Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-07-28
COMPROMISE AGAIN.

tory now free, and giving the most valuable por.
ton to slavery. The south always gets the game
of course, When did the free north ever acquire
| an inch of new territory by act of the federal gov
eminent? More than this=-who vindicaes and
enforces the claims OF the north in any matter Of
contested territory? Great Britain earves from
the state of Maine, to her liking. From the terri
tory of Wisconsin, TO her liking From Oregon TO
her liking. BIZ: when, or where, has the north
ever made particle of new acquisitions As re-
CARDS the south, it is all the other way. The ma
ton buys Louisiana, and gives il over to slavery
The nation buys Florida, drives Ou' its Indian oc-
cupiers and fugitive negroes and gives that too
TO slavery. The nation annexes Texas, with the
war against Mexico whith she had on her hands al
the time, and who thought that every inch OF that
vast country ought rSt to belong 10 slavery
Again, after all our fighting with Mexico, and all
| the expense OF the war, we Guy one third Of her
territory with the peoples mcney, and slavery, al
| ter staggering and clustering for months, comes
forward and proposes 10 make a compromise -
| Well, compromise is the idea which seems TO take
| in Congress And who shall have the honor OF
| getting up the dish this time! Why, Fright OF
indiana. stakeholder though living in, and repre-
senting free state: Dickinson, OF New York, no
regretted hat lie had not been born in Virginia -
/ Clarke, OF Rhode Island, and Phelps of Vermont,
! from The free states, For the slave states, Cal
houn, underwooa Clayton. aud Atchison. Ger.
tany, six out OF eight, OF this committee, the
Jealous friends OF slavery.
The southern portion, tine tried leaders OF the
slaveocr,cy. And at !sas, halt OF the northern
portion CT this committee tho most genuine dough-
faces north Of Mason & Dixons line. Who doubts
as to the character OF the report which that com
mttee will furnish2
And then, between whom is this compromise?
Not between equal portions of the American peo-
gle, nor between portions making any approach
10 equality. Three hundred thousand shareholders
the gangrepe and curse Of the nation, on one
side; ard twenty millions of people, all whose in
terests opposed to slavery. on the other side
After the three hundred Thousand have taken the
best half, having made the division 10 suit them
selves, the other twenty millions are generously
permitted 10 take the remaining half
But the idea of any compromise al all is ab5mih.
able supremely So The claim Of the slave pow
er is as prcposterous il would be 10 claim that
we must have as much drunkenness as sobriety, or
as much knavery as homes Iy, or as much crime as
honest industry, in the community And that, so
far the federal govern ment is concerned these
opposite and antagonis' interests shall be equally
looked after, equally fosercd and extended. 1t is
virtually saying-"This great republic shall yer
sacrifice lite and Tor the interests of free.
dom, without, at the time, making at least
equal sacrifices for the extension and upbudng''ol
sla, cry |, there we X, to be neither limit nor
end TO the encroachmenis of this blight of our ma
toHs honor and deyourer of its prosperity.
"COMMON ERRORS
Our friend of the Wisconsin Argus, TN
der the above caption, combats, as "com-
mon error" the doctrine that labor, in the
sense of manual labor, is The only source
of ,Dealth. In that, he is right. Ark
wright, Whitney, Fulton, Bowditch, Gin
ton, Davy, Morse, and multitude of 9TH
ers, need only TO be named in proof of the
doctrine that the science, or mechanical in
genuty, of one superior intellect, may he
productive OF a greater amount of wealth
than tile labor Off million of those who on
~ employ their limbs and muscles in labor
For example, the invention of Eli Whit
ney, it is claimed, has reduced the price of
raw cotton twenty five cents on the pound;
and that, too, without making cotton grow
ing less profitable business than it was
before. The fact is hugely the other way.
The three countries, the United States,
Great Britain and France, manufacture
yearly, about nine hundred millions of
pounds of raw cotton. Allowing a saving
of25 cents on the pound, the estimate of
what is effected by the use of the cotton gin,
and the result is, that the world is indebted
1925, 100000 every year TO one Massachu-
sets yankee. About as much as one mill
ion of able bodied men would be able TO
earn by mere manual labor. Science and
art have made the aggregate industry of
Great Britain about twenty five times the
amount, of what the manual labor Of It's
whole population would be capable of max
ing It, without the aid of machinery.
In such line OF argument as the above
facts suggest, our friend might have made
the proof of his position overwheIming.-
Or he would not have gone 10 barren field
for argument, if lie had claimed that school
teachers do something, indirectly at least,
in the way of producing wealth. But he
seemed to fancy that he had material for ar
gument about enough, and good enough, in
what might be said of tie learned profess.
ions, as classes ofproducers. Clergymen,
he maintains, indirectly produce wealth, by
promoting good morals; physicians. by
promoting health; and LAWYERS, by protect
ing property.
Perhaps he is mistaken, as regards all
three of The professions. Italy, Spain,