Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-11-08
"Freedom's battle once begun
Bequeathed from bleeding sire 10 son,
Though balfled oft, is surely won"

Freedom has been baffied in her struggles here
as well as elsewhere. Though crushed to earth
she will rise again in renewed might, and sweep
oppression from the land Here the battle still
rages-not with guns and bayonets, and imple-
ments of death, but with weapons just as effec-
tnal-the ballots of the people. Freedom or sla-
very no less hangs upon the issue of an election
contest in our day, than it did upon the issue of
arms at Blu lker Hill, at Saratoga, or at York
town, during the days of the Revolution. Men
change but principles, never, and precisely the
same principles which animated our revolution
ary struggle, now animate the souls of men
throughout Europe and our own land. Thank
God for the inestimable blessing of the ballot
box, secured by our Fathers at the expense of
their own blood. Through its instrumentalities
the great struggle between the oppressor and the
oppressed may be carried silently onward-and
not to might but right will be the victory. He
who is recreant to freedom at the ballot box
would have been recrean. to it at Bunker Hill.
He who shirks from the responsibility and duty
which the ballot box imposes, would have left his
muskct to rust on its pc S before he would have
raised it in the cause of liberty during the revo-
luton Look al the events of our own land
Look at 100000 voted ont of your poe iets
deliberately to satisfy the inordinate cravings of
slave state. Was the stamp act of King
George worse imposition than is this? Look
at &c. 1000 square miles of the Free Territory Of
New Mexico, given into the hands of the same
slave power. Jefferson urged rebellion to King
George because he waged cruel war against hu-
manity. Did he ever wage more cruel war
against humanity, than is waged by the Fugitive
Slave Bill enacted by the last Congress Will
you refuse to avail yourselves of the ballot box
to right such wrongs as these? We say, awake !!
arise or be forever fallen. 1t is not yet too late
to redeem our beloved country, peaceably from
the grasp of tyrants. The coil of the serpent
may yet be loosed before its folds so tighten as
to strangle the victim.
On Tuesday next great battle is to be
fought between the people and the regular pow
ers in this State. That same power which has
for several years been seeking to fasten slavery
upon the Territories of freedom and which at the
last session of Congress so far triumphed as to
impose upon US the Objectionable and outra-
geous laws to which we have alluded, is still
in the field and active. You may know its fol-
lowers as members of the Parry who hold the
/ 'party,' to be above all other considerations
and who believe it more important to be regular,
than to be right If they lived in Europe,
they would believe in the divine right of Priests
and Kings, and would advocate Legitimacy" as
of more importance than human rights. The
sspartu," of which they claim to be part and
portion, gave us these Objectionable laws and
seek to perpetuate them and enact more of a kin
dred character. ANDREW E. GILMORE is their
candidate for Congress, and in his success. we
ratify the doings of the party for the past year,
and invite a continuance of these outrages for the
| future.
| CHARLES DURKEE is the candidate of the
People. and in his success, we vindicate our
rirht to be free, and our claim as freemen.
Let us not then prove false TO our best inter-
ests, nor be laggards nor sluggards, in vindica-
| ting those interests Our fathers tracked their
paths in blood over the frozen SHOWS OF winter
in their contests with the enemies OF freedom, ard
shall we their sons and descendants, prove neg
ligent of or false to the same principles tor which
they contended.
Let us be up and doing. The cause of liber-
ty in our own country and throughout the world
demands it,