Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-08-09
Sactioualism.

The Boohoos, are exceediniy busy Just now
in denouncing "Sectionalism'' and predicting
the ruin of our Union in consequence of its pre-
valence and the possibility of its triumph. AS
quite pertinent to the times and the occasions,
the New York Tribune has been running over
the political history of our country, and repro.
ducing it briefly for the public edifcation. From
this history, 1t very clearly appears that this
thing which our lachrymose friends, expect to
explode the Union in uflnumbered fragments,
has really prevailed since the foundation of the
Union in its most Objectionable character. There
has not been among all the Presidents North or
South, single one who was not elected by the
slave power, to preserve the slave interest. Nor
has there been single one, who failed in
meeting all the exactions of slavery, who sue
ceeded in q second nomination or a reelection.
1t is within the memory of nearly all Of our rea-
ders, that when in the National Convention of
the political parties the North had majority
and showed disposition to choose its own man,
the South insisted upon the taco third rule by
which the minority could force the majority to
come to their own terms. 1t was that which
defeated Van Buren, and gave us Polk, and it
was that which has given us Presidents from
that time to this, when we have Pierce and the
denominations enacted by hin for slavery. We
have had nothing but rank Slavery Sectionalism
from the foundation of the Government. What
is it we then propose? We cannot do better in
reply to the query than to copy the conclusion
of the Tribuncs article.
Wy
begin indeed, with Van Buren, and seem to have
got something's but speedily we sink down to
Fillmore and to Pierce. The slavedrivers con-
cede to us our turn in filling the Presidential
office now with Wings and now with Democrats
only we must fill it with men always of their
selection. Over and over again are we tricked
out of our votes. We think we are choosing a
Northern man-we find we have got in one case
a slayecatcher, in the other land pirate who
helps the shareholders to break their faith and
to steal away from us territory pledged to Free
dom.
What the North wants-what the North is de-
termined to have, and what it will have, spite of
all the sympathies of the Boohoos-spite of all
the talk about sectionalsm on the part of those
who are themselves and always have been the
most sectional of mankind-what the North now
claims, and what the North means now to have,
is real Northern Presidential President who
while he comedies to the South all that she can
constitutionally claim, will look to it that the
North also enjoys her just rights-a President
who will administer the Government with a
view not to the interests and wishes of few
thousand Shareholders, but for the good and in
concurrence with the sentiment of the great body
OF free citizens-the men who, earning their own
living by their own labor, hold to the principle of
live and let live.
The Northern people are tired at last of having
their Presidential candidates selected for them by
the Shareholders. They are tired of these Idle
kings-of these Presidents whose terms of office
are perpetual minority-of this power behind
the throne itself. They intend now to select a
President for themselves, and to place him in of
ice too by good constitutional majority. 1t is
this intention which our Boohoo contemporaries
are so busy in denouncing as sectionalism. To
us, on the contrary, it appears a plain national
duty imposed by imperious necessity, and which
the North cannot evade without overwhelming
herself with inef,abe disgrace