Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-11-26

scoffed and eered at the higher law 2 or at Ca
prom Springs, who laughed when he scoffed at the
law higher than the Virginia hills Where were
the kidnappers The lower law men and the
kidnappers strained themselves to the utmost, and
he had thirty-three votes. Where was the South
Fifty-three times did the Convention ballot, and
the South never gave him vote-not a vote
No not one Northern friends-I honor their
affection for the great man. there was nothing else
left in them for me to honor-went round TO the
South and begged for the poor and paltry pittance
of seeming vote in order to break the bitterness
of the fall. They went with tears in their eyes,
and in Mercy's name asked that crumb from the
Southern board. But the cruel South, treachcr-
Gus to him whom she beguiled to treason against
God, she answered, mot a votep
Oh! Cardinal Woolsey! There was never
such a fall He fell like Lucifcr, never to hone
againr
But it seemed as ifnothing could be spared him.
His cup of bitterness, already full, was made to
run oyer-for they called him at midnight up out
of his bed-the poor, disappointed old man to
Congratulate him on their nomi cation of Scott
And they forced the great man, falling back on
his self-respect, TO say that he should rise with
the lark, as jocund and as gay as he! Was not
that enough? O, there is no pity in the hearts of
men. Even that was not enough! Northern
friends went to meet him, and asked him to advise
men to vote for Scott Gen Scott is said to be
an anti-slavery man but as soon as the political
carpenters put the 'panks' together at Baltimore
he crawled upon the platform and stands there on
all tours to this day looking for fellow citizens ma
tive and adopted, listening for that broguc, and
declaring that, after all, he is only common
man. Did YOU ever read Gen. Scots speeches
Then think ofasking Daniel Webster to recommend
him for Prc>idcnt-Scott in the chair and Web
stcr out That was gall after the wormwood -
They say that Daniel Webster did write letter
advocating the election of Scott, and afterwards
added 4 still live If he did so, attribute it to
the wanderngs of a great mind, shattered by sick
ness, and be as ured he would have taken it back
if he had ever set his foot again upon the ground
Daniel Webster went down to MarShicld-to
die His great heart-it was always Il great
heart, no downfall could make it littIe--his great
heart broke! Daniel Webster died on his 9TH of
March speech! That word endorsed on Mason
bill drove thousands of fugitives from America to
Canada. Ii put chains around our courthouse :
it led men TO violate the majesty of the law all
over the North. Violated it, and SO did Won 1t
sent Thomas SmmS in letters to his JAIL and his
scourging at Sayannah it cansed practical athc-
ism to be preached in the churches of New York,
Philadelphia, Washington, and, worst ofall, Bos-
ton itself! and then, with its rccoil, it sent
Daniel Webster to his grave, and gave him such
a reputation IA man would not wish for his BIT
tcre st foe.
No event in the Amcric an Revolution was half
50 terrible. We lost battles again and again, lost
Campaigns-our honor we never lost. The Ar
my,waS without powder in Cambridge, in 70; with
out shoes and blankets i'll rs; and the bare feet
of New England vaIor marked the ice with blood
when they crossed the Delaware But we were
never without conscience, never without morality
Powder might fail, and shoes drop old and rotten,
from soldiers feet. But the love of God was in
the American heart and no American General
sld, there is no law higher than the Blue Ridge I!
Nay, they appealed to Gods higher law.
Cardinal Wolscy fell, and lost nothing but his
place. Bacon fell the wisest, brightest lived
long enough to prove himself the mcancSt ofman-
mankind. Stanford came down But it was
nothing TO the fall of Webster. The Anglo-Sax-
OIL race never knew such terrible and precpt-
Gus ruin. His downfall shook the Continent
Truth fell PROSTATE in The street Since then, the
ourthouse has had a twist in its walls and equ-
ty cannot enter its door; the stecplcs point awry
and the higher law IS hurled down from the Dul