Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-09-01

c. l.. SHOLES, EDITOR.
Tues day, August 20, Is4s.


Are you Democrat" SAID friend to us few
days since. We replied that we hoped we were
"And yet" said he, you want to restrict the guam
tty OF land which a man may own you want to
prevent man from doing what he pIeases with his
money, and that call the very opposite of free
trade, and instead of being democracy is rank fede-
ralism." To be accused of rank federalism was a
new thing for US, and set us to thinking wheth-
er doing as you please with your money is an es-
sental o: democracy and whether free trade means
Of necessity free trade in the soil
TO do as man pleases with his money and with
every thing else he owns is no doubt comfortable
kind of democracy for a man who has plenty of
money and plenty of strength and courage to elbow
bis way through the world; but we apprehend the
democracy OF a measure may be best Judged of by
It's results, and if a man should please to do that
with his money which would offend and iniure all
the rest Of community, it would not follow that
democracy made it imperative that he should have
that right
The undertaken would no doubt like 10 fiji his
collins, but it does not follow that he has any right
TO spend his money to accomplish that end The
interest OF the physician is to have a great number
OF patients bat it does not follow that he has right
to SPEND his money to propagate an infectious dis
case. The interest of the LAWYER is to have pcntv
OF clients, but lie shall not for fear of violating the
requirements ofdeuocracy be privileged to use his
money to set neiehborhood by the ears. So that
we mier however pleasant it may be for a man to
H. La,
mands and dictates that he shall not use it to the
dctnmeut OF his nejghbors; and if the trade he pro-
poscs to embark in Is clearly pcmiclous in its re
suits, then free trade IN that department, would
not seem to be an essential OF democracy.
Well. let ns examine briefly as TO free trade in
soil. and allowing man TO d, what he pJea.cs with
hi, money. in t,at re>pcct. We will supnoye tina,
orr ficod VIII, accu.os rs of our anti democratic,
tendencies was one of those Irish landlords of whom
we read The pcopIe of Ireland tired of yieIdinu
up their substance TO these parchment title lord, Of
the soil-tIred of starving to banner them. took
one day. the matter into Their own hands and de.
,cr,ninipo to keen what tbey earned turned This
useless pau2er adrlt. lie has escaped to America
bringing with him the stealings of a lone life
amounting we will say to halt million OF dollars
| Well, man may do what he peases with his mo-
uey; we have free trade in soil in every thing
else and our friend Immediately buys up half the
sol OF Wisconsin. Now this soil will give birth
TO thousands OF human beings who will be com
PEELED TO look to it for subsistence. But this one
man has paper title TO it. and exercises ownership
! ! 1. l..
to for subsistence can attain this subsistence only
at his will and pleasure, and he says TO them pre-
ciscly as did the people of Ireland you may work
this SOIL but | must have nine tenths OF all you
edrn-you must support me in idleness and extra
,agance minister to all my wants and pleasures and
appetites, and perhaps ! will permit you TO live
The result doing you please with your money
in this case, is to establish one OF those petty tyr
ranies, WHICH the people of Europe rising in
body to cast off forever and ii the condition of lreg
land be now democratic or if it be democratic that
the whole or any part of the people of Wisconsin
be at the mercy OF one man or a few men for their
means of life. or IN other words that the many be
slaves of the few, then our position and efforts on
this questisn are antidemocratc, but not otherwise
H., s,,.s or c,.o5 :, : tho ,r;r,oooo;,,,ro
b;.b h,,,o,,, of al ,h;s ,;s.b;aC - r,,r,,o
and unless that rreya,, hero ,,s shall have nome Of
III. evils Snpnose Parliament sbouId mass law 70
dav NOT only ahol;shi,q pr,mogenitpre but com.
rand;o the sale If estates 90 ,d ono Of these aim.
col and ,a,rers ,,bo can scarceI,, achieve
food enough 10 keen themselves alive, purchase a
foo, Of such estates. They woup simply exchange
one capiolst for another. and like the exchange of
rho southern slave from hand 10 hand il might be
o,r tho hotter Or the worse In orr own country A
mar, ,,,,s an ;r,,,onse tract numbers are denend-
amt on # for spbsstence-tbev cultivate it. and get
s,cb ,ronorton Of the frpits Of their toll as the
gunner ssss fl 70 rsIironisb rbe estate may mass
into other hands at his death or during his life, but
can these dependant laborers become possessed OF
any portion Of it. The more they have enriched
1t by their sweat and toll the more have they put
the ownership of it beyond their reach, and the es
tate simply passes from one capitalist TO another
and they from being the sers OF one man have be-
come the serls OF another. There is no law Of