[72] See the article in Banner und Volksfreund, July 28, 1855, entitled “The So-Called Republicans:” “We encounter in the Watertown Anzeiger the following appropriate article concerning the so-called Republican (vulgarly Shanghai) party, by which so many Germans were duped at the last election and which expects to repeat the same swindling tactics in the approaching election.” (Translation). The election of Coles Bashford as governor was due in part to German votes.
[73] “The temperance swindle,” says Banner und Volksfreund, October 16, 1855, “is an outflow of Puritan bigotry and comports with other of their pious pretensions, for example, such a rigorous observance of the Sabbath as will reduce all sociability to the condition of a Puritan graveyard. For this sort of thing, also, is the Republican party the fruitful soil. The Know-Nothings harmonize, in these matters, with the Republicans.”
[74] Success was to render it practically as cosmopolitan as a protracted career of triumphs had long since rendered the Democratic party.
[75] The Chicago and Northwestern. It follows in the sector south of Muscoda the old military road from Fort Winnebago to Fort Crawford. Towns taking some of Muscoda’s former trade are Montfort, Fennimore, and Cobb.
[76] Wisconsin Magazine of History, III, 352.
[77] Wisconsin Historical Collections, I, 38, 41.
[78] Wis. Hist. Colls. XVIII, 263-64.
[79] Featherstonhaugh was obviously in error in calling that stopping place Prairie de la Bay. The context shows it must have been English Prairie. See his A Canoe Voyage on the Minnay Sotor, I, 199-201.
[80] Wis. Hist. Colls. XIV, 147.
[81] The Portage canal was begun in 1836 by a private company. Its completion was promised in 1837. See Governor Dodge’s message to the Legislative Assembly, Belmont, Oct. 26, 1836.