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Editorial July 4, 1851

Kenosha Telegraph

Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin

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Partisan editorial attacking editor Ladue of the Sheboygan Democrat for pro-southern, Hunker views on the Fugitive Slave Law, quoting critics like Cramer of the Wisconsin, expressing confusion over a new pro-southern sheet, and responding to the Fond Du Lac Journal's mention of missing the Kenosha Telegraph.

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DIMINUENDO—DONE UP.—Ladue, of the Sheboygan Democrat, who made such a crushing report, in the Assembly, last winter, on the Fugitive Slave Law, and against the King's English—which at the special request of an Honorable member from this city, we forbore to review, that he might have an original chance. (which he never improved) to spread himself on the subject—Ladue. the smallest, meanest. most servile Hunker specimen, who ever wielded the pen editorial in this State, has "fizzled" clean out—run down, and could get no one to wind him up again—and cleared, report says, for the Baraboo country. We advise him to keep on travelling west till he reaches China, where he might be taken in for an Oriental, to do the menial service for a Mandarin,—Free Dem.

This is that same apology for a two legged animal that stood up in the House (and although a printer by trade.) said that the Statutes could be printed at 25 cents per 1000—but he was so mean a specimen of a biped, that when living we did notice him; and certainly we have no disposition to expose him when dead.

But Cramer of the Wisconsin, has a happy way of telling the truth, when he has a mind to. Hear him :

Mr. Ladue has been a plain out spoken editor, but it was manifest that his views were too sectionally Southern to be sustained by the People of this state, Our People love Party, but they love their country more: and all politicians who abandon the noble principles which have honorably signalized Wisconsin, will most assuredly meet with a political burial from which there is no resurrection.

We were at a loss to reconcile this farewell notice of Ladue with the welcome to a sheet which has just appeared in this region, and which if possible is more southern and hunkerish in its sentiments, than Ladue ever could make his paper—because we think our neighbor has four times the ability of the above named animal, and has as good a disposition as a man can have to please the southern nabobs. But because we don't understand it, is no reason that it is not clear.

The Kenosha Telegraph don't bless us with the light of its countenance any more. We always looked at it, for the sharp, pungent way Clement has of doing up whatever he takes in hand, and we miss it now, vastly.—Fond Du Lac Journal.

You do, eh ? Well friend Allen you don't need it as bad as your predecessor did, but you shall have it. The miserable old hunker. who formerly conducted the Journal cut us we believe.

But we didn't "miss" the Journal then by a long shot.

What sub-type of article is it?

Partisan Politics Slavery Abolition

What keywords are associated?

Hunker Editors Fugitive Slave Law Wisconsin Politics Partisan Criticism Southern Sentiments Editorial Attacks

What entities or persons were involved?

Ladue Sheboygan Democrat Cramer Wisconsin Kenosha Telegraph Clement Fond Du Lac Journal Allen

Editorial Details

Primary Topic

Criticism Of Pro Southern Editor Ladue And Hunker Sentiments In Wisconsin Press

Stance / Tone

Strongly Anti Hunker And Pro Northern Principles

Key Figures

Ladue Sheboygan Democrat Cramer Wisconsin Kenosha Telegraph Clement Fond Du Lac Journal Allen

Key Arguments

Ladue's Report On Fugitive Slave Law Was Crushing And Poorly Written Ladue Is The Meanest Hunker Editor And Has Fizzled Out Ladue's Southern Views Cannot Be Sustained In Wisconsin Politicians Abandoning Wisconsin's Noble Principles Face Political Burial Confusion Over Welcoming A New Even More Pro Southern Sheet Response To Missing The Sharp Kenosha Telegraph

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