Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-22
For the Herald.
,ELIzABETnToWN, kY.,
August 9th, 1857.

ELIzABErnToWN, KY,
August 9th, 1857.
Ma Eprroa :-Yoii will pardon the
liberty { take of.addressing you, as ! am
not personally acquainted with you, Perl
l,aps itsmay be airintrnsion, but having
bsan ! reader of~your paper for the past
YEAR and adnAring the high moral tone,
,houoht that I would venture forgive YOU
Il few Kentucky items, and if you think |
IThsn, worthy Of place ii your paper You
taro atsllberty to publish them. arrived
a. this place oni4the 1st Of the present
month. having beenabsent from home just
one wear. I / found a great deal of excite, |
ment prevailing here in this Congressional
Distr;ctyas the election was TO come OH
| tba third day osl the month. The con-
ipetitors for the Office were the Hon. Jew
lit and the Hon. DR. Young Young was
1.-The 4 neticanr candidate; Jewittthe demo-
le,atie / have. not yet heard the result OF
/ The election, but rather think that Je"i1l
lis elected. There was a great deai OF.
schen,;no done by both parties IN order to
ielect their. man. igAhd i blush to say y
that there were several within my own
knowledge who sold their votes. was
| ii Wisconsin during che excitement
Hast fall Of the presidential election, and
Iof its state officers, bat never saw Il
man sell his vote; and it makes me
ashamed Of my native. state, to find SO
many unprincipled men here; men who
twill SO degrade themselves, should not be
Iallowed to vote. But SO powerful is the
Influence Of Slavery here that the lower
Iclass of whites, are more Ignorant than lie
Slaves, and can be welded any way Hby
politicians. There is more fauaticisil1 aud
ldenagoguism in the southern states than
Tia the northern. I was. conyersing with
an old acquaintance the other day, who is
| a very prominent man here il relation TO
the slavery question about how the north
and south stood. He said the north had
mo right to interfere with the south
and her institutions. | told him that the
north made no prctensions SO far as State
IRig1l. was concerned, but the north hal a
fright to kick when they tried to extend
it.into' the territories; that the north had
+ an equal right to the territories, and should
|be allowed 10 exercise that right: ''Well
hut" SAYS he, sac must have more Slave
TERRITORY or eur slaves will decrease IN val
1ue; and another e thing. they viii
lbecore too numerous with US and we can't
govern them, for all the non Shareholders
lare leaving the.asiase states, and eonse-
Iquentir, if weswere to stop tbs. es1tsn" lon1
l.sf It, there would in a few years be but
livery few ia the Slave states but Whist own
slaves, and they would get so numerous
That wecould ,ssnot manage .hell.z "Bnt,1
saws |, If We were to Stop the extension,I
lshy, in i few years the south would see
The necessity of emancipation, and b. that
means We would get rid Of the evil
What not hare any Slaves Why we
| could not get along without them; who
would work our cotton FARMS and make
sugar for us? Why bless my life no
white man could stand it away south there,
1 it il TOO hot for them" Well. but says
III. You enlanciipatc ana Hi warraijt we
liwjoll't have 10 pay a shilling q pound for
people St St lie f'e sdt apF Ssa DECISION Of
1.-THE Dre,1 Scott case is abont square aid
.|lhat Judge fancy has lll1mortalized him
1selfl in 4the, south BY his. decision. The
most Of the people that / have talked with
Ehere, have give up Kansas as a Free State
and say it il Of no use to contend any lon-.
Iger;they sat tlTeress toogfsany Black Re
lpublicals anlAbolitionists there for them
Thcylthink here that the Republican Par4l
lty wants to set their negroes free, steal
them and runc them off and everything
EeIse9of the kind.a But as IIsmay be tax
ing your patience, | will quit for the pres
i 'ht.l HoweyerI must say something
Icbout lothe crops, which are'sery fiae---
better than have been known for mans1
lyears. 20 Wheat, corn and tobacco are fine Il
1.-The wheat harvest is over,s the general i'm i
Ipressionis that wheat will not bring more
THAN f75cts. per bashsl in the Louisville
4 Markets. Fruit in abundance of allikinds,
except peaches which were cut short by the
leoid backward spring. w. Ik P.zau
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sid Fancy iCserks.aaomeaA
The model clerk of the nineteenth cen-