Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-10-29
The Compromise Measures.
The Compromise Measures, so called, embrace
five acts:

The Compromise Measures, so called, embrace
five acts:
l. The admission of California as free State,
which was light; and which was compelled by the
Free Soil influence brought to bear upon the
Hunkers of both parties in Congress. This part
of the Compromise does not amount to anything,
however, as far as the principle of Freedom is
concerned, for the highest Judicial Tribunal of
the State has adjudged, that slavery legally exists
in California.
And what has now become of the Wanted gain
of the compromise in admitting California as a
free State1
2. The modification Of the Slave Trade in the
District of Columbia, SO to prohibit all but cit
liens of the district from engaging in the traffic
within the limits of the District-an act deserving
no credit; for, if the slave trade is wrong, Con-
greSs having exclusive control over it, should
abolish it, and, if it is right, the people of the
District should not have the monopoly of it,
but all should be allowed TO engage in it, 1t
simply guarantees a monopoly of the business to
the inhabitants of the District. If this is calcula-
ted to weaken the system of slavery, we caunot
tell where
The Nation is responsible for slavery in the
District STILL The traffic is still going on in the
coast wise slave trade, and between the States
north, which is largely in the majority, and can
rule upon this as well other subjects when they
see fit to assert their supremacy.
3. The organization of the territories of New
Mexico and Utah, without any prohibition of Sla-
very, ora any recognition of the Mexican law against
Slavery, and providing that they may come into
the Union as Slave States if they choose. The
result is, that Slaves, in considerable numbers,
have already been taken into those Terrific
ries, and the design of the Shareholders is TO in
troduce them as Slave States. If proof of this
statement is wanted read the Statistics of the last
Census.
4. The ccssion of 10000 square miles of Free
territory to Texas and Slavery, with full liberty to
carve Texas into any number Of Slave States :;
though the Joint Resolutions Of annexation pro-
vided that it should be equally divided into Free
and Slave States, and the payment of ten millions
of dollars from the National Treasury to Texas.
That looks like compromise in which Free
dom Surrcndcrs everything valuable, and the gap
ing NAV of Slavery is crammed to rcpletion
| 5. The Fugitive Slave Law, the provisions of
which annihilate the crtt of Habeas Corpus
Maks every L. S. Commissioner Slave Catch.
ing Commissioncr-gives him bride to return a
man to Slavery-orders all good citizens to turn
out and catch the runaway-fines a man thou.
sand dollars and six months imprisonment fol
not helping arrest alleged runaways-agrccs to pay
all the cost and there has within three months
been paid out of the Public Treasury SllO, 900 ol
the services of niggcrdrivcrs ConstablcS and black
/ legs from the South and suffers any scamp who
can be procured, to swear any, and every man.
of whom he has description, into eternal bond
age.
1t is the last three acts, authorizing the admis
| sion of new Slave States the extension of Slave
! Territory, and the return of persons claimed a!
| Slaves, without the safeguards of the writ of la
beas corpus or the right of Trial by jury, to which
the Free Democratic party particularly objects
and which the Wing and Democratic parties have
declared in their Platforms shall be FINAL ant
! IRREPEALABLE, and SHALL NOT BIZ
OPEN TO DISCUSSION.
Say, Voters of the North, are YOU willing to sus
tain either wing of the Slave party which sane
TONS endorses and swcars to preserve, unviolatcd
unagitated, undiscusscd and unrcpealed, such {
hellish compact as this