Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1850-03-01
Friday, March 4, 1860.
The North and the South.


resantatives of the free states, both in the Gen
a:e ana House, are every day obliged to open
their ears to listen to threats and intimidation, to
yiiuperation and scorn from members from the
South who consider it their peculiar duty and
mission either to frighten northern members
from their post, by making hideous faces at them,
or brow beat them into submission or inaCtion By
their overbearing impudence and intoIerable ex-
actions.
Already have the Senate succumbed the
members from the North have cowed and slunk
TO their seats like so many whpt spaniels, and
not the faintest bark can be heard while they
shiver with fear as they gaze upon the SET
teeth Of the snarling South Hear Mr. Holmes
Of South Carolina as he brags "Wehaye but
TO show our teeth, and the North is frighten-
ed" Look at the vote to lay Roots resolu-
surprised to the effect their united growl and
howl had produced upon the members from
the North and they could hardly believe the
evidence Of their own senses, as they viewed
their triumph over the fear-strcken cravens of
the North. The people of the South get to-
gether and pass incendiary and disunon Yeso-
lutions, threatening vengeance and blood upon
the fanatics of the North and an Hon Sena-
tor from the South presents them, and takes
occasion 10 inflict upon the members from the
North, severe TRADE coupled with threats Of
disunion, civil war and the sword to the Hit
and the Senators, "noble, grave and Reverend
seignors' listen respectfully. Brave men, these
Senators from the North; Corwin, Webster
& Co.--(Corwin spoke once about the Next
can war, we believe. We think he is Sen
tor from Ohio. lie has not spoken since, tho
to any purpose that we know They listen to
'he termagant roar that is raised about them =;
they listen to the mill clack rattle of the Missis-
sippi Senator's tongue; they SEQ the elements in
wild commotion and they stink away like a child
in a thunder storm 10 the apron strings Gifts mo-
Their. Surely tits time now to listen to the orac-
ular cry, LOOK TO THE SENATE p " Look TO
THE SENATE" But we can hardly tell whether
the oracle is in earliest whether It answers in
deriaion or in irony, "Look to The Sena,s'
Well, what do we see in the Senate Out of
60 Senator'S from this grand republican confed-
eracy, three only were found TO vote in favor Of
the right of Petition. Look to the Senate, and
behold three men, Chase Hale and Seward, who
only were ready 10 defend the freemans right.
1t matters not what sentiments or what Ian
guage comes from the South in the shape of res
olutions, they are received with profound digni-
ty, and ordered to be printed Vermont sent up
her resolutions six weeks ago, ard tie Senate
have not decided to print them as yet
The Senators from the South think, Ct course
that the people of the North are as tame and
craven as the representatives they send to Wash
ington, why should they not Z? and hence they
think this threat of disunion and civil war, will
frighten the whole herd because the leaders are.
lime and again have menacos and threats Of
bloody conflicts been thrown out In the House
OF Representatives. And it seems from the APP
pearances OF things, that the representatives
from the North believe them. Why do they not
let them come en- with their storm of wrath--it
would be sublime to see it burst-pcrhaps, the
sun would shine again. For our part, we should
Ike TO see the crisis Of this grandiloquent affair
Let General Quattebum and Captain Bobad
scour their swords, and straighten up their
feathers what is the use Of this eternal crv Of
'wof wolf" We do not believe there is anv
wolf If there is, we had rather meet him as
Putnam did, in tho very den of shareholders, than
have our rights, one after the other, surrender
ed BY cowardice, or flched from US by these
southern hunters, "whose prey is man"
The SoHth, if we can believe the letters
written to Washington, are al ready to divide
the Union and set up confederacy on their
own hook. Gen. Cass, venerable pile of-hu-
mainly is shaking in the encasements of his
understandings Indiana, it is said, will 90
with the South One letter writer says, that
six Senators are prepared to yacate their seats,
and return to their constituents in case the VIII
mot Proviso is passed, and capital is being made
for the California message, by Wing prints who
are anxious, on account Of noni atoms in par
ucuar, and the administration at large.
The South are determined, with the aid of
the doughfaccs of both parties, if it is a pos
sible thing, to prevent the admission of Cali
tornla with her present boundaries, they mean,
by clustering and bullying, to frghten whom
they cannot Seduce into a support Of this non
intervention doctrine, and we fear, very much
fear, that with the proffers Of pelf and power
on the one hand, aud intimidation and threats
on the other; they will succeed in staving
off the issue or else get il all their own way
What is the reason men cannot defend the
right with better heart than they can pursue
the wrong Is there nothing in liberty for
the race, in comparison with slavery is there
nothing in a wide spread land of Freedom in
comparison with the limits of So deg. so min.
for the empire of slavery We are glad to see
that so many of the democratic presses of the
North have spoken out upon this subject; we
are glad to see here and there wing press,
which has not been bought by the administra-
ton, and become pledged 10 the abominable
doctri &c of non-intervention
Let there be general raliying cry OF all
the friends of Freedom in the land-of all who
refer Liberty to Slavery, for Mass Conyen-