Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1859-10-22
Casual Pecks at Popular Subjects-No.
The Pa,riot-A Word to F'orosa
Voters,


up and encounter the gaze Of their fellow
inn oslors, while performing their stupid
mummerl over the entfails of beasts. The
flight Of binds and other equally silly, i'm.
aglnary prognostics, for fear OF bursting
into a laugh ard disclosing 10 tbs creda
lous multitude, their own unhelef il THEN
senseless impostions. We think at least
a broad grn-if not accompanied BY au-
dible cachinnatory exposions-must orna-
ment the physiogDomy of BxRIAH BRowN,
PUMP CARpESTER--or whoeytr whites
leaders fer the Patriot when their optic
nerves 70 brought 10 bear on the coante.
nance of brother democrat Ii The Pa
triot was, as in It's palmy DAYS, illustrated
by huge -cuts-fruits Of the editors
own marvellous handiwork- would ad-
wise PUMP to represent his present position
with the foreign element of Wisconsin de
mocracy, By a picture Of his august and
consistent self, in front Of q Gaping, cred
ui~as congregation of Mllesians and Scan
dinayans, lecturing on the constitution and
structure Of the lunar orb, aud tracing its
origin 10 Tic dairy.
Ia recent number of the Patriot,
there is an article proving concusively that
the Republican and Krow Nothing parties
are Identical 1t 3 saying of 10 MILLs,
that milk can be skinned but once; how.
ever this may be with the tactical flaid. or
Minnesota SCI, ii cannot be affirmed of
democratic l,ress-lhe Republicans have
SKINNED it Of its falsehoods again and
again, andstIl the cdious scum rises thicker
and fouler than ever This talSehood,
manufactured to wheedle the foreigner
out Of his vote, has been refuted hundreds
of times, and still the Patriot has it As
fresh as ever; it has more lives han u cat,
more heads Than the hydra, and may be
torn into more pieces and retain its vitality
than q tape worm.
Here are some specimens OF the PdtriotS
log CT A small faction of anti-slavery
Knov Ndthings held a nominal convention
10 1855 and nominated John G. Fremont
for the Presidency; he told them he would
thank them for their votes, if they saw fit
to support him, sacrificing their proscrip
tive principles IN favor of human freedom
therefore the Republicans are Know Moth
ipgs.
The legislature Of Massae husetts has
lately passed an act declaring that foreign
ers cannot exercise the elective franchise
until two years after naturalization there
fore Republicans and Know Nothlngs
are one.
An anonymous democrat afirms that
he saw ALEX. W. RANDALL on the stairs
leading TO hall sometimes occupied rs a
Know Nothing lodge room: therefore the
Republican and American" parties are
identical.
The minor, premises of these profound
syllogisms are the facts that Fremont
Massachusetts and Randall are respective
Ily Republican; and the whole forms a
chain Of logical reasoning which only lacks
foundation for the premises and connec-
ton between them aud the conclusion, to
be perfect and satisfactory.
The question Of Fremont's Know Moth
inS proclivi;ies ought to have beeu settled
in the minds Of the foreign voters long
ago. During the last Presidential cam
paign, the Patriot tod us that he was =
foreigner aud Il catholic, and he was rep
resented in the carlcatures of these artistic
democrats, with cross on his shoulder,
heading a motley cayalcade of cowled per-
sonages, leading them 10 crusade against
the Goddess of Liberty, or riding the hay
gard Mustang pony. At a miserably slow
pace, over the Presidential race track -
always bearing the burdensome symbol Of
catholicism; and with their usual perspica-
cious logic, they argued that since bis nup-
tails were celebrated by catholic priest,
he must inevitably be devoted follower
of Pope Plus; but now when Wisconsin
wants to elect an honest Governor, these
consistent frienas Of the foreigner y in
sist that he is 4 most rampant aud arrant
Know Nothing.
Again The hue and cry is raised, that IN
Republican Massachusetts the foreigner is
degraded beneath the negro in political
standing, and many honest foreigners feel
grieyed, and begin TO doubt the friendship
Of heir chosen party. The action Of Tie
Massachusetts Legislature is not approved
By the mass Of the free party of the North,
and we do not wish TO be considered its
apologist, but we ask in all caDdor, what
does 1t all amount to in connection with
the law regulating negro Suffrage? Not
by any means TO The degradation Of the
man Of foreign birth beneath The standing
OF the negro; it is merely declaration Of
The equality Of the races. If negro en-
igrates thither from foreign land, he like
others must submit to the provisions of
this two years amendment; these negroes
who are allowed to vote before the natur-
allied citizen, it must be remembered, are
b. the laws Of Massachusetts, native CT,
ze1s Of the United States, and as such TO
De allowed equal privileges with their
white fellows. But because the Massachu-
sets Legislature believes that God created
the African and Caucasian races equal, is
the Republican party therefore the enemy
of the foreigner and the invader Of his
rightsl Tins political equality we believe
is but simple justice, but if The alien Isl
a. r. 4 4 e. A.