HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
Within the last three years a man has been 
elected as President of the United States, who 
probably more than any other man, has disap- 
pointed the hopes of his best and truest friends, 
has with impunity trampled upon the constitu- 
tional rights of one portion of the people to 
promote the unconstitutional and oppressive 
claims of another and minor portion. And nO 
administration that has proceeded it will stain 
the page of our national and political history 
with so many deep and dark spots of ignorance 
or wickedness and depravity, as that of Franklin 
Pierce.. But these usurpations and departure 
from the long established democratic principles. 
has called fortlh a just deserved constitutional 
resistance and repudiation of the present admin- 
istration, from nearly all of the free States of 
the Union. The rebuke has been loud and un- 
mistakable, and from no State has it been uttered 
with more firmness and effect than from our 
own beloved Wisconsin. 
Since the organizations of the republican party 
at the State capitol, on the 13th of July last, 
the political change has been unprecedented; 
and the triumph of liberty more complete than 
its most sanguine friends would dare to antici- 
pate Under circumstances so unfavorable. Every 
important election has resulted in the triumph 
of the republican party, or rather its principles. 
Our State legislature, a judge of the Supreme 
Court, our representatives in the next Congress, 
and a United States senator for the next six 
years, has already crowned the united efforts of 
the party, and next fall the governor and the 
entire State administration will be elected upon 
the same issue as the others, and grace the tri- 
unph of the friends of freedom over the advo- 
cates of slavery. 
In this struggle the Sentinel, though a regular 
democratic paper, took an early and a firm stand 
against the Nebraska swindle,and the usurpations 
of the slave power, the interests and prospects 
of the paper were at once laid upon the altar of 
freedom, and in this position the paper has been 
sustained in this county. Of its efficiency, the 
 
public will, of course, decide. Retiring for a 
time only from the perplexities, .and pleasures 
of the editorial sanctum-though we carry away 
not much of the treasures of wealth, and cer- 
tainly no official endowments, as the reward for 
our hard toil, yet we do feel a proud satisfac- 
tion, in the reflection that we have stood in 
truth and right-that God, and conscience and 
good men approve the course which we have 
pursued, while we have contended for the same 
principles (embraced in the declaration of 
rights), for which the fathers of the revolution 
fought so nobly, and bled so freely-the doc- 
trine of the immortal Jefferson, the letter and 
the spirit of the constitution. As our successors, 
Messrs. Stout & Tenney, are already so favora- 
bly known to the readers of the Sentinel from 
their connection with the paper, it is unneces- 
sary to say more than that we hope they will 
continue to meet and receive the public confi- 
dence, and a liberal patronage. Let Green 
county give its paper a good support, it is 
abundantly able-the paper will, in time, pro- 
mote the best interests of the county. 
Wishing success and prosperity to the Senti- 
9?el, its readers, and the rest of mankind-we 
ask leave of absence until they shall hear from 
us again. 
"J. WALWORTII," 
TO THE FRIENDS OF THE SENTINEL. 
The undersigned,   having purchased  the 
office, good will and fixtures of the Monroe 
Sentinel beg leave to make a statement to the 
public of what they intend to do, and also, what 
they desire their friends may do. We have 
now been connected with this office since the 
12th of last September. The public are the 
judges of our course, and we leave what has 
been done, with that public. The course we 
shall pursue has been partially indicated in the 
past; and if we meet with proper encourage- 
ment, we shall accomplish more than has been 
done, and hope to meet with the support which 
the'interests of Green county, the village of 
Monroe, and the principles we advocate seem, 
 
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