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

ont appeal or writ of error ITS liquidation of the
statute OF limitations, (the policy of which is re
cognIZed by all civilized nations, not only in ca
ses OF debt, but in regard to the title of real es
tate, and even in regard to crimes so that a mas
ter who has Obtained his slave for forty wears,
can come and pluck him from wife and children.
from home, property and friends and when,
further, see the practical workings Of this law;
Tree northern citizens carried iRto BONDAGE :
southern professors in the art of kidnapping
chasing the shrieking fugitive from all his hiding
places and his affairs ;mOnster father PURSUING
children OF their own loins, as lately happened
III New York, to sell them into slavery the yir-
tuous woman hunted by the lecher. from whose
whips and scourgings she had fled to avoid his
guilty embrace thousands of aborous and
peaceful citizens amongst US. surrounded by
selt-carned comfort and competence, fleeing from
all the endearing relations of kindred and neigh-
borhood, out of Republic into a monarchy. 20
regain the lost brthright of freedom,-Thus re-
enacung the scenes Of the Hugnenot flight nm
der Charles TX and as the crowning cruelty
OF the whole, an entire race of % people, of
innocent people, of people whose ancestors
fought and fell III the battles of the Revolution.
ana who have as much right, not merely TO secu-
rty ana protection, but TO the feeling of security
and protection, nnder our Government. as YOU or
when see these people, filled With conster.
nation and dsmay for themselves and for their
children, trembling when they look around them
upon the earth, lest some tiger, in human shane.
should spring from his ambush and seize them
and plunge them into slavery's hell, and trem
bling when they look upward into the SKY. be-
cause God seems to have forgotten them: sir.
when contemplate all these things, am com
PEELED, though against the common faith to ac-
knowledge evidence of supernatural inspiration
in the hearts of hen. But it is Internal and dia-
boiIcal inspiration whose evidence recorniza-
Slr, this fugitive slave law was not made by man
alone; Tor unaded total depravity is unequal to
all Its atrocities. Place the law and the Balti
more edIctS side by side,-the command and the
prohibition together. you shall chase the fin
gitive but you shall not speak" As in the DAVIS
OF the early christians, or like the Pilgrim Faith
ers in the times Of the non-conformists. we NAV
hold our meetings only in dens and caves, or in
the most secret recesses of our dwellings. with
doors locked and guarded. Once the bloodhounds
were mnZZed; now the boodhounds are let
loose and freemen are muzzled
Sir, when any hmane and intelligent man re-
fleets upon the attributes of this law, and then
turns to the fiat of the Baltimore Conventions.
that it shall not be agitated or discussed he can.
not but tremble with an agony of INDIGNATION
and contempt. These resolves are so subyersivo
not only OF all divine but of all human govern
ment they are so audacious and vet 50 imno-
tent; they assume So imperial an air, while thew
are more mbecile than idiots gibberish. that the
great poet OF our language, whose mind supplies
redundant images for all things vile and mean.
has but one passage that BELTS their vileness
10 borrow his words the Baltimore resolutions
are
e birtl-srancIed babe
Ditcheddeyered by drab'
Justice and gratitude however. demand that
should say, that there were sixty members of
the Wing Convention who stood out braveIy and
to the last against this attempted abolition of the
freedom OF speech. In the Democratic conven-
ton there seems to have been scarcely whisper
of dissent
Sir, cannot but acknowledge that the events
have recited have an omnOus look for the cause
OF freedom. 1t seems as though the black cloud
which has settled down over Europe was exten.
ding It's gloomy folds across this country to en-.
veope, in darkness and despair, the last homes of
liberty on earth. But have infinite faith in
God and in truth. | believe that cloud to he
surcharged with beginnings which will vet blast
the oppressor And after the ghtnings and the
storm have passed, then shall come the dav of
universal freedom and joy.
False those Baltimore Conventions were to the C,us
tuition OF the United States, tn the Declaration of ud,e
shcc 10 humanity and TO Cod yet when To sem
proceeding, more closely we find that they amen
able to power they refused to know !cdgc II was iLcr
As IN me ancient mythology the gods dccrced, but there
wa an lheAoToIc tate standing behind the gods and con-
trolling their DEGREES. That irresistible fate which bnId
me Conventions as with spell and hemmc their desires
ana aptudes Tor wrong, which was will within their will
was the genius of northern anti-slaycry There was m
half dozen candidates, whom the Democratic Convention
vastly preferred to the once they finally took up with aud
here was at least one whom the Wing Convention under
he southern pressure bought to bear upon them would
have consented 10 take, hut for the Uplcd arm The Nor
which mcnaced memorable defeat for any such election and
would have terribly executed its mcnance. Is in the vision
IF the Scottish seer coming events cast their shadows no
fore here the coming thunders Of the pcnnls rrIE
sent their echoes forward, and forbade both Conventions
from nscribng the more posstr names unnn ,Fnir
1t the Free Soil party of the North mar held
iers in her hands and did not determine VIII nm the
conventions should nominate, II did determine whom thcy
Why did not the Democratic party nominate Gen Cass
Fortory years he had stood conSpicuou before the co-
Try had served in curly life. in military capacity. on the
northern frontier boon afterwards Governor Territory
now swarmlng with three millions Of mcH Embas~alor
he was man of un5lamable private li'c-one who what
ever sinister rewards he have expected exposed
Ia ions; reputed. and believe justly rcpuicd to b tenn
lcuinst a of known Incorporate habits would bavn !
given him fifty Thousand votes in New England alone-afct
ny was not General C1ss nominated? His Nicholson lei,
ter was the flaming barrier which neither the perycr Baa
i'm OF Democracy, nor is beast able 10 pass bv By
o hundred thousand votes from his ticket in the
New York alone. General Clss died Of modern djsesc
called "lccr-WUnG which proved SipruIarly fa,a f.
candidates The Nicholson letter was the ma
ignant dislcmper tina bloaied and killed him
" ny was Roi Mr. Buchanan nominatcd-ihc fv0ritc Of
hat great Stale which, she ncneS one way or Other
crms TO rock and sway the Union and determine, . r..
uli IN every presidential election? He wa, man Of ~
1owcrs-one whom nature had laid ont on a grand scale -
W hen tie history of this country written Mr. 3chan
nan name cannot BE- put IN pareuihess He made Gene
al Jack son. rather than General jackson him His talent,
WIN tly'c 81 Gov Marcy " New York, the salt thai
,aved Mr. Poiks administration from puiridy. lie vas
larn- man. In l-iS, in official communication tn H.
oratlon OF their constitution though the Nety Rrrl
&c were his ward Lamarline politely made Z French I,
n FtiHrh; nat saying a. he gave it he woId no, tolerate
40 zee from any other people God ever created.
why was not Mr.. Buchanan u0mina,edg An no baJ
'eeh even boIder IN his domestic diplomacy than in h for
;Sh Ills offer 10 run tho Missouri compromise line tt-'
% me racine ocean, and - sacrifice all south of thrt limo on
ne aitar OF The Moloch Of Slavery. grand act of ar
&c! 70 nJrlhern~n.iMeut and u freedom. which brought
ne MINIS OF death over his eyes. His co9 n -ou
2Tafs lie vi" Dc les. successful IN making such north
I'm psatforns than in making French Constitutions mail
le states north of PcnG- AHA, during the lrtyuine bal
onys, De rarely received than halr dozen votes
ma think hlr average IN those states. did come to
nat nslgnican or rather, that significant number.
And what the fate Of the Sgua from Illinois.
ard over-reaChjnT Wing called the Yul.
Giant, nickname which his friends silly enough
adopt. lsay silly for every body knows tha; theconlGn
l".Ipn which The common people have Of "g0uug C7Bt
that unatuna and preeccious ma deveuDuen The
cTy name INJURIES up images Of TuWdyish passion and an
petite OF nocturnal rCyels Of sort Of Wild Obrr,ip foc
" HISTORIAN wisdom. What was his reward for hi. ir;
d understood offer 81 the annexation OF Cgha From
he four states of Masacha settS New York Ohio and penn
ylyaus. he never at any one time received more than sly