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

TIorleS had IudeHIy aVoWed himself the disci
pie Of Clarkson and WiIberforce, and had raised
the STANDARD OF immediate emancipation -
surely, | say, neither of these events wouId have
furnished such ample material of contradiction
and amazement, as are supplied by the nelan-
ch0ly case am now cons;deripr' Aftar having
nurtured, tutored, and led northern anti-slayery
sentiment for thirty years after having claimed
the patented thunder" of the Wilmot Proyi,o;
and alter having discovered the North star, in a
single day, without premonilion or cause of
Grange, Mr.. Webster espou>cs doctrines more
southern than South Carolina, aud becomes Cal
hoHuer than Mr.. Calhoun.
Where shall the searcher Of history find par
ale for this KNOW Of none lean conceive
hut one-that of Moses, from the confines of
Jordan, and the top of Psgah, commanding the
children OF Israel to march back into the land of
Egypt, for rc-subingation TO Pharaoh yet stri-
wing to persuade them that the " geography and
scenery Of the Nile,woulI render slavery there
impossible.
And SET when he ral-hour of the Baltimore Convention
came what did he gain by a.lE single southern
Rot ) single delegate southern State? Not
With ali the efforts mar Official mower and fr vch nj eli
les and amazing industry could make with all that sub
hcnp.on nominations, aud Fancui Hall Mee;ng aud Cas-
Hi "arden committees, and 'fa street ana state street
aad,ized pres ard fraudulent hopes tariff south
trade could eject Mr.. Webster could rally an aver
hundred mem5cr and never on any bao.iug according
- the political thermometer which measured his popularity
he rise above uiriy-tsyo dexreet.c point OF eternal
coagea.ipn! 40 southern stale him a yutc No
southern delc5ee sent ter9 to give him yote! Fifty
three opportunities occurred, excHping day day
AMI, according pub.he in BosoH
Ter from proeszcd eyewitness OF the the northern
friends Of Mr. Webster besy The southern brethren with
prs ers and cre4e sid and fearful enough have mex
hut tho infq,e lalrt Of vet thnp ynre 80
bic. My according the PIb.,d statement OF his friend
Bel, drlcg| from IL .uar.h Congressional Dis ret OF
M4ssicAy.g.fs ee,r he ir.y'pI NH WI Cn i be-
no. ,t,uI ~
smc, the" southern 24atlc:nen earnestly appealed to-
as m''or OF c'u 7y and to p!'ce or candidate Ar
tina ial Tor Mr.. Wcl,.cfF VIII Oh would have lon
him With some one hundred and twenty or thirty votes"
they rcfI-ed give him that empty compliment.
80 certain has the fate of MIR. Webster, for the last
eighteen m m, hs that and All those win whom lam poIj-
!esy lcatei have iort=. and predicted il with
much confidence astronomer lore.els an eclipse Let
us trust f , m of such victims will NOT he los, FOR tho
future up II northern
SIR, ont OF th, fugitive slave law has arisen llsouhd
IN halthafbarou word to express the wholly barb&ros
the Fnay. THIS word has already got into some
wha common u.s. in REGARD 10 Il. oI,ir i destined To
Get into universal regard its authors think Gen.
tSsS and Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Fillmore and Mr. W cb~tcr,
vilh many others have by this fine an interior and realz
Ing Of what the .fvtity means. Though
lac for them 10 profit By IL hope it will be bic scd to tho
Of others.
AMI what paliation, what pretox what suborraqe even,
had these for such betrayal Of human rights? Nothing
literally hothug hul h fraudulent idea Of danger 10 The
jnoa;n that cry "wof,' which the South always Raises
when she ms m ohccto accomplish and which she viii
The same threat Is I,w At his instant time made if he
North does not give lan their choice in the Two candidates
70 Vie igcs.Lt.--..
4 md yet The very men who in Il cir capacity
OF politicians, shrl- ked danger in the Union"
in their other capacity Of stock dealers and
merchants, never varied their asking or their
giving prices one jot CT title They cried
earth4uak~,' when not Il rumble could be
heard nor JAR felt; and they tried to make us
believe that a tornado was uprOotng the forests,
when nobody could see a leaf on a tree moving.
No the cry of danger to the Union was raised
do divert attention from their assaults upon the
Constitution.
1t was the latter and not the former that was
in danger.
Another reason, and it is a standing and con-
tinuous one, why there was danger to The Union
consists in the fact that the South, according TO
their own estimate, are under bonds of 9 $780,,
100000 to keep the public peace. Let them
break up this Union, and their property in slaves,
which they now value at this enormous sum.
will not, Al the end of quarter Of a cen
fury, be worth so many greats Does any
body mmagine that this Union can be dissolved
without civil comnotion, without revolution by
arms Sir, this is & subject inconccivaby
painful but it is a possibility spoken of and
sported with by others with leyity, that | am
constrained to invest with some OF its appropri
ate solemntcs. Does any one believe there
can Be two border nations, one founded on the
principle of freedom, and the other on the basis
of slavery, having a contiguous frontier OF three
thousand miles, and daily traversing the same
waters. with immunity from war And in
such wars, who will be the eager allies of the
North Sir, there are ten thousand fugitive
slaves in Canada to-day capable Of bearing arms
and their number IS Increasing faster than ever
They are practciug the use of firearms and
the menace of the horse. The story of their
expressions is re counted every day in every ham
and at every fro-sdc The mothers nurse their
own children with milk and with vengeance to-
gethcr The knowledge Of a north star is PEN
Grating further and further into the southern
interior, and Accusing new hearts to the effort
ot selt-tmaucjpa,on \ dissolution of the
Union repeals the accurscd act of 1850. TIE
free soil of Canada and tie British Provinces
tho only free soil there now is ir the north
eastern par. Of this corlincI!t--is brought down
II Mason and DiNou's line We have in the
northern States a population Of TWO hundred
thousand of African descent IL case Of war
between the two sections, thousands Of this COL
orcd race will fly to the land of bondage, swift
as they ever flew from it, They will 90 to
make desoatton Of the realm that once made
dissolution of them, ami of all they held dear
Under their avongInL cry, Insurgents VIII rise
up like an eXhalaon over 1.-The South. There
are no motives more terrible than those which
urge bonlsuan to his revenge. Perpe
tual proximity between ma, tnraEd slave furnish
es personal opportunity for retr5ution. Eve
~ house is an arsenal OF weapons; every tool
on the plantation an instrum M of death. Fire
and darkness are allies WIich nature prollars
him. Tn THIS warfare, the master DOES not 90
ia;o III battle alone; bis wife and hidden are
ii his s.I2, whose weakness or whose beauty,