Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-08-06
NO SLAVERY EsSE-Es.

" nv pICICSoCu pdtIllcS neIt-
tofore, and are now claiming that no slavery is
sues exist, are either themselves deceived, or are
deliberately seeking to deceive others Can any
person gifted with the faintest capacity for re-
Election, be thus deceived? In 1850, Preston
King, said
/ "I'hc great question before the American peo-
pie Eow is, shall the interests of slavery as po-
liical power, predominant over the interests Of
freedom in this country"
+ Is this question really settled? IF so, how?
when? and where? The claim that the slavery
issues are settled, is sufficiently rcutcd by the
/ Plato rms Of both parties, in which they are re-
ally made the chief features and more clearly
refutcd in their candidates who were nominated
with special reference to their pro-slavery char
acter, and could not have been nominated other
aise. Does any man pretend that John p Hale
is not as good democrat as Franklin Pierce
and does any man pretend that John p Hale
could BY any possibility have been nominated by
the democratic convention. And why could not
Hale be nominated where Pierce could? Is not
the reason manifest? Because Pierce is in favor
of slavery and Hale opposed. And yet while
nothing else was TAXED of in the conventions, and
candidates W. re nominated on no other ground
than devotion to the south, we are told that the
slavery issues are all settled What monstrous
assumption.
We quote the remark of Preston King as de-
claging the true issue before the country; an is
sue that is no. and will not be settled as long as
a single heart that beats for freedom is left And
we desire to call the attention of friends to the
important truth, that it is not for the past but the
future that platforms arc now erected and candi-
dates made. The past is to be secured, not by
silent acquiesccncc, bnt by further legislation in
the same channel. Does any sane man think
that all human activity ceased the moment the
Baltimore resolutions were passed-that all in
stullonS whether ofyirtuc or vice, whether right
or wrong-were petrfed to stone by the evil eye
Of the Gorgon that glarcd on them from Balti-
more, never to awaken to lie again? Nonsense.
Dcspotism las all the unholy desires that ever
possessed it in as full fever of activity since as
before the Baltimore conventions, nor have the
eycr-throbbing pulses Of the worlds great heart
of freedom, stopped for an instant their motion.
Is the south then-this principle of slavery Of
which King speaks-going TO remain quiet, re-
lying upon Baltimore resolutions and the prom
lse OF Fenal men, to forever protect ard perpctu-
ate what it has already attained. Such is not its
nature or the nature of any other principle whe-
Their good or bad. The south cannot and will
not consider the PAS, safe in any hands but her
own, and hence the effort is for the future, that
complete and rndisputed control of the govern
ment may be obtained by itself This done the
question will be settled and it is such settlement
AMI none other that is contemplated by present
platforms ana candidates. Yet men who have
once profossod free soil sympa,hcs talk now
Of the issues being settled
Another important thought belongs to this de-
cIaraton of Preston King We learn that it is
not this or that isolated quostoa-not whether
slavery shall be permitted in this that or the 9TH
or spot-thnt makes up the issue between slave
ry and freedom, but it is strife whether 'the in
tcrcsts of slavery, as political power, shall pre-
dominate over the interests Of freedom in this 90
vernment." That is the question, and when we
talk about its being settled bccansc Utah and Or
cgon have been organized, we show our igno-
rance Of the principle. Ii is principle affecting
every question that comes before government,
and has just as much to do with 4 harbor appro-
priation bill as q bill organizing a new territory
How naturally the instincts ofthis principle turn
ed against kossuth and his mission, and how ma
turally it turns against every thing broad, philan-
thropic, harmonizing, humanzng, and generally
beneficial, to that which is narrow, selfish, sec
onaI, and calculated in its character to upift,
bloat and enrich the few at the expense of the
many. Whatit has done at Baltimore it seeks to
do at Washington, and the gags it has erected
into resolutions it only awaits its opportunity to
enact into laws. Surely the character of those
governments where this principle is already in
the ascendant, should warn US to resist its en-
croachmeuts here.
We say stand firm friends. The Gods help
those who help themselves, and it is doubling
Just Providence to fear that good cause may be
lost after we DO our own duty by it.
River ana BEarbor EsiII passed the FEouac.
Washington despatch of the 3lst, says:
The river and harbor bill passed the House
this morning, by 4 vote Of 100 to TO- and was
then sent to the Senate, where an effort made to