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

port from the Norlh--generally speaking, by
stealing marches upon US, while we are engros-
sad by our accustomed vocations--an easy tri-
umph is won. The nominal division of parties,
therefore, is very far from being the true one
The country Is, and for long time has been,
Tor all purposes aside from the spells of office,
divided into three PARTIES of very nearly eqnal
numbers--the Wings and Democrats of the
Nor!h--add the pro>slavery party of the South
the latter, with the slightest aid, or even with
acquiescence from either ofthe others, being able
to prevail And this will continue to be the case
until practical antislavery party is formed at
the North, to Balance this pro-savery party at
the South, and to do battle for liberty as they do
! for slavery. Such party, in sufficient numbers
10 contend successfully with its antagonists, may
not be Immediately formed and therefore ! see
before us a period of struggle and trial. But
the spirit of God is on side in this work.
The laws of the moral universe, the laws of
nature. the laws of population aud power, are oar
allies, and therefore we must prevail.
Now, as slavery is error and wickedness com
bincd, it must incur the penalties ordairel Of
God against both AS it cOrrupts domestic viz
tue, contrayenes the natural laws OF a nations
prosperity and growth, excludes and drives away
those who are Instinct with the love of Freedom
from settling within its borders, makes general
education impossible. and eIiscerates from the
Gospel of Jesus Christ the highest and purest of
is principles and precepts, it follows by law
adamantne necessity, that tie body polite, which
suffers it, is vulnerable in every gate otls clta>
del. Saveay asaa!ls all the laws OF God broad
side; and il must, therefore, receive Ills itt:ibu-
tinHs broadoide
: These are but specimens Of the weakness winch
is always mlctt by error, and Of tie faturity
j'ipV are Spnri-
mems of those Higher Laws" of God, which
fulfil their destiny, whether men heed them or deH
fy. They crush the resisting and silence the
blasPhCmer in mid voley.
II the northern States of this Union therefore,
will cherish liberty while the southern foster
slavery, the predomnance of tie former IN po-
llcal power, as well as in all other things desira,
bic, will soon be overwhelming, Foreign anneXa-
tons bylhe latter cannot redres the balance. They
but paIliate the symptoms OF dlstemper which
is organic,--aS the newly -erected wing OF Iaz~
house, for time dilutes the Infection, which
soon sends back to aggravate the general vlr-
ulence. appeal to the friends of liberty, then,
wherever they may be found, to stand fast in
tn il integrity for, to adobt the sentiment OF
Mr. Jefferson, in such a contest, there is not an
attribute OF the Almighty but must take part
with US.
Sir, Ihave endcayored now to speak upon the
real and true state of the Union. | have deoir-
ed to ascertain towards what point OF the moral
compass this great vehicle, which we call Gov.
eminent, freight as it is with so much OF hui
man wei are, and with the iondest hopes OF the
oppressed, is now moving. have sought to de-
teimne that direction, not by the meeorlc lights
which are eXhaIed from human passion and sell
fishneSs, but by taking observation of the nm
changable summaries Of truth and duty, which
shine down upon us forever from their places
in the skies. have spoken no word in the spirit
of u partisan or a politician; but have sought to
embrace within my vision the horizon OF the iu-
ture as we'll as Of the present.
The mere politician Judges of events by
their immediate consoquences-byt their relation
to himself and his party. Under our Constitu-
ton the next four years is the politicians cterni-
tv The next election is his Judgment day.
The blessedncss of his future consists in an an
tcipated share of the S30O,000,000 10 be distri-
buted from the National Treasury during the
next presidential term, ard in being one OF the
hundred thousand men who for the same period
areto be elevated into conspcuousness. But
the eternity that believe in will net end on the
All of March, 1859. Consequences are to
flow from events now passing, which are unend-
ng in their nature aud Influence. Interests are
at stake infinitely more important than the tenn
pOrary Official prominence or oOScuFlty OF nun
bred thousand men-intinitely more precious
than 5000, 900, or two hundred millions of Cal
ifornias, with golden Australians TO boot lie
only is worthy the name of statesman, he only
is fit to preside the affair of great nation,
whose vision takes in the vast relations of
cause and effect whose Judgment is dctermin-
ed by what must be, in the future, as we'll as by
what exists in the present, and who never erects
! n suDerS truCnre of Constitution or law for the
protection or the enjoyment of any human inter-
les without laying its foundations to the law OF
| God.