Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1859-02-10
TO Advertisers.
MIR ]. II. TRACY
The New Issues.

The recent debates in Congress have
developed most distinctly the new is
sues which the leaders are preparing
fer the people. The responsibility for
anotherviolent agitation of slavery, rests
again upon the pro-slavery party who
are making new demands. The north
is in no way responsible for the renew
al of the slavery discussion i'll Congress;
it only stands on the defensive, while
the southern slave holders and their
abettOrs, are the aggressors. The new
demands of the south are large, involy-
ing a change Of policy and measures Of
gigantic nature.
The first of these is the acquisition of
Cuba although this project involves
the risk Of embroiling this country with
some of the most formidable nations of
Europe, yet the enlargement Of the
slavery interest, is deemed Of more i'm
portance than the consequences of a war
with Spain and such nations as may be-
come its allies.
The second demand is the repeal of
all laws against the slave trade, now
standing on the statute books of the
Federal Government. This demand
hasb been boldly and unequivocRlly made,
during recent discussion of the
House of Representative, by several of
the southern democ1a attic leaders. Nor
thern democrats have generally hither-
to, profossed to regard the re-opening
of the foreign slave trade as an impos-
sibility-a matter too absurd to be seri-
ouSly entertained. Just so was the
proposition for the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise regarded by the nor
thern democracy; when the subject was
first preached, it had scarcely single
supporter at the north it was denounc.
ed as measure altogether preposterous,
and the repeal Of the Compromise was
treated as an impOssibility. But when
1t became fully apparent that the south
ern democracy were in earnest, and
would be satisfied with nothing
short of a repeal, then there was at once
a yielding on the part Of the north
Northern democratic journals and poll
ticians, who had once denounced any
attempt to disturb the Compromise, be-
came the special advocates of it's over
throw. So, reasoning from the history
of the past, we have reason to believe
that the democracy in the northern
States who have hitherto protested to
regard with adherence the revival of
the foreign slave trade, will in due time
yield to the earnest claims of the south,
and quietly acquiesce in the removal of
the prohibition to the importation of
negroes from Africa.
The third demand which has already
been put forth by prominent southern
democrats in Congress, is the abroga-
ton Of that clause of the Ashburton
treaty, which provides for the keeping
Of an American squadron on the coast
of Africa, to suppress vessels of any
nation from engaging in the slave COM
MERGE. This much of the democratic
programme has been marked out during
the present Congress, and these several
measures in some of their phases, will
occupy much Of the attention of that
body, between now and the fourth of
March next. The pro-slavery party
seem determined to keep up the perpet-
ual agitation of the slavery question
every point gained by the slave holders,
emboldens them to make still new and
larger demands.