Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-04-07

following article which appeared in our last Let the
facts stated, be impressed on the mind OF every yo-
ter
VOTERS OF THE TERRITORY,
AND ESPECIALLY DEMocRATs-It is not proba-
bic we shall have opportunity of addressing you
again prior TO the election. Before this important
day arrives, will you not reflect upon the probable
consequences of casting your suirages against the
proposed constitution. Look at your risk,
/, OF having saddlcd upon youunder new con-
sttution and future legislation, those irresponsible
and soullcss corporations, known as Banks; which,
as all former experience has demonstrated, will be
destructive of your best interests, moral and pecun-
ary,-and against which you may now forever shut
the door and be secure
2. OF losing for years the exemption Of your
homestead measure of the highest interest to you;
as tending to secure TO yourselves, the independence
which should belong to every man; and to your IA
miles what is their right--a certainty Of subss-
tence and comfort.
B. Oflosing your Elective Judiciary, and having
fastened upon you the anidemocratic and corrupt
system of appointments, in which partisan services
are generally considered and the will and wishes OF
the people dsregarded
4. OF losing the proposed admirable executive
system under which this important branch of gov
eminent will be both cheaply and effectively adj
minstered and of getting in its stcada system sim
liar to that of older states where the Governor and
other Executive officers are allowed extravagan sal
aries, and where the official patronage OF the Exec
utive in the shape of an extensive appointing pow
err is source of danger and corruption.
s. OF losing Legislative organization which is
pronounced by the highest democratic authority in
the Union, to be zone of the best yet framed to Sc
cure the transaction of public business to the eXcl-
sion of private an organization which cannot fail
to secure you from the evils of special and excess
i've legislation
6. Of losing a Constitution which has the merit
of providing more complete separation of the
legislative from the judicial branches, or laW-mal
ing from law administering. than any other Const-
tuition which is likely hereafter to be presented for
adoption, and which puts the Judiciary footing
that will tend to secure to every man cheap and
speedy Justice
7. OF losing the important prohibition which
will secure the new state of Wisconsin from public
debt, and the people from onorous taxation.
s. OF losing the just and liberal provisions on the
subject of suffrage, which founded on the dem
ocratc principle that 'taXation and representation
should always go together" and which propose to
place 81 nesn Of tie people so wilDma position Of
perfect equality in regard to the exercise of this
right, irrespective of property place or nativity or
color. And of having in their stead anti-dcmocrat-
ic and oppressive restrictions far at least adop-
ted citizens are concerned
9. OF losing the Important benefits to be derived
from the immediate establishment of an efficient
common school system, as provided for BY The con
stitut6n.
10 OF losing the opportunity now presented by
the adoption of the Constitution, to secure an clg
bic location of our 100000 acres of land, and thus
70 create an inexhaustible fund for school purposes.
BY rejecting the Constitution you put of for pc
Rod of probably two years our admission INTO the
Union, and of course the selection OF these lands
the interests of education suffering in the meantime
and the fund eventually secured, from the refuse
lands which at that time the State will be compeli-
Ell to take being but small in comparison with what
il would be, We're the selections to be Immediately
made. Thus doing permanent and neverto-be
lemcdied injury to the highest interests of the state
its educational interests
IL. OF losing by the delay in becoming State
which will be a consequence of rejection Of the
Constitution nearly 100000
~ OF losing for two years representation in
Congress of two members in the House and two in
the Senate, and thus being deprived of the weight
and influence necessary 10 secure proper attention
TO the ntere SIS orour State in respect 10 harbors
roads and other improvements.
10. Oflosng voice in the decision of great ma
tonal questions likely TO arise during the next Con
greSs, vitality affecting the interests of the whole
north and particularly of the wost-questions which
the four votes Of Wisconsin might be sufficient to
determine.
IL OF losing a voice in the selection of the next
President, when the electoral vote otWisconsin may
be sufficient TO decide the contest and secure poll
cy for the ensuing four years in favor Of western
Interests
Reasons nigh, be indefinitely multiplied why the
proposed Constitution should he supported but
enough have been presented to show that while by
its adoption we have EVERY THING TO GAIN
AND NOTHING TO LOSE, by It's rejection we
have EVERY THING TO LOSE and NOTHING
TO GAIN.
Ne shall add one more
Is Vote for the Constitution because, in the
event of its adoption, Wisconsin will have the hon
M starting into being with more just and pop
alar constitution than any State before it This IS
tho upanip,ous sentiment of prominent democrats