Miner Porter article; The Republican newspaper 12 August 1856
Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin
A local newspaper account.
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives December 21, 2003
by Bill Porter. <wwp@excray.com>

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Transcriber's Notes: The following file was transcribed from a
microfilm copy of The Republican newspaper obtained from the
Wisconsin State Historical Society. Transcriber comments are
shown between [ ] brackets.


Volume 4, Number 22; 12 August 1856
Page 2, Column 7, as follows:

[News item]
The Way It Works.

Miner Porter, of Fox Lake, who has heretofore been a regular
hard-shell whig, was in our office yesterday, and said inasmuch
as the shanghais of this place had seen fit to hang the editor
of this paper by the neck, and had commenced their usual work
of proscription, he would take our daily paper; and that he 
would double it as often as they should repeat their insults.
He also says they have counted noses in Fox Lake, where the
Republicans claim everything, and that the know nothings cannot
have twenty majority in that town.

That's the way it works, gentlemen. -
"FREE SPEECH, FREE LABOR, FREE MEN."