Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-01-12
THE TELEGRAPH.
G. L. SHoLES, EDITOR.
Friday, January Is, 1919.
For The Southport Telegraph.
SLAVERY NO. G.

| Inc principal obstruction nov to the liberty
and happiness of man, is the great struggle for
wealth and property. Society as it is, might be
compared to crowd of people climbing steer
HILL when those who got up first should have the
others TO work for them; then the strong would
pull back the weak and trample them under foot
and when two of equal strength would come in
contact IN their struggle for advantage both would
come to the bottom. Such is society: that the
strong is always runring over the weak, and a
constant struggle with all, who shall get the most
and give the least for ii; and when they have
enough to enttle them TO be enrolled in the list OF
the upper ten, then the others are compelled 10 work
LOT them While such matters are held out to
man society cannot be otherwise than il is. Every
man has the fear Of toll and the hone OF ease: the
fear of want and the hope of plenty; the fear OF
poverty and the hope Of riches the fear of being a
slave and the hope of being master, before him.
These hopes and fears meet man in every transac.
ton Of life, and have considerable agency in all the
evils that affct society, and are reasonable apollo
gy, or at least a Sufficient cause for almost anv
''''6 ~ my wv iOA IL COuipelleu Dy lis or
ganization and the circumstances in which he is
placed 10 e., cry act OF his life To remove these
hopes and fears, seems TO me as easy as it was to
discover this continent by sailing due west IN
against the broad side of il, or as TO balance an egg
OIL It's end by giving il slight dinge nevertheless.
It may require Columbus TO do it. All that IS
wanted is TO put a stop TO the monopoly of mans
Subsistence (the sail) by a few individuals who
can say to the others you can have or want at
our discretion, on the conditions we choose TO
prescribe. This monopoly, at This time and in
this country could be stopped without. Just cause
of compliant from any human being The old es.
tates would be divided in small enough quantities,
among heirs, before the lands would be all &C.
cuped.
Those Nh6 pretend to argue against giving the
public lands in small quantities, 10 actual settlers
only, aduT; that they have right TO produce, but
deny that they have any right to the soil because
they 60 not produce it. Now ifihis can be called
argument at all, II must cone with double force
| against those who monorolze the soil which they
have not produced nor bought from any one who
4 produce it. The first title Of all land was
usurpaton and robbery; and | am not certain,
even by our present laws, but possession is the
very lest title If any should claim to have let
'tr, VIC ask, from whom id you buy? Tie an
swer is, from government. From whom did gov
eminent bny? From Virginia. From whom did
Virginia buy? From the King OF England From
whom did the King buy? Why he robbed and
murdered the natives and took it, as Moses done
with the Amores and others as the ;eudaI lords III
Europe done, and as England has dome with Ire
land America and other nations, and as all tyrauts
have done.
y ow believe that this Kind Of title will not
pass as valid in cry court this country, if it will
VIC can murder some Of the large spectators and
take their land and when it is sold time or two
the t.eIc will be clear.
1t is absurd to talk Of human rights if man
has right 10 any spot on this earth to stand. sit.
lie or TO live or die on. The right to life is an
empty title, wthou, place TO live. Without this
right the Declaration of Independence is a tantal-
lzng lie. But if natural right is denied, then |
would adopt the doctrine OF Johnny Bull, "power
creates right The power is still in the people
the simple harmless power voting. If The black
slaves had the power TO free themselves, even by
violence, nobody. not even their masters, would
blame them. Then why should we hesitate to free
ourselves by the simple process of voting Let us
begin with voting only for men in favor of grant
INC the public lands, in small quantities, TO actual
settlers, and none else by von gfor none only those
favorable to the homestead exemption and land
limitation.
1t is much harder to get right after wrong CO n
mencement than it is to begin right at first. Sup
pose that all the people of the United States were
coming into the country together, and admitted TO
have equal rights; would any one have the pre-
sumption to propose so absurd measure, as that a
few should be allowed, under any circumstances TO
hold all the land as their own, while the great
iorty should be without any, and become rent
slaves like the inhabitants of Ireland No man
dare propose such a thing. How few they are who
know their rights, and fewer still who dare main
tain them REFORM.