Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-05-28
CHARLES DURKEE
COL. BENTON In THE FIELD.
The War upon the NulIifiers Renexed
HIS Opinions Of the Compromise, Disunion tf,t

HIS Opinions Of the Compromise! Disunion DC
GOLD BULLION" has again taken the field in
Missouri against his enemies, and for the next
few months the politicians of that State will
have warm times! He has repudiated the patch
work union which the two wings of the party
recently formed in the State Convention at JET.
ierson City, and expresses his determination tc
drive the Nulliiiers from the Democratic party
before he leaves the contest
lie opened the campaign on the 18th inst, al
Jackson, in Cape Girardeu county-a notorious.
y anti-Benton stronghold-by speech which is
holder and more terribly bitter and overwhelm-
ing than any he has ever before made His r2a-
sons for seeking that particular spot for his first
onslaught are thus given, and show him to pos
sess the holiness of d roman hero, who 'carries
the war into Africa"
Citizens | selected this county for the de-
livery of this Speech not because | had the most
friends here, but the fewest because it was the
most diseased spot in the State, laboring under
the double leprosy of branch Bank rottcnness
and notification treason. But there is good
seed here-more than five hundred good men ;
and culture may revive spirit which may re-
store Cape Girardeau to the eminent place which
she held at the head of the Democratic counties
of Southern Missouri.
Of the compromise ITSELF as it is called. | do
not speak except TO say that it is all q mistake I.
the compromise bill never passed the measures
passed separately, without much help from the
pretended compromisers, and would ali have pass
six months sooner, if they had let them alone
But the whole idea of saving the Union by COM
promises, is libel upon the founders of the con-
stituton; to suppose that they did such bung-
ling work that it could not be kept together en-
ccpt by periodically Coopering, and hopping, and
putting in new heading and slaves and it is H.
bel upon the people to suppose that they calnot
save the Union, which their fathers made for
them.
** We want no guardians to save the Union
with patch work compromises. The idea is sIa-
wish, and goes upon the old Federal notion, that
we must have superior men 10 take care of the
peope-a strong Government to take care of
Ignorant and licentious people, who do not know
what is good for themselves, and must have ru-
lers to save them from their own worst enemies
from themselves / scout the whole idea
saw the compromise of 1888 ); heard it as much
lauded as this one of $50, and saw it buried like
an aborted BASTARD at the foot of the garden, with
out mourners or witnesses, when it failed to make
any body President. | saw the attempt a, the
compromise bill in 1S50-saw it in the contri.
vance of politicians in game for the Presiden-
cy-saw it fail and its champions quit the field,
while those who despised the iugge, stood and
passed the measures separately,-then saw the
measures claimed as the work of those who had
obstructed their passage for six months-then
saw them heraded as the compromise which
had broken down and was lost-and shall see
them as readily abandoned to bastard's grave
as was its boasted predecessor of 1888, as soon
as, like it, it fails to make anybody President
It is my prerogative to see through all such Jug
gings and to despise them. Jefferson is right.
This is the strongest government upon earth,
resting as it does, not on the uncertain power of
The bayonet, but upon the interchangeable affections
If the people.
GERMAN FEsT1vAL-A festival initiating the |