The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-03-16
From the Detroit Free Press.
THE BLACK REPUBLICANS ANTICIPATE
DEFEAT.

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1t is our impression that the black re-
publicans will not be greatly disappointed
IL they shall he beaten at the ensuing
election. They sro perfectly conscious
that they deserve to be beaten, and they
observe signs indicating that they may
ret their deserts. For example, the black
republican newspaper organ at Lansing,
which betrayed its fears last week, groans
apain this week in the following fashion
"Just about here nothing is being done
TO secure the reelection of Judge Martin
to the head of the Supreme bench, and,
indeed, it would seem that no general
knowledge exists that the first Monday in
April is TO bring with it any more impor-
lance than attends the election of town
ship officers for year"
These apprehensions are well founded,
no doubt. We can not hear that any
thing has beon done in any quarter TO
"secure the re election of Hon. GEORGE
MARTIN" and we are sure that there Is no
disposition to do anything in that behalf
among the masses Of the people. The
black republican managers have issued
two or three addresses and rs many cir
culars, which have been scattered broad
cast over tho State, calling vehemently
for organization and action, but they get
no responses. Nobody answers their calls.
The fact is, there is settled conviction
in the public mind that there is rotten
ness in Denmark. The people, so many
of whom have been so long blinded by
the dust which has been raised over Kan
Sas, are beginning to realize that mean-
while their own State affairs have been
going to destruction, and that it is time
this career were checked. They are begin
ming to earnestly inquire how it IS that
in the course of four years Of black re-
publican administration half million OF
dollars left in the treasury by the demo
Gratis, and half million more borrowed
from the trust funds, have been expended
how il is that loans have been contracted
for two hundred and sixty-six thousand
dollars and the proceeds expended; how
it is that the taxes have been increased
from thirty thousand dollars to one hun
dred and seventy thousand, and the specific
taxes more than doubled; and how it is
that yet, at this very time, the treasury
is EMPTY. The people are beginning to
earnestly inquire how all this come
There is but one answer. 1t has come by
the mismanagemen and extravaganza and
corruption of the black republican admin
s1ias
and abolish corruption, there might have
been different state of public feeling now
But the administration disclosed no such
disposition. On the contrary, the Coy
ernor recommended appropriations amt
ing in the aggregate to three-quarters Of
a million of dollars, and that they were
not all made was owing to exposures by
the democratic press and resistance by
democratic members of the Legislature
AS it was, much money was squandered
and much of the legislation otherwise was
OF the worst possible character and some
of it was absolutely heinous. The regis.
try law was heinous, and so was the law
making it penitentiary offence for any
person to pass through the State accom-
panied by a negro slave. The people are
not only beginning to earnestly inquire
with respect TO all this, but they are be-
ginning TO understand it all. As the
Kansas scales fall from their eyes, thoy
soc worse abuses at their own doors than
have ever been committed in Kansas.
And these are the reasons why the
black republican managers get no rcspon-
scs 10 their appeals. These are the rea-
sons why "nothing is being done to So
cure the reelection Of Hon. GEORGE
MARTIN TO tho head of the Supreme
bench" These are the reasons why the
black republican power is in imminent
danger of overthrow.
IL is a condition of affairs which is
well calculated to give the democracy in.
creased courage, and TO make them hope
inl that the proper exertons IN behalf Of
ALPHEus FELcH will bring a grand tri-
aupb.