Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-12-03
No Aspirant-Neyer a Candidate Mot the
Object Of Favors.

of closing up for all time just such dc.
lusions:
Mn. COVER 1t was reported with
some disadvantage during the fall
election canvass in this part of the
county that you are an aspirant for
Congress or other ho2ors, and that
seeing others in your way, you sought
their injury by alleging against them
certain charges. | would like to be
able to state the truth from your
own hand.
No one ever suggested to us the
idea Of our being a candidate or Con.
gress and we have never yet been
afflicted with tho fool disease to feel
orclaim competency tor suchan office,
nor have we ever spoken to q friend
ABOUT the like. Reports generally
are frauds which represent that some
one goes to another and asks him to
ho a candidate for some Office. We
have nover Of late years, been asked
10 be candidate for any Office, ex.
eopt for Assembly-and then by men
whose desire was rathcr 20 iniure
than befriend as, We think. And. as
a climax, we, and our kind OF men, OF
manly independence, rarely care a
conanel u for popularity or Office
conseq sentiy never have any friends
to make is presents ~ tokens Of
friendship (really as bribes.} Thoro
fore friends endorsed for past lavc,s
from Us, have never made Us presents
Of iewelry, liquors, cigars, suits Of
clothes, town lots and the like. Thus
inaccessible 10 all the demog0gucs
and rogues, who failing to use Us by
means TOO often successful with small
men, have of lato tried what virtue
there may be in charging upon us
the small crime Of Office hunting
In view Of their encouragement We
notice for their benefit the trials and
self-denial5 we have passed through
since we started in life, promising
ever since the year 1914 we have as
pired to no Office, and hereby plodge
that during the remainder Of our life
we shall accept no office nor seek or
accept any convention nomination
county or state.
In the year 1914 we did consent to
run on the Liberty party, (aboIition)
ticket, for Register Of Deeds, in Fay
cite county, Pa, our place Of nativity,
and had the honor to receive thirty
two votes, being the full strength Of
that then dispised now principle hon
ored party, in that democratic ridden
county. That year we were one OF
the delegates to the Buffalo conven,
ton that nominated James G.. Birnoy
for President. At the fall election
therefore he received $4,000 votes
be Il remembered The result of our
candidacy in party called unclean,
incendiary, and fanatic, was to in
qpire just enough prejudice among the
people to prevent our employment at
any kind OF business. Hired at
teaching the report was started that
we had offered TO receive and instruct
some colored children, and the result
was notice discharging us at once.
That fall Birney liberty pole, the
same smeared with pitch, was erect>
cd on our premises by the supporters
Of Henry Clay, tho design being to
render abolitlonism about as odious
then as christianity ever was among
The Jews. Those days it required
some considerable ingenuity 10 avoid
being mobbed. There 9eing but
three abolitionsts in the town, and
he masses being religious, intoleran.
ey ran high at times but we escap-
ed. In May 10 that year we cotrib,
uted 800 toward keeping up the S0ir.
Il ii LibeHGa Pittsburgh paper, pub
Iished ~ Rev e smith and Dr. Ell
der. and organ II the Liberty men Of
that section lhi4 fact becoming
known--our name figuring az ono OF
the propriotors Of that detcsted sheet,
we had t. take u right and lett
Surely il could not be said chat we
sought popularity and Office previous
to our migration TO the West
Finding every industrial avenue
that could bring us supper. cat offas
result 81 our very popular opinion
Gn horn aud NOT having enough
private income, We gave good by to
friend ana toe sad a long farewell 10
Youthful scene. an1 Walking paths,
aud took sail on the Mis,issipr,
steamer, Gen. Pix, tor the far north
west, where { wa> said man could
be san abolitionist or any other Id
fool thing without being called to ac>
copnt for il. We arrived al potosi.
April II, 1916, with a verbal letter
TO 5 f. Lewis vino very kindly
showed us the way to Lancaster IL
showed that day, bat even tais was
nothing to Que brought up in much
mldcr climate, but whore to speak
for freedom was crimo
We settled III Lancaster and was
not slow to let our sentiments be
known. Ii a week We found three
others in town holding the same
views-Stephen Mahood, J r. Mills
and w W CIIey That fall we
took a Enumeration Of the abolitionists
in tho county and found them 1870
strong. Was this prospecting for
Office.
But, as We mean some day to pre-.
pare a historic sketch Of the men and
the principles subversive Of whig and
democratic men and policies in Grant
county, we leave off for the present
merely adding that we are radical
in all things, conservative in nothing,
the very sort of men never to be pops
ular with those who lead the public
mind, though having mystic pow
er over the unofficial masses which
conservatism can never quepch. II