The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-04-10
t'om The Nes forl T. bun~'s Core. r,ouds 1t.
POLITICAL CBBl.lNGS-UP.
Baltimore, March so. 1861.


The professional Bell ringers OF this city arc
getting uneasy. The terrible csngor they have
Kept up for u month past, in order teuiiy tie
President into giving them the Federal .flices.
have suddenly ceased Oh finding that Mr.. Lin.
coin is hot going TO bc hInbuseed into any
such :, heme. And they are now turning their
attention 10 politics for the Fall eampslgn. TO see
whether they Cannot get the State Governments
back into their clutches.
Accordingly, the leading Bell III gers have been
hard at work buryiug the suudr, hatche,s Tor
the last few ds,s. Winter Davis and Morrison
Harris. the rcd and white roses OF the sncieit
hho~ Nothing party, have been recon,iled. aid
the faithful oi these hegemen have s!so been
smoking the pipe Of peace. The othce oi Mr..
DAVIS has been of late the centre of attraction Il
the poitcians of the Bell ringing school; ms
sives are daily dispatched TO them in dIficreilt
parts OF The State, urging their immediate pres
ence in town 10 receive Instructions, and tie
prospec, is that We shall soon See the
-embing oi a State Convention ui Bel ringers,
say about the LIST oi Nav.
Bul lhcie ma, be some serious bitches ia
rsing out these plans. and ia view oi their prov
liG ialal the whisper has air, AZ, gone ost that
Winter Davis and Morrison tiarii> ~il run Ia the
lid anu lNth Districts. Oh their own hooks, a.
independent Bell ringers, III the hope OF ringing
la sufficient outsiders Ia secure their election,
but tie iape is a vain che. They si tud 1T
cant te did, 1t. il "hen they will.
II The Bell ringers should prove successful ian
mpossibi!iiy IA IA. Judc,mentJ III pe'suading the
Adiniui>,ra ION to cuuhje To them the FeceIal
oihces in this city, the result would inevitably
be that the Denoci attic party will carry th,s city
by 5000 msj 'rity, AT the least 10, on the con-
I.ry, the Adrnini-tr alton adher,s .tricl, Re-
a hlcar nm L hay
TO believe 1t viii, the Brllringers ~i!i be tx
tinguished, and t~o members 10 Congress, at
least, whose fidelity TO the Union ~ he u ques.
TONED, and who will stahd by the Constitution
it is, aud The ivl, as il was.
Iov. Amy JCh ,son says that he found the
heart OF the Democratic and arceit Wing mas
>es o Frederick City, during has late speech IN
that town, Ia the right place. The meeting list'
ened TO him uniteiI up,edl. for t~o hou = and
more, and when lie had done the farmers cro~.
ied around him aud gave hlm their hard f-ied
| Lands IN token Of their appreciation oi lis old
jackson doctrines.
The See, ssO.ists confess themselves ~hipPsd
out in this State, since cir last attempt 20 tie
is to the tail of the old Virginia rattle trap c.'t.
aud these are quiet at last b tore tie Summer
opens. think, they viii have dodg,d ihi- qu's-
ton entirely, the Democratic ranks will have
D
ward for the Fall campsi "a, under the Stars aud
stripes, upon the new issue OF representation
based on population. As tue Republicans oi the
State hold this doctri, e, the mps,h ,hes o. the
TWO parties ma. work together for good, TO keep
the State Gove,nm out Ot the grasp OF the
,Imp Of the old Kro~ Nothing party, transformed
by the last canvass into a company of profession
al Bell ringers.
learn from reliable sources that the uiIcon-
iitional Union feeling in Vugnia is stronger by
| 10000 to day than on the 4'h OF Feb'uar, lAsi,
aud the true friends Of the Union We're aix'ous
that the Convention should pass an O,dinaLcc of
Sci e>sion, ana let il go before the eople. The
result would have buried the r.bvls TO deeply,
that 10 political resurrection trump could have
| ever awakened them But tie rebels were too
cunning. They will adopt the majority report,
which, you will obse We, is more Ohsnsise than
the JEFF. Davis Constitution.