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

De here. The government of this District Shout
De perfect model, and fitting illustration I
the very principle of self-government Here th
diplomatic agents of foreign Governments OF
their views of the practical workings of our Re
publican institutions.
"This would be we'll enough says ONT
but have my fears that such measure woul
be unconstitutional" Mr. Chairman, this wor
unconstitutional has become about as much {
a seare-crow as the words "fanaticism'' and "dis
solution" was amused, the other day. wit
the debate on the Census bill. 1t was thought b
some gentlemen to be unconstitutional for tb
marshal, IN taking the census, to gather up in
formation as to the business resources and tn
pecuniary interests of the country. WHY, sill
the United States marshal in this District NAV b
authorized to take mans wife and children
and even the man himself, (if he cannot prov
that some STAKEHOLDER has said ne might 90 free.
and put them in prison, and sell them, for iai
tees, into slavery for life We have other law
sanctioned here by Congress, that operate in this
Wlse Ii you take mans cloak without leave
you are imprisoned for theft; but if the cloak has
a man in it, and you take the man and the cloaE
both, it is not considered any crime! The kid
mapping of the man sanctifes the taking of the
cloak!
But our Presidents, too, are much inclined te
indulge IN these nice constitutional scruples
Mr. Polk had his in regard to the General Gov.
eminent improving our harbors but he had nc
doubt about the proprety of exploring the Dead
Sea! SO OF General Taylor. In his annual
message ne recommends Congress to use its
best endeavors to elevate the coored people in
the Sandwich Islands. suppose he must have
had his constitutional scrupes in regard to con-
ferrlng the same benefits on his own countrymen
who are in similar condition at home-yea. in
this very Distrlct-as his message was silent on
the subject. What straining at gnats and swaI-
lowing OF camels The gentleman from Geor-
gia, Mr Stephens few days since, when op-
posing the Censns bill, because it SOUGHT other
information than the enumeration of the people.
remarked, in very eloquent speech, that this
Government had great mission to fulfill Well.
sir, believe so, too but it is not to be fulfilled
through his Interpretation of the Constitution.
nor through the creed introduced by the gen.
tleman from Pennsylvania, TMr Ross,1 which
denies the right of the Federal Government to
teach by example. Sir, if ever we intend to full
I'LL this great mission, we must throw off these
swaddlng clothes of bigotry, of cruelty and op-
presslon--take our proper position in the family
OF nations, and give hearty support to every
great measure of reform 1t will hardly do for
us to hesitate six months about admitting dem
she has republican constitutional constitution
more intelligent and humane than our own mis-
cradle system of legislation for this District,
where we have sole Jurisdiction. Sir, can we
not learn q profitable lesson from st. Paul, who
said. "when he was child, he spoke as child,
he thought as child but when he became
man, he put away childish things" Would it
not be well for us oimitate his glorious example,
by putting away our childish things, asserting
orr manhood, and entering upon the discharge
OF all the high trusts assigned us!
But, sir, after all the absurdties of which II
promises comes forward with his peculiar sys-
TEN of moral ethics. After admitting, in his
New Orleans letter, that slavery is piratical
war against the rights of man, he has attempted
to show that this Government should be prosti-
tuted for its continuance in the District of Co
lumbia.
In the letter referred to, he said
An argument, in support of reducing the
African race to slavery, is sometimes derived
from their alleged intellectual inferiority to the
white races. But, if this argument be founded
in fact, Gas it may be, but which | shall not now
exmaine,) it would prove entirely too much II
acoun prove that any aoe nation achich had made
greater advances IN civilization, kno,vledge, and
seisdom than another aohite nation, aoould hare q
Nay. further: if the principle of subjugation
founded upon intellectual superiority be true,
and be applicable to races and to nations, what
is to prevent its being applied to individuals
And then the wisest man in the world would
have a right to make slaves of all the rest OF
mankind.
IF, indeed, we possess this intellectual supe-
riority: profoundly grateful and thankful to Him
who mas bestowed it, we ought to fulfill all the
obligations and duties which it imposes; and
these acouzd require us not to subiugGte or deal
unjustly By our telIo,o men who are less blessed
than zoe are, but to instruct, TO Improve, and to
enlighten theaa."
Sublime sentiments, embracing the princi-
pies of truth and Justice, of hope and immortal
| ity These are sentiments for which the Apos-
| ties and the long line of martyrs suffered ano
| died-sentiments, for the embodiment of which
the fathers of the Revolution pledged their lives
| their property, and sacred honor, liz the suppor
of seven years war, which threw off the yoke
of despotism. Yet, strange as it may seem, the
author proposes now to sacrifice them all on the
altar of slavery! Yes, sir, these sentiments we
are now called upon, in this great struggle, +" t
compromise"-to throw away, as an idle abstrac
ton, sentiments embracing, as they do, nothing
less than a sense of obligation to God and to oul
brother. Hence the argument of the honorable
Senator, who said, when urging the North Il
make these sacrifices, 81 might ask of you larg
er and more expansive concessions than from tn
slave States And why? You are numerical
" more powerful than the slave States. Yo1
are, in point of numbers, greater; and great
ness and magnanimity should ever be allied to
gether.
Mr.. Chairman, in order to see more clearl
the nature of this greatness and magnanmlty
let us call to mind the case of William Bo
Brown, who had so great love for freedom a
to consent to be put into box three feet long
two and half feet wide. and two feet deep, an
in this confined and distressing condition to b
conveyed as package of goods from Richmon
to Philadelphia part of the time with his hea
downwards. Here, sir, was one of our ow
countrymen, free from any charge of crime
and vet he was obliged to pass through the yer
metropolis of the Republic, whose boast of il
liberty and equality, as a bale of merchandise
Shame, shame on the Republic! Take anotht
illustration of this kind of greatness and magn;
nimity-I mean our violation of the flag of true
in the capture of the bold and chivalrous Csc,
ola, once already referred to, who was defen'
, ing his wife, his children, and his countryme
from outrage and insult in the slavery-supportr
r Florida war. Sir, if this be the greatness al
e magnanimty'' asked for, pray that our cou
bod afpn