Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1850-02-08
Che Tele9rapb.
Friday, February 8, 1860.
COMPROMISES.
C. L. sHoLEs, EDITOR.

United States, is still open for discussion and
compromise; il we are to believe the daily de-
gelopements of the Cabinet and Congress. Cal
houn, with his outstresched arms and bony fin
gers, claims everything. No soil is unadapted,
no cline, no sky, no light, is too good or too
bright to shine and fructfy, on a land Of slaves
Calhoun by claiming everything, will be ready
by and by to compromise the matter with half
of this free air, water and earth, eohsecrated to
the lash of the Tyrant and the tread of the slave
We expect no less from him.
Then comes the second person in this trinity
of desPots, with the air of self-forsaken crea-
! turo of circumstance" Lewis Cass the north
western peninsular Doughface, who intends to
90 against the Proviso, because he wrote the
Nicholson letter. Like Sampson, taken from the
prison-house with his eyes put out, is this same
Lewis Cass; if he cannot be Judge in Israel, he
is ready to lean himself against the mighty pill
lars which support the Temple of Freedom, and
IN his fall, he hopes and prays to his God as he
dies, that he may be avenged on the PhiIistines
; 1t is well the Democrats of the North forsook
him when they did, or they would now find
themselves in the Temple of Dagon. He refu-
SEES to obey the instructions of his own State
preferring rather that his hostility to Freedom
should be the monument upon his political grave
than that his devotion TO Liberty and an acknowl-
edgment of past errors should win him back ten
thousand friends, and finally constitute his own
Apotheosis.
The third person in this god-forsakcn trinity,
is that arch-compromiser himsclf-Hcnry Clay,
now lettering on the brink of the grave he
throws up one OF those particular and often-ex-
hibited sides Of his, which would be character
lied by John Randolph, if he was living, as one
of his rotten mackarel by moonlight exhibitions
sinking and shining byt turns.
| Why Re chooses TO make this display Of sene
folly, is unaccountablo no any other than that Of
the ancient maxim, "whom the Gods wish to
destroy, they first make mad"
Mr.. Cay, by this last political, suicidal plunge
burics himself from his friends at the North for
ever. He must have supposed that error was
eternal, and truth transient. He must think that
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lie. He must believe that the Sun is an Opaque
! and the Moon luminous body
| Did he think that because the Missouri CON-
/ promise was swallowed with such gusto, thirty
years ago that another compromise of human
right and Gods truth, would go down just as
easy now? Did he think that liberal sentiments
had made no progress in thirty years
If he had consulted but an Almanac, he would
have seen that another generation of men were
on the face of the EARTH and he might have sus-
pectcd, that that race knew nothing of compro-
misses History might have forgotten or spoken
lightly of the Missouri compromise ght have
forgotten his impious desire "to STAY Mexican
might have forgotten his betrayal or dcsertion
of his kinsman, and could have passed over his
ambitious and as often crushed hopes of the Pre-
sidency. But neither postcrity nor history will
forget this last base betrayal of Human hopes,
and a Nations veal.
There can be no doubt but that systemat-
cal and concerted effort is being made North and
South, through the instruments of Slavery prop
! agandsts, 10 crush this last hope of the slave,
and stifle the aspirations of the free The south
fulfil their part in clustering and bullying with
! threats of dsunion, and cleaning display of
blades and bludgoons.
The North is wheedlcd by political strategy
and delusvo hopes of places and pap from the
treasury crib-and thus the Ca oinet hope to a.
chieve for the propogandsts of Slavery all they
want,-they expect thus to satisfy Southern ar
rogance and Northern cupidity.
! Why are Senators Chase and Hale excluded
entirely from the Senate Committee?
Why are the tools of the South busy in the
Michigan Legislature, in attempts to procure the
repeal OF the instructions given to Cass in reIa-
ton to the Wilmot Proviso?
Why did the Democratic State Convention OF
Ohio refuse to endorse the Proviso?
And finally, why are the compromise resolu-
tons of Henry Clay sent in now, BY which the
North are TO be compromised out of everything,
and everything conceded to the South which
the Unsuitable nav of Slavery can demand?
Is there no abstract right, no impartial Justice
left in the world Have a right to demand all
that my neghbor has, his houses and lands, his
wife and children, and all the proceeds of long
life Of industry and unintermitted toll
And then, must he be thankful when he finds
that will compromise" the matter and let him
of by taking nothing but his wife and one of
his farms.
We are panied to acknowledge that in this
whole matter of Freedom for Men, the "Pow-
ers that be- at Washington, care not straw for
the interests Of the whole people their whole
life and duty is swallowed up by the interest of
10000 Shareholders who rule the Nation, and it
is Time for the Democratic Presses of the North,
to speak out on this subject. The crisis has
come.
The South is united and true to but one thing,
and that Is Slavery it is no time for Northern
men to quarrel about Wing and Democratic
measures, but let the united voices of the whole
North 60 up in one prolonged shout, give us
liberty for our Free Territory-and let it be
nominated in the bond" c.
u The embodiment of Wing principles"