The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-08-16

mankind, without plotting agains
yourselves. Every steam whistle, every
putting locomotive is sounding the
shrek of liberty into your ears. From
the nobIest instincts of our hearts down
to the sordid greediness of pain, every
impulse Of human nature is engaged in
this universal conspiracy. How can
you resist? Where are your friends in
the North? Your ever ready supper
tiers are scattered to the winds, as by
enchantment, never to unite again.
Hear them trying to save their own
fortunes, swear with treacherous eager
ness that they have nothing in com
mon with you. And your opponent.
Your boasts have lost their charm,
your threats have lost their terrors up
on them. The attempt is idle to cloak
the sores of Lazarus with the lion skin
of Hercules. We know you. Every
one of your boasts is understood as a
disguised moan of weakness-every
shout of defiance as disguised cry for
mercy. That game is played out. DO
not deceive yourselves. This means
not only the destruction of a party
this means the defeat Of cause. Be
shrewder than the shrewdest, drawer
than the bravest-it is all in vain; your
cause is doomed.
And in the face of all this you insist
upon hugging, with logged stubborn
ness, your fatal infatuation ? Why not
with manly boldness, swing round into
the grand march ofprogressive human.
ity !? You say it cannot be done to day.
Can 1t be done tomorrow ? VIII it be
easier twenty, fifty years hence, when
the fearful inrease of the negro popula-
ton will have aggravated the evils OF
slavery an hundred fold, and with it the
difficulties of its extinction =? Did you
ever think of this !? The final crisis will
come, with the memorable certainty OF
fate, the more terrible, the longer it is
delayed. Will you content yourself
with the criminal words, "after me the
deluge ?" Is that the inheritance you
mean to leave to coming generations
an inheritance of disgrace, crime, blood,
destruction? Hear me, shareholders of
America If you have no sense tor
the natural rights of the black man, no
appreciation Of your own interests, have
you no hearts for your children?
L hear the silly objection, that your
sense of honor forbids you to desert
your cause. Sense of honor Imagine
future generation standing around the
bravest of you, and reading the inscrip-
ton : ':Here lies a gallant man, who
fought and died for the cause-of hu-
man slavery" What will the verdict
be His very progency, unable to re-
alize the peculiar chain of ideas which
bound him to his peculiar institution,
will disown him and exclaim, Gle was
either knave or fool - There is not
one of you who, if he could rise from
the dead a century hence, into the puri-
fed atmosphere of an age more enlight-
ened and humane, would not gladly ex-
change his epitaph for that Of the mean
est of those who were hung at Charles
town.
Sense of honor Since when has it
become dishonorable to give up the
errors of yesterday for the truths of to-
day? to prevent future disasters by
timely reforms ? Since when has it
ceased to be the highest glory to sacri-
flee ones prejudices and momentary adj
vantages upon the altar OF the common
veal But those who seek their glory
in stubbornly resisting what is glorious
must find their end in inglorious misery.
l turn to you, Republicans of Nilsson
II: Your countrymen owe you debt
Of admiration and gratitude to which
my poor voice can give but feeble ex-
preston. You have undertaken the
noble task of showing the people of the
North that the slaveholding States them
selves contain the elements Of peaceable
regeneration and of demonstrating to
the South now that generation can be
affected. You have inspired the waver-
ing masses with confidence in the prac-
ticability of our ideas. To the North
you have given encouragement to the
South you have set an example. Let
me entreat you not to underrate your
noble vocation. Struggle on, brave men!
The anxious wishes Of millions are how
ering around you. Struggle on, until
the banner of emancipation is planted
upon the capitol of your State, and one
of the proudest chapters of our history
will read I: Missouri led the van, and
the nation followed
When the fervid and accomplished
orator had concluded, he was saluted
with long continued demonstration OF
the most enthusiastic applause.
PRoMPT.-A young lady in Mobile
lately called upon her lawyer, and au-
thorized him to institute proceedings,
for breach of premise of marriage,
against gentleman who was to have
tied the knot matrimonial with her on
the evening previous, but had failed
from some cause to come to time The
lawyer, having occasion to step out of
his office for a moment, met the defend
ant and informed him of the prospec-
tive hot water that was in store for him.
The young gentleman declared that his
omission of duty was entirely uninten-
tional, and in no respect ''wilful, mali
cious," &C., as the legal declaration
charged. The lawyer thought that the
affair might be compromised, (strange
advice for lawyer)-the lady was still
in his office, and he suggested an inter
view. The recreant lover willingly as
scented and in few moments the lady
had expressed her willingness to accept
him instead of the $4,000 prospective
damages to her affections. A new IL
cense and willing justice completed
the treaty of peace.
Steiner EEa a Parachute.
Prof Steiner, the aeronaut, has been
astonishing the people of St. Lawrence
county IN Y \ hv his feats He made