Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-15
And is there not sufficient inducement

robbmg the people. ms Is evident
from the unparalleled exertIons it made
to retain its hold upon the public treas
ure, even after the State and its various
trusts had been despoiled of nearly hat
a million of dollars. If that same dy-
nasty is suffered to regain its lost footing
in the public places, does any one sup
pose it will not be to finish the job it then
had in hand, and take ample vengeance
for the time it has been compelled to
lose? Amid the gloom of the present
hard times when bankruptcy is staring
everybody in the face, can we afford to
have the scenes of the Barstow admin
istration acted over again? Can we in
dulge in any such expensive Injuries, at
the present time? We think not, And
does anybody suppose that those scenes
would not be re-enacted if the present
democratic ticket should be elected P
Look at it. Many of the actors in those
scenes are upon that ticket, and the
''balance" are laboring for it. and spen-
ding lavishly the money filched from the
people to ensure its success. How fool
lsh then, to suppose that past reverses
have bred reform. But it is folly to dis
cuss such contingencies. There is but
one view to be taken. five would have
the reforms that have been commenced
i'll our state government carried out and
perfected-it we would have an honest,
economical administration of our state
affairs in every department, we must ell
ect the Republican ticket entire, and
permit the Barstow Know Nothing Dem
ocracy to rest from its labors of plumber
for an indefinite period.
Are we told these charges and epithets
against our political opponents are too
severe and made at random? We an
swer that they are m ore than deserved,
and that the history of the past and the
present will bear us out in them all =
Nobody, at this day, not the most siren
nous democrat, denies that the school
land swindle is a veritable .foct-that the
treasury swindle is vetitable fact
that the attempted Lunatic Asylum
swindle is veritable fact-that the cleo
ton fraads, by@hich Barstowwas forced
upon tba~people second time, until he
was legally elected, are veritable facts
enough, in all conscience to justify all
that we have said, / Nor is it denied
that the candidates of the Democracy
this fall, are in full sympathy with, and
heartily endorsed by, Barstow and his
clique.
But there is still another consideration,
that should be held as full as strong a
motive with Republicans, for active, en-
ergetic action, as any State matters, nd
that is the question of Liberty as oppos.
ed to the doctrines of Slavery as held
by the democracy. The Supreme Court
Of the United States and President Blu
chanan, have declared that Slavery is a
national institution, under the constitu-
tion-that Freedom is sectional and on
ly enjoyed by local enactment, by suf-
ferance ofthe constitution, or granted
right to state sovereignty. Under this
doctrine no such thing as a Free Terri
tory can exist All the Territori of
the United States, are and must be, slave
Territories. 1t is against this monstrous
doctrine, which has been made part
of the democratic creed, North and
south, that the people of Wisconsin are
called upon to speak this fall Can there
be stronger motive than this presented
to intelligent, liberty loving Freemen, to
come out to the polls as one man, to
speak in thunder tones their emphatic
negative. John C. Calhoun, the great
apostle of Slavery, never dreamed OF
asking such a concession to the accursed
| institution as this. And shall the free
people of Wisconsin, who have been
raised in the lap of Freedom; who have
thriven and grown as a people never be-
fore throve and grew, under the genial
and fostering influence of Free Soil and
Free Labor, prove recreant to their in
stincts and to their, hottest impulses, in
this hour of trial. Nay we believe it
not
Awake then, Republicans of Kenosha
Organize and prepare for action, and
let tho few days that intervene between
this and the 3rd of November tell how
they were improved, at the ballot box.
The financial panic is on the increase.
The New York City Banks, which were
supposed to be the strongest in the coun-
try, have been forced to suceumb. The
following is a list of City Banks reported
on Tuesday, as failed:
Bank of New Y ork, Africans, st. Mich
olas, Chatham, Ocean, Market, Butchrs
d Drovers', Merchants Exchange, r.
wing, Citizens, Tradesmen's, Bulls Head
n. Y. Exchange, North River, Marine,
Broadway, Leather Manufacturers, Peo-
pies, Bank of the State of New York,
and the Bank of North America.
The following country Banks were dis
credited the same day: Oswego River
Bank, Goshen; Merchants Bank, SYRIA
cuse; Briggs Bank, Clyde; Bank of Com
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