Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-14
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The EEecsaOn sc.
Platteville, Wis, Nov. llth, 1857.

Nix. EpIroR:-"Wr rite, '"write," "write,'
is the word which an inexorable promise Is
ringing ii my ears, and vet there is YER,
little to write about. Without any expe-
rience of our usual delightful Indian sum
mer, which seems, like those who of old
enjoyed it, to have retreated across the
Mississippi, the falling 10Y this morning
SAYS that winter has fairly come; that il
should wrap its winding sheetabout us
seems very fitting, inasmUch as the recen.
election seems to indicate that the Repub-
iicans are soundly asleep if not thoroughly
dead.
Here in this town, than which, in the
FAST times through which the country has
been passing, there has scarcely been one.
Of the same size, more quiet and old fngv-
ish, less influenced by the progressive spir-
it of the age, things move on about As II
foretime. There have been more buill-
ings erected this summer than for som.
years past, some of substantial material
and considerable size. Most Of them are
80 far advanced that they can easily b
finished, be the weather what it may, bur
if winter has fairly come, some contracts
can only be fulfilled with great difficulty
About rs or 80 brick and frame building
will have been put UP this season, when al
that are now under way are completed.
Business is dull. Our merchants are
not anxious to sell on credit. and cash i
at verp very abundant. Most of them
etaking al kindsof produce in exc,ang.
t goods, AMI some pay cash for ~hea'
oats, corn an potatoes. As for debts, in
urred when times we're Hush. AMI price.
we're high there seems TO be a very g,ne,
Il reluctance to pay them. Every bplr i
rying TO collect something of everyday,
nd everybody gets nothing Of ~nobody.-
some haze commenced stleing, but without
my remarkable success.
We had AN election in this state abous
ten days ago 81 the fact did not seem Ia
,e generally known except by the new>},a-
peers and the dwelIers in towns and cities.
The vote in our town was $50 less than
last fall but the relative strength Of the
Republicans and Democrats was just the
same as then. The returns Of the election.
as far as | have seem, for the most part
show that the Republicans have held their
own, or have gained, in towns and cities,
but IN the country there is a terrible falling
of. That such a strongly Republican
County as Grant. when with g thorough,
anyasS and a general rally at the polls we
could give nearly 1000 majority, should,
in a contest of so much real importance a.
that which has just been decided give only
the puuy majority Of 42l is los shame
ful. And other strong Republican coun-
ties are III the same condemnation. Neg.
lectful of their duty, throwing the respon-
sibilitv of the result upon others, the Re-
publicans oe:'the rural districts seem gnner-
ally to have forgotten their public interest
and with a short-siglted ~selishness oecu-
pied the time they should have devoted to
their country in such lofty occupation as
digging potatoes and threshing wheat
1t looks now as if they would have to snff-
er tile punishment of their selfshness, in
the continued reign of those who have
heretofore 40 plundered and burdened
them. While their Utmost heart too, is
utterly opposed to it, they have failed to
rebuke S they should the new attempts Of
the Democracy to carry Slavery through
out the Onion, and to make of men and
women mere merchandise. What new
aggressions, what new indignities must the
North suffer before it will arouse to defend
and steadtostly maintain its rights and The
principles upon which our government is
founded? That the Slave power has done
all it can and will, no one who has studied
the past can believe. Those who have
been faithful soldiers in the cause of Free
dom must 'learn to labor and to wait yet
longer.
In this town, during the past week,
there has happened nothing iragical, moth
ing colnlcal. nothing omnno or uncom
mon, worthy Of note. Yours truly,
EGAss.