The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-04-10
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from The New York Evening Post
The bill introduced by Mr.. Arnold in the House
of Representatives, on Monday last expresses the
difference which exists between the aims and il
terests of the shareholders and those of the free
working men of the Republic How specious So
ever the sOphistries by which the ogarchs may
have concealed then purposes, their real object in
the political struggle OF the last half century has
been to make slavery the national law and free
dom the national exception. Their most effective
method has been to take for granted the very point
in dispute. They wanted to make slavery univer-
sal and freedom local and they Sc up the claim of
Il right to take their property wherever any free
man could take his Overlooking the fact that
slave property is something very different from
other property, not only morally, but by intGTDa-
tiona law and the ConstituGou-tlat three slaves
out feYery five swell the aggregate Ofrepresented
population while no number Of cows or horses in
crease that aggregate by even OHe-they succeed
cd III ObfusCating the senses of great many men
They gained sympathy by their false pretenses,
and sympathy gained them votes. Had they been
a little less arrogant, they might not have gained
their point, but they would at least have kept the
from decision much longer than they did -
But they were arrogant when they should have
been conciliatory; they made issue just when
they should have carefully avoided it; they lost
tier patience at that very point in the contest when
they most needed that virtue; and III throwing
off Gil conCealment, Mr.. Stephens boldly avowed,
last spring, the purpose OF the shareholders to aC
Dept nothing but Il Union whose "corner stone
should be slavery 10 take in the whole Intention
Oi Mr.. Stephens famous speech il must be renem.
bered that but @ few months before he avowed him.
self Union man. that the shareholders counted
too blndly Il ''dIyidad North and that they
did not expect war and did too confidently hope
to carry revolution which should leave them and
their principles the uudOubted mastery over the
whole Union Therefore, the Southern Vice Pres
ident made public his programme, which was to be
accepted by the divided North" of which he
dreamed
Theissue Mr. Stephens made in his speech, Mr.
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must be the stone of the republic the other
proclaims freedom this corner stone. Observe that
slavery in the States where it exists is not in the
thoughts of either Mr. Stephens or Mr. Arnold
Neither proposes to interfere with that. The GeUr-
gian did not PROFOUND new and more vigorous
slave code for the slayeholding States; Mr. Arnold
does dot propose to amelIOrate or in any way to
legislate upon slavery in those States. The object
OF both Is to settle the question outside of those
States, but with this difference; that Mr.. Stephens
would fasen slavery not only upon the Territories
and other places where the general government is
supreme, but also upon the States which declared
for freedom, while Mr.. Arnold respects State righs
and asks Congress to legslate where it has uu-
doubted constitutional power and au thority TO do
so. 10 the end that freedom may be and remain |
forever the fundamental law Of the land, in all !
places whatsoe far it lies within the powers
and depends upon the action OF the Government |
of the United States to make it So his bill prohib
its slavery forever in the Territories in the forts
arseuals, dockyards. in ships the high seas and
without tue jurisdiction OF the Ntates-'ln all pla
ces whatsoever where the atioual Government
is supreme, hss exclusive jurisdiction or pew
er
The country has long been wearied with the agl
tatons of the shareholders here is an opportunity
TO stop those Ugitations forever and it viii be the
better done because the action proposed involves
no violent changes can give rise to no Just com
paints, blows to US freedom by no tornado or hui
rcane, but by mild and constant trade wind. 1t |
is a measure for which Mr. Arnold may confdeut |
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IL, to over twenty-six aud halt millions of our
white population. It is unobjectionable to the non
SHAREHOLDERS, the free workingmen of the South, /
as ofthe North and its only opponents, where it
is fairly understood viii be the Shareholders, less
than urhundred thousand in number i'll 1860 and |
those traitors at the North who are either in the
pay of Davis or bound to him by sympathy ana
equal hostility to the Union.