Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-07-09
HETELEGRAPH.
SOUTHPORT, TUESDAY. JULY 9. 1914.


A friend called on us day or two since,
and after raging up arrearages, disconti
nucd his paper, rem,rking that when we be
come good abolit:onist, he should probabi,
take il again. We replied, that ifby good
abolitouist, he meant All abandonment oil
the present organization o'pariy, and the en-
bracing the zone idea" of the abolition o.
sl,very, it would most probably be a LONG
lime before we should have him on our lis,,
for the reason that we conceived we were
operating most effccually in that cause, by
lvocating the principles embraced by the
democracy gescrally. lie hero directed
OUR attention TO the fact that tho democratic
House Of Representatives had refused TO in
tcrfcrc with the tariff, and that number OF
democrats voted against repeal of The gag
law, &c. This VIC admitted, and admitted
too that il weighed somewha. against our po-
sition, but nevertheless still len us ample
ground OF which TO rest. True the mass Of
the democracy may not come fully up TO the
standard We choose TO elevate, but it i, rot
by standing out alo ,t; that wc can hope I'd
accomplish what wo desire, We must take
things in tic sgreeatc--judSo Of tho par
ties id thoir general measures, and lend our
Influence in aid of the party tho cffotis of
which will eventually result in tho accom-
p" shmcnt of the ends we aim at. For in
stance, if The Wing p,riy are successful, we
knew that National Bank will be establish
cd-that the tariff will be perpetu itcd and
probably made more oppre disri-
button will be resorted ;o-that the powers
of the general government will be extended,
with o'hor measures of a kin lrcd character:
whilst on the other hand, if the democracy
are successful, We know that these things
will not be done. Now as an individual, we
my want Unrestricted free rade-.:nay want
paper money entirely banished from govern
mcnt transact:ons-may desire to see the
powers of the general government still more
limited, &c. With which party then shall
we act? Certainly with the one whose course
of action tends 10 the result at which we aim.
We should not sacrifice all, by acting with
The wings, nor jeop,rd all by acting with the
lbolitionists, because with our own partywe
cannot NJ once Sccurc all
We take the course then, which in view
of the facts, VIC conceive hest calculated to
advance liberal principles, and by the ad-
vance of these principles and their eventual
permanent establishment, we abolish slavery
through the only means by which it GIN be
reached Slavery is an institution which,
rom the nature of the constitution, we can
not take dlect hold Of; if the whole north
we're TO join in body they could no., with
out violation of our compact, abolish sla-
very. They may hem il round with onerous
"csric,ions and perhaps make it burthcn-
some to the south; but whist one effect Of
his would be, TO seriously endangcr our UNI
on, another effect, most probably, would lie
hat the south, fom the nature Of the feel
ngs excited, would cling 10 her institutions
IL the last gasp. 1t is plain then, that per-
suason is the only mode by which we can
accomplish any thing, and to mike pe-sua-
sion effective, it is equally pla that our prac-
ticc must correspond with our professions
We all feel that it is ridiculous for England
% talk 10 us about our southern slavery.
when millions Of her own subjects are in
'ondase ten times worse, Though tho oper-
,tion of her vicious laws. Let her tell the
south of the bondage of her slavo5--:hcy re-
ply ii is not worse bondage thln that which
confines the operative to fourteen or xtcen
hours unremittingt toll, in her flct cries, mines,
md furnaces. Let her tell the south ;h,t it
IS outrageous that husbands should be sepa-
rated from wives, wives from husbands and
children from plten's-hey can point 10 the
many graves tcn,ntcd by athers and mothers
brought there prcmalurely from physical
toll, want, and general misery; her army and
navy filed TO great extent from similar eau
ses, and her colon es all over the world poo
pied with those who sought in vain for bare
subsistence at home; children, too, separa-
ed from parents and all crde rmen,s by con-
linement in damp and noisome re oms 10 un-
rem ting labors. such as 'press the lfc from
out young hearts" Indeed among the grelt
mass of England and Ireland there can be
no such hing as family union, nor would
union be desirable in view of its attendant
misery. This is the attitude England holds,
md when we at the north attcmp, TO per-
iuade the south, are we sure that 10 a great
extent we do not rest under the same impu-
tation. We venture the prediction tina, some
of our most Jealous Massachusetts abolit OF
stS have men in their employ who labor from
III to Ii hours a day, and are not better OF
IN any particular, than the mass Of southern
neglo.s. These men toll not neither do they
spin,y they ride in theirg I'd chariots, they
clo,hc themselves in fine raimen,, and fare
SUM taously every day. They talk much to
the south OF appropria,ing mans labor with
"ut adequate compensation; yet without Il
stroke of labor themselves, tho gold is flow
my iA,o their c.ifars. Is it not plain then
tia, they overlook essentials and war only
against words, and under the circumstances,
can their admoniions to the south be of any