Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-03-20
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This case thas fas, stands just as it did at the
time efear last issue. The Court has yet rem
dered no decision since the withdrawal of Mr..
Barstew from the Court. For several days
there has been active suspense and expectation,
as the rumors each day were that decision
would be given the next, and then conjecture
was busy as to what that decision would be;
simply judgment of custer against Bar stow
and leaving the Office vacant or whether 1t
would be one ousting Barstow and declaring
Bashford the legally elected Governor. That
it would be against Barstow, no one seemed to
doubt. But no decision is yet given though
one is expected to-day or tomorrow. Mean
while the utmost excitement prevails in many
portions of the State, and in all, more or less
anxiety is felt.
The determination of Mr.. Barstow to resist
the decree of the Court, if adverse to his pre-
tentions, is pretty generally known, and the
fact that he has had quantity of arms belong
ing to the State, removed from Milwaukee to
Madison, and that quite number of muskcts
have been distributed to certain class of his
alherents at Madison under, to say the least,
is already making preparations to make good
hi, threat to repel, with ell the force at his COM
mand, any interference with his assumed rights
as the executive, of the State. These extreme
measures threatened by Mr.. Barstow, meet with
bu a weak response from the great majority of
the people of the State. A small clique at Mad
ison, headed by the Argus, Mr.. Barstow's es-
pecia organ, few at Milwaukee and here and
there in other places few, form the "Corporaps
guard" that muster to uphold the course of the
usurper
But one or two of the many Democratic pa
pers of the State have ventured to come out
with hearty approval of Mr. Barstow's trca-
sonable course. A suggestive silence is retain
cd, or else condemnation of the high-handed out
rage upon law and order that has been begun
From the expression that has been thus far Civ
en-, we have not the shadow of doubt that the
people of the State will uphold the Supreme
Court, whatever its decision may be, There is
u universal feeling of confidence aud trust in the
ability, impartaity and justice of this Court,
that cannot be shaken, either by partizan clam
or, and abuse, or by the defiance and anathe-
mas, hurled by the usurper
The plea set up by Barstow and his counsel.
and copied and dwelt upon by those who at
tempt to uphold his course, that one depart
ment of the Government cannot interfere with
another, without usurping powers not belonging
to it, carries its condemnation upon its face
1t assumes the very point at issue. 1t is claim
cd that Mr.. Barstow is nod the legally elected
head of the Executive Department, and the
question before the Court is simply whether he
is or is not the legally elected head of the Exc
cutive Department, MT whether the Supreme
Court has.power to interfere with that Depart
mcnt The question when stripped the soph-
ism that has been so perseveringly wove around
it, and Invested of the glamour lent to il by the
cry of Judicial usurpation, independence of the
Executive, and all that, is in our estimation so
simple that any mind can comprehend it. Set
aside all these Fictitious surroundings, and
cry one can that it is only a trial to deter
mine which of tive private individuals have
ccived the greatest numb er of legal. votes for a
certain office, In this light the people of the
State will regard it, sGad the idea that any i'm
portant number of peaceful and law abiding cit
liens, outside of the few who are pecuniarily
interested with Mr. Barstow, are gong to in
volve the State in all the horrors of civil war
to sustain declared usurper in Office, is simply
insanity.
The organ of Mr.. Barstow at Madison, may
daily groan under columns of Capitals, Italics
and Exclamation points, woven into distracted
appeals to the people to come up to help Mr..
Barstow against Judicial usurpation, Judicial
tyranny and hundreds of other such meaningless
and absurd terms, but the people will not be
aroused nor alarmed. There is too much intel
ligenco, too much good sense, and, thank hea-
ven, too much honesty for this game, yet. We,
in common with ninc-tenths of the people of the
State, look for an immediate Judgment ofouster
against Mr.. Barstow and for peaceable acqu-
essence in that Judgment by the people, or a
willing and decisive movement to enforce it, if
necessary.