Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-06-05
THURSDAY, JUNE 5th, 1856.


half They say they have lost subscribers and
advertising patronage because they advocate
the principles of the Democratic party. They
wonder what they have done to merit such re-
bukes-they have not sent the Border Ruffians
into Kansas-they did not apply the torch to the
City of Lawrence, &c. Now, although the ed
itors of the Democrat have not done these things,
they have given countenance and sympathy to
those who have done them. Look at the very
paper in which this disclaimer appears; from
first to last there is not word in condemnation
of those atrocities, bnt the whole thing is treat
ed as farce and burlesquc. Read the article
headed, kansas Matters Phired' Is it not
infinitely worse in spirit, and more insulting to
the great mass of our citizens, than a serious &
earnest defence and apology Of Border Ruffian-
ism, would be? Every ether article in the pa
per upon the subject is conceived in the same
spirit, and expressed in the same choice Ian
guage
We would fain believe that Democracy and the
Democratic party does not sanction, nor compel
its members to sanction the atrocities that have
been committed in Kansas and at Washington
but the course of the Democrat and few kim
bred prints in this State compels us to the be-
| lief that in Wisconsin at least, all these and
more if necessary, must be swallowed by those
who would be Democrats. Such being the case
| it should not be considered strange that men
stop the paper and withdraw their patronage
| If to discountenance and condemn murder, "a
pine, ruffianly violence, and robbery, men have
to direct their blows at Democracy, then Demo
Gratis ought not to complain, if they suffer in
consequence.
The shocking barbarities that have been prac-
ticed upon the Free citizens of Kansas by the
Missouri Border Ruffians, are matters of histo-
ry and the editors of the Democrat, arc as well
acquainted with them as they are with any 9TH
er contemporary transactions in the country
For eighteen months ruffianism and lawness-
ness have been rife there Phillips mob
bed, plundered and beaten for his political opn-
ions Dow was murdered for being free soil
er. Rev. Mr.. Clark was stripped, beaten, and
set adrift in the Missouri, for preaching an I'M
palatable sermon. Delahay's press was thrown
into the river for defending the right of suf-
rage. Branson was seized and threatened for
having Free Soil boarders at his table. Park 5
office was torn down and robbed because its
editor upheld the laws. Voters were stabbed
and fired upon at the polls. Judges were drag
ced by violence from their seats, and peaceable
cIergymen maltreated and robbed. Brown was
murdered in tho most inhuman manner, and
sent home to his wife mangled corpse, for be-
ing free soer And now, the city of Law
renee has been sacked and q share of it burnt
and destroyed, because its inhabitants were i'll
favor of Free Soil, Free Speech, and Free
Press All these things and hundreds Of Others
as bad have been perpetratod and the editors OF
the Democrat are aware of the facts, and they
have no word of condemnation, but mention
them as matters for jest as witness the follow
ing, which we take from their last weeks pa
per with all their capitals and ordinations, to
give it the desired sarcasm:
''If there is a shanty burnt in Kansas, it is a
! GREAT CONFLAGRArION BY SOUTHERN IN
! CENDIARIEs--A CITY DEsTROYED!!! If a
free state man is shot, the Border Ruifians done
It. If Border Rufian is shot, why the Border
Ruffians done that too. If in some obscure town
they have q fight, it is A TERRIBLE MOB
If an editor is booted or licked, then the cry is
trumpted FORTH AN EDITOR LYNCHED The
PRESS SHACKLED!-FREES SPEECH GAGGED!!!
So it appears that according to the Democrat 5
morality it is no crime to burn down houses Of
settlers i'll Kansas, nor to shoot a Free State
man, nor, Gin the classic language ofthat Sheet
to boot or lick an editor. There is nothing
misunderstanding to awaken the Indignation OF
Frc2men-in such doings, though they be con,
tinued systematically for years, and citizens
who have sons, brothers, and friends among the
victims of this harnesses and barbarity are to
be scolIcd and sneered at, for raising voice
against them. Verify, if this be Democracy ano
its Legitimate fruits, we say the less we have Of
it, the better and we advise all good citizens tC
lend their influence TO crush it out
) 1t is too late for even the determined editor:
of the Democrat, to force or cajole people into
the support or approval of such practices, by
! the much abused term. Democracy. But there
: is another and more revolving feature in this
; heartlessness and wickedness of the Democrat
This same editor who writes fulsome eulogics on
Douglas and Pierce uphods Border Ruflianism
reyies those who condemn it, and who so val
iantly threatens to pursue his present course
} though "his paper should be but six inches
square, and have bat one subscriber" was but
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l ranks, an active member iii their conventions
and delivering lectures against slavery. The
people of this county know this, and can there
fore appreciate the sincerity and Honesty of his
r present course 1t is a sad instance of the way
circumstances alter cases"
In this connection we will call attention to
the sentiments of Col LANE, expressed i'll his
speech at Milwaukee, on Monday evening last,
upon the subject of Kansas wrongs. He, too
was Democrat, but he does not seem to think
that Democracy demands from him surrender
of every principle of manhood, Humanity, aud
: honesty. 1t will be noticed that there is great
difference between his views of Kansas Matters
and those of the Editors of the Democrat. One
: is the earnest heartfelt expression of MAN
who has tasted the bitter dregs of mis-called
. Democracy, the other, the soullcss rant of the
f time ryerand mouth-pieoe ofDemagogues.
We have no desire 10 lay pebble in the path
of our neighbors of the Democrat, but when they
thus travel out of their way, to scoff and sneel
4 at one half of their readers, and thus endorse
/ approve, and uphold Border Ruffianism and all
the revolving cruelties and crime that follow in
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