Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-01-18

We "speak from the book" We have our infor-
nation from the highest sources, and publish the
bill only because wish 1t placed on record. tits
well for the people to have 1t to read and keep
matter of reference. Meantime We call upon Jesse
Meacham, Talbot Dousman, George Paddock
VIM. o. Underwood, A. F. Pratt, and the other
gentlemen whose names are used In the bill, to say
whether they were put there with their consent,
and whether they sanction the creation of such an
odious monopoly, the passage of this bill would
create.
To resist the schemer's, and expose the machi-
nations Of this desperate combination is the object
OF the meeting that has been called at the Court
House on Saturday next. The real farmers and
mechanics of the county, and nearly all the other
orderly and well disposed citizens, cannot afford to
leave the business, and, at heavy expense, spend
their time at Madison, to tell the members of the
Legislature what they want and what they do not
want They leave that to their Representatives,
and those Representatives, even If they all dis
posed to do their duty (and we are not prepared
say they are not,) and properly reflect the senti-
| ments OF their constituents, do little else than
vote when they strong, artful and so desper-
| ate a lobby to contend against as they now have
have. 1t is necessary, therefore, that the members
of the Legislative Assembly should be enlightened
as to what is public sentiment is in this county
Let, therefore, few peals of popular thunder be
| sent over to Madison. 1t can do no harm, and
may do much good. There is wonderful ma gle
| IN pubic opinion when properly expressed-paruc-
ulary when Representatives have, In short time,
| to give an account of their stewardship.
! In politics, as in all other transactions of life,
! honesty is the only true policy and he who vio-
| ates popular confidence-that knowingly betrays
| the interests of those who have committed their
affairs to his hands, must expect to be visited with
a terrible retribution If, therefore, the members
! from Milwaukee and other countless sin gains the
people snterests well that they should not have
| ignorance to plead as an excuse for their conduct
The day has nearly gone by for the designing to
| conceive and carry out successfully, specializing
and fraudulent projects, by means of new acts of
incorporation. ''Hstory philosophy teaching by
example :" and the history of the past ten years,
will be remembered to the latest period of time as
remarkable for legaised swindlng. If the career
of corruption is stopped with the final closing up of
the institutions that have already been created it
will take years of toll, and perhaps of blood, to eff
face their deep marks of desolation and ruin. The
spoilers hand should therefore be stayed where it
now is. The people have suffered enough
| That the democratic members of the Legislature
will prove true to their professions is sincerely to be
desired The bitter reverses that the party has met
with In the past few years, have been occasioned
by Its having too many men In Its ranks who were
| democrats IN name only. No true democrat will
take to himself, confer upon cliques or indvidu-
| ais, rights or privileges that he is not willing to
have all enjoy. Equal rights, equal laws, and equal
privileges is his moto and he that does not live up
to it, is not the democrats friend, therefore not
worthy of enjoying his confidence, or receiving his
| suffrage.