[62] See this magazine, vi, 395-398 (June, 1923).
[63] “Events teach us,” said the Banner und Volksfreund, October 15, 1855 (in the thick of the bitter Barstow-Bashford campaign), “that the Shanghais (Republicans) despite their prating of antislavery, are further removed from actual human freedom than the slaveholders themselves. The occurrences of the past year, during which the Shanghais have been dominant in various state legislatures, have shown us that this party is the incubator of the temperance law.” This line was followed vigorously through the campaign.
[64] Note, for example, the Louisville, Kentucky, riots in which the Germans were driven from the city. The Wisconsin Democracy, in August, 1855, made that the excuse for a resolution refusing seats in the convention to men of Know-Nothing proclivities. See Argus and Democrat (Madison), August 29, 1855.
[65] See the Milwaukee American, 1855-1856, which was the party organ.
[66] Those belonging to the Turner Society are generally classified as “free thinkers.” The Turner Zeitung, national organ of the Society in 1855, was Republican in its politics, which probably influenced the result in Wisconsin.
[67] The Mayberry lynching. The lynchers were loggers from an up-river camp belonging to the murdered man.
[68] See his letter, MS, to Lyman Draper, August 28, 1855.
[69] In the year 1855 the Wisconsin Banner and the Volksfreund were united and became the Wisconsin Banner und Volksfreund.
[70] “Fifteen participators in the lynching affair were indicted and tried for the murder of DeBar in May, 1856. They were acquitted, as the testimony did not sustain the allegation that ‘he came to his death by hanging,’ there being a reasonable doubt as to his being alive when he was hung the last time.” History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties (1881), 358. Editor’s italics.
[71] See a brilliant editorial by Colonel David Atwood, in the Daily State Journal at Madison, for August 13, 1855.