Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-05-06

democratic, to be party of despotism instead of
freedom, and refuse to participate in its wrongs
as we would to participate in any other manifest
wrong, and we should have no more hope of get
ting 1t right by acting with it, than Of getting the
drunkard right by sharing the Intoxicating glass
with him. But our friend puts his shoulder to the
slavery car, uphods, strengthens, and sustains it,
and confidently expects that by some process
explained and unimagnable, it win some day sud-
denly become transformed into car of glorious
freedom. VIII the works of our friend accomplish
his desires?
But then the hearts of the masses are right
which perhaps is the secret of the expected saliva
ton. OF this we have no very good evidence, but
admitting the claim, we suppose there may be such
a thing as falling from grace" The hearts of
the people of Rome and Athens were once right,
but both fell and because the popular heart became
corrupted. And how? Why learned men, like
our friend TO whom the masses looked up as ex.
emplars, linked themselves to such wrongs, and
crimes, and infanlies in their governments as the
Fugitive Slave Law is in ours They sanctied
crime and made it familiar to the popular heart !;
they debased the popular conscience, DESTROYED
the popular virtue, and went down together to that
death which individuals and nations cannot escape
who ignore and defy the "higher law" o, most
excellent friend, will you tell us, should the admi
nistration which you helped to power, carry out
the pledges which yoa exaeted of it, to crush the
heart and conscience OF the people into harmony
with the denominations of the Fugitive Law and
Slavery generaly-will you tell us, we say, where
then will be your hope and the hope of the nation?
m-Liberty-Democracy or whatev-
or you choose to call it, is not machine devised
by cunning hands to be played upon by cunning
hngers-it is the breath of an enlightened popular
conscience, virtuous popular hcart-and when
you and your friend Mr.. Pierce shall have succee-
deed in SO destroying that popular heart and con-
science if you have not already done it, as to ena-
BILE you to make slavery fnality and the fugitive
law eternal is not the soul of the Republic dead?
The hearts of the masses may be right, but it is
in spite of our friend, and should it remain so, it
will be, we fear, not his fault
But talk, he says, is ,rork. Example is general.
ly understood to be moro effective than profession
and when talk and work conflict the former
amounts to little. "IIave we not propheSied great
things in thy name, is not entirely modern plea
In conclusion, neither the long comings or short
comings of the Free Soilers-ncither their posi-
bic or actual Offences furnish any excuse for in
consistency on the part of our friend he is not OBJ
liged to join that party nor is that the question
The question is, whether he and the large class who
denounce slavery as he does, and yet vote for it
and uphold it and strengthen it, not inconsis-
tent We think they are, and think we have made
it so appear. 1t is their business, when conylAocd
to right themselves without reference to the faults
of others.
We have dwelt upon the subject much longer
than intended at the start, and shall not rccur
to it again without pressing necessity.