Here then, are Orton, Washburn, Cole
and Gray, already suggested by their re
spective friends. Where has each been
these several years while the runaway ne
gro and come-up-north negro laws have
sprang into being? Have they been at
work through adverse as well as driving
winds to arrest the damning cause of all
trouble? Have they been driving back
| these handmaids of abolition and treason
j to the Constitution, —these recognized pre
liminaries of disunion and civil war ?
j Names and platforms are nothing,—men
j and well canvassed opinions are everything
now and henceforth: Therefore, gentlemen
candidates, you must expect to present
clean fronts, faces and hands. You can’t
come it among the masses by the mere
jumping onto a platform prepared for you;
the people intend to leave such a process
in the hands of the little squad of Nebras
ka men who are cornered up without any
allies to bolster up their miserable cargo of
Non-Intervention and Popular Sovereign
ty-
Printing Office Destroyed by Fire.
The Wisconsin printing office, Milwau
kee, W m. E. Cramer proprietor and edi
tor of the paper, was burned on the 25th
ult., with several of the surrounding build
ings. Mr. Cramer’s loss some $3,000. —
The books and a few other valuables were
saved, but the printing fixtures mostly de
stroyed. Fortunately the proprietor is a
blc to purchase a new and better office im
mediately, so the paper will not be suspen
ded.
