Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-03-26

.diaholism for its sake alone, to see where
they stand The subterfuges of g con-
sritutional rights" ''compromises,"
"'.squatter' soy reignty," &c. &c. are
swept away by this ppM8els which having
used them, cohceives9 Itself now strong
enoughto do withoutthem. and demands
support for its institution on the ground
.ofltsinherent righteousness. This makes
% plain issue and enables us to under
stand that the man who supports this
power hereafter, does it simply and en-
tifcly because the diabolism of slavery
finds corresponding diabolism in his
own breast, and he does so because he
loves it.
What is to be the result? VIII ma
jority of the people Of this nation sane
ton this position of the court. We deny
that any action of the people heretofore
has sanctioned or authorized it, although
the court evidently thinks it has. We
make no. predictions rs to the future.
But we do say that from this moment I'M
| til another national contest is decided, ii
bchoves every friend Of humanity and
freedom to be instant with voice and
vote to overcome this unmitigated des-
potism which thus seeks and threatens
to totally destroy every thing worth ha-
wing in our own Institutions.
Ii, upon fair trial Of the issue, it shall
appear that there are people enough in
the northern states to unite with the
south, to declare slavery a national in
stitution to be upheld, strengthened, and
extended by the general government, we
for one at least viii not acquiesce, but
viii laborto separate the living body from
the dead carcass, AMI save fragment
from the general wreck, around which
the hopes of the lovers of humanity can
still gather, and in the advancement of
which their labors can be still directed.
Settled Again.
The pro-slavery press Of the land are
exulting in the idea that the slavery agi-
tation and slavery question has been
again and finally settled by the decision
and opinions of the Supreme Court.
They have been just rs certain on every
former occasion of new aggression Of
the slave power, that the question was
forever settled; and rs they have been
disappointed heretofore so will they be
now. True, they affect now greater
confidence because il is the Supreme
Court, the highest tribunal of the land,
which has settled the matter.
This is not country Of kings, presi-
dents, courts, or legislatures, but of the
People, and the idea that five or eight
pro-slayery grannies, clothed by the slave
power in little brief authority can strike
freedom from the lard aud establish des-
potism in its stead, the people quietly
bending to the yoke, is an idea no sensi-
Die man will e,er entertain.
Neither legislative acts or judicial de-
eisions, in this country, have weight be-
yond their inherent righteousness and
reasonabIcness. Five men, residents of
slayeholding states, themselves holding
slaves, and linked to the system by no
virtues and a thousand crimes, stepping
aside from the duty and dignity OF their
accidental position to thrust their opin-
ions upon the public, viii have about as
much effect in settling the question in
favor Of slavery, as the decision of rs ma
my groggery keepers would have in set
ling the temperance question.
The earth will rcyolyc and the sun
shine, and the iustrumentalities Of moral
and intellectual progress continue their
work, Notwithstanding this decision OF
the Court. The Court in thus volunta-
rily linking itself with n world-abhorred
crime, simply insures tor itself the same
contempt, contemplation, and final ami
hilation, which inevitably awaits al
crime.
Senator CHASE of Racine, gives in the
Racine Daily Advocate, q history of the
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