Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-09-17
LET Us NOT he DECEIVED.

desire or motive in all their political action, than
the best good of their country, and if they do not
act in the best manner TO secure the good they
desire, ii is because the way is not clear to them
Nor are the masses of the people opposed to in
vestigation and light. On the contrary, just as
they desire the highest good, SO do they desire
the highest light, and their action based on the
desire for good, will correspond with the light
they have.
But there is a class TO whom these remarks
will not apply; we mean the politicians of the
country. They have an interest distinct from
that of the people, which controls their action
Nine out often Of them, are men, who if left to
their own intrinsic merits could by no possibility
get their heads above the ordinary level of socie-
ty. But whet they lack in intelligence and
weight of character, they make up in manage
ment and cunning They get hold of the party
wircs-thev call caucuses and pack delegates,
and get themselves or friends nominated to Of
fee; they send their friends or 90 themselves to
Madison and make candidates for Governor. or
to Baltimore, and make candidates for President
and then they tell us there is crisis at hand
the Union is in danger--the republic is fight on
the rocks--and we must 90 for Pierce Oh one
hand or Scott on the other, or creation generally
will come to sudden termination. And what is
the upshot of it? 1t is that they get notoriety,
and place, and power, and things 60 on about as
usual. Take "party" away from these men and
they would fall 50 low that the hand of resurrec-
ton could never reach them: all they have and
are grows out of "party," without which they
would hare little and be less. This gives that
class of men an interest different from that of the
people. The interest Of tie people lays in the
welfare of the country-that of the politicians in
the welfare of the party, and it matters not what
position the party may occupy-how much its
ends and aims may be opposed to the real inter-
ests of the country, this class of men will be
found crying out that the party must be sustained
at all hazards. What then? Why these are the
men who do nine-tenths of the talking and pub
lsh nine-tenths of The newspapers, and when the
people ask for light they give it to them so dis
torted perverted, and befogged, that it becomes
darkness instead, and the people, with the best
intentions in the world, are msled to their own
deep injury.
We say then, let us not be deceived. When
we ask for light, let US not be put off with Cha
pultepec,' or 'Cerro GorGo, or Lundy's Lane
or Fuss and Feathers or GLORIOUS Frank
PIERCE or sublime Frank PIERCE or any non
sence of the kind. Pierce and Scott both occu-
py at the present time distinct and we'll defined
position with reference to the positive interests
Of the country, and over their own hands and
seals have pledged themselves upon the honor
of men AM generals as to the course of their i'd
ministrations. This then is the real point of in
tersst to us in this campaign, and if we would
not be deceived, we must not lose sight of it.
1t is the policy of these selfish men to keep the
true and real issues ont of sight. They seek to
distract and arrest public attention by all sorts of
trivial and unimportant matters and issues for
the reason that true understanding on the part
Of the people of the merits of the contest, would
be disastrous to their hopes. For our own part
we cannot follow the enemies of the Free Demo-
cracy into the innumerable little channels of at
tack, or debate, or prejudice, that they see fit to
enter on. They call US "abolitionists," they ac-
cuse us of design to destroy the constitution
and subvert the government, while they arrogatc
to themselves vast deal of patriotism and pro-
TESS the most exalted purposes in every thing
! Now what the people want in this matter is the
positive truth, and that is to be known by conf
ming ourselves closely to an investigation of the
absolute basis on which the respective parties
rest, and cannot be known by any amount of as
sertion or denial by interested individuals or
newspapers. Let us then turn our attention to
the real point, and moreover, let us keep it there
| And this point is the actual position the parties
occupy with reference to the positive interests of
the country, and the principles they are pledged
to apply in their administration of government.
If the voters will but stick to this point they will
not deceive themselves nor can they be deceived
by others. What this position is, we have had
occasion to discuss heretofore; and shall again,
and the main purpose of our present Article IS,
that when we show the positive principles Of the
Free Democracy to embody the highest good of
the people, we shall not be compelled to run TO
every little point of attack our opponents choose
to make
ORGANIzE.-The friends of freedom in all the
new counties, and those in the North and West
should organise, so that there may be a nucleus
to cluster around. No matter if there are
but six men in township, hold your meet
ngs, disseminate the doctrines of the Free De-
mocracy, and the honest men of all parties will
acknowledge their truth, and fall in with the
Platform. New organizations have been form
ed in Grant, Sheboygan and Winnebago, let the
fire spread.
u Our bunker friends are making pretty free
it seems, with the names of some of our free soil
ers by afiXing their names to calls for meetings of
the 'Perce & King Democracy without con-
suting them. O.. p. Hale Esq, of Paris, and