Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-03-18


here; It wiz meet you everywhere, in the |
ferrivories On out ofthem, W Aereysr you
may so TO extend Slavery. Ishas driven |
you back'in California and ii Kansas
It will invade-you soon In Delaware,
MARY lamd, Virginia, Missouri and Tex
rs. IL wilbtaeet-se In Arizona, in Cen.
tral America and even in Cuba.
The INVASION win beinot merely harm
less, but beheficient, if you yield season
ably TO It's Just and moderate demands.
Approved SO in New Y ork, New Jersey.
Pepns.glfairi y andthe other States
Which have already yieldedinsthat " ay
70 rs advances. You may, indeed, get
q start under or near the tropics, and
seem safe Tor a time, but it viii be only
q short time. Even there you will find
States only for free labor to maintain
and occupy. The interest of the white
races demands the ultimate efnancipa-
'tion OF ail nien. Whefhcr that eInanci-
patton shah be allowed to tale effect,
with needful and wise precauiionss' 4
gainst sudden change and disaster, or be
hurried on by violence, IL all that re-
mains for YOU to decide For the fail
.urc of your system OF Slave labor
throughout the Republic, the responsi-
.bility Will rest not on the agitators you
or the politicm parties you ar
ra;gn or even altogether on yourselves,
but it will be due to tie inherent error
Iot the system itself. and 20 the error
Which tifrusts it forward 10 oppose and
resist the destiny, not more Of the kffil1
can than that of the white races. The
white mani needs this continent labor
upon. His heaa is clear, his arm is
strong, and his necessities are fixed. He
.m0st and viii haveit TosecJre it, he
viz oblige the Government fthe United
states TO abandon intervention iii favor
of Slave labor and Slave States, and go
backward forty years, and resume the
original policy of Intervention in fagorsof
Free Tabor and Free States.
The fall of the castle Of San Juan
IdUloa determined the fate of Mexico.
lalthough sore sieges and severe pitched
/ battles INTERVIEWED before the capture Of
the capital Of the Aztoee. The. defeats
Iyeu Lave encountered in California and
in Kansas determined the fate of the
principles for which You hayo been con
tending. It il. for yourselves, not for US
to decide how long and through what
further modification and disasters the
cohbcst shal be protracted, before Free
dom SHALL enjoy her already triumph
4 would have it ended now, and would
have the wounds Of society bound up
aud healed. But this can be done only
in one way. 1t cannot be done by offer
ling further resistance, nor by any eva
sioIt or partial surrender, nor by forcing
kansas into the Union rs a Slave State
slagainSt her viii, leaving her to cast, of
Il Slayery afterwards, as She best may, nor
i by compelling Minnesota and Oregon 10
lWait, and wear the .hpmiliating costume
4 OF Territories at the doors of Congress,
until the people of Kansas, or their true
defenders here, shall be brought to dis
4 honorable compromise. 1t can BE done
/ by the simple and direct admission OF
I"the three new States as Free States,
l"without qualification, condition, rcs2r-
4 walton, or compromise, and by the a.
! abandonment Of AL further attempts to
t" extend Slavery underthe Federal Con
" stitution.' You have unwisely pushed
lthc controversy so far, that only; these
broad concessions viii now be accepted
Iby tie interest Of free labor and free
States. =. 49,.
i For myself, | see this fact, perhaps,
1.-THE more distinctly now, because have
so long toreseen it. / can, therefore,
counsel nothing less than those conces-
sions. ! know the hazards | incur in
taking this position. know how men
and parties now earnest, aud Jealous,
and bold, may yet fall away from me as
the controversy shall wax warm, aud a
larms and -dangerS, now unlocked for,
shall stare them Ill the face; as men and
parties. equally earnest, bold and zeal
Gus, have done i'll like circumstances be-
fore. But it is the same position took
in the case of California eightyears ago
1t is the same / maintained on the great
Occasion of the organization of Kansas
and Nebraska, four years ago. Time
: and added experience have yindicateG
it since, and l assume it again, to be-
maintained to the last, with confidence
4 that it wall be justified ultimately by tho
G country aad the civilized world. You
-tmay refuse to yield II now, and for :
d short peliod, but your refusal will only
! animate She friends OF Freedom with the
courage and the resolution, and produce
! tho unlCn among them, which alone arc
necessary on their part TO attain The
position itself simultaneously with the
Impending overthrow of the existing
Federal Administration and the constl
button OF new and more Independent
Congress.
: Mr.. President, this expansion of tn,
empire OF free white men is to be con
Quoted through the process of admitting
, new States, and not otherwise. Thl
white man, whether ycu consent or not
will make the States to be admitted, ant
. he win make them all Free States. We
must admit them, and admit them al
free; otherwise, they will become indie
pendent and foreign States, constituting
. new empireto contend with us for thl
continent. To admit them, is simple,
f easy and natural policy. II is not ncv
to US. or to our times. 1t began with
| voluntary union of the first thirteen. L
: has continued TO go on until the ends o.
F, the continent arc borders Of our Union
. Thus we become co-laborers with our
J Fathers, and even with our posteritj
: throughout many ages. After times
) contemplating the whole vast structure
o completed and perfected, win forget tn,
b dates, and the erss, ana the individual
. les, Of their successive generations. I
b viii be one great Republic, founded b.
one body of benefactors.
: I wonder that the president of tn,
i United States undertakes the kanss,