The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-04-26


There is perhaps no country in Europe, not
absolutely in a state Of revolution where politi'
cal agitation peEyades All classes to the extent
it lnow does in the limited States During
Che past ten or moro years the political elements
in this country have been in constant eommo-
tion like troubled sea the governmental affairs
of the people. have been continued source OF
disquiet, and The stability Of our American in
stitutions, endangered by designing men. That
there should be agitation in country where the
government is in the hands of the people is very
natural and must be expected; but the extreme
turbulence of the public mind, has taken the as
pect of quarrel and strife. Partisan feeling is
becoming more and more intensified every year !;
the hate between different portions Of the coun-
try is growing stronger, and sectional feeling is
weakening the brotherhood Of States.
While all these disorganzing elements have been
at work, keeping the public mind in state OF
turmoil, the government of the nation has been
under the rule Of the so called Democratic pow
ar. That party has had the Administration all
of the while; one brs nch Of Congress all the
time, and the other nearly all the Supreme
Court and all the machinery Of public patronage,
have been in the hands of the same party. Yet
under the full and unrcstrained rule of the DEM
ocratic party for many years, the country pre-
SCENTS a spectacle of Reorganization and Ialmost
anarchy, to an alarming extent. Things have
pursued a steady progress from bad to worse
year after year, and yet the people are told by
their leaders, that it needs another four years
rule of this same Democracy, ito preserve the
country from ruin Is there an honest man Of
any party, who will say he is satisfied with the
present management of our national affairs, and
who desires continuance Of the violent agita-
ton and strife, which peryades the country
1t is scarcely denied by any, that corruption
and extravaganza abound in the affairs OF the
general administration yet the same political
policy is sought to be eDtalcd upon us in tie
future What does Democracy promise us in
the future, more than it has given US in the pasG
Is this progress towards disorganization to be
continuedg What lower depths of infamy are
there to be sounded before the people shall have
had enough Of modern Democracy? Into what
attachments of slave codes, and endorsements Of
slave trades, is the nation to be led How
much more is the contempt of the nations of Eu
rope to be excited in consequence of our national
acts
1t is in vain for the Democratic party to en-
deavor to evade the responsibility of the present
condition of our governmental affairs; it has had
full sway-an open field, and has had the fash
Joining of every national measure. 1t would
seem that every candid man must admit, that
change Of the administration is desirable; but
it ia useless to talk OF change for the better while
the same party has control The Democracy
do not propose any material change in the ma
tional policy of the government, in the event OF
its SUCCESS in another Presidential election. =
What then, are the people invited to aid the De-
moeracyIfor, except to perpetuate the present
msyule, and agitation of the country
If the people really desire quiet; if they wish
to put to rest the exciting questions. which are
the continued source of bitter contention between
the different sections of country, these ends can
only be secured b y the election of a Republican
President All the country needs, to restore
quiet and stop dissension, is settled policy on
the vexed question of slavery.3 All other ques-
tions of national policy, sink into comparative
insignifcance compared with the everlasting
war between free lobor and slave labor. Re-
nuhlican administration will settle the slavery !
question, as the fathers of the country intended it
should he. It will unequivocally establish the
principal, that freedom is national, and sla-
very sectonal-that freedom is not bounded by |
national limits that slavery must be confined to
the States where it now exists by the local leg
islation thereof; that slavery must not ENJOY |
equal mmunities and privileges with freedom
in the Territories of the United States. Let the
slave holding interest once be given 20 under
stand that such is the settled policy of the nation
and the clamors for slavery extension will cease.
Let the matter be settled that the national gov.
eminent, has no responsibilities in the prot9c-
ton of slavery that it will enact no slave codes
for the Territories; authorize no slave trading
and compel no citizen of free State, to become
a slave catcher at the bidding of a negro hunter,
then agitation will cease and the people enjoy qui-
et When the rights of the free and the Slave
States are thus clearly defined and determinedly
adhered to, the disturbing elements will be calm
ed.
The country needs peace but peace it can new
err have, except in the restoration Of the govern
ment to its original position-the protector of
freedom, the guardian of free speech. and the
friend of free labor, The country is tired of
seeing innocent men driven from their homes in
the south for daring to ink it is tired of seeing
the mails overhauled under the censorship OF
government officials it is tired of hearing the
Southern Democracy threaten to dissolve the
Union, whenever their wishes are not complied
with. Let the nationality of freedom, be def
nitely settled by the general government, and
the reign of peace will appear; such a consum-
alton of public tranquility, can only be reals
lied by the Inauguration of Republican gov
eminent.
A DELIBERATE FALsEHooD.-The Democra
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