Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-07-28
Who shall be U. S. Senator.
From the GAINESVILLE Gazette.

tOD CiACil bSCH sbuf1g W llUI liHCdltuii
by the official acts Of the present in
cumbent not to realize the impor-
tance Of fduhfuIneSS to convictions
and tealty to the party-assuming
that the party shall be true to the
constitution and the best interests of
the country We do not think it
necessary 10 discuss at any great
length the public acts of Mr.. Doolit-
tie, since Andrew Johnson became
President by most mysterious dis
pensation, as to do so would only be
TO recapitulate the chief points in a
history already familiar to men who
have been cognizant ofcurrent events.
Since his separation from the party
that made him a Senator, the Repub>
Leans OF Wisconsin in their State
conventions and through their rep
resenlatives in the Legislature, have
taken every proper occasion to stamp
his recreancy with all the odium in
their power, SO by simply referring
to Mr.. Dooiittle's career we suggest
nj once Il most convincing argu.
ment in favor of harmony in our
ranks
Next 10 faithfulness in public
servant, the country needs the bene :
fit of the ablcst men, the best trained
thinkers, those statesmen whose
methods of thought and action accord
with the progressive ideas which
characterize the age. We need men
to represent us there who possess, in
high degree, those traits of charac
ter and of intellect which disting>
uishcd Clay, Benton, Silas Wright,
Douglas and Preston King from some
OF those who now occupy their seats.
If we can find man in our ranks
whose adhesion to principle, brilliant
oratory and great legal ability has
attracted the attention and admira
ton of the leading men of both POI
litical parties throughout the Union,
he is the man who ought to be elect
ed to represent great and rapidly
growing state like Wisconsin, in the
Senate of the United States. Such a
man is MATT. H. CARPENTER, and we
nominate him as the successor of
James r. Doolittlo.
The people of Wisconsin need not
be told anything concerning Mr..
Carpenters power as an orator.
Brilliant, argumentative, magnetic
and always fascinating, he surpasses
Stephen A. Douglass or Mr.. Lincoln
at their best estate, and Is equal to
what Henry Clay was in all the pride
and power of his genius. AS learn
ed and accomplished lawyer and pow
erful advocate, the people of this
state know him we'll and appreciate
his great talents. Nor is his profes
sional reputation confined TO his own
State, He has but just returned from
Washington where he has been for
months engaged in arguing the con-
stitutioDality Of the Reconstruction
measures of Congress before the Su-
preme Court of the United States.-
He was retained in these important
suits at the suggestion of Gen. Grant
and Secretary Stanton, both of whom
have the greatest admiration for his
genius as a natural orator and his
ability as a successful attorney. A
Washington paper, now before US,
thus speaks of his effort before that
court Gas the advocate of the Gen
eraI>in~Chief and the War Depart.
ment during the recent trials before
the Supreme Court, his style of ora
tory and argument attracted the at.
tention Of his own associates and of
all who heard him, and elected the
highest tributes from the bench its,
elf" After Mr.. Carpenter had con-
cluded an argument before that court
some years ago in noted railroad
case, one of the Judges remarked
that his speech reminded him Of the
days of Rufus Choate and Daniel
Webster" a compliment of which any
man might justly feel proud.
But it is neither as an orator, nor
lawyer that we wish to speak of
Mr.. Carpenter in Chis article. As Mr.
Greeley said of Douglass, eff any one
thinks Mr. Douglass is fool let him
stump the State with the little giant
and he will alter his mind )" SO If
anybody doubts Matt. Carpenters
power as public speaker let him go
with him before the people, and dis
cuss the political problems of the
hour. What we desire to do is, to
call the attention of the people OF
this state to Mr.. Carpenters record,
as a politician, for by that he must
stand or fall in this canvass for the
Senatorshio Patrick Henry said he
knew "of no way of Judging the fu-
ture but by the past" and Mr.. Car
| penter's future course must be Judged
! by his past record and not BY the
record Of another. Let us patiently
look at the past and recall few facts
! that some of our contemporaries seem
/ to have entirely forgotten, especially
will our good and true friends Of the
Berlin Courdnt and Waukesha Free
man, who talk about probation, y
give heed to what we have to say
| ne set out lcith the declaration that no
prominent Republican politician IN
Wisconsin, took ground as early as Mr.
Carpenter did for tchdt acere esteemed
to be radical measures. He was one
of the first to advocate more yigor
Gus prosecution of the war when we
were dealing in rose water and kid
gloves he was the first to advocate
the emancipation of the slaves when
the policy was to return them with
stripes to their old rebel masters be
was one of the First TO urge the wal
power of the government outside o.
| the constitution, and the first man in
the State to make a speech and JUS
tify the emancipation proclamation
of Mr.. Lincoln Let us see if we can
prove what we have asserted. What
are the facts. In April, 1861, just al
ter Sumpter was fired upon, Mr. Car
penter made speech at the flag rails
| ing by the Chamber of Commerce in
the city of Milwaukee, in which he
urped with his usuaI eiOuuence and