Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-27
Think OF 1t!

Hear what John p Hale says of this new terri
tory, which is waiting our action to have d
permanent government established over it:
The state of Massachusetts we regard RS some.
thing OF place, and Its institutions of some Impor-
lance. They are SO held up to the world Its
schools boosted o. aud It's educated men IT'S free
equal and happy people. Though II does not nnea.
sure 5000 square miles, think it something.
But the whole OF New England contains $4,000
square mlles-and the question OF ITS institutions is
proportonaly more Important The riginaI l3
Inted States with Vermont and Maine included
measure $4,000 square miles. 10 them all the
question OF free institutions becomes still more inn
portant. But here Is territory Won by our glo-
TIous war with Mexico waiting Tor government
Ii I be as great all the original United States is
not tue question whether it shall be cursed with
slavery or blessed with Freedom OF some import
ance But what shall We say if we are told it is
twice as large What II it is three times as large
" hat Il 1t is four times largel Gentlemen, it is
more than five Tunes as large. 1t measures 500,
900 square miles. Does not the question, what in
stuions YOU will give to this vast country assume
some importance? IS NJ not matter that We can
perceive Remember that decide this ques-
ton now, 1t will be decided Iorever
Some may suppose t1s territory so far off that
nobody will 90 there, and so cold that they will
-
and Therefore this question is unImpertant. But
what say the explorers under Fremont, They re-
present It as the land OF the vine and the olNe-a
Land where the flowers bloom petennialy. They
have green peas in Oregon till December Since
Paradise, # the explorers speak the truth, here has
not been desirable soll than til is territory OIL
teJS.
Why can you not wake mp to the magnitude of
this question! w Y, can you not arouse yourseh es
flt, h
dollars and cents-o tins great que,tio OF justice
and right
Is II not indeed a question Of some magnitude
what Shall be the character OF the institutions to
COVE n this territory. The Wilmot pro,iso OF 1881
was of no small magnitude to us. Here is a terri.
tory rich and fruitful ours, OF infinitely greater
magnitude, which may become the happy home OF
ircemen, or it may be the desert OF sa, edom. Why
can we not rouse to the inportunce and magnitude
at tbs question! What are banks. tariffs sub tIea
sures, or any other question: since our revolution
compared with it, Absolutely nothing. a ban
may be repealed, tariff may be modified, sue
treasury created destroyed, bur what can you do
with slavery Ahcn once establIshcd--when once
recognised by the laws. Ii is under the protection
al our conSttuu0n-iS part ct our government.
and nothing short of dissolution of the govern
ment can affect it. Aud yet hired orators aud pail
presses are continually ringing in the ears of the
people the other great issues between the parties
There are no other issues whilst tins is pending
aud It there were they are not worthy 10 be though
OF in connection. Let us rouse ourselves to act
on this question. L,tus Lot Sampson like rest oui
heads in the lap OF the Delah OF slavery ill We
become shorn OF our strength and lose our vision
and then in our blind fury amid, the tauus and
leers of those who have betrayed and ruined us.
pull down. the pillars of the fair fabric of our GO
Nenment on own, as we'll as the heads OF our
enemies