The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-06-06

men. One of the nuinUef described
their predicament by saytng: Eve
have Wolf by the ears; We dare not
hold him nor let him so. They left
The beast on our hands. VS. tried to
cage him. We established Mason aud
Dixon's line as the limit We said.
Thus far shalt thou come and no
farther" But a great party, counte-
nanced by government, would not
brook restraint but grew more and
more insolent until it threatened to
call the roll of its slaves at the foot of
Bunker Hill monument.
Through the pen OF Harriet Beecher
Stowe, the press of william Lloyd
Garrison, the platform of Wendell
Phillips and pulpits of Henry Ward
Beecher and Mathew Simpson
God continued to plead in tones of
patnos, eloquence and thunder, LET
my people CO."
The first shot at Sumpter awoke the
whole north to the awful fact that the
Almighty had begun "The sitting out
the hearts of men, before His judg-
ment seat" That, again, as when
the Redeemer died, it was true, with
out the shedding of blood there could
be no remission of SIM Then fol-
lowed such awful carnage of such
! splendid men as the world had never
seen. They were not slaves or hired
mercenaries, such as Xerxes drove
across the Hellespont under the lash;
| but patriots the brainiest and bravest:
defenders of the best government the
sun ever shone upon. Thousands of
millions of treasure were expended
and hundreds of thousands of heroes
slain and happy homes desolated.
What for? To wipe out an accursed
compromise with wrong, which might
at one time have been stricken out
with a pen.
The supreme thought of the north
in that war was to save the Union,
and that great result was accom-
| plished, but 1t is not mentioned in
constitutional amendment. The cues
ton of states rights, long the bone of
contention, was undoubtedly settled
it was crystalized in law. We did not
propose to interfere with slaves, but
emancipation was the outcome; and
every amendment to the constitution
made at that time bears on that sub
ject. The thirteenth amendment de-
clares that to be human and free from
crime is to be forever free; the four
tenth, that to be free man Is to be
citizen; the fifteenth, that to be a
citizen is to be sovereign. They are
the sublimest truths ever put into the
constitution of any nation and are
worth their cost of blood and treasure.
Still we had not learned our full duty
touching the relief of the oppressed.
For more than hundred years Spain
had been robbing and torturing her
helpless dependencies under the very
shadow of our temple ofliberty. Even
the heartless ten years war in Cuba,
with The Spanish insult to orr nation
IN the Virginius affair, was not suffi-
cient to arouse US to action. 1t took
the atrocities of butcher Weyler in
Cuba and the sinking Of the Maine
with 200 of our brave seamen, to un-
Timber the guns Of Dewey, Sampson,
Schley and Shafter. Today Cuba and
the Philippines are free and happy if
they did but know it, and their cruel,
unnatural mother has ''received at
the Lords hands double for all her
SINS, IN the destruction of her navy
and the loss of her colonies.
So much for the past. What of the
future? What is our duty as patriots?
Evidently our first duty is to sacred1y
guard the institutions created and
preserved to US at such tremendous
cost by our fathers, and which have
made US free, moral, cultured, pros
porous and happy people.
I have no sympathy with that spirit
which denounces the foreigner simply
because he is foreigner. Our doors
are wide open to the we'll meaning
liberty loving people of every land and
| trust they may always remain so.
We are all foreigners either in our
ancestors or in ourselves. Those who
came early and those who came late
have equal rights here providing they
are law aoiding and seek the welfare
of the whole people. Many of the
brave men in our Civil War we're
foreign sons. Many of them died for
the flag of their adoption. The great
mass of those who come still seek
homes for themselves and their chill
dren and become valuable law abiding
citizens.
1t is the lawless minority that
makes the noise, calls us tfake re-
formers, tells US that our insti-
tutions are obnoxious to their foreign
born ideas and must be changed, that
they are as ''good Americans as the
Yankees, would ''rather be free
than sober, and propose to use their
ballots to retire state legislators who
decline to authorize local abolition of
Sunday law as did the leaders of the
united societies in Chicago on last
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