Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-10-31
70 THE ELECTORS OF WISCONSIN

Address Of The Committee appointed Jv n.
Uaterfo'cH Convention.
FFLLow CITIZENS:
Our words shall be few and explicit Weosk
you TO read, reflect and act
Prior to the last Presidential election, all tho
Free States, save Iowa, had, by their Legisla.
lures, Conventions and leading men, opposed, by
united voice, the extension of Slavery. Gen.
Lass, at command of the south, in his Mich
olson letter, was the FIRST to lead the way in abaD
donlng tins principle. His example was follow.
cd oy DINERS, through his friends in the free
STATES generally, urged his claims on the ground
that ne would not, If elected 80 disregard the
pubic sentiment of the north, as TO veto the VIII
mot Proviso. His Senate Speecb. after his do.
feat, dspelled that illusion. The rejection Of tho
Ordinance of 1887, and the passage of the Con-.
promise measures, through the apostacy of north
ern men, are matters of history. New Mexico
and Utah, differed by Shareholders and opeDed
to the introduction of slaves, enough of Free
Territory 10 make two slave States, consecrated
to slavery by the Texas swinde and the Fugi
tive Slave Law, impering the liberties of Free
men and dishonorng the Nation, are the fruits
of that Compromise
The Democratic Party of This STATE.
After the defeat of Gen. Cass, by its Repre-
santatiyes III the Legislature, and IN the State
Convention of Sept. 5th 1S49 formally adopted
Free Soil principles pledged itself to their sup.
port, and asked the suffrages of the people for
lis candidates, on the ground Of these pledges
AND many believed ihe,r promises. snA returned
III good faith 10 the Democratic party, Bot tbs
evil influence of the Slave Power al Washing.
ton, silently but constantly at work. seduced t6c
leaders of the party one By one, ill the 54}tle
party, at its recent State Convention, held Sept,
10Th, 1851, solemnly repuditated its Free Soil
Platform, by vote of three TO one on call Of
the yeas and nays, and adopted, in its stead. the
Baltimore Platform, forbidding all discussion or
agitation of the Slavery question, and denonnc.
ing those who oppose the business of kidusn.
ping and advocate the repeal Of the Fugitive
Slave Law. as the enemies Of our Republican in
sttutions.
The Democratic party this State, therefore,
by the action gifts late State Convention. has TO-
pudiated It's testimony against the extension Of
Slavery, the increase of Slave States, and the
! support OF Slavery by the Federal Government.
and has eagucd itself with the Slavery party of
the Nation 10 support the Compromise and the
! Fugitive Slave Law, and to DO whatever il do
mandcd Of it by the Slave Power. Ii has hl.o
elected delegates to the National Convention in
favor of these measures, and of the denomination
! of Cass for the Presidency, and has nominated
! d. y. J. Upham-United States Commissioner
to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law-as its can.
didate for Governor.
The Wa'ertown Convention composed of Dem.
ncratS who adhere to the Democratic Platform pI
| $40 and to the Declaration Of the Convention
of the First Congressional District against the
Fugitive Slave Law, nominated Leonard J Far.
well, Of Dane, for Governor; Benjamin B. Spal-
ing, of Marquette for Lieut. Governor; Ed
ward d. HoIton, Of Milwaukee, for Secretary Of
S,ato J. +. Willard, of Rock, for Treasurer;
Ira &. Paine, of Racine, for Attorney General,
and William II. Lord, Of Milwaukee, for State
Superintendent Those men are all trne Free
Soil men. They all sustain the principles Of the
| Democratic platform Of l649 on the Slavery
question.
Compare the principles Of the candidates al
the head Of the Democratic and Iiunkcr tickets
on this question