Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-10-08


Another obvious consequence of the existence
of slavery in this country has been the criminal
remissness of the Government in suppressing
the slave trade on the coast of Africa. We have
refused to enter into treaties with European Gov
ernments to secure so desirable an end and au-
thentic documents, developing the horrors of this
traffic, and proving American-built merchant
ships to be engaged in it, have laid on the files of
the State Department for years, and through
whole Presidential terms, unnOticed. On such
an appalling crime as this, whose suppression has
been within our reach, the national conscience
has been benumbsd into torpidity and paralysis
| by the existence of slavery amongst us.
| Look at another instance in which slavery has
depraved the popular sentiment of the country.
Under the generous and chiyaric lead of Mr..
Clay, with what enthusiasm did we hail the birth
of the South American Republics! What no.
sannas did we shout forth for the emancipation
of Greece How deep the sigh of the nations
heart when Poland struggled in her death-agony
and breathed her last! Even late 1913,
this Congress sent resolutions congratulating
France on her Magma Charta of liberty, equal
ty, fraternity" In one of the European revo-
outions of that year, on the banks of the Dam
ube, young man sprang alta single bound, from
comparative obscurty to universal fame. Ills
heroism organized armies. His genius created
resources. He not onl y abolished the fictitious
order of nobility, but his exalted soul poured the
celestial ichor of the Gods through ten millions
of peasant hearts, and made them truly noble
Though weak in all but the energies of the soul,
yet it took two mighty empires to break down his
power. When he sought refuge in Turkey, the
sympathies of the civilized world attended his
exile. He came and spoke as man never before
spake. II was Byron's wish that he could con-
I oil tha voIa IF
Into one word,
And that one word were lightning
Kossuth found what Byron in vain prayed for
for all his words were lightning-not bolts, but
a lambert flame, which he poured into mems
hearts-not to kill, but to animate with more
exalted and diviner life In cities, where the
vast population went forth to hail him,-in aca-
demic halls, where the cultivation Of eoquence
and knowledge is made the business of life--in
those great gathering pa' es where the rivers
of people have their confluence, he was address
sed by the most eloquent men whom this nation
of orators could select More than five hundred
of our selectest speakers spoke speeches before
him, which they had laborously prepared from
history and embeshed from the poets, with Sc
we're toll, by the long-trmmed lamp. Save in
! two or three peculiar cases, his unprepared and
| improvsed replies, in eloquence, in pathos, in
dignity, in exalted sentiment, excelled them all.
For their most profound philosophy, ne gave
them deeper generaliZations,-- out-crcuitcd
their widest ranges of thought, and in the whole
sweep of the horizon, revealed glories they had
never seen, and while they checked their ambi-
tious flight beneath the sun, he scared into the
empyrean and brought down, for the guidance of
mems hearts and deeds, the holy light that shines
from the face of God. Though all their spleu-
doris were gathered to focal point, they were
outshone by his effulgence. His immortal theme
was Llberty--liberty for the nations, Liberty for
the people. Once that word was enough to cleo
trify mems hearts, aye, to make the stones in the
ses of 1850, and this internal slave law, and the
efforts of political leaders and parties to sustain
them, the people have been demoralized-their
sentiments have been debauched. To thousands
and hundreds of thousands, the cry of the Rights
of Man had become an odious cry. To hail lib
erty in the East, while we are propagating slave
ry in the West to receive with honors fugi-
tive from Austrian bondage, while our hands
were thrusting back fugitives into a ten-fold d.
rer bondage at the South, were contradictions so
palpabe and fragrant that even partizan blind
ness could not but see them. Kossuth owed
service to Francis Joseph of Austria, just as
much as Thomas Sims owed it to John Potter
of Georgia. Why should the one be cheered
and the other chained Why should the Mis-
sissippi bring Kossuth here for freedom, and the
Acorn carry Sims back to bondage? Kossuth
had committed treason ten thousand times over,
against the house of IIapsburg. Why should
he be sheltered in our arms from the penalties
Of treason, while the Government sets all the
foul ministers Of the law to make constructive
treasons for the punishment of innocent men
Kossuth had rcbeed against Austria, and had
caused the death of tens of thousands Of her
subjects. Why should he be screened behind
a rampant Of American hearts, while those who
killed Gorsuch, under the law of self-preserva-
ton, and in defence of life, liberty and homo,
should be ANONYMOUSLY hung on the galows
These were questions that no deafness could
avoid hearing, and when heard, no sophistry
could answer Freedom is one slavery IS its
antipode and therefore the protection of the
fugitive Kossuth, and the surrender OF the fu-
gitive slave could never be rcconclled Hence
it was, that in public assemblies, among puolc
men, throughout the newspaper press, wherever
the spirit of slavery predomnated, there kossuth
was denounced. | say, among public men,
Accuracy directs me to add, that among our pub
lie men. there were few honorable exceptions,
of which Mr. Webster was one. But as 10 the
newspapers, if you saw one to-day, filled with
the yeriest servility towards the slave power,
Won migbt be sure that it would revile and de-
fame Kossuth tomorrow Or, if you saw one
column reekng with abuse of Kossuth, you
would be sure to find pro-savery pGan in the
next. Even at the door of this House, after Kos
suth had been invited to the Capitol he was stop
ped and insulted. Some of the more simple ones
avoN ed their reasons. They said, if we sym
thze with the oppressed in the person Of Hun
garian now, we may next be called upon TO SYM
pathize with the oppressed in the persons three
millions of Africans. Compare the riumphal
Progress" of Kossuth through the Free States,
such as no Roman consul, returning from for.
eign conqucsts and laden with spoils, ever knew,
with the feeble, and grudged, aud stintcd honors
paid him in the land of bondage. Slavery made
the contrast. Almost without exception, the
Northern opponents of Kossuth were sympathi-
GERS with Southern slavery, and therefore with
Francis Joseph and Nicholas.
The person Of this truly noble Hungarian
has departed from our shores-but he has left
spirit behind him that will never die He has
scattered seeds of liberty and truth, whose flow
ers and fruits Will become honors and glorious
amaranthine. trust he goes to mnge in ster.
ner scenes-I trust he goes to battle for the right
not with the tongue and pen alone, but with all
the weapons that freedom can forge and WELD
Before the Divine Government bow in reye-
rnnce and adOration-but IL tasks all nv phiIoso-