Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-08-13


ing through both houses that series of bills now
known as the Compromise measures. 1t is due
to the memory OF that distinguished statesmen 10
say, that those measures as sketChed in the res
olutions submitted by him to the Senate, though
they did not yield single demand of the Free
Soil democrats, were yet much less obnoxious
in their character, than they finally became
through the alterations by whicht was sought
u recommend them to slave State Senators.
Bat is is due TO truth, further TO say, thrt not
single amendment was made in any one of the
Compromise bills designed to make the bills
more acceptable to the opponents Of slavery. Ey-
cry change was agsinst liberty.
The admission Of Cali ornia into the Union
secured indeed the territory within its limits
az inst the introd ucdon Of slavery, except thro'
lie act oftho State itself and the prohibition Of
the slave trade in the District of Columbia reliey-
ed the city Of Washington Of the slave pens
which had dsgraced it, though it continued to
slavery itself, and 10 the ordinary traffic in hu-
man beings within the district, lie full protection
of national legislation, the other acts, which con
ver.cd u vast district Of free territory into slave
s9l-assuncd five millions Of tie Texan State
deLt-undertook, without any constitutional war
rant, to bind future Congresses to admit slave
States out Of New Mexico and Utah, should the
inhabitants allow slavery, and, in plain violation
Of the constitution, in derogation of State rights,
and in disregard of the common principles Of
justice and humanity, attempted 10 degrade the
lToemcn Of the North and West into the slave
cG:cher5 Of the general government, were all Ut
tariy rcpugnant to tie principles Of radical de-
mccracy. To approve Of any Of these acts, or
to ucquicsce in any of them, except the act pro-
yidlng for the settlement Of the Texan boundary,
and the paymon: of The Texan debt-Which was
in It's nature eparabie-seemed impossible for
democrats VITO lad pledged their faith to freedom
at Buffalo and Utica.
Under these circumstances, the democracy Of
New York met IN convention at Syracuse, on
the 10Th OF September while the Compromise
Congress was yet in session. A united ticket
for state officers was again nominated; but the
resolutions uttered no condemnation Of the OBJ
uoxious measures Of the compromise, which the
Free Soil democrats in Congress had persever-
ingly opposed urged no action against nation
alzed slavery; failed even to recommend the
repeal or modification Of the Fugitive Slave law
more oll1uS and more irrl couci,ah.e WIKI dom-
oc:atc IDEAS than the Alien and Scdi;ion laws
but congratulated the country" upon the
passage of the compromise measures, styled by
the convoDtol, The recent settlement, by Con-
gross, OF the questions which have unhappily
divided the Icopio Of these Statcs." Concur
renee in this action by the radical democracy,
" as virtual Abandonment of the positions main
tanned at Rome ana Uuca, and even Of the low
cr ground taken by the mass convention at Sy-
raGuSG.
Disregard Of the claims of freedom, far less
marked than tbs. had occaSioncd the Hefkimer
moycnen, in IS47. Now. however, acquie8euCe
was Judged expcdicn; by those distinguished citi
zens @ho possessed ;hci7 confidence, and again
the Free Sol, democrats, with visible reluctance
on the part OF many, sustained 'Ae nominations
q '..' '0''''',''''''
me SANE '"'t""'""' "otio'' 'o'o" r4 y ''11
same aaG'H SSG!'"' Vas repeated III 1901.
81 th' i rec >.i4 democracy q New ork
vas Lu~omuI"ad t. tie support Of national
candidates nomiuatel upon any other than the
national democratic platform in 1910, 1914 and
1913. which platform referred TO slavery only in
= single resolution. which had generally been
constructed by the New York Free Soil demo-
Gratis, rs Giacountenaucirg, not constitutional Po-
position to mathematical slavery, out uncohslItu-
tloNal Interference " Congress Win slavery IN
the States.
Tr,4,r thasa circu-,stqnaas tho Baltimore Con
,o,,.;,, o,so,,Ll,1 IN Irrolast AsinISI9 60
16., .ra.,r 1,:,',- ,-,,,,,,,;r,s LoJ IaolnroI
~ 1,0-' 30
~ "o'"lS y, az ~ ~
o.t1lGS' ho'"'"u''u or "'' NOM ''IVu " .lS 20"
""na. ConTrl9 e','.''a',,,'S ,''o3 vs. y
S'",''5 WASH ''., o'
""o '"t,~c"E "'""ou "'''I "..e o',9' .},'
as c1I'9"'"I"'so' ny '",Ro I'"p''s ~" u 'i9
tree state democracy, am when hHI oeeh SOL
emmy proclaimed as me convictions OF me "f'oia
deiAocFscy q C1"o, oy eac.l succssS''o Co.vc'i
.on If,.la 20 20 ,Ij ~ ,o, 40 M,
oah cf "i,a(,iaco - s,',ory vora nr2sc,i.a3 a.
inaJr,;ssaL,9 candidates even for nomination.-
ASinI8J9 60 inIR55 many of the slave States
:" ...son,,i -, ,n.1ov,ns da,ono,:,ns
were Iesiesel,'cu " "U''U''"' wy s'''.,''
n"Ie ul'9o 0u's ~" on ~. w. %
%gI' ~ sl ~
r,I,, IN 1nr,br 70 thajr (Iar11si votes These
numerous de,ecators were appointed and at
tended in onan disregard Of the Recommendation
~ ,ba \o.I,n9l Convention cf 1913. that the de-.
rnocrscv of oarl STATE shaaId send no more DEL
o,o,a. than rho S,oto ,cos entitled TO have cleo
mo- ol,r.oraI ,orrac,a. AMI vet whom !, was
rrnai ,,ro, tho 49, dew, of tho convention
p'.r ,,c.,a oaoh So, - tto roco,nrno,,,iai n.
La.tcs , ,5s ~ rron-
- ,,.ei,rb, f. tbo c~nysrtion il vas onrosrd with
such yehemonre and por.iaacitv. that The proQo-
sit;oD vas finally abandoned. and the incGuainv