The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-02-28
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81 "'I 'oy ~ my "to"t's' q ef6F pT0CG fdtSG u
@ those teacaiags." Noble words fifty spoken a
the Threshold where the declaration Of hide
pendeace was drawn up by Thomas Jefferson
and signed by the wisest and best men America
ever knew
This is a fitting place toreprint Alr. Lincoln
apostrophe to the Declaration, from one Of hi.
speeches in the campaign Of 1858 Is there a
man so deafcned with cotton or so blinded with
molssses hat his soul is not stirred within him
by these words:
"The Declaration OF Independence was form
ed by the representatives Of American liberty
from thirteen States of the Coniede, aey--twelve
ICf which were slave holding communities. We
need nat discuss the way or the reason of their
becoming slaveholding communities. 1t is sui
Gcicut for our purposes that all Of them deplored
/ the evil and that they placed provision in the
/ Constitution which they supposed would grad
ualy remove the disease by cutting of it's sour
ces. This was the abolition Of the slave trade
/ SO general was the conviction, the public de
termination, to abolish the African slave trade
/ that the provision which Lhave referred to as
being placed i'll the Constitution, declared that
/ it should not be abolished prior to the year
/ 1913, A constitutional provision was necessa-
! ry 10 prevent the people, through Congress from
putting stop to the traffic Immediately at the
/ close OF the y arr Now, if slavery had been
good thing would the iathers Of the revolution
have taken a step calculated to diminish its
beuehccnt influences among themselves, and
snatch the boon wholly from their pasterIty p
These communities, by their represen -atiyes in
/ I'D independence Hall, said to the whole world,
! Owe h0id-these truths 10 be self-evident; that
/ all men are created equal; that they are en5ow-
J 4 t.,4 fo;v 1 IL
Rights; that among these are life, liberty, ard
/ the ursuiC OF happiness this was their ma
/ jestic Interpretation of the economy Of the Uni
verse. This was their lofty and wise and noble
unders andlug OF the justice of the Creator TO
his creatures. Applause. Yes gentlemen,to
all his creatures TO the whole great family Of
man In their enlightened belief, nothing
stamped with the Divine image and like ness
was sent into the world to be troddeu on and
degraded, and debruted by its fellows They
! graspe6 not only the whole race Of man theu
living, but they reached forward and seized up
on the t0rthest postemty. They erected bea-
con to guide their children and their children's
chiIdien, and The myriads who should inherit
the earth III other ages. Wise statesmen as they
were, they knew the tendency Of prosperity to
| breed tyIants, and SO they established these
/ great selt-evident truths, that when in the dis
Iant future some man, some faction, some in
| teiest should set up the doctrine that noue bnt
rich men, or none but white men, or none but
anglo SaXons, were entitled to lie, liberty and
the pursuit Of happiness their pCsterity mipht
look up to the Declaration Of Independence and
/ take courage to renew the battle which their
fathers Degan--so that truth. and justice, and
mercy, and ell the humane and Christian virtues
might not be extinguished from tie land; so
thatno man hereafter will dare to limit aad
crcumscnb' the great principles on which the
temple oi liberty was being built TLoud
cheers.
Nov my countrymen, if you have been
taught doctrines conflicting with the great
Landmarks ofthe DeclaratioA Of Undergraduate ;
If you have listened to sug yeatiuns which would
take away from Its grandeur, and muiilate the
symmetry Of its proportions; il you have been
inclined TO believe that all men are not created
equal Ill those inalienablo rights enumerated in
our chart OF liberty, let me entreat you to come
/ back, Return to the fountain whose waters
spring close to the blood of she Revolution
/ Think nothing of me take no thought of the
/ political fate Of any man whoRlsoever, but come
back 10 the truths that are the Declaration Of
| Independence You may do anything with me
| you choose, if you will but heed these sacred
| principles. You may not only defeat me fof
the Senate, but you may take me and put me
! TO death " lille pretending no indifference to
earthly .honors, do ciain, to be actuated in this
contest by something higher than an anxiety
tor1otliee l charge you TO drop every paltYy
andiusignihcant thought for any man's sue
| cess; Lam nothing; Judge Douglas is morning;
! BUL do nat destroy thai immortal e,ntiem o.; hn-
maa'iy--tde Declaration of-indepetslcRce
Eao aecessfonists among sac ohoctzyvs
ana G. l1os7savys.
A correspondent Of The st. Louis Democyat
writing tom the Indian territory under date Ct
/ FEB. 9gh. says;
The other day, the self constituted iunta Of
the Chocmw nation consisting of white adven-
turerc from, the laad Of King Cotton, and q few
wealthy ha.t-bIeeds, met in convention at their
capital, Doakefville, for the purpose, as be-
iieye, Of coucociDg somo scheme whereby thew
can scctluuaiize their country, open it TO pfo,
Einiseuous Immigration, and aaAex jt to Texas.
They have been prompted 10 this mode Of ac-
ton by certain Tears tAat III the eYeat OF 81 dis
solution Of the Uuion, the FEEDER Government
backed by the powerful North, will claim the
retain ali the TERRITORIES, il spite Of Il % seces.
sion and desires Of the rebel States. | have
not yet asceItaIned the results Of ,Leir6eljbera-
lions. feel warranted, however, in SAVING
that The majority Of genuine and uRadultefated
CAoct0Ws and ChicasaWs are opposed to ali
schemes Of said junta. The real Indians are
also opposed TO the system OF slavery But on
this subject. as vel as all others, small but
active minority controls the sentiment and &C.
ZION Of both nations The slavery propogap
dl-ts knew The aversion OF these Indians to theil
darling institution; hence their anxiety foI
Congressional Interference for the protection
and fostering Of The slave system.
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