Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-09-23


good grounds tor the peculiar organization
Of the aboltionisis; but it cannot Slavery
is the result Of the universal feeling preva.
lent, which prompts one man TO secure if
possible, the result of his neighbours toll
without corresponding equivalent on his
part, and when the sleek and we'll fed
abofionist, with his heavy purse, by a
combination Of circumstances which he has
assisted TO create and uphold, seeks. (as he
frequently does) 10 procure, and indeed,
from his power, compel, the laborer to toll
cor him with but half reward, he is no less
STAKEHOLDER thar he of the south, who
claims an ownership in The slave. Abolish
ing the word slavery from our statutes if it
could be done to morrow, would not touch
he root of the evil Overgrown wealth
and degrading poverty would exist just as
much as il does now, and real slavery would
Just as much prevail. BY free trade we
seek 10 take away from wealth and capital,
the extraordinary power ofoppresson it now
possesses. We destroy one Of its prin-
cipie engines, and secure in the hands oi
the laborer, the result of his toll. This,
with the measures that grow out of it, tend
TO equallze the products. the necessarles
and luxures of the earth. 1t destroys
crushing poverty, and of course by so doing
opens the way for the elevation Of the hu-
man mind into sphere and condition where
true freedom can be secured and apprec-
ated. Let all then who are really philan-
thropic consider this matter. AS long as
the principle exists in the human mind,
slavery will exist, whether we have statutes
legaIizing il or not. Fit cannot live in one
shape, it will in another equally objection.
able. Let US adopt then, the measures
which alone will effectually eradicate it.
That free trade is sufficient for that end, we
do not claim. But these tariffs are the main
engines by which the avarice OF man is fed,
and the main means by which the mass of
men are robbed and kept in poverty as they
are. When we distribute with fairness the
worlds products: when we take from
bIoated wealth, portion OF its surplus, and
make it to produce comforts for those who
are suffering, we have taken the first and
greatest step in the great work Of emanci-
patton; and it is an emancipation which VIII
not embrace few or a class but all mans
kind. 1t may lie slow bat as it is the only
way TO accomplish the result, it is useless
TO throw away labor in other channel s.
James R. Vineyard, we perceive, is
elected member of the State convention
from Grant county.-The fact that this
man was so dead 20 all feelings Of con-
science and shame, as TO put himself be-
fore the public again, and that the people
Of Grant county had so little regard for
their own honor and standing and that Of
the territory at large as TO elect him, does
not, we imagine make il incumbent on the
Convention, to allow him seat in its body
and a voice in its deliberations. We say
the Convention owe il to themselves and to
the Territory at large TO promptly expel
this man from their midst. The horrid
transaction IN which he was the guilty ac-
tor, has been borne to our discredit, to the
utormost ends of the earth, and shall it now
90 forth, that as people we sustain and
fellowship with him. Shall Dickens again
tell to the English world that the man who
shot down his fellow member on the floor
of our Legislative Council, is now engaged
in fashioning laws for the people among
whom the transaction was committed. Is
there not something absolutely awful in
the idea. We ask our brethren, who have
the honor Of our future State at heart, if
this thing is 10 be borne. We know here
it will create one universal feeling of deep
indignation, and the people will expect the
Convention promptly to Vindica,e them
from the foul aspersion which will be cast
upon them by his presence in their State
Convention; and palpable as the facts are,
they will not be put off by The invention Of
legal technicaties or subtlelies. which
may seek to show guilt innocence, or %
make black white. There was scarcely
two opinions in the whole territory, as TO
the character Of the transaction at the time
il was committed, and nothing has since
occurred to relieve one shade of ITS black
ness. Let us see then, who among the
Convention is willing to shut his eyes upon
The damning facts, and consort with him
whose hand is red with brothers blood
In the general defeat of the Democratic
ticket in Fon du Lac county, we are pleased
to see that our friends have been success
full in securing the election of our old fell
low townsman, WARREN CHASE, TO the
Constitutional Convention. He is q thor.
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