Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-25

THE Conditions If Reform.

who becomes active in any kind of Re-
form. is to have, more or less, every evil
act or motive, which ever actuate men.
ascribed to him.
The Reformer invadcs mems cherished
courses, knocks down their long worship
ped idols and to those too ignorant to
understand his teachings. and to those so
| tyrannical or aristocratical in their or
ganization as to love the old abuse rath-
er than the new truth, he is necessarily
regarded as an enemy-as destroyer of
the peace and happiness of men-aS a
tresspasser on the rights of the people /;
and he, accordingly, will receive denun-
citation, in proportion to the plainness,
force, and frmness, with which he works
out his mission.
All this must be borne with as the price
of reform. Until the one class learn bet
| ter. and the other receive new develop
ment, such is sure to be a portion Of the
] FCNdTu VI every IClul liiSi'
Another one Of the conditions of Re
1 form is. oftentimes to have the ostcnsi-
Bile help, but secret opposition Of such
conservatives as hate the new, but who
are too wary tocling to the lettering steps
of the old, when its decrepitude is no
longer to be hidden.
Another of these conditions is, when
in the course Of the progress of reform
an old party is dissolved, and its partiz
ans attach themselves to new party, and
associations, discordant elements arc Of
ten brought together, and the party of
progress finds in its train those who have
no affinity with its objects, who travel
with it sorely against their will, and who
recompcnse their grief with any amount
of fretting, cayilling, kickings, and floun-
behring's generally.
The editors Of this paper, in common
with large and growing purity, believe
that there are many wrongs i'll the body
polite Of the country-believe that many
new principles of Government could be
established, andmany new measures could
be adopted, which would insure an en-
larged amount Of happiness to the coun-
try. With entirely dissimilar develop
ments Of manner in the advocacy of these
principles and measures Of reform, they
render themselves obnoxious to the crit
icism and denunciation Of the adherents
OF present customs.
! From the press of circumstances, and
the deeply increasing hold of liberalism
upon the people, the Wing and Freesoil
organizations have been constrained to
unite and as is always the case, elements
have been brought together which have
no affinity for each other.
In the individuals Of every party there
are always various shades, from those
who are most radical and wide-swceping,
in the overthrow Of past customs, to those
whose almost whole alliniteS are with
the old, but who, in some leading partc-
ular, have become SO far developed as to
join the new.
Such is the position Of the Republican
Party Of this State, and such is the indi-
vidual member thereof, the GAINESVILLE
Gazette All its proclivities are conser-
vative-it has no alfiliation with reform
in general. One may look through its
columns in vain for any spontaneous gem
crosby or philanthropy. 1t was Wing
of the most conservative kind, having no
sympathy with leading, progressive Wing
journals like the n. Y. Tribune, the Mad
ison JounGi, &c. 1t was the hardest
kind of "Silyer Grey" The Wing Par
tv Of this State was of a different KIN
it was cmincntly liberal and progress
siye and with it, the coalition or fusion
was hearty, soul-lclt.
Not so with the Gazette. TWAS con-
strained to come in, because the tide was
too strong for it. Its affinities are all
against the Republican Party. Last year
it did all it could in aiding the defeat of
the Peoples Ticket, and this year itprcdic-
ted the failure of the Peoples Movement.
Its prediction failed. 1t now seeks to
recompensc itself with personal abuse of
such ercwhilc Freesolcrs whose zeal.
perseverance, and plainncss, have made
them special objects of conservative de-
nunciation. 1t first vented itself against
the editor of the Free Democrat After
kicking on all sides in that direction, it
next attacks personally the junior of this
paper. 1t originated the statement that
we Kissed the name Of Henry Clay at the
Madison Conventional statement Who'll
ly false, and which it, of course, knew to
( be so. In late issue it follows with
] other coarse personalities.
1t may be for the good of the party to
have such sores upon it, through which
/ to discharge whatever of decaying con-
scrvatism may yet remain in it, If so,
we are contentcd. And we can assure
any Wing who has hated an Abolition
ist who now wants to act with the Re
publicans, but still cherishes his hatred
that the Gazette is venting spleen enough
for all such.
/ We shall cherish our souls with pa
tience, hoping that all such papers as the