Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-01-24

THE effort Of the Irteigencer, in its last issue,
to prove (by its own assertions,) that the Re-
publican party is a sectional party, reminds one
the labor of the mountain. and the production
of very small re,iolent quadruped Of ti,e genus
mas" The editor admits that it is with dnh-
Guilty that he argues the question. aud yet SPINS
out nearly = two column leader upon the sub
ject, with just about a. much force OF arsniacnt
As shat Of the boy who told his companion he
did not Ike him and on being asked why re-
Piled, because" Because what 2" replied
his companion Because l don't :" and that
is Just the argument of the Httaliqeacer. !" The
Republican party is sectional" Why's Be
cause it Is %
Among tie most prominent apologies for
charging the Republican party with scctiansl-
ism IS, because your last National Convention
was composed of men from the Northern sec
ton" Why it that the Republican Nation
al Convent ions are not represented by dcivga,e e.
from the Southern States? Il is certainly not
because there not Republicans in the SaiIlh
tor there is not State in the Unon THAI does
not contain Republicans Il is simply because
of the sectional feeling of Democrats. who are
ready to os;racize or lynch men for opinion ;
sake. Mr. UNDEewooD. of Virginia. forced
to leave that State because he attended the Re-
publican Convention at Philadel piia. in 1856.
Democracy exied him. Was there nothin; sec
tioaal in that =? ALFRED CALDWELL, OF Nirginia.
has signed the cali for the Republican National
| Convention. to be held in Chicago, III juno, fer
which the Democratic papers in that Sta.c call
loudly upon the State Senate, of which he is =
member, to expel him and declare he should
be tarred and feathered. and driven from the
State and this Is "Nattonai Democracy" Nr.
THOMAS PowEGs, an honest, laboring Irishnau,
who had always voted the Democratic ticket.
has just been arrested stripped TO the skin. re-
ceIved thirty-nine lashes, (each to draw
blood tarred and feathered and imprisoned.
in the Democratic State of South Carolina, for
no other reason than because he had expressed
the opinion that slavery caused white labnrer
in the South to be looked upon inferior
and degraded man. Aud this Is justified bv the
dough-faces Of the North or passed by in 81
lence. because Democracy did it. and Dem"cra-
cy is national. We mustn't rneddle with the
Southern rights. Thirty six persons. all ciii-
zeas of the State, have just been driven from
AehtNCkE Tor inlnuIu5 INeAF own business. anu
claiming the right of freedom of thought
Such are almost an every day occur
renee in some of those Democratic Sta, cs
claimed by the L.telli9eacer making NJ the
National party. and yet that paper has not the
independence to So much as notice the iuc; in
its columns.
But for the exercise of this overbearing. ~
rannical, mobbng propensity Of the South,
(Which the Late!ligencer thinks constitutioial.)
every State in the Union would be represented
IN the Republican National Convention, az d
cast large vote for its nominee
Such are the reasons. Mr.. I,ltelligcncer. why
the slave States are not represented in the he
publican Conventions. and yet you call your
party the only National party in the Union.
shame on such seryile adhesion TO party oi-c-
pine