Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-07-14

IL
is the duty of the North to help abolish il,
whenever it can legally do so, at the South,
and we think it is the duty of every north
ern man-indced of every man-to proven.
Its spread, and that he:legalIy can do, now
and lever. We are Daunted by the South with
having been slave brokers in years gone by,
and thereby in having cntaicd slavery up-
on that hapleSs country. Let us then rem
cdy the evil we have done, and become to
; The South, what VIC have long been to all
the world but her, the brokers of freedom.
and force upon her, what we have forced
upon Europe, the free institutions of true
republcanSm.
Republicanism and slavery cannot exist
together; and this is the whole secret ofthe
difference between the North and the South.
While the former has been active, enter
prising, equaizing, Republican, increasing
in each rapidly and with energy the latter
has been sinking into sloth, lstlessness, in
equality, and returning in fact TO the quail
fed social disparties of the worn out goy>
crnments of former years. The North has
been Republic, the Southan Aristocracv.
and thetw conditions have at length come
into collision, and the question now before
you Is the simple one of whether you pre-
fer the spread of Republican institutions,
without distinction of classes, or whether
You are willing to return to the aristocracv
of the old world, Of slaves and their bctters
under newer and a far yiler form.
Such is to be the struggle and who cantcII
me result tls the same struggle in'prnci-
pie that was the cause of the revolution of
rs, but now it's not TO be on the battlefield
but at the ballot-boX. If the victory was
certain then, it is not now If we fought
then for the principle of freedom, do we
not fight for itnow! We have, or the most
OF us have, differed from the men of the lib
crty party in the means to be pursued. but
not in the end. All at the North have been
been the real advocates of freedom. almost
all at the South, nominal advocates of it
We have differed in the mode to be pur-
sued, and perhaps those who really wish to
see this Union absolycd from the curse Of
slavery, may yet thus suffer. But none can
differ III the action to be pursued at present
except those whose opinions are warped bv
the hope of present gain, whether it be of
oilcc' or consequence, of vanity, or of in
tiucnce. We all know that slavery, that
the extension Of slave-tcrritory should be
resisted. Wing, Democrat, AboIilionists.
all agree in that, and it is 10 be regretted
that we cannot add, what we might have
added few years since, that even the men
OF the South (if there was truth in lheir dec
larations) agree to it too.
They do not. They are willing to in
crease The area of slavery, that they may
! have an increased slave arket. They arc
wiling that future sales.--future republics
may have the power to taunt the men of
the North with the insulting truth, that by
then connlvancc slavery exits among then.
ana therefore they require these Northern
men not only to support but to extend i
such IL the requirement now. Such must
De NE requirement II we consent to perpct-
uatc slavery by increasing It's area at The
present moment.
We cannot do it. We have forbornc
long enough. We have submitted TO the
South because We bclicvcdihat thcy were
anxious to DO what they protested, to rid
TINS republic OF slavery rs soon as possible.
We have allowed ourselves to be cheated
by them, and have seen a slave Territory
added to the Union within four wears. trust
ing thatlt was but error their part, that they
would repent Of it, and that after that, il
would be agreed upon by all, that the ex-
tent OF slave territory was fixed forever.
But we shall be askcd-will Won be a
party OF one principle alone! We answer
II that one principle is important enough.
we will. We say that our fathers in the
revolution fought for one principle alone
--t"r irccdom-and that they kept in obcv-
9TH
abandon no principle whether whirs mr.
democrats we will maintain those rrinci-
pies we have ever chung to, hnt we will
wait time when there is none so impor-
Iaht as mat now at Issue, to discuss them
}ut let us ask what is it VIC abandon -
What are the dividing principles ofthe par
iy Not Bank-lhat is given M. Not
"A high Tariff, for few or none would caro-
to NEEDLE with that which exists. Not the
independent Treasury, for those who
abused 1t deeply, are satisfied that it will
now 90 no great harm, while those who adj
vocate 1t warmly, would rather see it lost
than slavery extended. None can talk now
OF the distribution Of public revenue. for
there Will be none TO distribute. What
then are the issues between the two old
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the issue between the North and South -
The great principle Of our political cxis,
tcncc' The real principle of liberty. Let us
not deceive ourselves or the South. The
principle VIC fight for now, if successful,
not only prohibits the extension Of slavery
INTO new territory, but it is the death blow
TO slavery where it exists, and it is on that
account the South are so determined upon
the subject.
The conservatism Of slavery in this new
world of ouIs, IS the conservatism of the on
ly principle really antagonislic to the pro- =
gross OF the free institutions of our country.
Without 1t all our aristocracy is done away.
With it, we must ever have an arstocracy.
and one that will bring on us, as it has done,
the contempt even of the basest aristocrats
of Europe.
The people Of the South feel that the hour
has arrived, when, if ever The North must
strike the blow for liberty, and thew are
prepared to resist it. They know full well
that with free territory ADJOINING them NJ