Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-11-18
The Doom CT poughfaceism

The Doom CT Doughfaceism.
1t was the caustic John Randolph
who originally applied the term dough
face" to those Northern men who, either
from mistaken ideas Of prudence Or a
cowardly fear of the more imperious
Southerner, violated their convictions
of the wrong and evil of slavery, to
crafty the demands and secure the IA
vor of the South. The term was a
fitting one, and worthy Of more frequent
application in later times. But the time
was when doughfaceism was more pop
ular than it is now. Who does not
remember the time-less than twenty
years ago-when John Quincy Adams
stood alone in his bold and fearless adj
vocacy of the right of petition? The
whole North was then in condition
OF disgraceful subserviency to the slave
power. And after the right of petition
had triumphed in the House, we find
John p. Hale carrying the war into the
Senate-standing alone there, to protest
against the wrongs and encroachments
of slavery.
The election of Gen. Taylor in 1848,
was considered by many of the friends
Of freedom at the time, as only adding
another to the successive triumph of
the slave power. When California,
however, with free constitution, APP.
piled for admission into the Union, the
Southern members Of Congress attempt
ed to withstand the tide that was set
ting against them, by frightening the
North into submission to their unjust
demands with threats of disunion. Just
at this critical moment, old Rough
and Ready" showed himself worthy OF
his steel. The spirit Of southern die
tation was too much for the old warrior.
and he hurled it back with an indigna-
ton and firmness which, had he contin-
ned to live, would in all probability
have proved an effectual barrier against
further encroachments.
Doughfaceism triumphed for few
years longer in the North; but the peo-
pie we're fast ripening into sentiments
of disgust for those who betrayed their
interests to CRAFTY the naughty demands
of the slaveocracy. The Fugitive Slave
Law was the last outrage to be toler-
ated with submission. When this was
followed, in few years, by the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, the people
began to awake to their true interests +;
and the election of 1854, by which a
large number of Republicans were sent
to Con gress, was the first emphatic
voice ot the people against the en-
croachnents of slavery. The outrages
in Kansas, and the assault on Senator
Sumner, were enormities too great to
be endured, and hundreds and thou.
sands who had been friendly to the
South, were transformed into enemies.
The Presidential vote of 1856, in most
of the Free States, was all that could
be wish ed.
Slavery has thus outdone itself. In
attempting to grasp too much, it is now
in fair way to lose every thing. Bu-
chanan, in attempting to follow in the
footsteps of his doughface predecessors,
has received, in the recent elections, a
signal rebuke, that will be sufficient
warning to all Northern Presidents
hereafter, that they have nothing to
gain, but every thing to lose, in attempt
ing to concede to the slave power more
than is its just due. The South has
done its utmost to make a slaue State Of
Kansas, and has signally failed. In the
upper House of Congress, where, few
years ago, there was but single Sen
ator to lift his voice against the wrongs
of slavery, there will, after the 4th of
March next, be t'centy,tfce Republican
Senators, which is within eight of a
clear majority in that body.
Has not Freedom her triumphs q?
Yes; and progress enough has already
been made to strengthen every heart,
and dissipate every doubt that there
are greater triumphs yet in reserve, till
the race of doughfaces shall become
utterly extinct.
The Congressional Elect.on-oficial Re.