Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-07-07
The address of the Anti-Nebraska
Members of Congress.

The following is the concluding passage
of the address recently issued to the
American people by the members of Con
gress who voted against the Nebraska
bill. 1t is worthy of consideration.
The deed is done. 1t is done with a
clear proclamation by the Administration
and by Congressional the principles
which it contains extend not only to Kan
sas and Nebraska but to all the other ter
ritories now belonging to the U. S. and
to all which hereafter may be acquired.
1t has been done unnecessarily and wan
tonly because there was no pressure for
the organization of government in Kan
saS and Nebraska, neither OF which terri
tories contained one lawful inhabitant
who was citizen of the United States
and because there was not only no dan
ger of disunion apprehended, but by this
measure the free States have lost all the
guaranty for freedom in the territories
contained in former compromises-whi
all the states, both slave and free. have
lost the guarantees of harmony and union
which those compromises afforded. 1t
seems plain to us that fatal as the meas
ure Is III these respects, it is only cover
for broader propagandsm of slavery in
the future. The object of the admins
tration and of the many who represent
the slave states is, as we believe to pre-
pare the way for anneXing Cuba at what
ever cost, and like annexation of half
dozen of the states of Mexico to be adj
mitted also as slave states. These acqui-
stionS are to be made peaceably if they
can be purchased at the cost of hundreds
of millions if they cannot be made peace
fully then at the cost of war with Mex
leo and war with Spain and a war with
England and a war with France and at
the cost of an alliance with Russia scarce
~ less repugnant. UnmiStakA able indica-
tons also appear of purpose to annex
subjugate the whole island, restoring it
to the dominion of slavery-and this is
to be followed up by an alliance with
Brazil, and the extension of slavery into
the valley Of the Amazon. 1t is for
you to judge whether, when slavery has
made these additions to the United States,
it will demand unconditional sumbsion
on the part of the free States, and failing
in the demand, attempt a withdrawal of
the slave states and the organization of
a separate empire in the central region
of the continent From an act so unjust
and wrongful III itself and fraught with
consequences so fearful we appeal to the
people. We appeal in no sectional spirit.
We appeal equally to the north and to
the south, to the free States and to the
slayeholding States themselves. 1t is no
time for eXaggeration or for passion, and
we therefore speak calmly of the past,
and warn you in sober seriousness Of the
future. 1t would not become us nor is
it necessary, to suggest the measures
which ought to be adopted i'll this great
emergency. For ourselves, we are ready
to do all that is in our power to restore
the Missouri compromise, and to execute
such further measures as you i'll your
wisdom shall command, and as may be
necessary for the recovery Of the ground
lost to freedom, and to prevent the fur
Their aggreSSions of slavery.
SOLOMON FOOT, Chairman.
DANIEL MACE, 1c.o.
REUBEN Z. FENToN, 0O' '''