Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-10-15


rot IN forgotten grave.
Long before the Baltimore Convention met
we had supposed that the northern Democratic
aspiTants Tor the Presidency had done their
worst that they had drank the last dregs of the
cup OF humiliation. But southern genius
seems eXhaustless in resources for northern 40
basement. Some unknown political unstort in
Richmond Virginia, obtruded himself into no..
uce by shouting out the two words, " PREsrDEy-
cf, " PRo-sLAvERY," to all the candidates
ara instantly thirteen of them were at his feet
ne put 10 them some" more last questions IN
The catechlsm of infamy-" whether if they
could be elected, they would veto any till 70.
peaIlng the fugitive slave law" and so forth -
All answered as his questions indicated thew
must Forge tful of the nature of the oath
they longed to take, torgetful that It'll vio-
lauon OF the whole spirit of our Government
Tor the Executive to interfere with CONGRESS-
oy telling them beforehand what acts of theirs
ne VIII not approve, they all FASTENED TO give the
desired response. He did not send them a pro.
slavery creed, with a blank left for their sig-
natures, but be compelled them to write outtheir
own shame with their own hands. He did not
send the coIlarand chains all ready for them 10
put on f; but he said, forge them and rivet them
on yourselves and, submissive, they forged
them and rivetted them on, and expressed orat.
tltude in the favor
And now, where are those thirteen Democra.
nc candidates who, within the last two wears,
nave done every conceivable thing, and a thou
sand things before inconcevable to propit;ate
the slave power Gone, sir; all gone with
those who perish in Tyburn They rebe!led
against humanity and against God, and verify
they have their reward They mounted plat-
form, where they hoped to be crowned, amid the
huZzas OF the people; bat an avenginp Meme
Sis stood there, and, III the twnkling of an eve,
changed 1t into the rop-platform" of the OK.
ecutoner. Sir, when single malefactor re-
ceIVes at the hands Of justice his well mpriteI
doom, the moraIIst seizes the example to give a
warning to others who may be tempted, in like
cases, to offend. lie points to the lgnominions
body of his victim, and, as the herald God
he proclams the eternal law, that crime never
can compensate the criminal. He declares that
until finite man can Uverpower or crcumvent
the infinite Creator, the retributons of sin shall
pursue the sinner. If the preacher does this
when he has but single victim for text, what
an accumulation of energy and emphasis is riv-
en- to his admonitions when there are fifteen
victims before him
Now there are two or three general observa-
tons on this impressive spectaC @, which | wish
IL
dates OF both Conventions were Northern men
Would not the historian have signalizcd the
event as something most extraordinary. if IF.
teen Southern champions of slavery, born and
bred IN It's midst, whose very growth, bodily and
mental, had been only the accrction of pro.sla
very particles and ideas, and who were commit
ted TO the lnstlstutlon by a lifelong series OF
acts, had suddenly gone ovel to Northern Free
SolIers, and offered to stand upon their platform
to obtain their votes Would it have at all d.
minlshed the marvel, if these fifteen Southern
applicants Tor Northern support, with all the fol-
lowers whom lust of power or of money copld
enlist, had gone through all the South, vocifer.
Grating that, unless they should aodpt the Free
Soil platform, the Union would be dissolved
think such chapter in history would neter
cease to create amazemcnt, and wonder Is if
not infinitely more wonderful, in this age of the
world that Northern men should do for slavery
what we could never expect, at one time. 81
many Southern men to do even for freedom.
My second remark pertains to the number of
the candidates. Never were there even half so
many on the Presidential race course before.
Now why were they so numerous. as well
as all from the North? The answer is obvious,
The South had said again and again, and most
explicitly, to the North, Give us your most
pro-slavcry man, and we will adopt him" 1t is
easy to see that when moral or even intellectual
qualfcatons are the test in choosing presi-
dent the candidates must be few; but ifdevotion
to slavery Is the sole test, then there NAV be not
only fifteen, but five hundred or five thousand
In this way the competitors become so numc-
rous that the chances of success are worth no.
thing. Nobody will pay much for a lottery
ticket, when the blanks are to the prizes as a
hundred to one. 1t was a poor speculation.
therefore, for the Presidential aspirants to put
the price OF the office so low that nobody how
ever obscure before, could become a rival
Cass, buchanan, Marcy, Douglass, Dallas, Dick
nSon, and so forth, should have thought of this
before they entered the lists, and put them
selves on an equality with man whom not one
in five thousand out of New HAMPSHIRE coulJ
ever to have heard Of before, and
yet who pluCked the prize out of their hands.
Another remark is, that the Southern vote.
in both Conventions, could have been conccn-
trated at any time upon either one of the North
arn candidates, with one remarkable exception
which will mention by and by-provided on
~ that the Northern men could have united up !
On nun. AT any moment the South would |
have accepted Gen. Cass, or Mr.. Buchanan, or /
Governor Marcv,. In the Wing Convcntion /
he South was most auXiuus to take Mr.. FIJI |
more tu. 1t was impossible to bring the North |
% thelr support Each of them, bY the eager |
ness of his pro-slavery course, had signed his !
own death-warrant in States enough to defeat |
MIN. And as Mr.. Fillmore, on whom the South !
was more unanimous than on any one of all the |
other candidates, his bloody right hand had !
signed the Fugitive Slave Law and therefore, (
was as certain as anything future can be-. that !
ne could not obtain a single electoral vote !
north of Mason and DiXon's line The infinite |
mercy of God may wash that blot from his name ,
n another world, but it can never be forgotten
II this. And thus they all cCme under the |
great moral iaw which forever cries Woe |
woe! - to the offender. Fascinated BY the bril-.
fancy Of the prize, they forgot the eternal law
If fectltnde and humanity. BY which alone it
IAN be honorably Won auJ worn.
A VOICE. What DO you say Of General /
Pierce
Mr.. MAys. Some one inquiries what saw
IF General Pierce. | say of General Pierce.
hat if he had been conspicuous in the pro-slo.
cry contest for the last two year, il he had
'een known as the ardent lover Of the Fucj.
i've Slave Law, and had answered the Ricbm. nj
scott letter about veto Of it, he never would
ave received the Baltimore nomination. Some
tner man would have been cxhumed for the &C.
asion. Not knowledge Of him, bat ignorance
u hun, secured his nomination.
4 VOICE. How of Gen. Scott?
Mr. Mann. Had General Scott devoted him