of presi-
dent Pierce and his Cabinet which we approve
Indeed we don't know of but one great act which
we particularly disapprove. The Telegraph like
the iron-bound partisan press that it is and ever
was, has, 1t would appear, no conception of an
independent press and an independent mind
Democrat.
If our friend means to set his sheet and him
self up examples of an Independent press and
Independent mind, we have a vivid conception
of both and approve of neither In Picrces one
great net we perceive an over-shadowing, all
pervading wrong and the attempt to make his
little virtues excuse for him, is like the polite
Spaniard who having run his stiletto- through
you, finding you are not the person he was after,
breathes humble apology in your dying car,
and trusts it will atone sufficiently for his mis-
take. We are just enough of partisan not to
be eternally apologizing for man who has pro-
ven himself generally unfit for the place he holds
because he happens to be clover fellow in some
unimpor;ant trifes. We think quite likely Ben
ed;ct Arnold had some good streaks about him
and did some good things and no doubt he had
as has Pierce, his friends and apologists, who
esteemed it bitter partisanship to condemn him
because of his enc great act. Had we lived in his
day we think his friends would have had occa-
sion to denounce us as a bitter partisan just as
the friends of Pierce now have.
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MORE FUsIoN.-We have before alluded to
the fact that tco of the Wing delegates to the last
National Wing Convention, from this State are
now active supporters of Barstow; and that one
of the two straight wings in our last legisla-
turc was delegate to the late Democratic State