Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-09-05


his pretended followers in Wisconsin main
tain cautious silence on that subject.
The address goes on TO enumcrate scve
raj measures ofpolicy which arc all elaine,
to be entirely whig-such as hostility to al
extension of executive patronage; distribu
ton of the proceeds of the public domain
among the States; disregard of all dstnc
+ tons OF wealth; a speedy admission to tho
rights of citizenship, &c These severa
subjects have so often been made the theme
OF defamation by wing orators and leaders
while at the same time when III power the,
have exhibited so little sincerity. especial,
IN relation to the distinctions of wealth.
or property qualifications for voters. and fol
the early naturalization of voters, that wln
professions III these matters must be taken
with great caution. To what party are the
people. mostly indebted for the extension
OF the elective franchise? Let the history
OF Legislation i'll the several States answer
What party has been most ready to extend
TO foreigners the rights of citizenship? No
longer ago than the last session of CONGRESS.
proposition of the Hon Robert II. Walker.
for modicfation of the existing naturaliza-
non laws was re- ected in the Senate of the
United States by strong wing vote.
The foregoing subjects which we have
named are substantially all the great oucs-
tons Of principle at issue,n contained in the
wing address and from them the writer draws
the important deduction, that their adoption
would produce most happifying condition OF
society," sort of political paradise; and a
Government " extending its influences to all
classes OF lis citizens, like the generous
sunlight, alike cnlivepingy amt blessing the
whole" But ifthe people of Wisconsin can
find any new discovery in the science of 90
vcrnment here, which is likely to bring about
such human perfectibility in our nation
al and social condition, then they must pos
scs5 intellectual d;scernments greater tban
than those with which we are blessed.
After passing most deadly thrust at the
administration of Van Buren,, the writer pro-
cccds to the glorificaton Of the wing Con
grcss which came into power in lS4O.-
Says the address, 8 The wing congress have
accomplished benefits for the country which
should cntitlc them to a nations oratiiudc >
Enough has been done Continues the adj
dress.) TO vlndicate the soundness of our
policy and the wisdom OF our satesmcn.''-
Now reader, mark the astonishing ehrontery
of these assertions. What did the 9th
Congress accomplish after having spent SIX
teen months i'll legislation? AT its first scs-
sion was enacted a number of prominent
measures which were claimed as importan.
wing principles; its last session was spent in
repeating every one of the important meas
urcs (pcrhaps with single exccplion.} il had
previously enacted! Yet for this most cy
traordlnary course ofvacillation and folly. the
author of the wing address declares the 9th
Congress entitled to the nations gratitude
Is there an instance on record in the lcuisla
ton of our country, where Legislature re-
belled against, and made war upon its own
acts TO half the extent? The 9th Con
gross has not been inaptly compared to Sa
turn, who heather mythology says dcvomcd
his own children.
After having gone through with the
wcIghiy matters pertaining to our n1tional
concerns, the author of the address proceeds
to invest Mr.. lIckox, the whg candidatc
for the dclegacy, with multitude of quail
ficatons and intellectual cndowmcnts. which
are entirely new to people in these parts,
and undoubtedly they will be so to Mr.
IIickoX's most intimate friends and neigh
5ors. If Mr. Iiickox possesses half the at
tributes ascribed TO him in the whg address.
the world has certainly sustained an meal
culable loss by his being SO long permitted
to remain i'll obscurty.
The address goes on TO ass1il the demo
cratic party with ficrccncss bordering on
mania: no cant phrase in the vocabulary
of cpithct seems to have escaped the author
All the combination of wickcdncss, whether
real or imaginary, which ever entered into
the brain ofman, is represented as being che
rishcd by the democrats. Whatever opinion
the public may form of the writer of the adj
dress as politician; every reader will be
ready to conccde that he must have gradu-
atcd in the school of vulgarty. As for Gen.
Dodge ,hc,is represented as an old man of"ob-
tusc and bewildered intcllcct;" whose great
ness is fit theme for dcrision.-Thus have we
glanced at some of the leading traits in this
most rare wing address; the honors It's au-
thor has achieved in its production no one
will envy him nor will any be anxious to
rob him of his fame There is too much
intelligence in the people to be frightened
| by denunciaton. or dazZled by wild dec
lamation; and hence VIC have no serious APP