Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-04-25
Parties. Principles, Coalitions, &c.

PARTIES
1t is fitting, at proper times, for men who are
engaged in any particular business, to take sur
vey and ascertain by the best means in their pow
er, how their business enterprise is prosper
ing. Il is also fitting for the politician, for the
man who thinks he belongs to 4 party, to stop
once in while and see if the object aimed at, still
bears the same relative direction as formerly; or,
perhaps, to SEQ if the object exists at all.
Not long since thcre were opposite parties,
and these parties striving for opposite ends
The wings were for u. S. Bank-tho demo-
Gratis opposed to one. The wings were for a
high tarf-the democrats opposed to high tar
iff The democrats were for an independent
Treasury, and the wings opposedto an Indepond-
ent Treasury. Now, no party wants a u. s.
Bank-no party wants high tariff, and no par
ty is opposed to an Independent Treasury. What
then, now, creates the distinction between par
ties? Is it in the north, much more than the an
cient habit of opposing each other? We assert
this Of the great mass of the wing and democrat
ic parties at the north. At the same time we
know there are men occupying prominent posi-
tons in both parties, who have no sympathy with
the sentiments of either, and only remain with
them because they can be leaders, aud now and
then have taste of the pap which falls, for the
time being into the mouths of the so-caled sue
cessful party.
Hitherto we have only spoken and referred to
men and parties in the north The parties of
the south have never really been divided upon
any issue. There is no wing with them-no
democrat with thcm-no tarilf'-no bank-no
sub-treasury-therei is nothing but the Moloch
ofslavery to which they bow. There is no rich
nor poor; there is no bond nor free there is no
Greek nor Barbarian; there is 10 wing nor de-
mocrat. They know nothing at home, they
know nothing abroad, but the institution of sla-
very. They think Of nothing but the perpetual
ton of slavery. They speak of nothing which
has not the despised odor of a sweating slave.--
They pray for nothing but the spread and per-
petuation of human slavery. They have anoth-
er God to bow to, than northern christians know
Their god, like every body's god, is like them
selves. Well, what real affinity, or what politi-
cal union can possibly exist, then, between them
and the really democratic in feeling of the great
masses of the whig and democratic parties at the
north none ataIl. What fclly then it is fer the
so-caed leaders Of the two parties at the north,
to attempt to make union of them. Can you
mix oil and water? Then you can mingle south
ern tyrants and northern frecmon. Can YOU fet-
ter fire with string OF tow Not till then can
you bind the free spirit Of liberty to walk in har-
mony under the same yoke with 4 snarng ty-
rant The fact is at this present time there are
but two parties in the United Sates-the one
party goes for the SoUTn and SLAVERY the 9TH
party is for the WHOLE COUNTRY and FREE
DOM,
These ideas are prominent-alI minor issues
have been dropped by common consent. Dan
iel Webster and AIiIiard Fillmore may think that
union will follow such compromise measures
as were adopted last summer--but Daniel Web
ster and Willard Fillmore will not have to live a
great while to find out that they and their advi-
not all the north, and that they cannot
sell northern freemen as cheaply as they sold
themselves, to the bidding of the South
The great presidential trot which is to come
off next year, must account for great deal Of
this extra feeding and curryng of shins. The
whig nag swill, doubtless BE- NIiIiard Fillmore,
the present incumjrance, Daniel Webster and
Winfield Scott, who will, without doubt get the
whig nomination. The loco uags Will be Lewis
Cass, Levi Woodbury., Buchanan and Houston.
e. : I. II
tlcmcn chiefly They will run from now till after
the national conventions. with no other desire
than to please their masters at the South the
bets will be made by those merchants at the
north who deal in cotton, and are engaged in the
currying trade, and are selling imported goods
The risk will be at the north
There is alrcadyn natural Coalition between
these pretended leaders of the wing and demo-
cratic masses, and the slavery party at the south
This is what gives the slave party its present as
tendency But the moment any coalition is at
tempted, or even spoken Of, among the rank aud
file of frcemen, these banded tyrauts set up a
deadly howl which is echoed and prolonged by
nil their organs in concert. until one is induced
to believe that coalition among freemeu, tor
the purpose of Liberty, IS the most outrageous
and diabocai stratagem that was ever conceived
since the gunpowdcr plot. And why this etcr-
nal howl? Are they atraidto be met with their
own weapons They know we'll Its potency.
and they fear that power when applied against
them. The friends of night viii then take hint
from the pale faces and standing hairs of their