Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-07-02

into the ditch the feet OF saVe-holdlng ldeness
Were you represented in either OF the Baltimore
Conventions recently held? Let your Deweys,
your Hobarts, your Noggles, ct i'd omni genus,
from this state, answer? Was word said for
you? was pledge made in behalf of youa Not
a word, breath, or thought. Idlers, drones, and
office-expectants were there from the north and
the south. They selected candidates TO repre-
sent themselves and built platform in harmony
| herewith. And the main feature OF that platform
is, that labor shall be hunted with blood hounds
from the north to the south and from the east to
the west, and with a refinement of cruelty unpa-
ralelled it seeks to compel the labor of one Sec
ton to hunt to death that of another. And what
is to be the result of all this if successful? The
prophet of the Post has truly predicted The
progressive spirit of idleness, beyond question,
will before long, sigh for new worlds to conquer
in the realms of labor, and fabor will put the fe-
tiers on its own limbs and walk manacled at its
bidding, does any sane man think slavery will al
ways be confined to blacks? No indeed? The
speculations of the Post will rpen rapidly into
history.
| Let us then like men of reason-men to whom
great and abiding interests have been entrusted,
look at the realities of things and be deluded no
longer with trfes and shadows. Glory and ac-
QUESTION and empire, and all that kind of thing,
are catch words as fiippant in the mouths of Eu-
ropean aristocrats and shareholders as American.
Whilst Englishmen are tcked with the idea that
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that britannia rules the waves, that not slave
lnhablts British soil, &c. &c, the great mass of
her population are toiling in AFFECT poverty, de-
void of physical and mental comfort and enjoy
ment, many absolutely starving for the necessa-
ries OF life, and but few of them any thing else
/ but slaves. And such will be the result with u.s.
Whilst we are entranced with these senseless
catch words and running hither and thither at
their bidding, this great principle of slavery-of
idleness against industry, is gradually overrun-
ming and possessing the land. We sleep and the
spoiler comes-deluded with vain glory and fool
ish cries-amused with the sounding brass and
tinkling cymbal, we awake only to find the fet-
tiers on our limbs and our energies of body and
soul mortgaged to the tyrant who has ruined US.
This government is worth nothing-this union
is worth nothing, except as upon the principles
of eternal right and justice it ministers to the well
fare of its whole people. We seek to create no
preiudices; we have not the remotest desire to
array one class against another. Nor do we
doubt the honesty Of any or all of our people.
We know that naturally every man desires his
own good, and therefore that the motive of action
in all, is good. But the best and wsest see but
GarkIy, and the question is not as to motives, but
as to the means employed to accomplish the end
mutually desired. The true interests, prosperi-
ty, and permanence of our government are to be
secured not by the triumph Of this party or that,
but by the recognition and practice of truth and
right. God is omnipotent and it is his inevitable
decree that truth alone is enduring. We may
enact laws and declare fnalites, and tenounce
agitation, but the higher law" is unbending in
its character, remorseess in its operation, omni-
potent In its power. The ialsehoods of man
crumble and dissolve beneath its touch, and ma
tons that forget God, are, with their mighty mo-
nunents, swept together to destruction and nhli-
won. We desire the perpetuity of this republic
therefore we love the right above all party con-
siderations, and our difference with brethren is
not as to motives but as to the positive truth OF
the position occupied. Early errors, circumstan-
ces education, variety Of causes, have made
hostile interests in society, and the question is
in which interes! lays the true prosperity Of the
republic. We believe itays in the independence
of labor and lis just reward, and hence as we love
! the Republic, as we love our brethren, as we love
( the race, we will resist with what strength we
have such enactments as are now made the cor
ner stone of party foundations and the cement of
! party effort. And we call with confidence upon
sal good, to come up TO the work with us. 1t is
no time TO faint and fall beyond the range of the
enemy's guns. Are we few in numbers? So
were the Greeks at Thermopyle. Minorities
not muj0rities rule the world. We NAV not elect
the next President, but the human horizon, we
trust, is not to be bounded by that event. Tie
good, men do, We hope will survive the success of
either Pierce or Scott. We may not elect our
candidate, but we can create a correct sentiment
-yindicate truthful principles, knowing that with
truth success must sooner or later come. Let
those who want office, power, and wealth, who
are dazzled by station and vain glory,d the work
of their candidates, but for heavens sake let no
man who has the faintest comprehension of the
true issues involved, help, directly or indirectly,
the common enemy on this occasion. BY so do
ing he is but turning his weapon against himself
Let all men whose interest lays, not in senseless
clap trap anu sham glory, but in the enactment
of justice in the recognition of the rights of labor
act as becomes them, and if we Ne few or many,
weak or strong, let US fight on, fight ever in vim
dication of the right.
! RUNAwAY.-On Saturday evening last, as the
children of Mr.. James Harkin were riding home
in the team belonging to their Father, they mar
rowiy escaped serious injury if not loss of life.
1t appears that two horse team which had been
standing al the door of store had become fright
ened and were dashing off at full speed-tbev