Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-06-18
THE RESOLUTIONS,

F~S~N a. eiAO 0ot4iAiOtG NOlINtItlOls III
m7nious hours of its last days sitting. They
be r internal and external evidence of the i'm
press OF Ben. Hallett, the great resolution maker
OF the bunker party, and they commit the party
to the drtiest work Of the slave-monger and me-
gro driver, as they were designed to by their au
thor. The first one resolves:
That the American Democracy place their
trust IN the Intelligence, patriotism and the dis
eliminating justice Of the American people"
And as though this was not definite and full
and explicit enough, they 60 on with half COL
umn more, and make the second fling at one
half of their fellows, in whom they have so much
confidence. If that first resolution was design
ed to mean that they have confidence in their
fellows, why insult them as though they had no
confidence in them? We have not room to re-
view them seria!im. They go on to endorse
all the former Baltimore and Benhaett reso-
utions, and pledge the party to the endorsement
of the Fugitive Slave law and compromise mea-
sures; and bind the party by the virtue of its
most solemn resolutions, promises and oaths,
to the protection and fostering of the whole sys-
tenn of human slavery, through all time, and
threatens resistance and hostility to every at
tempt to discuss the question in Congress, or at
your own ireside, in whatever shape or color it
is made. And this perpetual oath for the sus-
tanning of ETERNAL HUMAN SLAVERY is called
DEMOCRACY and the democratic party is pledg-
ed by their resolutions to carry out the sentiment
or else ii is q cheat and a lie.
They oppose the distribution of the proceeds
of the public lands, and refuse to give the land
less man a home and they ask of land reform
ers theirvo They endorse the plundering Of
Mexico, and its atrocous war, and ask you to
make one of its tenth rate generals, president OF
the United States.
They dcnounce national banks, as mere as
sertion. and these same men at home are Presi-
| dents and Directors of banks chartered by the
State in which they live, or it may be, have just
hurried from Legislature making bank law
to Baltimore, to denounce banking. This is all
wind; they don't believe the resolution If it is
designed to mean anything,
| But howsoever little the bulk of them were de.
signed to mean, and however much ofinanity and
wind they were designed to contain, their crown
ing infamy is embodied in the attempt to silence
agitation against slavery, while they are willing
that the world should be turned upside down il
efforts to foster, strengthen and perpetuate it.
Hitherto the Aboli.aon Of Slavery in the States
through the action of Congress or of other States
has been the target of denunciation; but thest
new resolves denohnce all "agtaton" adverse
to slavery, any where or on any ground whatev
er. To have been a friend to the Wimot Pro
yiso in 1878 Q, is to have been somehow mpi
Gated in slavery agitation" and so to be obnoX
0us TO the anathcmas here Numbered. Nay, i
the Slavery Propaganda were now to send AZ
armed colony Of slave holders into New Mexico
Nebraska or California, expressly to establish
slavery therein these resolves interdict and de
nounco any "agtation' in hostility thereto. Ye
here is not hint Of rebuke for the noisy and per
sistent agitators in behalf of slavery, scores O
whom were members Of the Convention. L. is
only Liberty, not Slavery, that incurs the pro
scripIion of false Democracy !"
| That the improvements of al the harbors and
rivers in the Northwest should be singled ou
and prescribed as inconsistent and undemocrat
| ic, is not so much to be wondered at il is part
! ly question of policy and dollars and cents, anC
democrats can properly entertain differcut views
but that the whole principle OF Democracy in the
question of HUMANITY, MANHOOD, and human
RIGHTS should not only be ignored but secuted
and despsed, and its advocates threatened and
insul;ed, was more than any Democratic Con-
vention had power or authority to do. Since
they have done it, let them take the consequent
ces and the wrath to come
Here are the resolutions in full. Read and
| digest them, and then act like man.
Resolutions OF the Democratic National
Convention.
Reso7red, That the American Democracy
place their trust in the intelligence, the patriot
ism, and the discriminating justice Of the Amer