Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-21
ausiness-gnrglary and Politics

Platteyllio, WIS, Nov. Is, 1891.
Mr.. EDrroR:-There is very little news.
to communicate. Farmers have been very
busy in getting in their corn and making
various preparations for the winter which
has come so early upon us, consequently
trade has not been very lively. The Bank
has moved into its new quarters in Bayley,s
block. Its office is very handsomely fixed
and looks quite city-fed. 1t is not
overwhelmed with business, but affords
considerable accommodation to our business.
men.
Grain and produce do not yet manifest
any symptoms Of Il rise. Our millers and
Others who are buying, pay only fifty cents
for the best quality Of wheat. Oats are
worth 20 cents, corr 25, and potatoes the
ame Smelters are buying scarcely any
mineral, and miners prefer to hold on rath-
er than sell at the prices offered.
A burglary took place at Hazel Green
last Sunday night. The grocery and house
of a Mr.. Borden was entered during the
night, and a lot of money taken from the
pocket of his pantaloons lying in the room
where he slept, and a watch taken from
another DOM. The robbery was dlscov-
cred early in the morning, and tracks found
which were followed for some distance to
wards this place. Officers went in pursuit
in different directions, but failed to dlscos,
Ier any clue to the thieves.
/ see that the Assembly is claimed b
both parties. 1t would be strange and Vt
Ia fitting retribatioa for the lukewarmness
Iof our Republicans if it shouid turn out
that the two members elected by the Dem
!ocrats of this County, one by 2 and the
'other by 4 votes, should give the Demo
Gratis one or two majority in the lower
branch Of the Legislature. N. Oimsted
in the N. E. district OF In Fayette Co.
might have been elected, as he ran over
200 ahead of his ti.kct in Kendall, Bel
mont, Elk Grove and Benton, but that the
Darlington Republicans went az inst him
very generally because he would not
pledge himself 10 get q bill through the
Legislature removing the County seat to
Darlington. The Democrats have 604
majority for Governor in La tayette.
The result Of the election in the State
still remains in doubt, though [ think there
is still ground for hope that Randall,
5churz, Hastings and perhaps others Of our
ticket are elected.
| have been reading with mingled feel
ings Of amusement and disgust the pro
Iceedinos of the Kansas bogus Constitution
Ial Convention. It is certainly a rennarka-
Ibi6 body, remarkable for ignorance, fanat-
ieisin, boldness and reckless disregard OF the
feelings and rights Of those for whom il
processes to act. The bold biasphemy, the
low vnIgarity Of some Of the speeches re-
p5rteiis most Disgusting, to shy nothing
of the principles Advocated. The Conyen.
ton I see have recognize Slavery in the
Epllinest manner, by Incorporating inlo tn.
Constitution y slave section, of which the
following is the Preamble:
"Tle right Of property is before and
higher than any constitutional sanction,
and the riqhF Of tie oaOner Of a slaus, to
sach sJaos and ITS increase IN the same,
and as invjoJabhe as the rights Of tie oapn-
er Of any property"
In the debate on striking out a sentence
preventing the bringing into the State OF
slaves as merchandise, one OF the members
chopped the fair soil Of Kansas ' ouid never
be disgraced by the traffic an human Re8h,'
whereupon a Mr.. John Rondolph got up
and spoke after this fashion:
"MR. PKEsIDENT:-What does the gen
tleman mean by talking about traffic in
human flesh? Does he think that niggers
are human, that they are flesh and blood
like ourselves? Why, if John Randolph
believed that niggers were human, no mat
ter in however slight a degree, this Con.
%vention would not find John Randolph on
the floor of that hall advocating slavery.
No! if he thought that niggers were hui
man flesh and blood, possessed of human
feelings, affections and thoughts, having an
immortal soul, John Randolph would be
an abolitionist. What? buy and sell our
own flesh and blood! Trade in human
souls! No! no! gentlemen; he believed
in no such sickly stuff as that; and for gen
tlemen affecting to hold that slavery was
abstrsctly right, and put themselves for
ward as advocates Of Southern rights, to
talk about the s%traflic in human flesh and
blood" was simply balderdash. He lidn'i
believe niggers 10 be human any more than
a horse or q dog. If he did he SHOULD ad-
%vocate their right to freedom.
"a niger, he held, was an animal
cross between the baboon and the man,
and he could prove his doctrine by chapter
and verse, and by the niggers themselves.
Did they look Ike a white man? Wasnol
their hair w~oolley, lips thick, nose fat,
skull thick-and couldn't any anatomist
tell the bones Of a niger from those Of any
human being. He held that niggers were
animals, but a little more intelligent than
a dog, and but one remove from the ba-
boon, and he hoped gentlemen would moi
talk such nonsense as ssthe traffic in human
flesh and blood disgracing our fair soir'
again.
The section was stricken out.
Tho Gaprapts,, $40 IT,