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Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-20
A TayIOr speech.

S. Isle Smith, the great gun of Taylorism in
Illinois, was advertised TO speak TO the people OF
Southport, on behalf of the great No face, saur-
day evening last, from the platform of the DurAee
House The night was beautiful, and bla-
zng fire OF tar barrels, attracted quite crowd,
After an unusual delay Mr.. Smith made his appea-
rance, and holding on to the railing before him with
rangue We should Judge, that in doors, and not
too much excited, with good subject, Mr.. Smith
would make a very good speech. But he was, on
this occasion out Of DOORS and we thought entirely
TOO much excited, and had moreover a very lad
cause, and consequently, far any profitable re-
suits were concerned, made spt ech which was a
dead failure. No man would or could have gues>e
from the way he handled Cass and Van Buren, that
he ever designed to say word for Taylor. His
main point against Cass was his present subseryi
ency to the slave power. and against Van Buren, his
former subserviency TO the same power. He talked
about them precisely as ii he designed TO vote for
Gerrit Smith, and that part of his auditory not in
the secret, were surprised after he got through tai
vocate the claims of the holder of $50 slaves. 1t
was most amusing farce, so palpable as TO excite
the dersion of the crowd present. The miserable
humOuggery of talking TO an intelligent people
abou, the southern serility Of Cass and Van Buren,
and then wind up by asking them to vote for a
Southern slave holder one of the main props Of the
slave power in the SOUTH was little too palpabe.
You must not vote for Van BuIen or Cass, because
they are or were subseryient 10 the slave power,
which is a very Objectionable power; but you must
vote for that power itself III the person of slave
holder was the whole argument of this orator.
All attempts TO excite enthusiasm failed. lay
lor was cheered, as loudly as the lew who are de-
termned to 90 for him any hoc, could do it. Clay 8
name elected much more hearty applause, and
Van Buren's about as much as both OF them. AT
the conclusion three cheers were given for Taylor
and six for Van Buren,, and if the Tay lor men were
satisfied with the performance, all parties were, we
know.
Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-20

purposes, and In each organized county
one sheriff, one coroner, one district at
torney, one judge of probate, one regis
ter OF deeds, one county treasurer, one
district surveyor, one clerk of the board
OF supervisors or commissioners, and in
those counties under the county COM
missioner system of government, three
county commissioners.
The said election will be held and the
votes canvassed, and returns and certif-
Gates thereof made, in the manner and
form and within the time prescribed BY
law and by an act of the Legislature of
this State, approved August 21st, 1913,
entitled, An Act to provide fer holding
general and special elections, the time
and manner of holding the same, and the
qualifications, disabilities and privileges
of electors.
The clerks of the board of supervi-
sOrs or commissioners of the several
counties of this State are hereby COM
manded and required to prepare, in adj
dition to the Sth section of article one
of title five of said act to be prepared
by him, under his signature and seal of
office, three similar certified copies of
the statement and certificate of the votes
for President and Vice President. of
which copies he shall send by mail one
to the Governor of said State at Madi-
son, one to the Secretary of said State
at Madison, and one to the Treasurer of
said State at Madison within fifteen
days after the holding of said election.
For the manner of making the said
statements and certificates, the said
clerks are referred to the said title five
of said act.
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF have here
to set my name and affixed the Great
Seal of the State of Wisconsin. Done
at Madison this 25th day of September
in the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty eight. BY the Governor,
NELSON DEWEY.
L. MCHUGH, Secretary of State
Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-20

people for selEgovernment. An irresponsible body
says he would select this officer, and the inference
is that the people would know no more THAI to
sanction such nomination, however Objectionable
The Milwaukee Sentinel objects to Mr. Codding.
because OF his one-ideaism Let us ask the Senti-
mel il it is more Objectionable TO have the one idea
that all men are capable of government insil-
led into the infant mind, by Mr.. Codding, than to
have the one idea that no man is capable of self
government, instilled 10y Mr.. Root. And how does
Mr. Root propose to remedy the difficulty arising
from these irresponsible bodies three removes from
the people. Ii is to be done by giving the appoint
ing power to the Governor which is in effect re-
moving it four instead OF three degrees from the
people For recollect, the same irresponsible body
which chooses the superintendent chooses the 60
vernon and the same want of intelligence which
would lead the people to sanction wrong nominal
ton for superintendent would OF course lead 10 the
same results in The case of governor. so that Nh
Roots philosophy in his disrust of the people ap-
pears to be- instead of having an irresponsible body
three removes from the people make the choice, to
have an agent Of the same irresponsible body, four
removes from the people, do it. All this is very
good old federal doctrine, of which party Mr. Root
is member but it does not come up to our idea
of the intelligence or comprehensive liberality,
which should distinguish this officer.
OF Mr.. Codding we have before spoken We
consider him the very best in this state for the
place TO which he has been recommended, and if all
prejudice could be laid aside we know he would be
elected by all overwhelming majority
Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-20

their liberty. 1t was 10 deliver them with all the
papers in the case to the Spanish government. that
the laws OF Spain against slavery might be appeal
ed to in their behalf, which could not have beer
done, had they been delivered TO their claimants.
We refer again 10 the extract above, from thai
southern paper showing concIusively, Mr. Van Blu
ren early advocacy of the very principle for which
we are now contending; we ask in all earnestness
that his position and course on the Texas question
may be carefully reviewed and we ask that his
whole history may be carefully reviewed, satisfied
as we are that unprecedented review will prove
all for which %e contend viz: that the Free Soil
principle has never had more fearless and consis-
tent advocate than Martin Van Buren,
II Horace Greeley goes for Taylor because
Van Buren, has no chance of success This is ma
king success test of me,it, We should like 10
know when any good cause, gave promise of i'm,
mediate success when first presented; and we should
like to know moreover, if any good cause ever
would have prevailed, if all men had been like Ho-
race Greeley. When Leonidas drafted his 800 men
to intercept the Persian hordes, at Thermopyae,
Greeley would have said cannot help you, be-
cause you have no hope OF success They did not
fully succeed, but they behaved like men, and they
Infused courage into the hearts of their country
men and struck terror 10 the hearts OF their
mics, which won freedom for Greece from the
Persian yoke When the feet OF the soldiers OF
our revolution. bleeding upon the Of
Valley Forge, Greeley would have said, disband
soldiers, there is no hope OF success. And yet al
though again and again defeated they dragged their
wearied limbs and bloody feet TO final triumph
Greeley would say TO the starving Irish, starye on
brothers, for see, the countless bayonets OF Great
Britain bristing round you; do not strike for free
dom, for you cannot hope for success. What mi
SCRABBLE cowardice is this. Your cause is good, but
you can not succeed, and therefore must help
your enemies. What sort of trust has Greeley in
Providence Right is God, and 10 say that right
cannot succeed is TO say that God is powerless.
What excuse is there for the man who thus tears
down from its high throne and trampes i'll the dust
the conscience given him, by warning against the
right because it is weak with the people. Greeley
is said 10 be a man of talent. To whom much is
given of them much will be expected, yet this man
will go to his last account, bankrupt, with fear
full debit for msappied talent, against him.
Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-20
1910 and ESAS.

When the Philadelphia Cou' ention voted down
the Wlmot Proyso, and put in nomination for the
Presidency General Taylor, notorious only as a
successful fighter in a dlsgraceiul war, and as a
large stakeholder we certainly did expect that the
Northern supporters of that nomination would for
once make their professions correspond with their
actions and forbear to urge, during the present
canvass their claim to be considered as the " true
Abolition party 1t appears, however, that We
had given them more credit for tranknesS and no.
pes, dealing than they are likely TO make good
With cool disregard OF all the facts in the case,
they come before US, urging Anti-Slavery men 10
vote for Zachary Taylor: and seem really agonz-
ed By the apprehension that, IN such momentous
crisis as the present. the opponents OF slavery and
slave extension have not sufficiently reliable
candidate They fear the Interests OF Freedom
will not be safe in the hands OF Martin Van Buren,.
and therefore propose 10 lntrust them 10 ore who,
from infancy 10 grey age, has breathed the Amos
phere of Slavery-a Louisiana panter,w hose lands
are worked b. men and women driven 10 their
unpai4 toll at the whips end In Massachusetts
Maine. Vermont. New York Ohm" and Penusy IVA
MIA. ora 'ors on the stump and editors in their pa
pers are sorely exercised with doubts OF the soun-
ness of Wax Buren, on the slave question. Pro-
foundry impressed with the Importance OF tie oues-
ton OF the extension the exclusion OF slay cry
the vast territory Just added 10 our Republic they
have looked anxiously O.er the whole country, tor
a champion who, by reason of his talents, his
state. manship, his avowed opinions and his actual
position, is the best fitted 10 lead the hosts OF
Freedom in confict with the Slave Power-and
they have fixed upon Zachary Taylor, Of louisa
ma Not Martin Van Buren,, the uniform oppon-
ent of slavery extenslon-the only leading states
man of the country who makes opposition to sa-
very the paramount political object-bu, Zachary
TAYLOR the owner OF two hundred slaves, the hard,
stern proprietor OF Louisiana plantation, by edu-
cation ADD the fixed habits OF long life hostile 10
freedom and identified with slavery, IS in the eyes
J ofsuch men as Thomas Corwin and Rufus Choate
Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-20
RrnClaill;liiOn.
BY NELSON DEWEY, GOVERNOR OF III
STATE OE WISCONSIN.

BY NELSON DEWEY, GOVERNOR OF THE
STATE OF WISCONSIN.
In pursuance of the Constitution and
Laws of the United States and the State
of Wisconsin, |, Nelson Dewey, Cover
nor of the said State, do hereby pro
claim and declare, that a General Elec-
ton will be held on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday OF November
next being the seventh day OF Novem-
her in the wear one thousand eight hun
dred and forty-eight, in the several towns
and election precincts IN the several
counties of this State, by the electors
thereof for the election of the following
officers
First, For the election of four cleo.
tors Of President and Vice President OF
the United States.
Second, For the election of one State
Superintendent one Senator Tor each
Senatorial District of this State, num-
bcred with odd numbers and one mem
Der of Assembly for each Assembly us
trict of this State, to be elected by the
electors of the respective Senatorial ana
Assembly Districts.
Third, For the election OF one KEEP
resentative in the Congress of the Uni
ted States, for each Congressional DIS
trict of this State, to be elected by the
electors of the respective Congressional
Districts.
Fourth, For the election of the fol-
lowing county officers TO be elected by
the electors OF their respective counties,
10 wit: One clerk of the circuit court
in each county organized for judicial
Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-20

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Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-20

FISANCIERING.-Gen Cass erected he
first distllery ever established IN Mici'gan
and a Detroit paper says that he soid his
VIII skew 10 the Indians al thirty dollars q
gallon -!
Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-10-20

,y General Cass signed law in Mich
ipan for selling white men TO the highest
bidder. lie ought 10 he punished under
his own law \. \. Globe.
lie seems to think so too. He has sold
himselfro the highest bidder repeatedly
+ Louisville Journal.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-10-11
The first Marriage.

Marriage is of date prior to sin itself
the smile that God let fall on the world
innocence, lingering and playing still up
on its sacred visage. The first marriage
was celebrated before God himself, who
filled in his own person, the office of guest,
witness and priest. There stood the two
god-like forms of innocence, fresh in the
beauty Of their unstained nature. The
hallowed shades Of the garden, and the
green carpcted earth, smiled to look on so
divine pair. The crystal waters flowed
by. The unblemished flowers breathed
incense on the sacred air, answering to
their upright love. An artless round OF
Joy from all the vocal natures, was the
hymn-a spontaneous nuptial harmony,
such as world in tune might yield, ere
discord was invented.
Religion blessed her two children thus
and led them forth iuto life, to begin her
wonarous history. The first religious
scene they knew, was their own marriage
before the Lord God. They learned to
love him as the Interpreter and sealer OF
their love to each other; and if they had
continued in their uprightness, life would
have been form Of welded worship-a
sacred mystery Of spiritual oneness and
communion.
They did not continue. Curiosity tri-
umphed over innocence. They tasted sin,
and knew it in their fall. Man is chang
ed; woman is changed, mans heart and
woman's are no longer what the first
hearts were. Beauty is blemished.--
Love is debased. Sorrow and tears are
The worlds cup. Sin has swept away all
paradisan matter, and the world is bowed
under its curse. Still one thing remains
as it was. God meroifully spared one to-
ken of the innocent world, and that the
dearest, 10 be symbol forever of the
primal life. And this is marriage-the
religious state of marriage This one
flower Of Paradise is blooming yet in the
garden of sin.
Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-10-11
Democratic RertcsU,
PROSPECTUS OF THE 2lsr YOLIrMr

In commencing the 21st volume of the r..
view, we have to acknowledge the continn,n..
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and OF an enthusiastic responce from the demo-
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