Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-06-04
Awful

1t is amusing, or 1t weuld be. were il not so
pitiable, to witness the acting of the Democracy
IN TINS osate Reduced to miserable minority
by their wickedness and worthessness, they
perform in their impotent frenzy, the strangest
ana most ludlcrous antics. Just now they are
awtully exercised at the bare thought of the pro-
posed Republican Convention at Milwaukee. on
the 18th inst. In view of it, the last Fond du
Lac Union goes into tantrIlns, and berates first
the Party and then the Convention, in its most
ornate style. Read its classic and chaste vitu-
perations:
"They (Republicans) fear not God, nor regard
man or the devil, but are driven on with spir-
it OF madness, that has no ears to hear, or eyes
to see, or moral conscience to feel the wicked
ness Of their doings.
Ii there was ever, party, that, by its acts and
sentiments, ever disgraced nation, and cheat
ed and defrauded its deluded followers, and
whose whole tendency has been 30 work evil
and ruin everywhere, the Republican party is
that party. No good thing has ever come from
them, or ever been proposed by them. They
nave no regard for the Federal compact, and
night the Democracy without a single issue
founded uponj ustice and sound moral principle
Is that not classical, gentlemanly and reason
able' Cannot the cause of such language, and
the spirit that dictates it, be traced to what the
Republican party has done in this Statel
1t has exposed and brought to light, the frauds
and corruption OF the Democratic party-fraud.
upon the ballot box-frauds upon the Treasury
and frauds upon the common school Fund-frauc
and dishonesty wherever trust was reposed
his is one thing that has come from the Re
publican Party in Wisconsin. The people ar
probably as well qualified to judge whether it i
a good thing as those who are smarting un
der the disgrace of the exposure.
The Union next pitches into the Convention
after this style:--
what is this Convention for? Why is Ger
nit Smith to visit Wisconsin, Is it 10 teach tn,
people submission to the Constitution, and re
Ispect for the laws of Congress and the rulers O
our nation? Is it to teach the necessity of tn
union of the States and the danger and evil o
a family quarrel between the INorth. andi tn
South! No!-This Convention is called for NJ
other object only to fan the flame of disunion il
the nation, and haiti ed to the Democracy. 1t i
to galvanize and give resurrection, if possible
to their already sinking carcass-the nigge
and Kansas question"
Is the Union and its co-workers SO badl,
frightened at the prospect of a visit from so be
nevelent and harmless gentleman az Gerrit
Smith We can assure our contemporary ant
all who are like him, frightened, that there il
no danger. Mr. Smith is prominently maj
of peace, and carries neither revolvers nor bew
lie knives. But we presume Border Ruffiar
Democracy would be less afraid of such weap
ons, than those which Gerritt Smith and the
Republican party user ,ason, humanity ant
justice. These are weapons with whose use
modern democracy is unacquainted, and hence
their indignant vituperation.
We give but one more extract from the Union
for the people who may not otherwise have
the benefit of its brilliant corruscations of gen
! ius:
Down with the Constitution, rebellion to the
bred Scott Decision, opposition to the fugitive
slave law, and slaughter and death to the De.
mocracy, will be the watch-words of this Con.
vention and the Republican party of thi, State "
Awful Awful!