Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-03-26


Rev Orvie Dewey. Chaplain to the Vosb.
ington Navy Yard, winds up recently publish.
ed lecture as follows:
Upon the ground Of reflective conscience
endeaVor TO place myself; ard these points ara
i very clear to me:
Firstly: That the immediate ernaneipation
OF The Southern slaves would Tot be right; they
are not prepared for freedom, nor do they eener
ally desire IT,
SECONDLY: That till this event takes place, il
would De Total to that order Of things, fatal To-
our peace and Union, for us to hold them free and
lrreclalmable the moment they touch our soil.
Thirdly That, therefore, there must be some
kind of fugitive slave law And
"Fourthy: That the present Law ia not more
stringent than lis predecessor that it contains
no new features OF lntolerable tyranny, such thar
II must be rejected on this account; that il is
not rejected on this account, but because any
effective bill would be disliked and resisted"
III the Rev. Doctors reflective conscience
is able 10 make these points clear TO him. NO
can only say that he must have very strong
conscience or very weak reasoning faculty,
lot The one seems TO have the other AT a great
advantage Let us look at the matter little on
the gTound OF common sense and common hu-
mainly. Our four points are:
! l. That if the emancipation OF the raass Of
/
are not prepared for freedom and doYi'r want IT,;
ihe inference IS plGn hat tho6e who are not only
| prepared for II and wsh X, but aciualIy achieve
IL, nave the most absolute and irrefrGgsSie yght
so 10 DO, and that ordinary human sentiments anA
the dictates OF the Christian religion command
us soleinnly 10 respect that right
z That whenever fngnfYe appeals 70 Man
| Not t" say Christian--suYinu 81 seek Gb-
cry and the bloodhounds are hot upon my track"
! the Man VIII not seize and hand him over TO tho
scourge and The letters of the pursuer, but will
| help and shield him, and bid him Gud-speed ON
his way 70 freedom. Possibly here and there a
Doctor Of Divinity, endowed with reflective
conscience, may pretend that he would do 9th.
erwse, since occasional sinecures are in the
gti OF The powers that favor such prctenses
but we pronounce them untrue and hypocrtcal
And the proof that this is SO, is the TACT that in
nine cases out OF ten fugitive slaves are pracTr,
ally held tree and irrcclaimabe the moment they
Touch our soil. This is so VIGOROUSLY the case
that shareholders often refuse TO attemp, the re-.
coyery OF their lost chatlels, even when they
know where they are the difficulty and the ex-
expense are more Than The merchaud Sc is worth.
And our peace and Union don't seem TO suf!ex
from it,
g. II save-catching statute be necessary, in,
order TO carry out an unfortunate and not credit
greater the need that il should be so framed az
to render 1t humany impossible that no person
legally free should ever be sent into slavery by
lis operation.
A. Whether the present law is worse, than its
predecessor Is Dot the question. but whether it
ID one fit 20 be made. Mr.. Webser-high iu-
dicial authoriy--has substantially said il il not,
because IT does not provide for a jury trial. If
any law would be dishked how much more such
q one as this?
1t will be seen that our four points differ
essentially from those of DIR. Dewey. How far
his apology for slave catching--next to slave
stealing the most brutal, mean and nhuman bu-
snesa in the orld--is creditable either to his
conscience, his understanding or his religious
profession, we do not undertake TO dccide--N
Y. Tribune.
"WHAT HAS CoNGREss DONE ?"-Passed six
public acts, and those OF no general importance!
Ii Is now understood that no important measures
will be definitely acted ON, until after the noni-