Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-22
u hat Al Patriotic German saws of the Re-N0m
inalion Of Abraham IineOln.

At the Union ratification meeting in Chica-
go last week, Col EDMUND JUssES, formerly
OF this city, and prominent among the radio
Al anti-slavery Germans of the Northwest,
said:
The time has arrived, when every citizen
who has the welfare of his country at heart
and who desires the reconstruction of the
Republic as 1t should be and not of the Union
as it was, whose love of country and liberty
and desire for the perpetuity of this free
government Is not yet strangled by selfish
ambition, will pledge his support 10 the stand
ard-bearers of that great and noble party,
who by their action at the Baltimore Conven-
ton have chosen the next President and
Vice President OF these United States.
l hail with enthusiasm the nomination Of
Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, that noble
representative of democratic sentiments In
their original purity, free from the blighting
/ influence of modern Democracy; a man born
of the people, reared 10y the people and now
So descrvedly honored and rewarded for all
his UueeasIug labors IN defence of liberty and
progress.
Abraham Lincoln, the raiI-splitter of Hi
u0is Is again called upon bv the freemen of
the North to split the skull of this wicked
rebellion.
Although l am surrounded bv men who
greeted the nomination Of the present Execu-
tive with unmeasured Joy and enthusiasm.
whose yer- carts beat responsive to the roar
of cannon which Yesterday proclaimed the
result of the Baltimore Convention TO the
metropolis of the West, | Will not, | cannot,
deny that Abraham Lincoln was not my first
choice.
But since John c. Fremont and his ambi-
/ tlous radical friends have seen fit to dictate
to the great party of progress, since their
| ambition Is greater than their love of country
since they have adopted the policy Of rule or
ruin, and, in a time like this, when. among
the friends of liberty, all should be harmony
and good viii, have inscribed the detestable
words ''RgUge Of personal rr5ugS upon their
banners, | am heart and soul with the party
and with the men who shaped the future des-
TIMES of this Union ut the Baltimore ConVen-
ton | viii gladly and willingly sacrifice my
personal preferences and feelings upon the
altar OF oar common country, and hencclOrth
with word and deed, and with an earnest,
enthusiastic will, shall advocate the cause OF
the regular nominees. And desire TO tell
those gentlemen, who are the acknowledged
leaders of the radical German party of this
city, and who bOastIugly proclaimed to the
world that their visionary political tranScen-
deuraiism was shared by four hundred thou
sand OF their German eliow-citizens, that
before the ides of November have arrived.
LlElE A-ELt'l OF SUCCESS VIII Ntlll>li Ike
dream: they viii see the ranks Of their army
thiuned TO desperation, and there viii be no
one left but Infatuated Generals and Orua-
mental hie-elosers, to charge the rifepits,
and battlemeuts, and impenetrable forts of
the great Republican party. For know too
well the practical sense of the Germans; I
am too well convinced Of their patriotism and
love Of country 10 believe that any great
number OF them can ever be tempted to throw
away their vote on John c. Fremont, and
thus bring about the fearful possibility even
Of the election of an ultra conservative can
didate.
As the brave German soldier in the field
stands by the good old flag, fearless of the
storm and carnage around him, so viii the
German citizen at home, IN the coming
Presidential campaign, perform his duty to
ms country, and vote tor the candidates cho
sen by tie party of progress, regardless Of
the howlnss aud threats of an ambitious
faction.
With these remarks, fellow-citizens. In COM
mon with you, l accept the challenge tender
ed by both radicals and copperheads. and
from this moment to the eve of election,
shall hope and pray and work for the bril-
liant, overwhelmiag success of Lincoln and
Johnson.