Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-05-08
The Proofs--Explanation.


We said last week that controversy with the Free
mocrat was closed We do not propose reopen it, Blu,
We made certain assertions which promised prove
back out Land that Mr. Booth calls uponus prove which
makes II somewhat imperative TO say what we are
aboutto Our assertion Mr. B.
It, that during the campaign We lhe1 complained in
paper that Bashford's nomination was unwse and would
not excite the enthusiasm Of the liberty guard and that
red by personal disappointment discouragng
ticles adapted to defeat the ticket"
Mr. b. itacises during the campaign to make perha
technical point against II should appear that these
damaging articles written before opening of the
campaign although after his dsappontments been
perienced he would probably suit The spirit OF
charge was really that the OF Mr. and his
per damaged the cause during the camp aign.
Mr. D. certainly knows what every person familiar WITH
that his articles extensively quoted by the
ker press against he knows ought know
stumpers through the state had trouble and were
obliged to spend much time in explaining and rebuttng
his articles in the hands Of the opposition .tumpers as
other abors and republican here and proba.
bly, the same was the case esewhere) that prominent
Barstow Of this city for week before election
tie else than distribute through city county extras
tanning nothing else but extracts from Mr. BIS speeches
paper These facts We have not the papers before
but the shining Of the is not notorious. Do
need any thing further TO subsanae the essential
of our charge.
But the GAINESVILLE Gazette which saves the papers more
carefully than do furnishes the precise evidence
cessary to establish charge the letter Five weeks
before the election, and during campaign" the Free
Democrat contained the following:
"And state the fact it is
dy it, and is better that those concerned should know
CIALLY THE HEAD OF IT, is VERY COLBY receired
BY LARGE NUMBERS OF the old Free Soilers and that
among them are men Of standing and influence"
rh; ia taLs ,bo
tract itself is what had particularly mind when
made the assertion did, for impressed time
did others, dscouragng and damaging article and
when considered that Mr. Basords strict true
liable republicanism had been questioned that
there not shadow Of why single Free Soier
should feel cody toward him, could the
vcton that the article from very quarter and
that right there terminated pretty much all
that felt. II had file OF the Free Democrat
we might multiply testimony but could strengthen it.
Mr. b. said "Mr. Sholes look files if he
find any thing to justify gre color such charge
will agree to acknowledge the truth of all the false
ges made against us by all who have assailed us"
We do not wish him to acknowledge the truth of any
charges but cannot imagine how he well help
knowledgng the truth Of what asserted.
Mr.. b. indignantly denied assertion that he the
inspiration and main cause Of the mass convention. The
letter Roeser says ntimation such
convsnon-and yet sometime before, in art icls
demnng the central committee he said:
"were there spirit enough among the people
them from the stupor which creeping them they would
hold conUentio reconstruct their committee, and
such resolutions wond open the eyes Of political
leaders s."
We presume there scarcely person the state who
not well assured that had 1t been for him the
vention would never have been held thought OF.
And now by way Of explanation. Mr. B. either wlfuly
misunderstanding else reads articles very careey
So far from impung the worst motives to him. have
ken especial pains cxhonerate his motives from any
putation whatever In all of his troubles with the party
when nearly mans hand against him and nearly
every voice raised in denunciaon of him and his motives
publicly and privately defended him. We feel just
yet We believe he is devoted principles
well always but irrational, unreasonable, and ndcfens
Bile his have been, and derng the character Of
the acts that his judgment warped and BIASED by his
sona quarres and disappontments not only opinion
but eight Of every old free sellers in
the state And when this alteration manifested itself
this peculiarly important juncture in the effort dis
traction and division in the party thought high time
friend disclosed to him the real state Of the case and
ungracous the task undertook it. If he is not
benefited by it. it is fault of
And Dir. B. certainly knows expressed desire to
have him crushed out but that suggested the crushng
process only upon the effort distract foreex Why
seek TO make point and pump up sympathy upon
sumption completely unfounded.
Mr.. Booth once had an opinion of us a. follows:
ave had been accustomed to look upon Mr. shoes the
soul Of honor and candor; ready all times treat
friends and enemies fairly and TO correct matement
he might make TO the prejudice Of another We thought him
mputing the tcorst motives TO an opponent when bet
ter might explain his conduct, and Of seeking excite
odum against him."
But now without conceiving possible apparen y that
person Of whom he had for years been holding FORM
opinion such the above might be telling him truths
nd hov disax
he infallibity for himself total depravi
y" for and consequently jumps the following
treme
We End him. with all his ber profess and human.
arian teachings and spiritual philosophy, and faith in
man progress but common clay firm practical believer
in total deprsvy, nolerant of opinion ready
crbe unworthy motives and to deal danation
who differ with him. the veriest old bunker in politics
religion
We have complaint Of any person for opinion. express
sed OF us personally We thank brother b. for calling
attention to what possibly be grevous our cha
raeter and shall spare no effort to correct them.
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THE KANSAS TRoUBLEs.-The st. Louis
Democrat, in an able article upon the subject OF
the last outbreak in Kansas, gives what is
doubtless the true statement of the case, in the
following paragraph:
The administration has initiated a forced con-
fct through its instruments and officials. For
the sake of making presidential capital with some
of the States to be represented at Cincinnati, Mr.
Pierce has resurrected from the eep into which
they had fallen the most obnoxious acts Of the
first Territorial assembly, and then proceeds to
have them enforced, as tests to inrite resistance
Such course upon the part of the Admini.tra-
ton and its satellites in Kansas, cannot but be
productive of the most disastrous consequence
and should be reprobated by every patriot who
loves his country more than the accidental lead.
ers OF his party. If it shall defeat the initial
steps taken by the House OF Representatives to
inquire into the wrongs that have been perpe-
trated upon the squatters of Kansas. and pre-
vent the Congressional Committee from pursu-
ing its labors and reporting the facts it will ac-
complish what was no doubt designed BY the
despcable crew who surround the President &
minister to his vanity while fattening upon his
bounty, but it will at the same time overthrow
and destroy the only procedure that now holds
out hope for the peaceful adjustment of the
angry elements that threaten to make Kansas a
boiling chauldron of future troubles.
The Madison Argus says that 105 buildings of
various kinds are now going up or are under
coctyact i that city.