Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-05-16

III lHe uSc vi HIS ldcuIUeS 90 equally mus
the man he calls his property. Would the mas
ter, II he were made a slave, regard his doom al
worse than death and lose the crown of plor,
from his brow! 1t is even, so with the slave -
Away for ever then with the doctrine that ha
filled the world with woe, that man. whose breath
Is IN his nostrl, can have property in his fellow
man.
II these views be admitted to be correct will
what feeling must that system be regarded which
makes merchandise of three millions of the bu
man race, or one hundred and twenty times 4.
many as the entire population of the city Toron
to- y system, too, which entails slavery upo,
the posterity of these three millions TO the yer,
latest generation. Yet, such is the svstpn
which at this moment sheds its baleful influence
over every part of the Great Republic to which
you are so near neighbors Three millions O.
lmbrutcd men, women, and children. the chat
tells OF some 100000 tyranica and sordd mer
the disgrace, as they are the curse of thei,
species. A money making confederation. in
Whlc'I the stock is human hearts and human souls
"hlle other men call themselves rich in fiocks
and herds, and fields and farms, these men conn
their inches according to the number of souls
that trenbes at their glance, and the capacity Of
their human cattle to increase and mnltinly.-
They rear children as you would rear sheen O,
calves-theyput beauty and loveness and youth
and purity and intelligence and piety up at auc-
ton and sell them to the highest bidder. They
sell their own children without remorse. and are
hillng the shambles Of America with the bost
blood OF Virginia and the Carolinas. Oh, what
a monster is man! Not satisfied with the Iecit.
innate dominion given him by his Creator over
the beasts of the field, the fowls Of the air. and
the fish OF the sea-not satisfied with everv tree
OF the garden-with every green herb for meat
and the cattle upon a thousand hiIls-not salts
fled with the promise that summer and winter
seed time and harvest shall never cease''-he
has put forth his hand, and taken hold upon that
which God has reserved for himself-the only
creature made to glority God, by the faculties OF
deafness soul that creature man has seized
has torn the crown from his brow-has robbed
! him OF his dignity, and stamped him as a beast.
Aye advertises;him for sale with oxen and horses
and ashes him with scoarge to the shambles.
| where he is to be sold
And yet, there are those in America. who as K
whether slavery is not a religious and dirine in
| sttutlon. And for what is man enslaved p
what great purpose Is accomplished by this rob-
! berry OF God, this sacrIcge of man, this wreck
OF soul, this humiliation of intel lect this wiring
ing OF the heart strings of humanity, this dcgra-
datlon of the Hottest being in the world to the
! lowest condition OF which tanned brute is capa-
| bic -! Is there some grand object of stupcnd0us
magnitude, which cannot be ACCOMPLISHED I'M
| less this be done, and which makes it erpedient
II not right, that one portion of the human race
! should be sacrificed, that the rest may be saved
! It's, that few may be Idle themselves and vet
sell rice, tobacco, sugar and cotton. And it is
asked, IS slavery religions? No man need ask
whether slavery be irreLgiouS. Can that be re-
| Ilglon which dethrones God ana puts man in his
! place? Can that be religious which strikes at
! the root, at once OF the freedom, responsibility
| dignity and happiness of mann Can that be re-
! lIglous which makes one man tyrQnt and an
| other a Stare and creates gulph between them.
wide as that between the burning seraDh near
the throne of God, and the reptile that lives upon
the vapor of a dungeon Ask not whether it
can be religious, for your own heart tells you il
| Is not even human.
You shoot without remOrse the wild beast that
comes into your field and steals the lambs of
your tlocks. Slavery waits till the agony of the
mother is over to plumber her and the fruit of
her womb, and to write beast upon that brow
which was intended to wear the stamp of intel
!igencc, and the crown of immortality. How
appalling is the state of America, when politics,
literature, commerce, social intercourse, and re-
llgon, before the spirit of slavery. To the man
who looks through FORMS ceremonies, professions
and crcedS, TO the actual and peryading spirit of
nation, America seems to have no actuatng
principle but slavery no God but slavery. At
the South, the soil is monopozed by it. 1t over
shadows millions of acres OF the best portions
OF Gods creation. Every portion of the popu-
lation is under its direct and absolute influence
The patrican class are the Shareholders Their
wealth is computed in slaves Their influence
regulated by the number of slaves. Their re-
speciality measured by the number of slaves
The slaves themselves are nothing besides slaves
| Their muscular power, their mechanical skill.
their power OF endurance, their spiritual ntelli-
gence, their personal beauty, their tecunditv. as
beings capable of multiplying their species, all
weighed, tested, appraised, in connection with
slavery. The free people of color, as they are
called in mockery, are regarded as below con-
tempt. Having no marketable value, they are
nuisance, eye-sores, and denominations, the verv
filth and ohscouring of the body polite to be got
rid of, as soon as means can be devised to gath
er them up as the scum of humanity to be thrown
of the surface of society.
The non-slaveholdlng whites in the South
! are q race of mongrels, who eriSt, not lire
| who are tolerated. not encouraged ; and who
have no status or position among their own
kinds.
What the state of morals in such q commu-
nifty must be, il needs no statistics nor newspa-
/ paper ldClS 10 prove. w z KNOW, however, from
the records of every day, as well as from the de-
ductiOns of reason, the condition of the South
in regard to morals. We know that, superad-
ded 10 the vices OF the free States, there are
crimes and immoraliles peculiar to the region
of slavery. We know that human lusts are
without a check or restraint. We know, that
all that is precious to one of the sexes, is the
sport of those who live TO crafty their passions.
We know that naarriage-as an indissolnble tie,
as a legal contract as protected by law, Is giving
the husband the right to defend the wife, is ut
| terly unknown amongst the three millions of the
South, We know that bear in the forest, has
better chance of rearing unmoIested her
whelps, and of keeping them when SIZE has rear
ed them, than the human mother who suckles
slaves. We know, that symmetry and beauty,
are the curse of their owners, and mark them
ont for intamy and perdition. We know, that
Religion is made TO cOalesce with this state of
things. That the ministers OF religion are slave
holders, slave breeders, Graziers in human cat
tie, slave whPpers i; and the friends, co-part-
nerS, and co-plunders. with the viest of the vile
OF the inteigeu: creation. We know that hU-
manityis a crime The love Of equal freedom
the objectionable sin; and that the priest
/ hood consent 10 the martvrdom Of emancip patton.
and will hold the clothes of those who stone