Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-11-26

at the North who said we will have no union
with Shareholders There was party of sece-
ders at the South, who periodically clustered about
disunion. Could these men bring the Union into
peril? Did Daniel Webster think so? l shall
never insult that giant intellect by the thought
He knew South Carolina, he knew Georgia very
well He knew there was no danger of dssolu-
ton of the Union. But here is a proof that he
knew it. In 1850, on the Old of December, he
declared there is no longer imminent danger of
the dissolution of the United States. We shall
live and not die But soon after, he went about
saving the Union again and again, AMI again
saved it at Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse and then at
| Capron Springs,
l say there was no real danger but my opin-
ion is mere opinion, and nothing more. Look at
a fact. We have the most delicate test ofopnion,
the state Of the public funds-the barometer which
indicates any change in the political weather. If
! the winds blow down the Tiber, Rome funds fall
| Talk of war between France and England the
stocks go down at Paris and London The fool
sh talk about the fisheries, last summer, lowered
! American stocks in the market to the great gain
Of the brokers. Bat all this time, when Mr. Web
stcr was telling the ship of State was going TO
! pieces, and required undertaking by the Fugi
tive Slave Bill, and needed the kidnappcrs hand
at the helm-whilc he was advising us to conquer
prejudiccs-whilchc was denouncing the friends
of Freedom, and calling US to throw over to Tex
as-thc monster of the deep that threatened to
/ dcvour the ship of state-tifty thousand square
miles of territory and ten millions of dollars and
to the other monster Of secession to cast over the
trial by jury, the dearest rights of the Constitu
ton, of manhood of Justice and of religion, those
thoughts that wander through eternity while he
| himself revoked the noblcSt words of his whole
life throwing over his interpretation of the Con
stituion his respect for State rights, for common
law, his own morality, his own religion, and his
own God-the funds of the United States did not
90 down one mill. You ask the capitalist, is the
Union IN danger" lie answers, 20, yes it is in
the greatest peril Then, will you sell me your
stocks lower than before 2 Not "A ml-Not the
tcn-hundredth part of IA dollar in a hundred! To
ask man to make such sacrifice ut such time,
from such motive, is if you should ask the
captain of the steamer Niagara, in Boston harbor,
III fair weather, to throw all his cargo because
a dandy in the cabin was blowing the fire with his
breath. No, my friends, shall not insult the
majc.ty of that intellect with the thought that he
believed there danger to the Union. There
was not any danger of a storm, not even cats
paw i'll the sky-not a cap full of bad weather be-
tween Cape Sable and the Lake of the Woods
Here is the reason. He wanted to be President
That was all of it. He must concae the South.
This was his bid for the Presidcncy-fifty thou
sand square miles of territory and ten millions of
dollars to Texas four new slave states Slavery
in California and New Mexico the Fugitive Slave
Law; and two hundred millions of dollars offer
ell to Virginia to carry freemen of color to Afri-
ca.
He never SO laborcd before, and he was always
hard working man. What speeches he made at
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Albany, Buffalo,
Syracuse, Annapolis! What letters he wrote =
Ills intellect never so active before nor gave
such proofs of such Hcrculean power. The foun-
tainS of the great deep were broken up--it raincd
forty days and forty nights, and brought flood
Of slavery over the whole land it covered the
market and the factory and the conrt house, and
the ware house, and the college, and rose up high
over the tops of the tallcst stcepleS But the ark
OF freedom went on the face OF the WatCrS-abOvC
the market, above the court house, above the fac
tories, over the college higher than the tops of the
of the tallcst stccplcs, it hoacd sccure-for it bore
the religion that is to save the world and the Lord
God of hosts had shut it in.
What fatterv was there from Mr.. Webster =
What tlattcry was there to the South : what res
pcct for Southern nulliers and what scorn against
the fanatics of the North, against the Higher law
and the God thereof How he complimcntcd the
! Catholics at New York. and the Methodsts at
Boston and all this for amhigionl q. what a
prostration ofwhat a power! Then what a shrink
Ing of great conscicnces, and hearts, and minds
SO Milton, failing, sings that angels fallen from
their first estate, seeking to enter Pandemonium,
TO smallest forms reduced their shape immense;
In bignc,s to surpass Earth. giant sons,
NO." less lhan ,n"irst dwar,r IN narrow room
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