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

cause, and way for permanent relief His re-
marks were extended, and ranged under five
general heads.
lst The amount and Judgement liens on the
real estate of the county. The sum necessary
10 be raised annually, to meet the interest ac-
erueing, and the mode of Relief
%. The amount of direct and incidental tax
es on the county and mode of reducing them
one half at least:
Sd. Costs of Litigation, fees of officers pre-
scribed by law, compared them with those of Oh
der states showed the amount Of costs paid the
past wear in this county in lawsuits. and his
r.exs of what Legislative action should be had
in the PREMISES.
4h The effect that Slavery and the Fugi-
tive Slave law has to increase the burthens of
TIE cIlzcns OF hcnosha, and their only mode Of
relet
oh. The pecgniary burthens of some $40.
0QJ, by the traffic in intoxicating drinks, and
urged legislative action, to avert the evils and
closed his remarks by advertilg to the varied re-
sources of the county, and The Importance of
every head of family having a homestead.
pJrtOn Of the soil, to make him an indepen-
dent freeman, and a means of perpetuatiug
oar liberties, and transmitting them to our chill
dr.n.
Ills remarks under the fourth head, were as
follows
A fourth item of positive charge upon tie
tax payers ot this county, is traced to the hor-
ro.e sys tetn.of oppression Of unpaid labor which
las tempest-tossed this nation the last six years,
and sill continue to do so,until the right prevails
system that permits raplcous man to seize lis
unfortunate FELLOW, and say t him . Work for ne
and do HIor iEe-aRa against your 1ciU-and
rittout 1cagCS-and not only so-do il yourself
and your posterty after you; to the lat st gener-
atoms be a. my cattle AMI horses, ard that
nan ha, power to enforce the wrong, by legal
enactment.
| did suppose cur constitution guaranteed
Liberty TO Us uii-thal under the Stars and
Stripes : no man Was pres amed slsvc. and
that not clause in oar charter Of liberties
sanctioned s,nrery, recognized its existence
but by interlnccs.
Iii ? Are we mistaken in this supposition
And yet this government by its enactment has
struck down every guaranty OF our and my iber-
tics, by making the exl artc affidavit of the man.
steaIerlo reverse that presumption, and YOU would
stand before the embodiment OF Tvrauv-a Unit
81 States C0mmis soner-diyested of your man
hood. deemed a mere chauel denied your oath
privilege to Plead, and the right of trial Us to
your icing freeman by jury of yolr conn
try and the writ Of Hubras Corpus inc fficent n
for you, by that affidavit, duly certified, are 1rl-
s-,ned to be a slave, or to owe service, not bv
coutrac., but by eXactjon and against your will
ThBt act virtually declares, that these. YOUR
Ecd d., consccraled a. you supposed to frcclcm
shall be tie hunting grounds for Il e fIgit,e and
that you and J, when called upon to ioin the
"huo and rry," cannot abe called rood citizens "
unless we aid aud assist IN the prompt and eff
cI-nt execution of this aw-I qucte the lam
guage of the act itself. (2)
Who in the future, when speaking of unpar-
arIed atrocity and wrong successfully perpe-
al H.