Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-05-29
The Matter az it is.

We have been endeavoring for long time to
convince the people that slavery was something
more than a mere question of black or white,
that it was not confined to the proposition
whether a man with dark or black skin in a
particular portion of the Republic should or
should not be owned and be the creature of an
other creature with whittier skin. But that it
was question involving liberty in all its length,
breadth, height and depth one hand, and sla-
very in equal extent on the other. We appre-
bend the question is at length beginning to be
understood The shooting of an Irish waiter.
wantonly and deliberately by one of the ehival
~, and the refusal of that same chivalry to even
Institute inquiry into the matter, and to
cordially invite and receive the murderer back on
to the floor of Congress, the beating of Senator
Sumner over the head with bludgeon for
words spoken in delate and the shooting Of men,
women, and children, the burning of houses,
and arrest for treason in Kansas for no other Of
fence really than vindicating the most common
rights which are supposed to belong to every
person, at least those who are white, it seems to
us must quicken the apprehension of the dullest
among us. Said friend to us, "a day or two since,
II felt the beating of Senator Sumner, as il
every blow fell on my own head" He felt it
as it was, and as all ought TO feclit. tits blow
aimed a! freedom, aimed at the principles upon
which and every one of us depends for security
fer our freedom and property, and all our social
and political interests. 1t was most natural
indeed an inevitable result of the dominance of
the slavery sentiment at Washington That
ntiment is one intrinsically Of wrong of cruel
ty, injustice and brutality. 1t was never more
itself than when it shot Heating and beat Sum
ner the head, and it must cease to be itself,
when such sports become dstasteful to it or are
neglected by 1t.
And if any person fatters himself that these
outrages will meet with any special rebul1e, he
is mistaken. The influence which prompted
them is abundantly powerful to protect its croa
lures who Enacted them Herbert the murderer
of Heating, has already been welcomed back to
the floor of Congress- where he was ready to
vote against any investigation into the little af-
fair of his South Carolina friend Mr.. Brooks
The pro-savery courts of the District of Colum
bia will not permit hair of his head to be hurt
and he will return with eclat to the bosom o.
his constituents to boast of his complete success
in shooting an Irishman. Nor viii Brooks, VIC
apprehend, be troubled at all in his seat Some
tame rebuke may be administered, which vii
in no wise trouble Mr.. Brooks or INF date
any person who may be disposed r.
his footsteps.
1t remains entirely for the voters to say .yHa-a
er our government shall be resolved into one %
brute force, under the control Of the brute piu
cipe CT slavery. If they think it is commend
able and desirable that rovolvers and biudgeon
shall be substituted throughout the land for th'
tongue, the pen, and the press, they have only
to re-elect to the Presidency the candidate of tina
brute principle, and the thing is done. To bea
Senators and shoot Irish walters at Washington
and further north, will soon become as common
as it is to beat and shoot the plantation hand,
further south.