Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-07-26

(! ern friends, that they are Utopian and chimer
cal, tending to anarchy and irreligion, closel
ID allied In principle to that odious proviso, whc
we are told, if applied to the Territories. wi
necessarily oblige the slave States to withdra,
% from the Union, and, for the protection of the
IS slave property, to establish Southern Confeo
e eracy. Sir, let me, in passing, ask our friend
d who entertain these views, what advantag
d would result from such step, even were
e mutually agreed upon? You are all free trad
1t ers, and therefore you would certainly not OF
Ject, IN such an event, to reciprocity of trad
II with the States left behind, and also to postal a,
: engagements. We would be agreed in prevent
e ing the establishment of any monarchical goy
n ernments on this continent Well. then. Wha
are you to gain? Would not the new reatio,
Y be Just about the same that exists now? Yol
J, are already Independent States, excepting iurs
dlcton over specified subjects, which I have Jus
> named, including in addition, few incidenta
powers. The only effect of this course, in m,
opinion, would be to hasten forced, instead O
voluntary emancipation, in the slave State.
g themselves. am, for this and other importan
reasons, opposed to separation of these States
r Mr.. Chairman, it is the true policy of nations
as well as of individuals, to shake hands with
all the world, approving what is right, and in .
respectful manner condemning what is wrong
not cut OFT part of the human family from dpIo.
matte and social relations, as the Senate's Aus
trlan resolutions representations that should
ever be ranked among the most efficient means
tor the civilization of the world We ought not
to be destructive, but restorative in our move
ments. Our object should be to improve each
other. Ii the free States are deluded. and I'M
der the darkness of superstition, the South
should seek to enlighten them So of the slave
States. If they err, the North should seek to do
them like favor Why not, then, remain to-
gether, and let "agitation" go on? Let me,
then, eXhort our more timid brethren throughout
the Union not to be alarmed, even should the
Southern Convention seek to dissolve the Union.
mad much rather see such step taken than
stagnation! A head wind is even better than
calm. The physician whose medicines produce
no effect is quack. Besides, should such
rash measure as dissolution be resolved upon,
the effect would be the call of another eonven-
tion-one more prudent and wise, and which
would suggest more effective means for the pro-
lection of the slave States. And here would
take occasion, Mr. Chairman, to say to those who
are endeavoring to throw odium and ridicule
upon the Nashville Convention, You are doing
great injustice. Sir, while see the tendency
OF the age in the diffusion of anti-slavery prnci-
pies every where, my great surprise is, that the
slave States are not more alarmed. Look at
the rapid spread of these principles since the
Mexican war;. And here let me remind our
Southern friends of what the far-seeing Calhoun
thought of this war, when he said that Mexico
was to us forbidden fruit" and that "the penal
ty of eating it would be to subject our institu-
tons to political DEATH" Mr. Calhoun in nv
opinion, never expressed more truth in SO few
words. The present controversy proves it Mr.
Jefferson, too believe, saw this as distinctly
with his prophetic eye, when he used the fol-
lowing prophetic language:
Can the liberties of q nation BIO thought So
basis "a conviction on the minds Of the people FI
that these liberties are the gift of God that they
are not to be violated but with his wrath! In
deed, tremble for my country when | reflect
that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep
forever; that the Almighty has no attribute that
can take sides with us in such contest"
Sir, let me say, in all kindness to our South
ern friends, if the view taken by Mr. Jefferson
and Mr. Calhoun be correct, and they refuse to
adopt wise measures to arrest the growing evils
of slavery, there is a point of time, which they
or their children must reach, that will be truly
appalling! Their anxiety then will not be con-
corning their sixteen hundred millions of dollars
of property in Gods image, but will be for their
rsires and children. Then will be realized the
graphic picture of the distinguished Senator
from Kentucky, Mr. CLAY,] which is not too
highly drawn. He says:
Behold, Mr. President, that dwelling house
now wrapped in fames Listen sir, to the
rafters and beams, which fall in succession,
amid the crash; and the flames ascending high
er and higher as they tumble down. Behold
those women and children, who are flying from
the calamitous scene, and with their shrieks and
lamentations imploring the aid of nigh Heaven!
Whose wives and children are they? x
In the one scale, then, we behold sentiment, SEN
tment, sentiment, alone. In the other, property,
the social fabric, life, and all that makes life de-
sirable and happy"
These objects, in the mind of the Senator,
seem to be certain results. unless he shall sue
coed in arresting the tendency of the spirit OF the
age to universal liberty. That his arm will
prove impotent for this, | feel sure. hope,
i therefore, to use the figure of the kentucky Sem
ator, that our friends who are deeply interest
ed in this matter, will put sentiment gori-
Gus sentiment, in both sides of the scale-such
sentiment as is expressed in the New Orleans
letter, to which have adverted
i Mr. Chairman, claim no jurisdiction for the
General Government over this subject in the
/ States. l have only spoken of your internal at
fairs. because the debate invited me there. l dc
not think any of the Northern States would alter
the Constitution to-day, if they had the power
To give the Federal Government jurisdiction
over the municipal regulations of the States
would be to throw upon it the responsibility
without comforting the power. The preroga
tives of confederation like ours, would be In
effectual in internal regulations over country
SO large in extent The vast influence which
this Government should exert, both at home ant
abroad, is only to be effected by strict admin
istration of Justice to the full extent of its del
egated powers, the pro-slavery creed of the gen
tleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. Ross,l to th'
contrary notwithstanding. In my opinion, thu
partition line of jurisdiction between the Fedora
!. and State Governments was most Judlclousl.
: drawn.
But, sir, pass to subject to which hav
e already incidentally alluded mean the too we
It concerted plan, put in operation BY an extenslv
v correspondence throughout the States, to con
/ coct some compromise" measure--some mag
o zeal adjustment shall finally extinguis
the last hope of personal liberty TO the poor slave
r WHILE if carried out in principle, it would crus
d the spirit of civil liberty throughout the worie
; Sir, we have many men in public and priYat
+ life, great in talents, great in experience, grei
e in the councils of the nation, enjoying iarg
n share of public confidence, who believe, or al
: sumo to believe, that the public MIND has broke
N away from the proper restraints OF order an