Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-01-27
KENosHA. WISCONSIN FRIDAY, JANUARY ~ 1851. :

restraint, the people of one of the Barbary
States should kidnap Secretary Marcy, and
even President Pierce himself-then, Also
according to this God-dethroning doctrine of
the Administration, our hands would be tied !:
and we should have no right to reclaim these
distinguished men. The supposition, that
such distinguished men can be kidnapped, Is
not absurd. The great Cervantes was slave
in one of the Barbary States. So, too, was
the great Arago. And it is not beyond the
pale of possibility, that even the great Secre-
tary and The great President may yet be slaves.
| am aware that they, who stand up so stout.
ly for slavery, and for the multiplication of
its victims, dream not, that they themselves
can ever be its victims. They dream not,
that this chalice, which they put to the lips
of others, can ever be returned to their own.
And, yet, even this terrible retribution, or one
still more terrible than any, which this life
can afford, may be the retiibution of such
stupendous treachery and enmity to the hui
man brotherhood. Little did Napoleon think,
when, with pertidy unutterable, he had the
noble but Inflated Toussaint L Ouverture car
riel across the waters, to perish in prison,
"That he himself then greatest among men
Should, in like manner be SO soon conveyed
Athwart the decp,"*
to perish, also, in prison.
In that great day (for which, as it has been
sublimely said, all other days We're made)
when every man shall "receive the things
done iii his body" let me not be found of the
number of those, who have welded civil of
flee to bind and multiply the victims of op-
preston. When | witness the tendency of
power i'll human hands, be it civil or ecclesi-
astical or any other power, to such perver-
sion, | shrink from. possessing it, lest |, too,
might be tempted to lend it to the oppressor
instead of the oppressed. $50 returned"
| says the wise man, "and considered all the
expressions that were done under the sun !;
and behold the tears of such as were oppress-
ed, and they had no comforter: and on the
side of their oppressors there was power; but
they had no comforter
proceeded to say that this detestable doc
trine of the Admin istration goes to blot all
over that page of history, of which Americans
are so proud. | mean that page which rec
ords the famous achievement of Decatur and
his brave companions in the Mediterranean
For it must be remembered, that the Age-
rine shareholders, who were so severely chas-
/ tised, and that, too, notwithstanding, being
! the most ignorant, they were the least guilty
class Of slayeholders-I say, it must be re-
membered, that these Agerine Shareholders
acted under human Government, or, in the
words of tho Administration, "under legal re-
straint;" and were, therefore according to the
wisdom of the Administration, released from
all obligation to do unto others, AS they would
have others do unto them; and were at entire
liberty to enslave Americans as will as other
people.
add, that this blasphemous doctrine of the
Administration leaves unjustitied, and utterly
condemns, every war, which this nation has
waged for every such war has been against
a people ac.ing under the authority of their
Government, or, in the language of the Ad-
ministration "under legal restraint" What
if our enemy, in fighting against us, was
guilty of fighting against God was guilty
of trampling under foot the Divine law q
Nevertheless, according to the sage teachings
of the Administration his guilt was oyerlaid
with innocence, from the fact, that he was
"acting under legal restraint" Surely, il
will not be pretended, that our transgressions
of the Divine law are excused by orr illegal
restraint" and that the like transgressions, on
the part of others, cannot be excused by the
lilecause. Surely if we may put in the plea
of illegal restraint" against Divine laws, SO
may Others.
Alas, what a disgusting spectacle does the
Administration present, in its deliberate cor
ruption of the Bible, for the guilty purpose
of sparng SO abominable and vile a thing as
slavery! Alas, what pitiable spectacle OF
selfdegradation does this nation present, in
choosing such an Administration, and in re-
naming patient under it And how rank,
and broad, and glaring, is the hypocrisy upon
the brow OF this nation, who, whilst her feet
are planted on the millions she has doomed
to the horrors, and agonies, and pollutions of
slavery, holds, nevertheless in one hand, that
[ precious. Heaven sent volume, which declairs
that God hath made of one blood all nations
of men, for to dwell on all the face of the
earth" and in the other, that emphaticay
American paper, which declares, that "all
men are created equal" And how greatly
is the guilt of this nation, in her nlatchless
expressions, aggravated by the fact, that she
owes infinitely more than ever did any other
nation to Christianity, and liberty, and knowl-
edge; and that she is, therefore, undel .ui-
nitely greater obligation than was ever any
other nation to set an example, blessed in all