Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-09-10

made speeches, pro and con, Mr. S. rose t
close the debate, under the rule which gives tn
opener the right of closing. lie spoke, in sub
stance, as follows:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN: thank the gentleman VIII
has Just left the floor, for bringing the debat
back to the true issue presented BY the question
which has nothing to do with "fanatcs" an,
"amalgamationists,' as some of our opponents
have seemed TO imagine. But cannot thanl
him for his schoolboyish ssertion that we of tn,
negative have advanced no arguments or fact:
pertinent to the issue joined. | ALWAYS prefe
leaving the audience TO furnish the umpirap,
on these occasions, which shall weigh our argu
ments in the balance.
Now, sir, must express my surprise at some
OF the statistical differences sought TO be drawn
here, tonight, and particularly in view of the
sources from which they have been derived
Something was said on the affirmative about the
serpent OF sophistry," which was said to be de.
tected in the arguments advanced by some of US
on the negative. Now, sir, plainly see the
''serpent" that is kept hid is the author of some
OF these convincing statistics" He is ElwooC
Fisher, pampheteer who has presented the
most false and deceptive array of so-called "sta-
hstlcs" that ever came from an American pen
And II the gentleman who has relied on such
authority will only turn to the review of Fishers
pamphlet by MIR. Goodloe, OF North Carolina
he will see how completely the hidden sophs.
tres of that delectable production are exposed
And here it ought to be known that his review.
cr is son of the old Rip Van WInkle State
whose children have had the amplest opportuni-
ties to witness the home injury" of slavery.
Well, what is the pretended proof of slavery
having been OF more benefit than injury" pro-
tessedly derived from this authority Why
this: that Virginia and Kentucky have several
ly shown themselves prepared to divide more
dollars among their citizens than any non slave
no ding state of the Union. But how WHY,
ty an inge NOUS device of this old serpent, soph-
lstry, which first values the lab0rerS of Virgin
ia and Kentucky at so much per capita, adds the
sum aggregate to what they have, mainly, earn
ed; and then, when they come 10 the division
of the spolls," carefully exclude them from the
list of even these imaginary shareholders, and
makes the dividend among the residue thus,
as if valuing the three millions, and upwards, of
slaves to be added to the value of other property
in the South, and parcelling the aggregate
amongst the comparatively few non slavehold-
ers left to share it 4! And, against this, bear in
mind, all the laborers of the free states are in
cluded, without being valued themselves, when
the suPpository division is made! Now, apart
from the much denser population of the free
states, put in comparison by this artful sophist,
terelgn as we'll as native, who does not see the
utter deceptivCness OF such statistics" Away
with such "subtcrfuges of lies" They are un-
worthy of candid minds.
But, Mr.. President, there is another statistical
citation which calls for exposure | alude to
that which represents Virginia and Kentucky
as cXcelhng Ohio in the amount of her Surplus
grain'-thatis, the wheat sold outside OF the
state borders. Admit it. But what are the
facts underlying this Why, apart from the
home market which Cincinnati furnishes, TO say
nothing of the cities of lesser note, and the
villages which dot Ohio ell over, as
the growths of free labor, Ohio's tong thou
sands are suffered TO consume the wheat which
they have raised, whereas the toing ones of those
slave states are rarely permitted to taste wheat
bread at ESPECIALLY in the Eastern section of
Virginia, and the corresponding section of Ken
lucky. But this is not ALL The grain grown in
the valley of Virginia where there are compare.
lively few slaves, and they worked on modifi-
ed plan which puts white aborers Gotten own
Frs of their chdren) in tie lead, and in Western
Virginia, where there are still fewer slaves, is all
set down to the credit OF slave labor, forsooth,
es sort Of conservative imperium in imperio.
: allowed no credit at all The same is true
If the other state cited, Kentucky. Her free
abor, and her not free bread, are purposely for
yotten in the estimates which | am now expos
ng. And that there are portions of Kentucky,
IS of Virginia, on which the dark wing of sla-
'cry rests but lightly,it at all, might be inferred
rom the significant fact, that Casius NJ. Clay
ould secure several thousand votes, when an
lntislavery candidate for Governor. while Rev.
John e. Fee can preach in free church, rear
d with free funds, as the retnrn of free labor,
~ free men, and around whose free alter free
plrits bow in gratitude TO the. God.of freedom
By a stree church" you will understand
re to mean church which does not tole-
ate the word slavery in lis creed, much less the
OF slaves among its membership.
But let us come nearer home. Touching in
low free Pennsylvania, our next door neighbor,
We may observe free labor daily rescus,ating,
With Its more improved and provident culture,
lnds worn out by slave labor, when tolerated on
cr soil. Some of the now finest lands in that
garden spot, Lancaster County, were but few
ears ago, comparatively speaking, worth
ass. Thus freedom has Counteracted slavery
nd prevented the evils of the system from being
ven worse than they are. But let us, drawn
y association OF ideas, come nearer home, i'll
lave state.
Go, as | have gene, Mr.. President, and take
our stand upon the Catochin fountain, one of
he spurs of the Blue Ridge, on the road from the
Point of Rocks to Leesburgh, Nirginia--my ma
i've state. Cast up our eye over yonder peace.
ul valley, tceming with life and comfort, its
ields filled with luXurlant grain its meadows
green with waving grass its orchards pendant
With luscious fruit; its barns well built and well
illed its dwellings, neat, though plain. That
ALLEY was settled by Pennsylvanlans who hold
10 slaves. Extend your inspections little fur
her, and you will encounter scenes equally in
'iting, though not SO unique, the settlement made
" members Of that nonholdng society, the
Friends. Look still further, you are still in the
ancient county of Loudon in the same "Od Do
ninion," but how changed the scene. Even the
ence rows tell you, unerringly, that here the
lark spirit of slavery assumed the sway, and has
left It's unmistakable imprints upon every thing
around--that blightng Impress which our great
Pinkney, in his famous speech in the Legislature
Of Maryland in 1898 referred TO, when he ex-
claimed in the language of another the celebra-
ted Montesquien. and therefore more deliberate
y than he may be supposed 10 have uttered those
other burning words of his own, that "even the
Earth itself, which teens with profusion under
the cultivating hand OF the free born laborer,
shrinks into barenness from the communicating