Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-02-03
JoEN MITGEELL-FaREIaNE EFFORTS FOR
FREEDOM

in behalf OF liberty. And as this country is prom
inent above all the nations of tho earth in its ap-
proaeh to liberty loving people, SO has his name
in this country been on every ones lip and enlis-
ted almost every ones sympathy. An ardent, en-
thusiastic champion of Irish Liberty, able, bold,
intrepid, scorning all the sycophanct and fnesse
OF the more cautious, he had our sympathy for the
cause in which he was engaged, and he won our
love, admiration, and worship, for the seeming he
rosm he displayed in his efforts. When thunder
ing FORTH in the United Lishmen, his terrible anath-
emas against British Tyranny our souls felt proud
glow of love; when tried and sentenced before
British Court, we were stricken down with plying
] sousws ,but it was blended with proud awe-inspi-
&qsskoE veneration at the true, daring, unshrink-
ng defiance with which he met his fate when tran
/ of Great Britain, our yearning sympathies went
with hita and every word that came 10 US over the
! brois ptcrs in any way relating TO him, his stu
alton or his dongs, was treasured up as the choi-
cest of tidings sent first before market
and ali else, on Geographic wires,-occupied the
= leaders of the newspapers, and was Il c morn
ing topic of acquaintance and friends; and when
he escaped by the aid of our money, orr strategy,
and our hands, landed on our shores, and took up
his abode with US, the very welkin rang with the
hosannas which went up from glad people, who
folded the long lost to their bosoms with the fra
ternal embrace of true loving joy
! When it was proclaimed that he and Thomas
Francis Meagher would publish paper, the an
nouncement was hailed by the friends of freedom
with much satisfaction. He who could talk so we'll
for liberty in Ireland, after having tasted of the
bitter end of tyranny, would certainly be great
reinforcement to the holy army here According
ly Forty Flee thousand copies were ordered of the
! first issue, though it was small sheet and was
held at three dollars, three times the price of the
best Of our own papers which are considered the
best in the world. This was the sympathy extern
ded-this the expectation INDUCED in, The pa
/ per published, tho first number had many
good brave words in it, in the frank, bold, good
style Of Mitchelrs best days. The second has Just
been issued and wall arises all over the land
partaking of grief, disappointment, indignation,
disgust, loathing, and every other emotion which
outraged sympathy and betrayed trust can excite.
y Mr.. James Haughton Of Dublin, in view of his
friends Meagher and Mitchell publishing paper
in this country end of the great hideous fact that
African Slavery still stalks abroad in the land un-
alleviatcd and unmitigated, publishes letter ad-
dressed 10 them in which he calls upon them not
to be seduced by the wiles ofthc Slave Powereven
to reman silent on this great wrong, because 81
lence itself would be in them a sanction of it. In
the second number of Mr. Mitchelps paper long
article is published upon this letter, in which Mr.
Haughton is called weak monomaniac medling
with that which does not concern him, and from
which we quote the following:
Now let us try TO satisfy our pertinacious friend,
If possible, by little plain Engsl-Wc are not
abolitoniSts no more abolitonists than Moses,
or Socrates, or Jesus Christ. We deny that it Is a
crime a ,cI0ng or trea dpeccddWo to hold siaceS
to buy sares to sell slares TO keep siareS toeir uork
| By tlogginJ or other ncedfu coercion. 6 BY your
silence" says Mr.. Haughton, ''you will become
par;icipaor in their wrongs" But VIC willnotbe 81
lent, when occasion calls for speech and as for
being rarcipato-ir tho wrongs re- f1l on. pat
a7s1 re tta good plantation ceH Stocked aciM heal
ty negroes In 1lu5Csma. There now--is Mr.. laugh
ton content? What right has he TO call upon Mr.
Mitchell the moment he sets his foot in America,
10 begin crusade for cause which AS Mr.. IIaugl-
ton knows was always distasteful to him in Ire
land Arc Jonah, that we should do this
thlng-that we should take up whether we will
or not Mr.. Haughtcn's outcry against Ninevch,
that great city ~! Have we escaped out of the
whales belly for this
Mr.. Haughton is good sort of man, though
, monomaniac Why will he persist in making
himself M object Of terror to his acquaintences
Why will he compel his friends TO wish that some
monster in human form had pundcred his cradle
when he was a baby
Trials like this begin TO make us fear that we
have oycr-estimatcd humanity. 1t is reported OF
Washington that in his fear of the success of the
experiment of American Republicansm he said,
The people arc too ignorant for self-government."
Ii i3 said that Jefferson replied to this, in his stur
dy, democratic way, "Lfhe people are ignorant they
can Ledrn!' This sentiment has been the basis of
our political faith and we have held that all ma
tons were fit for selfgoyernment But it strikes
US now that the reason why the efforts for liberty
in Ireland and France, ever since 1898, and in the
other nations of Europe since 1913, have all been
total failures is because true idea of liberty
ever entertained by those who were invoking its
name. They wanted to be free from slavery them
selves, in order that they might ensave others. In
France it has been almost demonstrated that Lib
crtv and LiCentiousneSs were considered svnony-
NOUS John Mitchell has demonstrated that he
only wished to escape from tyranny to become
/ himself tyrant.
/ 1t is notorious at the South, that slave pro-
NOTED TO he al ovcrseer, becomes the most cruel
and tyrannical of all oversecrs-drivng the slaves
under him to the death. Hence slave holders,
for economical policy. seek Northern men for this
post-,nen who have judgement and sympathy.
It is,equally notorious in the British Admiralty,
that forecas;lc sailor, promoted to the quarter
deck, makes the most cruel and tyranncal of OFF
GERS. Ayistocracy throws it into the teeth of De-
mocracy everywhere that the poor, ignorant dem
ocrat, who cries the mos; Justify against the exist
! ing order Of things. aud against those who are
shove him, when industry, patience toll and thrift
I have prospered him, aud wealth is his reward.
straightway becomes the most petty, pompous,
domineering arStocgat OF them all. And Legiti-
MACY has always and everywhere built largely or
the fact that give power to those who have been
ruled, and they become the most cruel of all inhu-
imam despots who have ever cursed the world.