Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-03-31
VOTERS OF THE TERRITORY,

VOTERS OF THE TERRITORY,
AND ESPECIALLY DEMOCRATS. 1t is not proba-
BILE we shall have an 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 sufrages against the
proposed constitution Look at your risk,
L. OF having saddled upon you under new con-
sttution and future legislation, those irresponsible
and soulless corporations known as Banks; which,
as all former experience has demonstrated, will be
destructive Of your best interests moral and pecunia
ry,-and against which you may now forever shut
the door and be secure.
2. Oflosing for years the exemption of your home
stead 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 rght-a certainty of subsistence
land comfort
3. OF losing your Elective Judiciary and having
fastened upon you the anti-democratic and corrupt
system of appointments, in which partisan services
generally considered and the Will and wishes of
the people disregarded
4. OF losing the proposed admirable executive
system under which this important branch of govern
ment will be both cheaply and effectively admins
tered and of getting in its stead system similar to
that of older states, where the Governor and other
Executive officers are aowedextravagant salaries,
and where the official patronage of the Executive, in
the shape Of extensive appointing power, is
source of danger and corruption.
S. OF losing legislative organization which is
pronounced by the highest democratic authority in
the Union, to be one of the best yet framed to en-
sure the transaction of public business to the excu-
sion of private An organization which cannot fail
to secure you from the evils special and excessive
legislation.
6. OF losing Constitution which has the merit
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legislative from the judicial branches, or law-mak
ing from law-adminlstering, than any other Const-
tuition which is likely hereafter to be presented for
adoption and which puts the Judiciary on footing
that will tend to secure to every man cheap and
speedy justice.
7 Oflosng the important prohibition which will
secure the new State of Wisconsin from public debt
and the people from onerous taxation.
g. OF losing the just and liberal provisions on the
subject of suffrage which are founded on the demo-
cratic principle that taxation and representation
should always go together" and which propose to
place all men Off the people so willy in position
of perfect equality in regard to the exercise of this
right, irrespective OF property place of nativity, or
color. And OF having III their stead anti-democrat-
&c ana oppressive restrictions far atleaSt as ADOPT
eel citizens are concerned
g. vi losing the important benefits to be derived
from the immediate establishment of an efficient
common school system, as provided for by the Con-
stltution.
40 OF losing the opportunity now presented, hy
the adoption oil the ConstihtpsI, to secure an eig-
bic location of our 100000 acres of land and thus
TO create an ineXhaustble fund for school purposes
BY rejecting the Constitution you put off for peri
cd OF probably two years our admission into the
Union, and ofcourse the selection of these landslide
interests OF education suffering in the meantime-
and the fund eventually secured (trom the refuse
lands which at that time the State will be compelleh
to take,) being but small in comparison with what
1t would be, were the selections to be immediately
made. Thus dong permanent and never-to-bc-re- !
meded injury to the highest interests of the State
its educational interests.
ii. or losing by the delay in becoming State, |
which will be the consequence of rejection of the
Constitution, nearly 100000. lCrFor particulars
on this point see estimate on our first page
IL. OF losing for two years a representation in
Congress of two members in the House and two in |
the Senate, and thus being deprived of the weight
ana influence necessary to secure proper attention
to the interests of State in respect to harbors
roads, and other improvements
10. Of losing voice in the decision of great ma
honal questions likely to during the next Con-
gress, vitality affecting the interests of the whole
north, and particularly ofthe west-questions which
the four votes of Wisconsin might be sufficient to
determine.
IA. OF losing a voice in the selection of the next
President, when the electoral vote ofWisconsin may
be sufficient to decide the contest and secure po
cy the ensuing four years in favor of western in
tereSts.
Reasons might be indefinitely multiplied why the
proposed Constitution should be supported but
enough have been presented to show that while by
its adoption, we have EVERY THING TO GAIN
AND NOTHING TO LOSE by its rejection we
have EVERY THING TO LOSE and NOTHING
TO GAIN.
We shall add one more
10. Vote for the Constitution because. in the
event of its adoption, Wisconsin will have the ho-
nor of starting into being with more Just and pop
uIar constitution than any State before it," This is
the unanimous sentiment of prominent democrats
abroad, and even of some leading wings, who have
not permitted themselves to be blinded in reference
to the merits of the instrument by unworthy parti-
IAN prejudiceS.