Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-09-11
EoR MEMBER OF CONGRESS- 2D CONG. DIST
C.. G.. WASHBURNE,
OF IOWA COUNTY.
JUDGE DUNN NOMINATED FOR CONGRESS.
WAaRbUREE AND DUNN C0MPARED.

At t h e Democratic Congressional
Convention for til g T bird Di
trict, held at Prairie du Chen
on Wednesday last Hon., CHARLES Dunn
was nominated for Congress.
We are now enabled to contrast the two
candidates for Congress-Dunn the Dem
ocrat and Washburn the Republican.
Dunn is a Douglas anti buchanan man, so
reported by those who make the Douglas
issue their issue; he is an honest man, if
an honest democrat Of bis good sense and
inloriualion can be found in the United
States; he has clear head and is IN able
lawyer, but is not brilliant man at all;
he is a sound man in point of judgment
but of extreme prejudices and almost in
tolerant towards an oppopeut--a strong
friend and bitter enemy. He nsver be-
longed to the Barstow democracy, receiv-
ed no railroad bends for his vote in the
Legislature of SO, aud not doubt he
secretly despises the low administration
of Buchanan. Washburn is Republican
and has way Of telling what lbs is by his
act, rather than by words. ITO the re-
cord," is his method of finding out what
is true or false, and by this he is willing
to be tried. His judgment is sound, being
a man of moral and studious habits ho in
vestigates closely before acting. In life,
now past its prime and at the eve of the
venerable, chiefly devoted 10 business, no
charge Of fraud, error, oppression or wrong
has ever been alleged against him. He 10
a ht-forward man, talks to the point
and acts all he processes. Such is Wash
bura.
We now compare the men politically:
Judge Dunn is conscisntiously pro-slav
cry man, from education and poiitiesl as
seciations- otherwise, he would now hold
an opposite faith, because no honest man
educated where all are free and having
free associates can tolerate human bond
age. If elected he will honestly aim to
restore that equilibrium between freedom
and slavery hich has become lost to the
South. WsShburn is devotedly anti.sla
VEGETABLES oppression the more because
educated where all are free men. If elect
ed, he will honestly work 10 stop slavery
going any further. Their views are 10
deed wide apsrt-Dunn represen ting the
southern policy and Washhurn the north
ern. Dunn calls bins If national man
because slavery claims to be national;
Washburn claims to be also national man
because freedom is national and slavery
seetional-it being plain to all thai slavery
and freedom cannot both be national.-
Who is right? Let the people judge
In the matter of extending slavery. We
hear many say that the free white people
want the territories for themselves and
their children; they don't want to move
among The negroes, because they oppose
am@lgamation aud working in the field and
BY the way side among negroes. They
reason that if slavery he kept ont of the
territories, there will be few or no negroes
in such territories, consequently, little or
20 amsIgama,iou, dc. But We urge high
er objections; we deny that one man esn
lawfully own another, or that the consti-
tuition sanctions slavery anywhere. We
believe that every human adult, black or
white, lawfully owns himself and that no
power exists on earth to transfer his sight
nor can such right he forfeited, except
by crime. This is not the doctrine of the
Republican party, but the faith of one who
holds that "rnan ie only little lower than
the angels" angels only lower than God
that man Is q man because God made
him SO, not because man elects or makes
a slave of this fellow or king of that one:
our idea is, that all men are kings We
support Washburn because thereby we
can make one blow IN the direction We
hold, not because he holds with us; we
shall oppose Dunn because no holds 10
sympathy in our direction.