Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-07-21
WHAT SHALL WE GAIN7

delphia WING convention were both converted into
The mere tools of the southern slaveoeracy, and
their action is simply designed to uphold the sink
ing fortunes of the south. Not one single question
was agitated in either convention except the ques
ton Of slavery extension, and in both conventions
did the south triumph on that question. In the
democratic convention they have man. who has
written and put his name TO it, that it is Hnconsti-
toaa to prohibit the OF slavery and that
consequently he will Veto as President, any act of
Congress, which does prohibit it. IN the whig con-
vention they have man who was born and bred a
STAKEHOLDER, and who nowowns 100 or more slaves,
and who must of very necessity be friend under
all circumstances of the peculiar Institution. To
be sure the democratic convention sought TO throw
dust in the eyes of the people by reiterating some
stale questions upon which there is really no issue
but it must be confessed that one and the only real
issue IN either convention, was the restriction
tension of the slave power. Thus far the slavery
propagandiSts have been completely successful
They have matters fixed that in the event of the
success of the nominee OF either convention THEN
interests will be sac. The question simply re
mains, to What extent we bound, as democrats,
TO assist in perpetrating this outrage upon freedom?
Search the democrats creed through, shall we find
any thing, on any of its broad pages, making slave
ry, prominent feature OF such creed. Does not
the very soul of every democrat revolt at once at
the base inputation, that such is democracy any
part of it? And yet we put il TO every man, stu
ated as matters are, nominated as these men were,
tor the purposes and ends they were, if this is not
tehat and all hey are called upon TO support and
sustain by this so-caled democratic convention
Does democracy realty demand this of her follow
ers9 Would it not rather be foul libel upon De,
mocratic prinGpIes TO do any thing OF this charac-
ter and is not the who does do it, at the dicta-
ton of shareholders (such Gen Commander
who assembled at Baltimore, an enemy of rt;e de-
mocracy? So it seems TO u.s. and loving democra-
cy as we do, we dare not aim this blow at her 1t
looks TO us as if the democracy of the nation had
more to lose in the of Cass than i'll his de-
feat. The principle at stake is we'll understood,
and if we should elect Cass, then it has the deber-
ate sanction of the great democratic party, and it
strengthens the principle 10 a degree that may
make it impossible for us to shake it off, however
much we may desire to do so. We are asked now out
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