Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-08-06
The Purpose

The Purpose
( The intention of the desperate ReYoutionists
who sit in Grand Council in the West End of the
Capitol, is now garing,y apparent, ~ dis
guses are useless the great purpose oft.f crime
IS plainly visible through every tattered rag of
ganze which its apologists may throw around it
This is it:-B Minnesota cannot rome into this
great Commonwealth Of Empire nth Democ rat
! irBSher, she shall not come IN al all
When Minnesota was struggling into Terri
torla, organism, Jo Brown and the other Josies,
who have been sucked and reared hy frontier
Democracy were in favor Of a speedy prepare
ton for admission as a sovereign State. They
knew that the measure was popular; and they
went with the People then, because the People
were Democratic.
| Later still when Gorman-now the periured
and accepted leader of the Democracy of tho
Teyrtory-euquired from q public platform,
when tod that he had been appointed Governor
| of MInnesota,-'' where the HI is Minnesota -
even then the Democracy rallied under a COM
mon standard, which was-an immediate admis-
sion into the American Union. 1t has since been
echoed back by Douglas, Toombs, and others,
who imagined they saw brace of Doughface
Senators coming from these words and prairies.
and not till the last Legislative election did
these Union-saying, liberty-loving patriots be-
| gin to waver Still the work was pushed on
land the Pioneer and German (the loving con.
pie y with Sherburne, Becker. Flandrau and 10
Brown, all drove Justify their Minnesota gang
of hirelings IN the sweet hope that the Young
State" would redeem herself" and Shamocra-
cy at last bear sway.
They have been deceived The people rule
and "the people" (the traitors , are Republican
The Constitutional Convention is summoned by
the Enabling Act, to convene at the Capitol, OH
the second Monday in July, but alas for the
fckeness of human hopes!-"the Abolitionists'
(ic those who believe that Free Soil should not
be widowed, and Free Labor shackled by SER
vile competition were found TO be in majority
Of To-
Here was dilemma and it demanded all the
shemes Of willy and wicked men TO coniure from
Hades an iniquity equal to the occasion. All
now they have it such iucipient treason must
be conquered the Free State must be crushed
in its Republican Crystals, and perhaps the Peo-
pile after being for few years longer deprived
OF their rights as an independent State OF the
confederacy, would finally be "subdued" and
ready TO submit to come into the Union under
Democratic auspices
This was the intention to which they finally
arrived. New, how to compass it. After de-
berating long and continuously they determin-
ed 10 prevent the Convention f.om organizing
They have used all their forces TO accomplish
this infamous end. All that lying can do all
that swearing can do all that hypocracy, and
perjury and meanness can do, have been done.
and s,ill the Convention has regularly organic
ed in spite OF their secession and vandalism
iikening to the maneuyers of forty-three Plug
CgIles, and they are brooiing over heir issue in
The " cst End Of the Capitol
If our fair and beautiful State is to be kept
out Of the Union year louger-or two or three
let the Constituency OF the Delegates now in
session know where TO rest the responsibility
We do not believe il will be. We believe the
dasiardy games of reckless and INSCRIPTIONS
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elements, ashes ard gas, when they are submit
ted To a test in the frey ordeal of Public Opin-
ion at the ballot-box, aud that Minnesota, fair
fertile and free, unshaekled from the harsh dis
cipine OF Democratic pupilage, and unscathed
by the tempest that is hurting around her youth,
will Join the Union with majestic step and shine
forth with Republican brilliancy, the thirty.
second star IN the American Constitution