Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-08-21
For the Tribune 4 Telegraph.
bunker Gratitude.

For the Tribune Telegraph.
bunker Gratitude.
There is nothing more embittern G to Human feel
ings than to find that those in whose behalf we have
labored and On whom we have endeavored to confer
benefits are ready to sacrifice whenever their in
terest require it, 1t shows want of those generous
qualities which in man obey the impulses ofgratitude
as the ocean wave obeys the forces Of tho wind and
it tells lis that those whom the strong instructive i'm
pressions of Nature had assured us we had made
fast friends may be after all enemies, at least
utterly regardless OF u.s. when our interests in
collision with their own.
As foreigners, the great mass ofus have stood by
the Democratic party through good and evil report
we have worked for it and assisted it to achieve
victories, when without our ala u would nave SUIT
fered inevitable defeat, and OF these services
have been rendered recently that they ought not
to have been quite forgotten yet
In the Presidential election of 1859, Franklin
Pierces majority on the popular vote 2l6,673,
the foreign vote at that election 367 ,320-near-
" double that of tho President majority. Now,
when we remember that he received the foreign vote
almost entire can safely affirm that without it,
he must have been defeated, So that to foreigners
the democratic party is indebted for its present as
tendency and the present administration fer its ex
istance. IL consequence of this success how many
darling schemes has the party had opportunity
TO carry outflow many OF its memlers now hold
high and profitable Offices. But whdNhavo been our
returns for such valuable services!
The first instalmeht. that we have received is the
lrepaal OF the Missouri Compromise. BY that COM
promise Kansas and Nebraska were cslsecrated TO
Freedom, by this repeal they open to slavery
and slave States they will become if either by ma
navering force, if the slave power the
free. But the foreigners as well as the poorer Amer
leans have special interest in the free Territories
and new free States. They the land of Promise
to them. There q homestead can be made by self
denial and labor almost without money, and this is
a great recommendation to men who have but little
of the latter but stout hearts and hands for the form
en- In Few countries that are Free labor is not ONLY
more profitable, but more valuable and honored than
in older settlement. and these advantages combined
have s. coed effect by constantly draw ing workmen
from the olderStaes thereby lessening The damaging
COM petition for work which operates fatally on
wages. These good results are sadly obviated by
the approach of slavery under the Squatter Sover
eighty doctrine. Instead of the quiet yet aborious
progress OF free, new country, itbecomes the seat
of political war, the price for which the friends and
foes OF humanity contend and the battles must there
be fought. Labor is there degraded by contact with
slavery, and rendered less profitable by its hanging
on the neck Of the State, and retarding immensely
its progress Nor is the industrious freeman less
injured by the overriding influence of the slave
holder, for in every slave State in the Union the
oligarchy say with Louis XIV 81 am the State
The great mass OF the foreigners in pecuniary
point of vew the slave than the slave holder
and have no interest in the admission OF slavery in
to Territory but indeed all their interests are ad
vanced by its exclusion. What rich reward then
the repeal of the Missouri compromise, for our
political services.
A second nstaiment is the degradation Of political
Acknowledgement. The Democratic Senate has pas
sed bill containing clause prohibiting foreigners
from voting until they have been five years III the
United States, and received their first and second
naturalization papers. That is very different from
the law IN this State, which declares any who
has declared his Intentions and resided in the State
one year, entitled TO vote, and -hich has been the
rule with most OF the free western States, and is
adopted by the free State men OF Kansas in the To.
peka Constitution But the Democratic Senate in
their zeal for Slavery dsregarded tho voices of the
men who had been falsely promised Squatter Sever
eignty-the usage of the free Western States, and
the deep Indebtedness of the party to the foreign pop
ulatIon. The German, the freshman; the English
man, who may have been here two or three years
aboring, voting for the democratic party If he goes
TO Kansas must remain there two three years
more, mere 'hewer of wood and drawer of water,
without vote on political affairs. And ere that pc
ROO elapses 1t Is almost certain that the Institutions
will have been permanently moulded under which
he and his children must live if they remain there
The Senators knew well that foreigners value pOiti
cal privileges very highly, and by Withholding these
privileges, they undoubtedly meant TO prevent them
from going there and conla g Z. may be, into fatal
competition with the darling Institution. True some
Of the Democratic Senators opposed this clause OF
the BILL but they gave way almost without resistance
and showed none of the fight and pluck" which
some OF tnen do IN opposing measures which they dis
like telling us plainly that SO far they
cerned, when interests come in collision with
those OF the slave holder, 'we are nothing-they
everything"
bird nstalmen of these special favers, is their
conduct III the of Heating, and here sure = we
have re lUired nothing of them Hnreasonabe-we
have moi asked of them TO protect crimina! for our
sakes-we have not required them to endorse q iut
fan, n South Carolina and many of them have done
in the of Brooks-nor to maintain a murderer
in his seat in Congress as they have done in the
case OF HERBERT but simply to do justice betwixt the
rich and the poor-to show some regard tor human
lifc-to show that man can take the life OF an in
nocent freeman, without suffering the just conse
quences; to let every foreigner know that he may
feel confident security in the laws andmagstrates
of the country, so long as he Is good citzen.-
This though almost all powerful at Washington, the
Democratic party has not done MIR. Heating, 4
faithful and ohedicnt officer in the establishment
where he fell OF his post Of duty, ought in equity to
be looked on as man murdered in his house !;
and tho party who havo maintained Herbert in his
seat in Congress- and aided and assisted him in HE
trial at law, and congratulated him on his e3cape
from Justice, has become araker of his guilt and
the blood of heating is much GA it as on him.
Thus on these three great questions, involving our
material interests, political rights and finally
the sacredBess and security Of our lives in the
muuity which the Democratic party has unjustly
and unsratctuIy opposed u.s. whilst by the Same &C
tvity, they opposing the best interests OF the
country. Can we spect or eOnfide in it any lon
ger we vote to elevate men to power, who use
that power to opposs our interests 70 withhold our
rights, and 10 protect those that trample our
lives However IL may be with others, it shall not
be with at least one