Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-03-12


not less SO of this age, that men discarding
or overlooking the real, have pursued with
unwearyng ass!duity the unreal and imag-
nary. Words, forms, ceremonies, old Gus
toms, and all that kind of thing. without one
particle ofpractcal value or one grain of sa-
wing Influence, will enlist the feelings so
strongly, that men will endure death rather
than lay them aside. Thus, if men can be
called free, they VIII patiently submit TO alb
ject slavery; if however, they are called
slaves, their opposition is at once aroused.
To some extent, in our opinion, is this prin-
ciple manifest in the movements of the L.
berry party. Overlooking the slavery in re-
atty which exists at their very doors; they
look to far off lands,and bend their energies
TO blot out the word slavery; many Of them
unacquainted with the condition of things
under it, and not caring, so they may succeed
in erasing the word. BY bending their en-
ergles to the one purpose, they may permit
evils to creep in having universal slavery in
their results, yet so that the word liberty be
printed, written, and spoken, where before
was printed written, and spoken, the word
slavery, all that is desired is accomplished.
So il seems at least, in view of the facts
Let us illustrate. 1t is not long since the
Worlds convention assembled in London;
AT It's head sat Albert, Prince of SAKE CO.
burg, and husband to the Queen of England.
Most gravely did he donouncc the iniqufy
of holding human beings in bondage, and
most feclingly did he recommend to the
world the blessings of liberty. How stands
the case here. This man is supported as a
pauper, at an annual expense Of thousands,
by the people of England Every time he
takes an aiing in his royal carriage clothed
in his jeweled robes, thousands of CHASTITY
objects ground TO the very depths of human
misery, by the tax which supports him in lux
urious idleness, cross bis path. Every mis-
cry which the mind can conceive, tending to
the AFFECT slavery of the body here, and the
destruction Of the soul hereafter, has its birth
with an army of just such worthless yaga-
bonds as he is. Doubtless he is honest in
all nc does, bat what an example does ii pre-
sent of men overlooking blighting evil at
home to eradicate that which TO great ex-
tent is imaginary, abroad. The same at
home here. There is much ofmsery at our
very doors. All laws granting special priv
leges, of whatsoever character, necessarily
embody to some extent, slavery in their re-
suits. The moment exclusive rights are
granted to one individual the rights OF others
are infringed upon and to that extent are
they made slaves. Our country abounds with
laws of this character; their results are seen
in the degradation which covers the whole
face of society. There is scarcely feature
) of southern slavery but is seen in the condi-
ton of the iaboring classes at the north.
The toll of the slave is equalled by the toll
the white man subject to protected capital.
The slavery at the south which sewers the
family tie has its parallel at the north; for
husbands are driven from wves-wives from
husbands, and children from parents to seek
in other places the living they seek in vain
at the home Of their birth; and whilst the
lash of the slave driver nficts upon both
the back and feelings of the slave, the
keenest torture, it is fully equalled by the
pangs which crime, the result of misery and
degradation, is continually inhcting on the
hearts of thousands in the north. This con-
dition of things is unnatural-the result of
mans imperfect action, and within mans
!, reach and remedy. Here then is slavery
! real and tangible to take hold of; We need
: not let our Imagination 60 abroad to conjure
up scenes of misery to enlist our feelings,
but taking hold of evil at home eradicate it;
when we can 3irect our energies abroad
without placing ourselves in the ridiculous
S position of Prince Albert, who reigning over
e kingdom Of slaves, breaches liberty to the
world.