The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-02-16

unmerciful, if this be possible, upoL The
demagogues and leaders in the north.
He told them they were pandering to
the worst habits, increasing local taxa
ton, debasing poor human beings,
aiding the slave power, which carried
with it evils which the world never saw
arise from any other source. They saw
it all, they knew it all, while Office and
gold was their only object. Hale and
several other Democrats were present,
and be assured the CALLED jade WINGED.
Brother Stebbins now sees the political
bearing of the subject clearly and feels
it's force. When he sees the religious
bearing equally clearly he will become
successful champion of freedom. He
told his audience Sabbath evening that
the free states give now the principal
support to oppression. You give
said he, the slave power the govern
ment they wish, and that government
by its policy is making slavery the great
object of it's legislation, not to extend
or protect your commerce, your manu-
factories or your agriculture He then
significantly referred to the manner in
which the veto power was used.
Perfectly constitutional to spend $780,
900 to haul one poor slave through
Boston, but strangely unconstitutional
to improve the St. Clair flats. All
right to improve the Savannah river,
but wrong to do the same thing upon
the Mississippi river. Pray tell me
what does brother Win say these
days? I readily suppose what he ought.
to say. What every honest man in the
free states will say ere long, time will
determine. May God open the eyes of
the people, for in, my judgment the
nation is vergi1g fast to an awful
precipice-Civil war, to solve the
question, Which is to be held as
national, freedom or slaveryg" and yet
you know, Mary, wife, am ready to
say, " Better thousands die than free
dom de-"
When the issue came Judge Hale,
with thousands of his fellow Democrats
were found on the side of union and
freedom. We would all be interested
if we could find copy of the hand bill
which was distributed in Kenosha in
August, 1856. Mr.. Deming wrote his
wife: "Last week the Border Ruffian
press of our city came out with some
thing like hand bill, headed " Relig-
ious Notice." and stated that if the
good people of the city wished to hear
the gospel on the Sabbath that they
must attend at the Congregational and
Episcopal churches, as gospel preach
ing was adjourned at the Methodist
and Baptist churches till after the 4th
of November next. This was a little
too much for conservative parson
Chaplin and yesterday forenoon he gave
a good sermon on politics. If the
bishop was here | am more than half
inclined to think he would follow suit. "
His intensity of feeling as expressed
in the following extract from one of his
letters was shared by many of his asso-
ciates and his determination gives us
cue to much of the helpful results of his
life. He would dowhat he could where
he was. He wrote: The settlers of
Kansas are doomed to suffer, but if
freedom ever triumphs in America,
under God we shall owe it to their suf-
ferings. Such are my feelings, if
had no family l would find my way to
Kansas and doubtless should fall a
martyr to freedom. My family have
the paramount claim. but | will do
what can in Wisconsin"
Among the things that he and other
men of his mind did in Wisconsin in
those days was to make their homes
stations on that mysterious under
ground railway along which many a
poor slave fleeing from the land of
bondage to the land of freedom made
their way of escape. [ know not what
other stations there were in Kenosha,
but at the residence of Mr.. Quarles and
of Mr.. Deming more than once escap-
ing slaves found shelter. My mother
has told me of the days when, at the
AOuL Vi
ened slave would be brought down from
the sheltering darkness of the attic and
asked to kneel with the family, and
there he heard the earnest prayer to the
Father of all that " freedom might be
granted to this brother escaping from
bondage When mother would be
about to depart for school my grand
mother would place her hands upon her
shoulders and with simple and intense
earnestness say, Now, Kate don't tell
any of the children at school today
about the black man in the attic. or the
officers may come and take rim away
and they may perhaps put your father
into prison." and SO for two or three
days this school girl would share the
burden of this great secret, until at last
the time would come when some vessel,
whose captain was himself an officer
on the underground railway, would be
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