Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-12-06


as market; and when they were glutted, fell
upon devices for acquiring new territory; first
they stole; and finding the operation successful
in the case of Texas, tried it as public act and
made war, and by war enormously increased the
territory of the United States. That territory is
now become their terror and anguish. The
South is crying for disunion because the territory
meant for Slavery is to be used for the benefit Of
| liberty.
| Next, as a coincilliation of the South, is pas.
sed the Fugitive Slave Bill. 1t would seem that
desperation had made men mad. The most in.
genious, subtle, deadly attack that ever has been
made upon Southern institutions, has been made
by their Fugitive Slave Law. Ten thousand
Abolition lecturers, sent abroad to every village
and hamlet in the land, would have made but a
ripple in comparison with that wave of feeling
that is rolling across the public mind. 1t has
struck earnestness into those who, aforetime
were careless: it has changed conservative men
into fast-travelng men of movement; it has ar
reused such tide of Indignation in all our cities
as few men choose to face. 1t is not decreasing
Every day the feeling deepens. Out of the cir
Gle Of commercial papers, there is scarcely a
paper, religious or;secuar, that does not hiss and
execrate the measure. The community have
been driven back upon their reserved rights
The most religious, are those that are most in
dignant. The communities that have always
been eminent and significant for law abiding pro-
pensities, are the very ones that most magnih-
Gently spurn this infamous mockery of Law.
Law! That is a word suggestive of the most
halowed excellencies! Justice is its substance,
bene6cence is its errand, peace are its fruits
BY what internal Juggling are we called to
behold that sacred name desecrated by a monster
~ Ill
guards of liberty were taken away,-the Habe-
as Corpus, and trial by Jury,-and which stalks
abroad upon its felonious errand foe to justice,
the mockery of benefcence, and the destroyer of
peace! Satan hath quite overleaped HIMSELF
What great march of free sentiment, which moth
ing has ever been able 10 check, will this foul
banner and this engine of destruction stop it ?
hswil roll over it like tide; it will sink it down
to the bottom fpublie Indignation.
1t is upon review ofthe progress ofthe anti
slavery movement, and upon distinct recogni-
ton O: the fact, that the conflict is not conflict
OF men, but of Institutions, and that the sources
which feed the agitation are in the Constitution
and in the Laws-that we wish to suggest few
reflections.
l. The man who hides his eyes from the true
and deep causes Of present public agitation, and
who occupe s hmselfin invectives is not worthy
the name of thinker, nor fitted to lead any but the
blind in common rush for the ditch.
The storm is in the ocean not in the ship yet
the crew are bitterly railing at each other the Of
icers are at yariancean at every wave that stag
gers the Unnamed ship, and every gust that
brings her to her beams ends there ensues scuf-
file along the deck, each cursing and swearing at
the other as the ill-omcned cause of all the mis-
Chiefs When the Great Western met that ter
rife gale some years ago upon the Atlantic, her
officers knew that their foes were elemental; they
prepared the ship to meet them, bore right up in
to the wind, breasted the wsee, and rode out the
gale.
We, too, are bestormed. But our wise men
are living, some broadside on to the wind; some
are scudding, some are quarreling with the crew
and some are proposing in Union meetings, to
patch up the boiler, or tinke- some part of the
machinery, oil it. wipe it, rub it.-as remedy
for the rags of the sea, and the whirlwind of the
air.
2. For thirty years, there has been steady
current deepening, strengthening, accelerating.
Ten thousand currents that have set against it.,
have been able only to become eddies on its sur
face. VIII few men now meet it, and turn it
back by batch ofhollow paper resolutions made
up of pretences and guises, and strung together
as mercantile device to gain custom? This
is worse than chd's play.
Nothing so well, as the origin and history of
the anti-slavery feeling can demonstrate the fol-
ly of superficial measures ofrelief. Compromises
do not give peace. They agitate. They are
but dams built across the stream. The water
gathers force behind them; thunders over them
with tenfold violence, and at length angrily
sweeps them down the channel III some verdant
freshet. Those men who cry peace, are the mer
who carry concealed swords. They do not know
or will not see, that there is hand of God in hui
man affairs. They DO not perceive that God d
reefs this conflict of principles and institutions
He who stops it proongs the battle. Let it &C
forward. All good men hope the end of Slave
nv at hand. VIII it die without commissions
Will not the devil rend and tear him from whom
he is about t. depart? We desire peace, found
ed upon Liberty and Justice. We desire nc
peace, maintained at the expense of both.
8. Our policy for the future is plain. All the
Natural Laws of God are warning upon Slavery
We have only to let the process 60 on. Let
Slavery alone. Let it go to seed. Hold it to its
own natural fruit Cause it to abide by ITSELF
Cut off every branch that hangs beyond the wall
every root that spreads Shut it up to itself, and
let it alone We do not ask to interfere with the
internal policy of singla State, by congression-
al enactments we will rot ask to take one guar
antee from the Institution, We only ask that d
| line be drawn about it. That an insnperabe
bank be cast up; thatt be fixed aud forever set
ted, that Slavery must find no new sources. new
fields, new prerogativcs; but that must abideir
its place, subject to all the legitimate changes
which will be brought upon it by the spirit Of
nation essentially democratic, by schools taught
| by enlightened men; by colleges sending into
every professionaunual thousands bred to justice
and hating its reverse; by churches preaching &
gospel that has always heralded civil liberty; By
manufactures which always thrivebest when the
masses are free and refined, and therefore have
their wants multiplied; by free agriculture, ant
| free commerce.
| When Slavery begins under such treatmen
to flag, we demand that she be denied politica
favoritsm to regain her loss; we demand that NJ
laws be enacted to give health to her paralysis
and strength to her relaxing grasp. She boldly
and honestly demanded right to equality witt
the North, and prophetically spoke by Calhoun
that the North would preponde-ate and crush her
| 1t is true Time is her enemy Liberty will, i
| let alone always be match for Oppression
| Now, it is because statesmen propose stepping
in between Slavery ard the appointed bourne tc
which she goes scourged oy God and nature, tina
we resent these statesmen, and refuse to follow
them. If her wounds can now be staunched, i
she may have adventitious aid in new privileges
Slavery will renew her strength and stave off the