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

pledge lhemsel,e the causes the Party Free
dom.
BY order Of the State Central Committee.
E. d. HOLTUN Chairman
sLAVEHY--BLACK AND WHITE.
The New York Evening Post in an article on
the recent California Fugitive Slave Law, says:
ave may rate the progressive spirit of our
people too highly, but we shall be greatly
prised if some project is not set on foot before
many years 10 reduce certain classes of whites
TO bondage"
This brief remark of the Post opens up a vein
OF reflection worth pursuing. We apprehend
the trouble with reference to the contest now agi
tating the country between the abettors of slave
~ on the one hand and those who oppose it on
the other, is that it is not fairly understood
The strife is connected solely with the negro po-
pulaiion of the country, when in our ap prehen-
sion, the principle involved is much more extern
sive in its application, much broader and deeper
II the principles at issue were really, truly, and
fully comprehended, we do not believe that in
even partially republican government, like this,
where the laboring population are in the majority
and can direct its policy, slavery would be per-
mit,ed to exist year, The real question at is
sue is between labor on one hand and idlcness on
the other-the former struggling bindly, and at
odds for its rights, the latter seeking more fully
10 enthrone and perpetuate itself. BY reference
to the fugitive slave law it will be seen that it is
for the reclamation of fugitives from tabor
When the slave hunter seeks his fleeing slave at
our doors he does not do it because he is black
but because he represents in his person certain
amount of labor; and not only labor but intelH-
gent, human labor, as manifest from the fact that
the value of the slave is ten times that of horse
although the latter has ten times toe strength a
difference referrible only to the human inelh-
gent labor of the slave. 1t is the black man who
is now held chattnl. simply hAnansa he is
weak, poor, and friendess, and therefore can be
enslaved, but he is ensavcd not because he is
black, but because idleness requires the labor he
represents. II az the present time 1t were just
as convenient for the idlers to enslave whites,
beyond question they would do it, for the end
sought is to make labor subservient to ideness,
and the effort will be limited not by inclination
but only by nsurmountable difficulties Then
the remark of the Pos, is by no means an idle or
a meaningless one. When idleness fairly tri-
umphs-when agitation is fairly quelled, and no
further resistance is made to the slave progress
of the country, the lords of the land will not be
too nice in their distinctions of color. Labor will
DO wanted to furnish idleness with lis Injuries,
and as labor is degraded by chattelism, an1 has
been fairly crushed by the triumph of the chattel-
zng power in the land, all the representatives of
intelligent labor of whatever color must sooner or
later become involved ina common destiny. No
thing is certain than that labor in the person
of its representatives mast rise to independence
dignity, and supreme power in the land or it must
become crushed, degraded, chattelized. The
substance of the toiling millions has been long
time the prey Of kings, potentates, shareholders,
and oilers of all kinds; but the world is moving;
the slumbering giant is awaking: not in Amer-
ca alone, but wherever slavery under any of It's
many names and shapes exists. The warts now
whether the whole burthens of life Shall con,in-
ne as heretofore TO be borne by one half the race
to the end that the other half may feed from sill
yer spoons and roll in luxurious dleness, and
parties, platforms, and candidates in this country
should be considered with reference to their po-
sition in this great and worldwide strife What
is the factl
Is it no. that at the present time our govern
mens and its policy are In the h IDS of the cum
ming idlers-the shareholders and would be slave
holders-who have as yet succeeded in binding
the masses to their true welfare. Meaningless
phrases, false idea of glory false conception
of the true object of the union, false estimate
of the duty of each individual of the nation, are
industriously propagated, to the end that labor
may consent to wear its collar yet longer, and
bow vet lower to It's own undong. And is it not
equally a tact that the same class have controlled
the late conventions nominating candidates for
the Presidency. At the present time all the Of
flee expectants, the idlers, the soldiers of fortune,
the drones of every kind in society, 1--we do not
mean to say there are not others not obnoxious to
any of these designations who live and grow fat
on the honey of labor are shouting themselves
hoarse in favor OF one or the other of the candi-
dates of the two great parties.
industrious toiler, whose eye rests on this arti-
Gle, let US ask you in all candor, what have you
70 hope from the success of either of theml VIII
the fat things of government drop into your lap?
Will franklin Pierce or Gen. Scott seek you out
from your plough your bench, or your anvil, 10
confer upon you this favor or that' We need
not tell you, for you already know, that these eS-
nectsn,s and seekers, will under either of them,
as heretofore, absorb all the profits of government
and your interest, as heretofore, must rest solely
in the general policy of the government, and in
that what have you to hope from either ot 'hem2