The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-03-19

ShAAPoSo !" N"S AAShlo Pei riilAAA " III
ity, and that his educational training is of the
quality contrary to natural instincts, and
when intensified by partisan politics, cuImi-
mates in rebellion, Look at the revolting SEN
timents:
'From what | have seen in the south, l am
more and more confirmed, that as between
two great evils, to wit to retain the slaves
in bondage,o or to let them loose, toaoat around
for themselves, the former course is infinitely
preferable"
And then in an Gd capt0ndum strain, asserts
the slaves inability to take care of himself, and
the folly of his owner hiring him, and that he
must be educated t ofreedom a thousand years"
&c. &c. E|t f.eE
Did this Gent. now Floating around" in
Louisville, learn those sentiments in the old
school house nesting among the Granite Hills
O New Hampshire, orfromthe Political School
that has with such distinguished honor grad
uated of late, SO many professors and practi-
GERS of rebellion North and South!
1t is surprising that a freeman of Wisconsin
aspiring to Legislative honors just dropt down
in louisville, and while floating around"
there loose, for one day only, and seeing a
negro drivinga donkey in a tobacco cart, should
so suddenly be illuminated with a bright light
place, as to cause him to speak such senti-
ments, all for the public good, and the good
of the slaves!
1t is another evidence of the truth of the
saying of the great teacher, ''that if the light
that is in you be darkness how great is that
darkness.
1t seems that 'tF' is afflicted with the idea
so frequently uttered by ignorance and stupid
ity, that a Slagemadea freeman, floats around"
like the white loafers that invest our saloons
and street corners. Why not make such slaves
in view of the two evils in Fs comprehensive
vision?
Whieh is the greater euil to the country at
large, for a poor man, trained in slavery's
school. to float around a freeman, i'll search
of employment, or for the INSCRIPTIONS mon
stcr, or speculator, who has amassed his boards
from the productive industry of the poor mnd
siUS-the farmer, or mechanic, so that thus
he is furnished means to ''loat around, with
out adding one penny to national wealth, or
the productive industry of the country? Let
thinking men, and patriots, answer the ques-
ton to themselves, and their children as citi-
zens, not as partisans.
Someimaginethat wealth and freedom gives
a right to 'f1oat around at ones leisure, and
float over the heads of humanity and the toll
ing millions, while it would be one of the mon
ster evils" por the poor wood sawyer, Doc
ter, Lawyer, or Mechanic, in the view of a
certain class of Goldfish or copperhead ~aristoc-
racy, that such should ever have the right or
power to 'aloat around" To such, even the
''Fourth of July and Christmas" seem
grudginglygi given, to the mass to 'hoat around
in; all other times i'll the calendar they must
remain stationary, while the chivalry alone
should ever float around at pleasure.
What evidence has ''F' that the making a
man of a Stare causes him to '1ioat around"
jeff Davis and his minions, North and South,
have split their lungs and deafened our ears,
about the atrocities, the blood, and ravage,
that wopld be @ committed by the enfran-
chised slave population. That they would
'4loat around in a sea of blood-some
amongst us believe the lie, and others, readers
of history, and believers in humanity, look up
on such trash with disgust-not relieved even
by a single touch of practical fiction or ro=
mance-but a lie of the blacklist stamp, reek-
ing with perfidy against the race and used,
in this dag only, by the renegades of humani-
ty, to subserve an infamous personal, or polit-
ical purpose?
Byron in his glowing description of the
sacking of Ismail and the long weary hours Of
trembling suspense of the virgins of that DOOM
ed city, at the anticipated violence they had
been taught would be accomplished on them,
by an unlicensed soldiery, and days passed
without its being done, began to wonder
When the aavishing would begin"
| So in this case--elevate a downtrodden race,
as industrious and forgiving o finjuries, as the
present uhite and colOred slaves of Dixie, to
freedom, and true history will write that they
instead of floating around in the sense 'F''
implies, made industrious, peaceable, law abid-
ing, liberty loving citizens, and some will
then wonder, 'When the ravishing will be-
GIN in view of Beauregards proclamation
against Butler and the howlings of the Rich
mond and London presses on that subject.
So likewise, Fs old story of the slaves ina
bility to take care of himself-of course, be-
ing a slave, he must take care of his master
first and then of his masters hoofed and horn
ed Give stock. He is q Slave, as helpless for
himself, as Capt Riley, when a slave to the
arabs Of Sahara. Take the load ofoppression
off, abolish the wrongs that crush him, and
how many of that class of the thousands of
freedmen are paupers i'll our poor homes? a
fair criterion to judge by, whether they can
take care of themselves. Drop the slang
whangof politicians, and read the colonial re-
ports to the British Parliament, Qreliablc State
papers, and what people has accumulated prop
erty, or been educatedi in civilization and chris
tianity faster, on the whole surface of this
green earth, than the freed men of Jamaica
and yet these have all been done in less than
a 1900 years of education" Still there is a
class of men amongst US, that never investi-
gated the subject that are everlastingly spit
ting out their venom against the slave class,
by the PRONUNCIATION of a series of falshoods,
and why? Can T answer answer why? The
class but a remove above the slave, is the
most hostile to the freedom ofthe slave. Dem
ogogues know this to be a fact, and cater that
vitiated appetite of certain mudsills making