Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-03-10
The Foreign News.--As is most ,ru


tisements for the "TELrGRAPH."
The Foreign Ne,os.-As is most truly
said, by Wilmer & Smiths Times, never
did the British steamer visit our shores with
more important or more welcome news, han
she last brought. Ii is cheering to the heart
ofthe reformer who lsbors for the amelioIa-
ton of the condition of his fellows and the
patriot who loves his country and the world.
II is most important, viewing il simply with
reference 10 our pecuniary prosperity
Revolutions of The k ind do not go backward;
so that in addition, TO the present very una
ierial reduction of duties on imports into
the British Kingdom, we can calculate with
The utmost confidence upon the total repeal
and entire extraction Of the duties on wheat
and flour. This will give us safe and
steady market for the products Of our soil.
1t will relieve our farmers of the apprehen-
sion they do and must feel every year as to
the results of their labors. They can cal
cuate with confidence, if The seasons are
propiious upon fair reward for their toll,
free from the fluctuations and To- ses which
now too frequently overtako them. The
tendency Of it is, to give strength, stability
and permanence, to the business of the
country generally. We shall know, what
we are, where we are, and what we are do-
ing. But notwithstanding this it is after
all, the least important consideration, in the
premises. 1t is distinct era in the march
OF liberal op;nons-offreedom II is a tri-
umph of the massas over their oppressors
The rending of another link in the chain
which has bound them from earliest time,
and an ernest, that day Of full and perfect
liberty is approaching. The people have
conquered the aristocracy in their darling
policy, and the power is now with them. It
will be taken from them no more forever,
but they must and will 60 onward in the
yiudicaton of their rights, until every man
stands forth, the free man he is entitled TO
be. Aud with this manifestation On the
part Of England, does any one suppose, that
the defeated policy of the aristocracy there,
shall continue 10 be the policy oil This pro-
fessedly democratic government. The ia.
riff TO all intenis and purposes is dead; its
advocates who have chung to it, as the
mears and about the last Of the infinite
number ofdeyices for plundoring the pro
duclng masses, feel it in their bones. For
them aud it, there is no Lope ga new era OF
feeling and opinion, is upon us; we have
ougrown another institution Of darkness
and dark age, and have advanced one step
nearer 10 universal brotherhood. How eff:
fectua. are measures of thus kind, in the
great purposes of humanity and christianity.
Can any man npprehend war, with an unre-
stricted commerce between England and
the United States. So intimately interwo-
ven. and so closely blended would be our
interests, that we might as well look for
conflict between different members of the
same body the right hand against the left
No; let the present liberal policy of Eng.
land be fully carried out, and no man can or
will apprehend war. 1t will be forever ban
shcd from our thoughts. Nor can the eff
feet of such alliance possibly be TO the Diet.
riment Of our rights or interests. England
has been brought to the present policy by
the strugglings of the mass for higher and
better condition. This struggle must forev-
er go on and an intimacy with the United
States. can be only productive of gencr-
Gus rivalry in the great struggle for the most
exalted and perfect humanity.