Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-03-05
BY c. L. SH0LES.

the coastlng and domestic slave trade
"Annex Texas" say they, land slavery
will acquire such strength as to destroy
the remnant Of liberty that yet fingers in
the North and in the South" All these
grievances they have reluctantly borne for
the peace, harmony, and permanency Of the
Union, brought by the common blood of our
ancestors. Should The South, now, anew,
violate the Constitution for the sole pur-
pose Of extending slavery, they are not the
true descendants Of the men Of Lexington
and Bunker Hill, if they do not part from
slavery and lis rulnous consequences al
once and forever. And because will not
shut my eyes to the danger which threat
ems US with immediate Northumberland
| dare to speak ferries sly the truth, hold
ing with Jefferson, that there is no error
so dangerous that il may be combatted with
reason and rgument--because will not
for popular favor, prove renegade from
the faith of my Observation-Disclosures | will
not for tie sake of office and political pro-
motion, prosti ute myself to the basest and
most dishonorable purposes, by avowing in
public what il private every one who is
not a madman daily acknowledges TO be
utterly false. that slavery is bI ssing,"
-becau>e ain wi ling 70 allow that six
hundred thousand free white citizens Of
this commonwealth have some rights as
well as the slaveho' ders-I am to be run
down as an aboltionist, and The ban Of the
empire is to be denounced against me. |
cannot write an answer to n compl menta-
ry letter from Mr.. G;dd s.of OHIO, but |
am published throughout the laud as an
enemy to my country. And when, in the
y. York Tribune,I set forth my true posi-
ton, and in the defcncr of which | chaI-
lenge bo'h North and South To shake me,
my letter is deni'd publication in the pres
ses of both political parties; and yet still
goes on the enternal pratng about the free
dom Of thc Frcss; sycophantic speeches are
daily poured in the ears Of the dear people,
'r.ijist that same people are buried by des-
Pottc iatOler1nce from receir ng any light
6y riica they en- In )lc their rigats, ard free
5iemTeires from the competition of Stare
tabor, 'rhi1h brings ignordnce and baggary
ID their doors. | appeal 10 mankind agains,
such fiendish injustice. If public option
be indeed omnipotent, then let lis thunders
strike terror inio the faithless sentnels on
the watch-tower of I0erty-the false pro-
phets no have bnsely usurped the tripods
Of the press. To say that am an Abo-
litionst, in the sense in which the enemies
of all moral progress would have you be-
lieve, that | would sanction insurrect on
and massacre,--my wife, children, mother,
brothe rs and sisters, and relations and friends
are all hostages for my sincerity, when,
r, strainng myself to courteous terms, re-
pei the aa,sst and dishonorTng 'mputation
l'has af, an - ii' 5sut-t II tsss sense tbai
lwouid take away, without Just compensa-
tionthe rights Of property in slaves, which
the laws secure to me and some thirty or
forty thousand itzeus Of kentucky, my
letter TO the Tribune, which is before the
world, disproves.
Still. sir, | am an abolitionis; Such an
sbolilionisi rs | have been from nv boy
hood such an abol,ionst as | was in
1886, when declared in my place in the
House o. Representatives to which | was
inst then elected,ihat if the Constitution did
not give us power to protect ourselves a.
gainst the Internal slave-trade, that | re-
nounc d it,1nd would appeal 10 Conven-
zion for a new one. Such an abolitionst
as was again in 1910, when | declared in
the same House of Representatives. that
wished to place ihe State OF Kentucky in
such a position by sustaining the law Of
1881, tina! she could move at any tina she
though il conducive to her highest inter
est, to free heI self from slavery. Such
an aboliIionIst as | have ever avowed my
self is public speeches and writings to the
people of this district, that if kentuck was
wise enough IN free himself from the
counseis of pro slavery men, that slavery
would perish Of itself, BY the voluntary az
/ ton of masters and the irrestiLle force cir
cumstances which would compel the peo-
pie to the US, Of free instead OF slave-labor,
rs every way most advantageous. Such
an abolitioniSt as were the band Of immor-
tai men who formed the Federal Cunstitu-
ton. who would not haze the word slave
in the sacred instrument, am |. Such an
aboliionist as Washington, whose far from
/ lending countenance 10 the propagation Of
slaverv,as YOU ire now doing, declared that
On all proper occasions his influence and
his vote should be- cast for the extinguish-
ment of slavery among men, am | also
! Such an abOlilIoni>t as was Jeife fson, the
/ great father Of Democracy, whom you oil
/ profess to follow. who foretold what has
since partially come 10 pass, that slavery,
# not destroyed, would leopard and finally
extlnguish the Liberties OF the whites them
seIves,that the slavery Of the black race, If
not remedied by the whites, would at last
remedy itselc-such an abolitionIst am
also. And being such, take issue with
the opinion that has been to-day, as il has
been often elsewhere, most dogmaticaly
advanced, that the question is whether the
whites shall rule the blacks, or the blacks
shall rule the whites" Such an issue is
false in theory, false in practice, and so pro-
ven 10 be false by all experience. 1t is
derogaiory 20 human nature, and biasphe-
my against God himself.
All America, except Prazland and the
| United States. have freed their slaves; and
are'all the whites slaves in,consequencei--
At the Revolution, on the day of the Dec
laration of independence, al. the States
held slaves, not excepting Massachusetts,.
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