Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-07-25

her locality is such that escape is almost imPos-
sible yet, from the hue and cry made, you would
think there was no state south but South Caro-
! ina and no state had been insulted but South
Carolina, when in fact, this day Wisconsin mas
more to complain Of in maltreatment OF the Nen-
eral Government than South Carolina WIS
consin has suffered more in dollars, to say moth
inc of human life within the past six years, than
I Segtb Carolina could make out from the founda-
her millions in the shape of land tribute into the
Golfers of the General Government and has asked
few thousands in return, and has been rebuffed
! by southern nabobs and northern democrats bid
ding for southern votes. Yet Wisconsin does not
meet in Convention and howl over her grievan-
ces. Massachusetts has suffered more in insult
and the loss of property from the South, than
South Carolina was ever worth, but Massachu-
sets thinks the union of the States will be Of
more service to the race than the saving of a few
dollars, although some Of her citizens stoop pref
ty low in their efforts they think to both.
The fact is, the people of South Carolina are
making great deal more buster than there is
any bottom for. They talk about swords and
guns and fighting just as though they did not
know it was the most arrant nonsense that was
ever simpered from FOOLS lips. In the revou-
tlonary war of eight years standing, they made
out to furnish GAIT men, and that was all they
could spare THEN, when the white population
was largely in the ascendant. We should like
to have some of our school boys tell how many
/ they could spare to leave home NOW, while the
slave population is more than 100000 greater
than the white.
Massachusetts furnished during those years
,lO2 men for the field, and she could furnish
easier now 250, 600 ; and yet these hotspurs talk
of measuring swords and burning powder with
the rest of the Union. And what is weaker and
sillier than all, men can be found at the north
who wish to propitiate the awful wrath of this
boiling caldron of froth, just as though it would
not boil away quicker than it can be bailed out.
! Now, suppose we are content with the state of
things they exist, the desire on the part of the
south for mere slave territory, and the insults to
northern rights, fugitive slave bill and all, can we
get off So VIII South Carolina be content then?
Never! The only Union which they propose to
tolerate, in the language of one of their toass, is
The Glorious Union of Yankee blood and Car
DINA steel"
Their own speakers on this occasion did not
fear any aggression from tho north in the shape
of meddIing with the question in the District of
Columbia, or the repeal of the fugitive slave law,
and they based their hostility to the Union on
their very connection with the Union, and the
supposed injury ii was to them as State.
One of their speakers, after denying that they
feared any thing from the General Government
as far as any nroad upon the institution of slave
rymight be made or the repeal of the fugitive
slave law, thus summed up their grievances
"If the usurpatons of this government if
its entire departure from its original purpose and
design; if its hostility to our institutions fits
unjust and unequal administration; in short if its
utter unworthincss Of our confidence and sup
port, are still open to questions, questions for
reconsideration, then have nothing to say which
is worth moments attention"
Let, then, the hunkers of the North who are
frightened and endeavoring to frighten others in
to the support OF measures cacelated to strength
en- and maintain system of Slavery as the " cor
ner stone Of our republican institutions" remem-
Der that after they have bowed the lowest, and
sold themselves for lie, they have not accom-
pshed what they thought was so desirable, the
pacifcation OF South Carolina. The only thing
worth preserving is freedom. Nothing is too
! valuable to sacrifice for it.