The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-12-13
Thursday Morning, Dec. IL, 1860

Some Of the northern Democratic journals,
treat the secession movements of the cotton
States very sensibly, and seem not altogether to
have lost sight of the fact that this government
was established for the benefit of freedom
They are willing to acknowledge the North hast
some rights, which ought not to be surrendered.
There are however, large class of Democratic
journals at the north, that are now chatterlng
like SO many blackbirds, directly or indirectly
encouraging dsunion, and striving to have the
people believe that the South has been badly
abused by the Republican party. These abet-
tors of mischief would make it appear that all
the ills that betide the Union, are cbargeable to
the election of Lincoln. Their reasoning when
scanned is substantially as follows
If the Republican party, like the Democratic,
had loved liberty less and slavery more, if the
Republican party had joined its Democratic
neighbors with alacrity in the business of catch
ing run away negroes if the Republican party
had never attempted to throw any obstacles in
the way to the conversion of all the free terri
tory of the Union into slave territory, then the
country would have been on the high road to
greatness, and the Union safe. But, according
to the teachings of the Democracy, the Republic
can party has attached too much Importance to
free labor and free institutions it has failed to
acknowledge slavery as having the rightful su-
| p remacy wherever it pleased to go it has not
bowed submissively to the behests of the negro
breeding Democracy, and therefore great disas.
ter and damage has been brought on the Union.
If The Republican patty had only had the good
sense, to stop talking about the rights of man
and the doctrines of the Declaration of our Ma
tional Independence, but talked more of the
blessedness Of slavery, and magnifed the''rights
of Shareholders" then there would have been
no disunion jars. Besides, the Republican par
| ty has been quite too tenacious about the free
dom ofspeech and liberty of the press; what is
the use of being clamorous for SO much freedom,
when it gives offence to slavery
Such is practically the logic of large portion
of the northern Democratic presses; they appear
to insist upon it, that Republicans are great
sinners, in attaching so much consequence, TOT
that abstraction" the ''inalienable rights
man 10 life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness" And so they virtually tell us that SO
much ado about free institutions and free gov
ernments, has embarra ssed the banks, played
the mischief with State Stocks, and brought the
Union to the very threshold of dissolution, This
is no distorted representation of the reasonings
of a very large portion OF the northern Democ-
racy, for what else can they or do they substan.
TALLY accuse the Republican party of, except
being to clamorous for human rights, and ask
ing to much in behalf of freedom? Whal ma
tional act has the Republican party ever CON-
mitted, Of which the Democracy can complain
Who will name it? The Republican party has
never yet had the power to inaugurate any
measure of National policy. The complaint
against the Republican party, when reduced to
4 its true meaning is that it seeks to prevent the
curse of slavery from being planted on soil,
where it does not already exist-upon territory
rightfullv dedicated to freedom. In this noml-
nally free country then, whose boast before the
world is, the freedom of its institutions, too
much devotion to liberty has been its ruin!-
That is the Democratic logic.