Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-07-30

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ing law and in case Mr. Pierce should become
President, the Shareholders would seek not mere
ly to rule, but to subiugate the Union. Much
has been said Of the dangers 10 which the Uniof
is exposed | am of opinion that it never wa:
in greater danger than just now, for the grae
danger 10 the Union lies not in attacks upon hel
Slavery, but in those upon her Freedom. Lee
US look little closer at the signs of the times
as they exhibit themselves in The doings of the
Baltimore Convention.
In the first place, of what spirit was this Con.
venton born? In the metropolis of the Slave
State after long continued intrigues and machi
nations, assemble number ofso called delegates
who assume the title of delegates of the people
bnt the majority are nothing but political hum
Burgers by profession The delegates of the
people have the strange duty to perform of max
ing known to the sovereign people their own will
that they CHE people, may bear it well in mind
until the Presidential election. True the sover-
eign people are bound by this instrument, but let
them read any "real Democratic" sheet and they
will find that whoever adopts not the declarations
OF the Convention humbuggers as sacred, is bad
| Democrat at bottom-a ''traitor to the party
And this is true not only with regard to the can
didates nominated by them, 5ut also with regard
to the platform and the party principles, which
they proclaim and lay before the sovereign pco-
! Pile. Thoroughly to humbug the people and to
bind the future voters for President perfectly be-
! forehand; the parry managers, after the Conven-
ton, appoint so-called ratification meetings,
| that they may in future declare any departure
from the decisions of the Convention to be u
departure from the will of the people.
| For, gentlemen, in the sight Of these Convcn-
tons nothing is more sacred than the will Of the
people. The gentlemen at Baltimore knew,
for instance, that the will Of the majority was in
favor of General Cass and since the will Of
the people is law, they, obedient to the behests
of the Shareholders, who feared the foreign poll
cy Of Cass, chose General Pierce. At all events
General.
am of opinion, indeed, that it is an excel
lent thing for Mr.. Cass to have received a les
son for trimming his sails - every breeze, and
FOR his zeal for the compromise; but more
valuable is the lesson which the people have
been taught as to the democracy of Conventions
! and the unresrained rule which the shareholders
exercises in all the affairs of the Union.
We'll, then, the candidate selected by the Con-
ven,ion are the Northern Mr. Pierce in coniunc-
ton with the Southern Mr.. King. No prophet
on earth, not even one single German bunker
newspaper had ever thought of the obscure Mr..
Pierce, who was scarcely known out of his own
family circle. Yet no sooner is this Mr. Pierce
, put forward as the candidate, than, as if by mag
ic, he at one blow becomes one Of the great ones
of earth-fils large space in all true ''demo-
cratic" hearts, and the depth and purity of their
love for him become boundless. In Germany, they
call this sort of thing servGty, want of principle,
lunacy, &c. In America it is fidelity to party.
And it the Convention Of humbuggers had nom
mated the Emperor Souonque, or king Guizo
of Dahomy as their candidate, every real Dem
ocrat would have been bound from that moment
TO love him as the father of his country. Only
let President be secured sate on the points of
Southern Rights" and Northern Spoiis," and
all is accomplished which good partizan and
bad republican Gun wish. FiM presses et per-
eat reSpudLica
As head Of family, etc General Pierce may
be very respectable man. This, however, is Of
more importance than all else, that he as poll
tician is an incarnate representative Of "South-
crn Rights, Or a cypher before which the slave
holders may place such integers as they please.
South Carolina has not granted her appreciation
even to Fillmore, who has gone as far as the
farthost in the matters of slavc-cachnr and .cu-
trality; but with this General Pierce, who vol
UNFAIRLY in letter to the Convention, declared
the Compromise measures Identical rith the Con-
ShitEion and DeUl0cracy,-wit him the Seces-
sion State is fully satisfied and under his rule
thinks of enrichng the Union with few new
Slave States, instead Of Withdrawing herself from
it. y comfortable prospect for the future but
itis-"Dcmocracy !"
! But let him who is in doubt what is to be ex-
pccted under the Presidency of Pierce, let him
read the uncXampled Platform, which, after his
nomination was promulgated as the fundameAt-
al principles of the Party" The main points
are as follows:
The uarsy rejects any general system ofnicrnal I'M
rrovencn!s under the auspices Of she Goyernmentof the
must remain unnccomp!ishcd b. carried BY the sep
crate suites, in u narrow, sectional spirit.
,. No part of the Union may be benefited TO the injury
of anOlhcr there hcstalionn making the entire
North, through an open rotation Ct te CoHst6non anu Of
Fundamental right the hunngground OF ,le sayc-huncrs
of the South
,. Congress has right to mcdda with the question Of
Slavery; yet it nnque>nnahly ha= the right to extend
Slavery throughout the on, and make all Tree the
bloodhounds OF such rs have broken their chains.
A. The net proceeds OF the public lands should be en-
be given away. For .he freedom 81 the public lands
not to speak OF other dangers wod in the increase Of inn
migration especially from Germany, lead the
onof new Free STATES IN the West and, by th freedom
would gain the prepondrrance over the Shareholders in
5 Should the land bill which h2s passed the House Of
Representatives hereafter pass Senate which must
FcNen,a ~ any ana every means during me adminstra-
10. Therefore, tho Democratic party stands openly for
tanning unchecked the veto power opposed as 10 all re-
al democratic IDEAS which above all be used against
any and every contemporaries resolution.
b. The democratic party holds the Compromise. that
20 tho slave burning law. "iualiy' to eternity:
il Hstyns with Democratic chains slrcd az time the
everlasting future, to abe pillars, and will ltral
y !hus resist all attempts renewing in Congress out
Off, the agitation OF he slavery question under whatever
shape or color the attempt may be made"
This, gentlemen, comprehents within itself
the ha1shest sentence which was ever passed
upon the Democratic party. 1t is the ban Of all
freedom, an attack upon all human right, a SEN
tence of humiliation against all Democracy
Such language is not republican, il is Russian.
The consequences Of this act, should the present
so called Democracy come into power can be no
other than restraint of the freedom of the Press,
restriction of the right of public assembly, and
rule of the mob. Whoever raises his voice
against the most accused institution in the world,
against an institution which, not to mention its
own Objectionable features, posons all morality,
al ideas OF human rights, and all humanity, and
renders all progress impossible, he is from this
moment put under the ban OF the North Ameri
can Democracy ; stamped as a criminal, and de-
nouaced to the mob. In New York, already, a
year ago, the Democracy carried matters with
50 high hand that the Anti-Slayery Society was
| forced to hold its peaceful assembly without the
city, because democratic rowdyism had threaten
ed to attack them in their usual place of meet
/ ing, and so called Democratic newspapers, such
as the Nee Yorker Stars /ai.lng," the most