Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-11-11


OF slavery, inevitably begets brutality it follows
of course that the slave laws of the slave states
and of the general government must grow and
progress in brutality. And, while we publish the
article of the Post for the benefit of those who have
not thought on the subject, we may add, that the
south cannot, in the nature of things take advan-
tago of the Posts advice, for the reason we have
mentioned. Figs are not gathered from thorn
bushes nor roses from thistle stalks; when they
are we can hope for mild, humane, christian code
of slave laws, but not sooner. And when the winds
lose their currents. and the waters their motion ;
and when the human heart ceases TO beat or the
brain to throb; we may hope that laws recognising
and unfolding slavery, will not progress in bruta-
lily. The war between slavery and anti-slayery,
is war between human and inhuman ideas, and
slavery in putting forth the fugitive law and kim
dred laws, simply emulates the wounded snake,
which when hard pressed, bites itself and dies of
its own poison. Here is the article from the Post:
A Remedy for Abolitionism.
The communication which we publish in
another column from an intelligent and libe-
ral-minded Virginian, seems to call for few
words Of comment from us, although, if We
could have had ourchoice, we should not have
taken the week before an election to discuss
the abstract propriety Of slavery. We must
content ourselves at present, with a very brief
notice Of one or two of the prominet laIlacies
Of our correspondents argument.
Because the negro lacks the average inteli-
gence of the white race therefore, it is inferred,
that he should be reduced toslavery. Because
he is incapable of mastering the dilierentia cal
culus, o. reading the Mechuaique Celeste with
pleasure, our correspondent concludes that he
should be denied any compensation beyond
a bare subsistence, for his labor; that he should
have no control over his children; that his
wife and daughters should be liable to be Ia
ken away from him at any moment, and sold
for the yilest purposes; that neither he nor his
offspring should be allowed any means of ed
ucatiou; and, i'll other words, that he should
be treated precisely rs if he were a brute, and
had no intelligence at all. We do not legis-
late iutirln or teeblemindcd white men and
women into bondage, but leave the laws Of
nature and usages Of society to regulate their
position and measure of dependence. Though
some negroes have less capacity than some
white men, that is no reason they should all
betreatcd As if they had no more capacity than
cattle. The MANY who is blessed by Providence
with 4 superior understanding, and a comley
person, surely has enough Of an advantage
over his less fortunate neighbor, whether black
or white, without asking for, or making laws
which shall increase the difference between
them.
What our eorrasp ondent says &bout the deg
radiation OF the free blacks is moasuratly true
but did it ever occur to him to ask what the
condition Of any given number Of poor white
men would be- if a mark Of degradation Were
set upon their face; ittLeyNere excluded from
all but the most mental and ignoble employ
ments; if they were obliged to sit apart, in
some obscure corner Gl,cIepers, in the churches
! if they were prevented from mingng with
the rest of THEN race III all PubIic conreyances
if they were cut off from every path to homo
raJcdistinc.ion,a and thcirchildrcu We're treated
as palah, in the public schools? Would such
class thrive and multiply? Wehaye 10 class
OF whites whose social condition so nearly re
sembles that of the free negro, as the poor
white man in the cotton-planting states "who
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