Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-08-26
LCRENZ BRETOEO.

upon the issues of the Presidential cam
palgn from the pen of Lorenz Bretono,
the com-patriot of Blum, Hecker and
Sauge, is worthy of candid perusal.
(From the Kalamszoo Telegraph)
Mr.. EDIToR:-Heretofore the Ger
mans, like most of the foreign born citi-
zens of this country, followed the stand
ard of the SO called democratic partv.-
To conclude from this fact that the Ger
mans, or majority of them, will cast their
votes for Buchanan, would be erroneous.
! lou may divide the German population
into two classes: First-Such as left
their native country because they cold not
find there ready market for the labor of
their hands, nor room and freedom for
their enterprise. And, second--Such as
although being successful In life left, or
had to leave their fatheriand where they
had been subdued. All of them, (of
course speak only of the honest. bona
fide emigrants) bid adieu to their country
for oppression's sake. The latter class
without exception, and great portion of
the former, belonged in the old country to
the liberal, and since 1913 TO the Demo
cratic Republican party; and no wonder,
IN coming TO these shores, they generally
turn TO that political party than promises
test 10 realize their ideas of democratic
hberality, for the Obtaining of which, they
at home had struggled in vain 1t was
an easy task, for great while. to per-
suade these strangers that the Democrat
&c party was the party ofrrogressive free
dom, and their opponents only a little bet
ter sort of monsters, than the big and lit
tie tyrants they had just fled from. But
as soon as the old world, after the unsuc-
cessful revolutions OF 1888 and 1918, es.
peciaiiy Germany, had sent thousands and
thousands, of pstriots-among them schol-
ars, statesmen. professional men and high
souled officers of the army; in a word,
men of education and learning and intel
hgence. into this country, il could be fore
seen that political humbng and deception
would not do much longer.
True, most, if not all of these patriots
suffered themselves to be led astray By
the cherished name of Democracy, the
beau ideal of their life, upon whose altar
they Lad sacrificed all that was dear to
them, and In the holy cause of which 50
many of their friends had bled and died
Pierce and the crimes committed under
hls administration, they soon found out
that their own democracy and the democ-
racy of the party who assumed this name
here, are as different as sunshine and
darkness. 1t was not the fact that the
Democratic party, after Its ascendancv TO
the government of this great Republic,
forgot all their boastfuI dec!amations about
stopping the tyrants of Europe from again
attempting to crush the nations struggling
for independence and liberty-it was not
the breach of promise TO protect natural
lZed citizens as far as the American flag
waves in the wind 1t was not the open
sympathy with Russia in her attempt to
carry &" Eastern Civilization" westward
and subdue the weak Sultan, who had so
nobly refused to give up Kossuth and his
was not the sympathy with
Cass, aud other democratic Senators,
expressed when Cardinal Bedini 1whose
hands yet trickIcd with the blood OF Ital-
ian martyrs) was received by Germans
at Cincinnati just as it became such a mon
made the Germans withdraw
from the ranks of the Democratic party,
hut It was the faithlesSness documented
IN the repeal Of the Missouri Compro-
mise, constitutional or not, with show of
sophlstry worthy of small pettifoggers,
but not Of great and patriotic statesmen
It was this faithlesSness, one of the most
despised crimes amongst the population OF
Germany since the tune of Tacitus
was the consequences of this repeal, the
open proStration before the slave power,
the Haynau-hke slaughter of the free
settlers IN Kansas, the annihilation of the
freedom of the press and suffrage, the
pcrversion of the courts of justice to The
lntngues of the oppressor, and the un-
yelled ann TO extend the curse OF slavery
TO the virgin soil of freedom.
Were 1t rot for two reasons, | am con-
vinced hardly any of the German voters
could be persuaded 10 vote for the Demo-
cratic platform and It's Standard d-bearer.-
All Of them that understand that the Is
sue is between slave extension and rcstric-
ton, between freedom and oppression,
will vote with the Republican party. But
a number of the Germans, who would
blush to cast their votes for the oppress-
ION of a fellow being, are imposed upon
by the other party who charge that the I
are Know Nothings and Tenn .
perance fanatics, and that they should first
look out not TO be oppressed, before they
shoald care for the negroes. The socall- /
ed Democrats know very well that the
question has nothing TO do /
with the General Government; and that
the friends of the Maine Law are to be +
found on both sides; and they know Just
as well that Know Nothings are as many
if not more amongst their own ranks, I
than there are amongst the Republicans. /
That the Republicans, as a party, are not
Know Nothings, is proved beyond all ca
sonable doubt, by the fact that for instance
the Republicans of Illinois have nonina- /
ted for Lieut.. Governor, German
Francis Hoffman; and for Presidential /
another German-Fred Fecller, |
the man who first. In 1853, raised the I
banner of Republicanism in the State of .
Baden, and whose name is enrolled with f