Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-04-07
THE TELEGRAPH.
KENOsHA, APRIL 4, 1854.
What shall be done?

States Marshal of persons supposed to
have been instrumental in the escape of
Glover. The Free Democrat says this is
done not by Garland, the man who has
been aggrieved if any person has, but by
some attornies at Milwaukee moved by
personal spite, and desire for business.
who have obtained his consent to the use
of his name in the proceedings.
But it is not material by whom it has
been done. The officers and money of
the United States are employed in the
work, the men engaged have nothing else
to do, they are urged on by the lust Of
gain, and the worst of human passions
have all the crushing power ofgovernment
to aid their diabolcal efforts, and conse-
quently will spare no effort to convict the
men; and with a possibility of success,
where justice is as little observed as it is
with such men and the courts they make
and to great extent control.
But the main point and the only prof.
table or necessary point for consideration
now is, what is the duty of the people
i'll the premises 2"
And in considering this, the first poih
is, Have these men really been guilty of
any crime2
The charge is violation Of the fugitive
law. This may perhaps be proven against
them, but if so it does not necessarily fol-
low they have been guilty of any crime
The point may be briefly disposed Of
Let every man take the question home
to himself Have these men Ivy their
conduct lessened themselves in any wise
in the estimation ofall good people? Have
they done any thing calculated to weaken
the respect of the people for good laws,
for good government. and for law and
order? Have they done any thing which
will now or in time leopard any good in
Stitution Of the State or Nation? Four
men out Of five will answer these in the
negative. Then they have been guilty of
no crime.
On the other hand. in what they did
did they not simply express the feeling
and purpose of large share of our peo-
pie Is it not what you would have
done good reader, had you been appealed
to as they were? Do you not really feel
that it was your work they generously
threw themselves into the breach to per-
form Then their cause is our cause, is
y0lH cause and this brings us again to
the question as to our duty in the prem
Uses.
In the first place we hold that Re
publican Government is safe only as its
laws are founded on correct principles,
and its people are impressed with and
practice the ordinary christian virtues.
In the second place the Fugitive Slave
Law conlcssedly violates these principles
and tends to the destruction of christian
sentiment among the people, and is there
fore subverSive fRepublicanism, and cx-
ceedingly dangerous to the stability of the
government.
In the third place, then, it is the duty
of good citizens to treat it as if nOught
and so far as its penalties are concerned
10 unite iOrelhcy, to bean, them in COM
moa
Slavery is now rampant. 1t is gradu
ally extending its power over the whole
country. These United States function
aries in our midst, so far from being Off
GERS ofthe Republic, are simply the agents
and ministers Of the Slave Power. They
were appointed because of their subservi-
ency TO that power, and they hold their
offices upon the tenure oftheir continued
devotion to it, Their mission is to cor
rupt public sentiment, and punish its
christian expression. Slavery aims to con-
qucr Nebraska. a half a Continent. and tie
prospect of its success is fair. The I'M
disputed dominion in the land is what it
wants, and what, without resistance, it
will have. These prosecutions and per-
secutions of good men are simply part of
its machinery ofconquest.
Then we say, it is our duty to unite
against this power. five would not be
ovcrthrown and conquered and crushed,
we must resist.
Then lei Meetings be calied--let
Leagues be tormed-Iet money be p!edg
Ell and contributed Let Us pledge our
selves one to the other to stand by and
aid each other in all such conflicts. \ fetc
will not and must not be permitted to
run all the risk and suffer all the penalty.
. 1t is not their quarrel alone but ours and
they must have the countcnance and the
aid and comfort of the whole of us. Let
these functionaries understand that it is
the People of the State with whom they
are in conflict and they will caaSe these
efforts, and there will be an end of these
denominations upon our soil
Understand, we do not expect to escape
the legal penalties of the law. We sim
ply hold that our duty to Republican prin-
ciples, to christian principles, and TO our
own consciences demands of us that we
elect these penalties, as did the men of
old elect IS their norton the fiery fur