Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-03-01

It's thus she has out of chaos concocted
schemes to fight battles; build navies;
bridge streams; tunnel mountains; link one
extreme OF the continent 10 the other, and
forsooth, will soon tie together the. Pacific
and Atlantic Oceans. a4
The effect of such government as ours
/, is to foster and encourage a laudable strife
among the people, for excellence in science
and art, and to thoroughly deyelope the ca :
pacity Of the country.
True to the vows of her birthright, there
is no apparent good reason why America
1 will not live long as the Everlasting hills -
1 True TO the principles she has espoused,
mortal ken, cannot discern, why she viii not
enjoy perpetual glory, not in her conquests
her bloody and ill-gotten acquisitions nor
herprowess in war;. but in her industry; her
honest labor: her policy of peace and har-
mony, her cultivation of the true nature and
greatness of her people.
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1t is true, in this sanctuary of freedom. the
most shameful state Of bondage exists chat
desecrates God S green footstooi. That the
national goddess is hoodwinked and shack
| led. That human beings are raised for
the shambles; and that American mothers
and fathers and children are sold in the
market for money.
| Like all other national vices it is sustained
| by mere brute force, and has bold and dar-
ing advocates, who would feign sustain it
| through at the sacrifice of the confederacy
| Great and wise men have declared sla-
very as necessary concomitant to the sue
cess of the Republic 59
| Eloquent orators have declared slaves
either white or black must exist. Skillful
dplomatists have legisated for this instiu-
ton, and courts of justice $50 called have
adjudicated for human bondage and dcgra-
| datiou. t.
The rendingof the nationals been threat
| ened. civil war menaccd. Presses advoca-
ting human rights destroyed. Free speech
gagged. National money has been paid for
rescung the bold spirit that dared to burst
his shackles, and struggle to be free, and
government men, and government ships,
| have borne off in triumph under the stand
ard of freedom, man in chains to pcrpetu-
al slavery. Q shame where is thy blush!
| o Freedom where is Thy rcbukei
| "a Chr.rlian ration IN the trade Of b, cd;
Who buys, sells, steals, hills fer goId.'
Time has not yet rolled its chariot wheels
over a century since the world was startled
with the cry of bleeding liberty imploring
her three millions of worshippers to rescue
her from the polluted grasp of the Cypress
or.
Then sounded from the broad vallies and
echoed from the mountain tops that
Resistance to tyrauts is Obedience to God"
Then hurtled upon the air the cry, "to
ms'-'to arms"-and the avalanche
rush Of stalwart men responded with fiery
breath and tongues Of steel, and proved
-" That a thousand slaves is as nothing,
matched to the sinews Of single arm that
strikes for freedom"
Then howled the tornado of continued
aggrcssions, and the bitterness of complaint
reached the vaults OF heaven, and the Just
God that presided over the destinies of ma
tons, raised up friends to fight tie battles
of the oppressed. Then Americas bravest
sons barred their bosons to the storm and
died with the exulting shout Of g Hurrah
tor Liberty" quiverlng upon their lips
Then Liberty found three millions of cham
pions, whose tongues were touched with the
inspiration of eloquence, and who plead her
wrongsat the bar of the world. Then aged
sires tore off their infirmities, and ere the
cord of lie was severed, buckIed on their
shields and rushed to strike blow for LTB-
ERrY
Q could these departed patriots wrench
off the dismal letters of death, leave their
grave, and visit their children swollen 10
twenty millions, and witness them holding
in seryiie bondage three millions Of people.
Could they but hear the clank of machin-
cry, and the sound Of the hammer forging
chains Of letters for human limbs; where
once they had unrivied the shacLlQs that
festered their limbs, an d forged swords and
eannons to war for Liberty Could they
but unlock their eyes, and see the sHoy
consecrated to freedom with their blood,
putrid with noiso me slave pen; and that
flag, they had come through the slaugter
and carnage of battle, an emblem Of the
cause thcy persisted to sustain pow dis
painfully float over three millions OF postrate
souls--their wounds would weep afresh
and those hearts long still in death, might
well burn and throb with jus indignation.
Anu are We W SIT td!lclE QORu GiiOhC0
to silence, and bow our heads like robbers
at noon day, because Of the insolence Of ty
rants? Arc'we TO close our ears against
theprayers d supplicatens Of outraged hui
mainly and trail in the dust The eternal
principles of right and truth and justice?
Are we to remain deaf to the lamentations
of millions of people? Answer nae ye des
pots beneath whose polluted feet millions
of men squirm like worms in the dust.
Thank Heaven We are not yet terrified
with empty threats and vain beastings.
manly voices already plead the wrongs Of
Africa, and the promptings of conscience
and humanity, give food and raiment, and
point out the city of refuge, to the hunted
fugitive.
! Still the Patriot heart must bleed, when
he knows that in his country chastity Is
prostituted TO the brutality Of Slave Masters
and offered as a commodity in the market.
Souls are Frustrated in the dust and cult
waited for Hell. Ethereal iRteliectis shack
laJ ord p,ada tba slave of yiieness The