Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-12-09

We extract the following article from the
Albany Argus. Why will not such facts
open the eyes ofpeoplc, and particularly Of
those who compose the party which profess
par excellence, TO be laboring for the cause
of human rights. We have contended and
will contend, that our southern, is the very
mildest form of slavery; not right nor prop.
er by any means, but still among the worlds
many evis,the mldest and least detrimental
Of IFS kind We again say,why will not such
facts open their minds TO the field where
their labor ls truly wanted. Whilst they
are al work, honestly perhaps,f for the slave,
strong party,are moving heaven and earth
TO create condition of things which will
give few the power over the whole people,
which,as establishing the principle, reaches
both blacks and whites. Tho question Of
liberty and slavery is between the Demo
cratic and Wing parties; and it is with them
that the question will bs decided. 1t is
there the battle has been waging since the
first dswnins OF light ia the minds of men;
and whore the world has progressed from
baIbarism to comparative civilization and
gh;enment, democracy has been stea-
dily progressive and triumphant, and this is
a To he, oh flv
made against our party, that they do not
work for the ends they profess. That there
are demogogues and dishonest men in our
midst cannot be denied; bat it is our party,
after all in spite of their incubus weight
that has accomplished these reforms, and il,
is our party that will roll on the car of re-
form crushing in its progress the remaining
institutions Of tyranny. Look at it for one
moment with The eye Of reason. In France
an aris'ocracy ale in power. They do not
pass laws claiming property in their fell
lows, but they do pass laws which fitch to
themselves all the hard earnings Of their
fellows. They have all the substance ;they
have the produces of the mind, nerve, bone,
and muscle of;her fellows, and are relieved
from the care of having an interest in wheth-
they die or live. Let them die; if they
drop in the ranks there are thousands back
whom their cunning laws mot slave laws
force as victims into the breach, TO strive
and die. The slave laws Of the south are
unjust and partial laws; the laws which gov
ern the people Of France for the benefit of
,heirKing and ari,tocracy, ARE partial and I'M
Just, and as their effects are ten times more
hdeous than ours so are they ten times more
unjus, and oppressive. With all the dema-
gogueisn and dishonesty we have among
US, AID which triumphant party must al
ways haVe,we are yet the party and the on
ly party, that labors untiringly against this
system of partial and oppression legislation.
1t is nothing against us that we do not COM
prehend in the start every right of man.
Progress is by successive and toilsome steps
and it is enough to know as party of
reform and of progress, that we must in
time reach and overcome all evils of gov
eminent; not less those which Cypress me-
groes than white men. Why then will the
party Of which we spoke ,aboring for human
rights, wink at, and in many cases assist in
the enactment of those oppressive laws;
and why, above all can any one leave the
democracy TO join this party, on the ground
that our party is not honest or compre hem
sve in its views. 1t is Of the French that
the opening paragraph speaks,,he comments
being from the Argus:
"The scarcity of fuel for the approaching
winter threatens TO become even more dis
trcssing than the increase Of paupelism and
the want of food. The Chambers hare leg
istated in such a manner as to exclude En-
gliSn and Belgian coal, chich they hare
undoubtedly done to keep up the price of
,rood, most of the members being large land
ed proprietors. Nay the public journals do
not hesitate to accuse the King (the Civil
List as the most Enthusiastically call him)
of being party to this extortion; for it is
known that the Orleans family is the larg-
est proprietor of forests in tho kingdom of
France"
Ii has been most truly remarked, that
Despotism no longer manifests iselfin blood
and manacles. Those days have passed.
1t has now assumed another but scarcely
less deadly shape. it fastens on the peo.
pie ia the form Of taxes and imposts. The
cruelty is slower, but yet none the less sure
1t consignes the thousands 10 that fate of
constant agony, which is best expressed by
the words ''living DEATH" The many are
taxed in the air they breathe, the wood they
burn, the food they eat, the clothes they
wear, in order that few may live without
labor, or to add to the profits Of capital.
We see the same spirit here. Even a
great party almost boldly avow that nation
can be take into prosperity, by increasing
the duty on imports, which in truth is moth.
ing more than carrying out the system which.
is now grinding the laboring poor in France
by taxing the impor'atlons of coal, in order
that the posscssors Of forests may receive a
higher price for their wood. Rnt an ,l,o