Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-09-19

tors out of siXty-two represent Slave States an
! generally Gas at the present time in the case {
elected from northern States to give that intere,
Mr.. Bright, of Indiana, Mr. Douglas Of Illinoi.
and perhaps others )there are Shareholders enopo
an actual performance even in numbers: an
the two great parties have for MANY wears mai
such peculiar consideration to the Slave State
III the selection of their candidates for the Pres
| dency, that the President whether called Vhi
| or Democrat, IS certain to be either local renre
| resenatve of the Slave Power, or what is ar
TO be worse, one of the northern tools 1t fol
! lows what every person not entirely ignorant O
! the subject knows to be the fact, thai from Main
to Texas, and from New England to California
no citizen obnoxious to the Slave Power. can ex
! pect an office of any consequence under TIN
Federal Government
! And from this il further follows, as every ma,
OIL common sense sees, that the Slave Powe
0rlng an immense influence to bear, for the &C
compIlshment of its purposes, on men oflalent ac
uylty, Influence, and ambition. in every corner O
the country. Mr. Caleb B. Smith. Chairman
OF the Committee on the Territories. MANAGE,
the great question of the day,--as he did,-anC
was made Commissioner of Mexican Claims, Mr.
Schenck, OF Ohio, had distinguished himself il
ut against the Free Soil cause, BY well
| timed speech as soon as the question of the
Speakershlp was settled, and he was sent on the
mission to Brazil, Mr.. Duer of New York, who
had spoken some brave words for freedom. hal
withheld his vote from Mr.. Roots resolution
and given it for the Texans Boundary Bill, anl
he was made Consul at Valparaiso. Mr. vii.
son. OF New -ampshlre, also voted for that bill
alter having declared some time before in hi,
place, that sooner than have slavery extended
he would have, not the Union only, but the uni
verse dissolved And the government has civ.
en- him something,-we forget exactly what
in California.
DO we hold up these names to apprehension
Not at ALL We are speaking, not of the particu-
lar men who Yield that is a small matter
but of the mighty influence which is in action to
make all men yield. The instances to which we
reter,--the first that happen to occur to us among
those connected with the recent course of events
are but instances of what is always going on.
We do not say that the gentlemen named or any
others in particular, sold themselves to the
Save Power for Office We often say that. how
ever dointerestod may have been their purpose,
the Slave Power, by the advantageous notice
winch 1t took OF them as soon as they had done
Its VIII, made proclamation to all disseaiients that
for the future, the way to eminent and lucrative
office was through submission to its sway. and
services for its benefit. And, we take il, no one
will pretend that, in the long run that proclama-
ton will be without effect When the Slave
Power, having been constituted the appointing
power, is in a condition to make its own terms
with all the ambitious talent of the country. the
question how it is that the Slave Power has such
control over the country'3 affairs has already a
sufficient answer.
And the influence works it way down through
all the stages Of public action, and spreads it.
self into every corner of the country. Its Sec
rotary of the Treasury employs a thousand cleo
pioneering partzans, more or less, in the Custom
House of New York, and so on, in proportion.
wherever there are cities and trade Its Post
Master General posts twenty thousand busy su-
pervjsors of lis concerns a few miles apart thro'
the length and breadth Of the land. Ii has ad-
vanageUus contracts for the Post Office. the Ma
wy and other departments of the public business :;
and this bidder or that will be likely to Get
them according as he is more or less able and
disposed to help on its objects. 1t has a great
deal OF printing to be done and paid for; and
printers are often publishers OF newspapers
and the offices which do lis job work are very
aptto prove factories of public opinion in its in
tereSt
Why waste words on a thing so plain When
the people permitted the Slave Power to become
the appointing power, they exalted an aristo-
cratic order above their heads. As often as, by
the election of one of its tools to be President,
they renew its lease of the appointing power.
they again empower and encourage it to extend
It's usQrpaon.