Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-10-03
From the Commonwealth.
FIVE YEARS PROGRESS OF THE
SLAVE POWER.
TERRORISM.

are men OF some prominence in the South who
are sincere in clamoring for disunion There
are men of the class of Mr. Senator Rbett. with
much warmth of temperament and fuencv NJ
speech, along with little head of CALCULATING CON
sequences. There are men of the class Of Mr.
Senator DAVIS, fond of the eXCilements of war.
rabId from the taste of blood and not UNWILLING
to throw every thing into disorder for the chance
OF coming out of il with consequence and fame
Men OF both these classes there have been in all
republics, and ii has been the task of cooler haad
as 1t Is now, to profit by their rashness in alarm
ing an adverse party, and at the same time stand
ready to put them down before things proceed
too TAR The more cautious portion of these
| cooler persons take an early and decided stand
against the vaPorng of their neighbors, as Mr..
PoInsett, Mr.. Waddy Thompson and Mr. Pc
tgru, have done in South Carolina Others
thInk the madcaps may be trusted with little
more rope before they are pulled in, and ev n
share vigorously In their antics for while, but
retrace their own steps in reasonable season.
like Mr. Butler and Mr. Burt. Very few would
really desire to do anything miscellaneous. ifthev
could; and still fewer suppose that it would be
possible, if they desired, to carry out their
threats; if they did, they would be more charv
of them.
We take it that nothing of the kind can be
more certain than that this alarm for the inteo-
nty OF the Union was a matter of simple calcu-
latlon on the part of those who get it up. 1t was
political stratagem. The transaction, stated
markedly, was this: The Slave Power iobbers
said to their friends in Congress from the North,
why not let US have our way in this matter, as
we have done heretofore If YOU refuse. Won
see how much trouble we can give YOU. Not a
man OF you can expect the offices YOU are lick
ing your lips for. As to place in the Cabinet,
Foreign missions, profitable Consuships, and so
on (to say nothing of the Presidency dimiss the
thought of all such things for your lives long,
if you will not oblige us. We have the Senale
in our hands, and with it the power of keeping
you IN that private station" which politicians
do not consider " post of honor" whatever po-
cts may. And as to your people at home, we
nave no Tariff tor them on any condition. To
which the Northern jobbers, high and low reply
DO not take US for fanatics. We are no such
thing. We are reasonable and practical men -
As far as depends on us, we like your TERMS
DO as you please with the Territorial Proviso.-
Extend Slavery as much as you like. Make
Pilgrim New England and the free West your
Slave-hunting ground, make ,u- people your
Shareholders, and welcome, as far as we are
concerned But it is not entirely for US to say.
Our people are not prepared for such moves, and
VIII not sustain us in making them. A large
portion OF them are sincere in what they have
constantly said about loving freedom for all man
kind, and being particularly unwilling to be made
slaves themselves. Nor will your bride of
Protective Tariff be enough for them. For
great many care nothing about it, and of those
who DO care, a great many love Right and Lber-
ty even better than gain. In short it would ruin
us with our constituents, if we should Weld to
your wishes.
Here is the problem But wherever there is
a strong WILL there may generally be found a
way The parties talk the thing over and at
length the plan evolves itself from their anxious
delIberaton. The Southern contractors say, we
have 1t. We will give out that our people will
oversct the government and the Union, unless
we are gratitied. The thing will be ridiculous
enough at first, and it will be hard for us to keep
our constituents among our own people But
the language, thanks to Mr.. Calhoun, will not
be altogether new, and that is one point gained.
Practice will make perfect. Impudcnce is the
great thing, and in that we are not deficient; and
In short, we think we can act our part of the
farce, II you will answer for yours. The thiny
Is not very promising, say their northern friends,
but let us give it a trial. We shall be no worse
off, if we fail. All will depend on yourselves.
If we are to succeed, iii must be by force, of your
like daggcrs. What we can do, to help you,
we will. We will protest that you are appal-
ingIy in earnest. We will assure our people
that they must let you ride over them rough shod,
or else prepare for civi! war. Some of them
are easy and creduous, and will really believe us
Some, despite their tough lineage are white
iivered, and will be really frightened. Many are
busy, and will not care to contradict. Not a few
are longing for a tariff and for treasury drippibgs
and both OF those classes will lend us a helping
hand. In one way and another we have some
control over the professions and over the press
In short, we will do our best to aid you in get
ting up such panic will induce our people
to consent that we shall yield to your wishes -
We can but fail after all And if we should per
haps you will still consider favorably the pains
we have taken to serve you.
All this would have been premature while the
election of 1913 was coming on. In the then
existing state of the Northern mind, it would
have played the mischief with that election
That election was scarcely over, when the oper-
ators went to work, the ostensibIe occasion be-
ing the Resolution of Mr.. Colt, offered on the
2lst of December. A meeting of the Southern
members was called in the Capitol, to consider
the eXigenCy. 1t was 4 failure, as it was Droba-
bly, expected TO be. Still it was beginning
only ABOUT tWO-tilrdS OF the members from the
slaveholding States appeared. An address to the |
people of the slavehoding States, prepared by
Mr.. Calhoun was adopted by vote Of IL to IL |
1t forth the grievances of the Slave interest, I
and urged unaminity of sentiment in respect TO
them, but recommended no specific measures of /
Other addresses, still more mod /
crate, were offered to the consideration of the /
meeting by Mr.. Berrien and Mr. Cobb. beth of
Georgia. In the course of l849, some of the |
Southern Legislature passed Resolutions express
olve OF their displeasure at the recent course of
things at Washington. The Legislature of Vir- |
glnIa requested the Governor 10 call it torether |
should Congress adopt the Wimot Proyi,o, or |
act upon Slavery in the District, and the same |
recommendation was made by Convention in |
South Carolina. The Legislature of Mississippi |
pi proposed Convention of delegates from the |
7Iayehoding States, in the same contingency
TIE Governors of Georgia and Alabama in their |
annual messages, recommended that provision /
should be made for Conventions of the people of |
those States, should Congress proceed to the leg
slatiOn which was feared.
The public pulse has been felt The enter
Prise appeared not entirely unpromising; and the /
campaign opened in earnest with the demonstra-
ion made in the correspondence between the /
Wing Mr. Clingman and the Democratic Mr.. /
Foote. published in the InisAigencer at the open
ng OF the Thlrty-First Congress. We have al /
ready seen how things went on from that time. /