Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-06-07

tr us worship We DO not understand our union
and constitution to be an end, but simply means
of attaining an end-and that end the best good
of the whole people. 1t is not then to be blindly
worshipped in itself, but to be viewed with refe-
renee to its fitness TO accomplish the end sought
to be attained, and cherished or rejected just as
bears favorably or untavorably upon that object.
We do not suppose that our Fathers in establish
ing this government, themselves thought ii en-
bodied the perfection of human wisdom, or that
it would never require to be altered They had
Just emerged from colonial dependancc-.just set
foot as it were upon the threshold of the temple
: of liberty and it would be a sad libel upon the
institutions they framed, if in fifty or sixty years
they had not inspired in their descendants new
desires for higher republcanism, for better
liberty. The republican idea is simply recog-
milton of mans progressive nature, and republl-
can institutions are nothing more than ready
means by which progressive man may harmonic
his external relations with his internal perception
and capacities, and those who worship as God
any form of government, are sacrificing the sub
stance to the shadow-are fitting to themselves
garment which some day will cramp and con-
fine the free action of their own limbs.
Nevertheless, this form worship is the leading
idea of the age. Those who have had access to
our Congressional speeches will find that our
glorious union," and our GLORIOUS constitu-
ton" are the staple of nine-tenhs of all that is
there said on any subject. There is no sin but
they are made the scapo-goat to carry to the will
derness Men fly to them as did the thieves and
assassns of old to tho portals of the temples of
their Gods, beneath whose shadow crime could
restwith impunity. In this, there not much phi
osophy. A man with a very ordinary percep-
tons ought to be able to perceive that under all
this form worship, it is by no means impossible
evils may be fostering and spreading which even
tually will consume all of our institutions now
valuable. 1t right the people want and they
want that form of government only which will
express the right The business of all men then
is not with this or that forn but it is to invest-
gate all questions that arise with reference TO
truth. How boyish and silly is the threat to dis
solve the Union, when questions involving the
principles of right and wrong arise, and demand
our attention. We know Of nothing more un.
f manly, unless it be the abect cringng which
succumbs to such threats rather than to stand up
in defence of the right. Are we not n1.n? Dc
we desire TO protect our iniquities, and secure
, impunty in them, by these undignifed threats
Is not truth and truthful Institutions, the best fol
all of u.s. and hence had we not better discuss all
questions calmly, than to seek to terrify men il.
10 Rcquiescence in our desires.
i. Our Fathers accomplished much, but it was
not in the nature of things that they could dc
every thing. They have left work for us to do
The rights of the nation with reference to the rest
of the world, are we'll settled and understood
but the rights of the individuals composing the
i government are just beginning to be agitatod
These rights have got to be vindicated and wrot
out. 1t is absolutely necessary for the welfare
and happiness of the masses that they should be.
A glorious constitution and glorious union, aad
all that kind Of thing, are mere matters of straw
if under them the rights of the people are not re-
spected, and their interests guarded. II is but a
poor consolation for the under-fed, overtoiled in.
habitants Of Great Britain, to be told what g
"glorous constitution they live under. twill
be equally poor consolation to the telling mass.
es of this country, when their rights have been
swallowed up by "a corrupt aristocracy and them.
selves made mere creatures to minister to the
comforts of others, to have rung in their ears
the cry of our glorious union and glorious con.
stitut0n
r Our glorious constitution" is the cant slang
of old England's tyrants, and when the masses
are robbed and ground to the earth and the aris
tocracy are rio,ing their earnings, it is all in
accordance with that glorious instrument, and
probably the last sound which reaches the ear Of
some poor wretch starved to his grave, will be
audations of the glorious constitution, under
which he has starved. Men who are forever
ringing the changes on this cry should be sus-
pected by the people, Those who fear to vindi-
cate the rlght-Who dare not take hold of ques-
tons with reference to their intrinsic character.
or are willing to sacrifice the right, are not the
men to be trusted. This conservatism is very
fine thing for those who are living luxurousIy
upon the spoils of Office, but the great masses of
the people expect to obtain their living in some
other way. They look to honest labor to accom-
plsh that end, and hence their interest is to have
correct laws and correct institutions, and when
they perceive wrong and urge and demand its
eradication, he is traitor to the best interests of
the race who interposes present forms Of govern
ment as barrier to the accomplishment Of the
Just ends sought.
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