The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-02-02
Free Speech at 1Ile North TO be
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One OF the most infamous proposals for the
suppression of free speech in the north, was
made by Senator Douglas last week Douglas
doubtless has hit upon this new expedient to
crush out freedom in the North to conciliate and
regain his lost political reputation at the South.
Douglas proposes slave code for the Free States;
a Congressional enactment, under the provisions
Of which, any MAJ for expression of sentiments
against the wickedness of slavery, shall be liza
Die to indictment, arrest and Imprisonment in the
Penitentary. He maintains that there can be
no peace between the North and the South, until
\ law be passed restricting the utterance of sem
timents in opposition to the institutions of slave.
ry. The North must put down al who hold free
soil doctrines, just as those who hold such Zoo
trnes are now put down at the South. The plan
Oh DouglaS NAV Je readily seen from an extract
! ais speech in the Senate on the oath ut, as
reported in the Washington Globe. Mr.. Douglas
says :
Mr.. President, the mode Of preserving peace
| IS plain This system of sectional warfare must
cease. The Constitution has given the power
and all we ask Of Congress is to give the means
and we, by indictments and convictions in the
Federal courts Of our several States, will make
such examples OF the leaders of these conspira
tors as will strike terror into the hearts of the
others, and there will be an end of this crusade.
The great prnci le that underes the organiza
tisn OF the Republican party is violent, irrecon.
clIaDle eternal warfare upon the institution Of
American slavery, with the view of its ultimate
extinction throughout the land. Sir confess
the object OF the legislation I contemplate is to
'ut down tni5 outside interference; it is to re.
press this irrepreSsible conflict"
50 monStrous proposal to suppress the liberty
of the press and the freedom of speech, it would
seem ought to meet with the universal scorn and
reprobation OF every northern man. But as
Illuminating as it may seem, there are doubtless
many at the north, who are willing to surrender
free speech, if il can but conduce to the success
of the Democracy. The Washington Cores
pondent of the Chicago Tribune, comments on
Douglas proposed slave code for the north as
follows -
"he invokes the arm of the Federal Judiciary
and soldiory to put down anti -slaverv sentiments
in the North. He wants it to be made n felony
toassert that slavery is wrong and penitentiary
offence for man to be a Republican. This is
Douglas, new panacea to restore fraternaty and
& O"u ieeIhS Det"een the Save breeders and the
Tree laborers. Imprison and hang the leaders of
The Republican party, and their followers will
quietly surrender their convictions that slavery
Is an evil, and believe as they may be ordered
by their Southern masters, that it is a blessing
and divine institution. The proposition of
Douglas is to pass Congressional slave code for
the free States, putting down free speech, free
presses, free thought, and placing the opinions
OF the people of the free States under the legal
censorship of Southern slave breeders and their
Northern spies and informers. He wants the
machinery of the Spanish Inquisition set in mo-
ton in the North y