Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-06
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POLITICS IN WISCONSIN,.

y MENAsHA, wisconsin, Sept. 10, 1862
To tho Eaito,s of the Union:
The political skies in Wisconss look bright 1t the
present for democracy-Femoved as We happily are.
from the battles in Illinois It is much TO be de-
plored that divisions of sentiment and opinion upon
dead issues.should divide distract the ssrsngh 81
the only hope of the perpetuty and continnapce oil
our glorious Union-"the democratic party
In an evil hour, in the commencement OF the last
session of Congress- Judge Douglas for motives best
known to himself srrayed himself sgsinst the LIE.
compton constitution of Kansas, and with the aid OF
. few followers, members of the democratic party,
some Of the now-notbings, and all the black.re
publicans defeated the measure, and thus kept that
cursed Kansas bleeding. His undoubted talents and
energy were exerted during the Presidential cam
paign in the election Of Pennsylvania honored son.
the noble Buchanan-whose statesmanlike views
measures, and acts both foreign and domestic have
all been characterized by the most profound sagac
ty, wisdom. forethought and pure patriotism:
1t was thought by many that the Douglas breach
might be healed and the political blunder (treason
or crime) committed by him overlooked or forgiven,
and he might again be found standing shoulder to
shoulder in the forefront of the democratic hosts,
firing hot shot into the congomerated and heteroge-
neous masses of our common enemy.
Here in Wisconsin we are unit-unterri6ed DEM
ocrats-and although many may and do sympathize
wish him success, yet they recognize the democratic
administration Of which James Buchanan Is the
honored head-the true exponent and representative
of the party and its principles throughout the Union
as proclaimed and established in our platform at
Cincinnat-and willing. and rest perfectly salts
fed that the cause of pure democracy, the best in
terests Of the United States, at home and abroad,
are perfectly safe and secure in his hands.
New issues are to be arrayed against US. Kansas
being dead, negrophobia worn threadbare, the ad
mnstration is to be assailed on the score OF being
extravagant in the expenditures No other fault do
they attempt to bring against our worthy head, ex-
cepting always Kansas. If the President had Or
dered General Twggs, Harvey, or COL Sumner to
sweep Jim Lane and his murderous crew With grape
and canister they could not howl more than they
have done but the great statesman has judicionsly
done far better. We shall carry the war into Africa
in Wisconsin this fall and We trust and hope and
expect to destroy niggerism know nothingism, and
all the other isms in their dark, black catalogue.
We shall make good fight in the third Congress
sional District, and hope to carry it, and also ma
jority of the Legislature. Should the homestead
bill pass both Houses next session, hope our noble
President will veto it. There has been too much
squandering of the public lands already-engender-
ing pecuation, corruption, monopoly. bribery, and
evils nnumerable, without corresponding benefits
Some of our political parsons of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, TO which have belonged for 81
years) who in 1856 preached Fremont and black-re-
pubcansm, have come over into the democratic
fold. MENASHA.