Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-11-25
Republican Celebration at Milwaukee

4 grand celebration was held at Mil
waukee on Thursday evening last, in
view of the Republican triumph in this
Congressional district, and in the north
ern States generally. One hundred
guns were fred in honor Of the occasion.
Addresses were made by Carl Shulz of
Watertown, S. ID. Hastings, ofMadison,
Judge Jackson, of Mineral POINT, J. Fl.
Tweedy of Milwaukee, and others. The
principal speech of theZ6yening, was
made by Carl Shurz; it was mastery
effort, and should be read by every pro-
fessed democrat in the/State.x
The sham claim of the democracy, TO
being party offxed principles, is shown
up in its ridiculous aspects, yet with
perfect truthfulness. The ever-shiting,
ever-changing democratic party, is de-
liueated by Carl Shurz as follows:
Indeed, what man has the right to call him
self regular democrat nowadays Has he.
who once with the leaders of the party held the
Missouri Compromise sacred and inyiolabIe
as the Constitution itself? Has he, who once
with Gen. Cass deplored that he had ne oppof-
tunity to record his vote for the Wimot Proyi-
so Has he, who once stood upon the Wiscon
sin Platform of 1919, or he who shortly after
| wards subscribed to Gen. Cass' Nicholson letter.
or he who IN SID eheered for Douglass new
doctrine that the Missouri restriction was I'M
constitutional, but that the people of territory
should have the power to admit or exclude sla-
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shortly afterwards limited this right to exccde
slavery to the time when the people of terri
tory formed State constitution Or he, who
now subscribes to the doctrine of the bred Scott
decision, that the right of property in slave is
originally and expressly affirmed by the Fede-
raj Constitution, and that slavery has an unlim-
tied sway over all the property of the United
States? Is he a democrat who to-day condemns
the re-openinE of the slave trade as an outrage
GUS wrong, or will he be democrat, who will
assert tomorrow that slave being an ordinary
article OF merchandise, we have no right to linn
it the freedom of trade in that article7 No, he
is no democrat, who has stood faithful and true
to any one of these principles, however loudly
he may have professed them. But he is a regu-
lar democrat who has success sively endorsed ev-
cry one of them, who has jumped from one plat
form upon another without scruple or hesitation
and who was always ready to swear that the
leaders Of ''The party" were always right, what
ever they might command, and that the whole
world besides was wrong. (Great applause.)
He is regular democrat, who was readiest in
yielding the most slavish obedience to superior
dictation. The true party test of democracy is
neither the Nebraska bill nor the Dred Scott decis-
ion; 1t is unconditional Submission and eUer-ready
obedience Loud and continued applause. i
How is this Is it probable that man should
have been truly and deeply convinced of the
truth of any one of these principles, if he was
always ready to abandon it for another Is it
possible that those who changed leading doc
trines as easily as they changed their clothes,
should have cared for principle at all ! Could
it be true conviction that ruled them? And if
it was not conviction that ruled them, what con-
earn could their consciences have in their poll
tics