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

gac strains, written tor the occasion by the great
Poet of Humanity, wake their mourniul echoes
in my breast;
so ALLEN SO lost the light Withdrawn
Which once he wore
Inc El2Fy from his gray hairs gone
Reveal him not-the Tcmpt,r hau,
A snare for all;
ana ply ing tears, not scorn and wrath
Beit his fall.
Oh dumb be passions stormy rage
When he who might
nav tiEhtcd up and led his ago.
Falls back in night.
scorn would the angels laugh, to mark,
- bright soul driven,
tlcnd -Eoardcd down the endless dark
FROM hope and Heaven!
Let not The land, once proud of him.
Insult him now
Nor brand with deeper shame, his dim,
DishOnorod brow.
But let his humble sons, instead
From sea 10 lake,
long lament, rs for tho dead,
In sadness make.
or all we loved and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Save power remains
a ialleh angels pride Of thought,
H'ill strong in chains.
All else Is gone rom those great eyes
The soul has fed
when faith is lo4t when honor dle.
The man is dead!
TLer pay the reverence Of old dovs
To his dead fame;
WAX backward with averted gaze,
And hide his shame"
sun, should leave this part Of nv subject
manned and Incomplete, should | forbeer to
draw the moral which the fate of this eminent
man so !mpressIvely teaches. In the history of
inc world, 1t is lneNpressibly sad that offences
should come. 1t would be still more sad if we
could not use them to warn others from offend.
ing. Besides, the drama, in one of whose
scenes we were brought together and enacted a
part mas now been played out, aud | am now
apIe TO establish by history all the positions
then maintained by argument.
The grandeur of Mr. Webster's intellect
tho hrst point always made in his dcfence~-I
reauny admit. On this point give his friends
carrie blanche of concession and acreement-the
whole argument their own wav.
But, on the next point, | claim to have the
whole concession and argument my own way:
Dome OF Thought" vast as one of those Egv1t-
t'ah statues that have been lately found on he
oahka OF the Nile, from whose craniums the mn
1--WE nave cong been IN the habit of cutting mill
stones without sensbIy diminishing heir bnlk
yetlt he could exchange it all to blot out the his.
tory OF that 7th of March speech, he would
make divine speculation.
For proof OF this, might cite volumes, mi,,ht
refer to MS Pilgrim Address at Plymouth. md
ms re ply to Colonel llayne, and select SOM
thiIg from almost every page of those volumes
Oh eloquence--beautiful as painting, and grand
as statuary--whose appeals fell upon mems
hearts nike an aiflaus OF the spirit of God. With
all tins, might then contrast what he has writ
ten and spoken snce the day Of his downfall ric-
ional as II Is, with embIems of whips and chains
OF auction bIock KS, and shrieEing fugtiyes, fec
ing from the bloody lash and the lecher's arms.
ana lndlng no protection in The sanctuary If
/ aneull Hall, or under the shadow of Bunker
tiIll or by the sacred monuments of LEXINGTON
and Concord e'0''
Bat Will confino myself to a single item Of
proof, Irretrag5e and conclusive:
The buffalo Convention Of 1913. proclaimed
ITS determination to maintain the rights Of free
labor against the aggressions of the slave now
er, and to secure free soil for a free people.
II declares It's " independence of the slave
power, ond It's fixed determination to rescue tho
Federal Government from its conrol.n
1t declared that the proviso Of Jeeffrsor TO pro-
mott slavery in all the territories, and tie ordi
nance OF 1877, excluding slavery from the North
western Territory clearly show that il was
the settIedpoicy Oft nation, not TO ere,ad. ra-
HoHah2e, or encourage but to limit, locaH.e. md
discourage Slarcry. and to this pol'cv which
should never have been departed from, the
government ought TO return"
It declared that it is the duty of tho Fodoro;
Government to relieve itself from all resnon.I-
blHty Tor the existence or continuance of slo-
very, wherever that Government possesses con-
o"tut'o'Il au'horIty TO Ieglslate on that sub ect
and is thus responsible for its existence"
Ii declared " that the only safe means IF nro-
venting thc extension OF slavery into territory
now free is to prohibit its existence in nj, ep,h
territory by an act Of Congress-"
1t declared that we accept the issue wIicL
the slave power has forced upon us. and ,o
Their demand for more slave territory, our calm
hut mai answer Is no more slave States--ro
more slave territory"
And what did Mr.. Webster sny Of this Mat.
orm, within one month after il had bccn adon,.
I'd This is his language
nave said, gentlemen, that in this Rufr,Io
PLATFORM this collect of the new school. tboro is
l,09l'ilhg new There is nothing in it that all the
W hgS OF The northern and middle States NAV
iot ADOPT Gentlemen, it is well known tbit
mere IS nothing IN this Buffalo Platform which.
n general, docs not meet the appreciation of ali
he Wings OF the middle and northern States =
suppose now, that all of US who are VVL;rs
should 90 and join the Free Soil marty VIA
would be the result? Why. SO far nothinr
would happen, but that the Wing party wonld
rave changed It's name That would be ALL
instead Of being the Whigp party, it would be the
rec SoII Party. We should be all there, ex.
city upon the same principles upon which we
rave always stood"
Now contrast this full, explicit, comprehen-
I'VE ana apparently ingenious subscription ard
dhesion to all the doctrines and articles of the
5uftd!o platform, in 1913, with the 7th of March
peech IN 1850, and with all that has since fol,
owed 1t from the same source.
surely, if General Jackson, in 1886. in ordo,
OBTAIN third election had courted and dofer.
a the Uni ted States Bank Written and snoken
roughout all the eastern cities in it's bebaTf and
made James Watson, Weth and Nicholas RI
lie hs bosom contidants and connselIors snrC-
y II Mr. Clay, in 1913 had declared for frla
rade, against all tariffs against river and hsrbo,
Improvements, and against all the policy ina, had
-lost aL-nahyea his LIZ - Poy .not Heo