The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-02-21
"The Irreprc.sibIe Conflict,

The Editor of the Kenosha Times, last week.
INDUCED in some strange Republican Doctrine,
in his leader under the above title. The SIR
repressible Conflict" he says sis about to be
changed from the border marches to the CEN
ire of the great Republican party There is
no doubt a convenience in clothing ones ideas
in bombastic or fantastic language that may
mean something or nothing at the conven-
fence of the writer, but we practical yankees
demand something definite and distinct, if We
are going to believe and guage our faith there
by. We are not fully decided what ''the Dor
der marches" may mean in political parlan ce /,
but, we take it that the meaning of the Editor
of the Tunes, in plain English is, that the con-
tiict hitherto waged between the Republican
Party and the Slavery. Extension Democracy
is about to be transformed into onlict cot
Republicans with Republicans. That por-
ton of the Republican party are about to
ABANDON the principles under which nd by
virtue of which, they have just achieve their
great victory, and join hands with their van
vanquished opponents, to commence warfare
against the other portion ofthe party through
whose aid and assistance alone the victory has
been gained
However well such foolish and unnatural
course might suit the views, or the political
morals OF the Democratic Editor of the Times,
we think may safely assure him, that it
will not be taken. Although our neighbor has
no political principles of his own, and can see
no difference between Republicans and modern
Democracy, we believe "the great Republican
Party" has, ever since its organization,and es-
pecially in the late Presidential contest, labor
ed for the success of great and vital principles
principles which are as vital, as sacred and
binding on every true Republican heart, to-day
as they were before the election Of Abraham
Lincoln. There was something more involved
than mere partizan success. The editor of the
Times may have been perfectly indifferent a:
to which of the contending parties triumphed.
We presume he was. He says that Republi
can and Democrat are or should be convert
BILE terms, and he has shown that to him they
are such, for he was converted from an active
Democratic partizan, to pretended Republi
can Editor in half day. This was all wei
enough, in a business way, provided there
were no conscientious scruples i'll the way
and there evidently we're none--and we shoul'
be the last to lay straw in his way, or to re
mark upon the anomaly Of an acknowledge
pro-slavery Democrat as senior Editor of pro
} fessed Republican paper, had not that Edito
abused his station, and the unsuspecting GOO
nature of his publisher, to corrupt and defam
the Republican party. He might have gone o.
/ for years peaceably, had he been content t
ventilate occasional rhodomontade on the pass
ing events of the day, but when he leaves hi
appropriate sphere, and assumes to teach life
long Republicans what Republcanism is, or
} dictate what it should be, we shall take tn
! trouble to correct him. that the Republicans 0
Kenosha County may not be misled.
We can assure the Editor Of the Kenosh
d Times, that there is and will be no "irrepress
!. BILE conflict" in the ''centre of the Great RI
! publican party whether from the "borde
marches" or any ther marches" The Re
publican Party proposes to use the victory
has achieved in Strengthening its arms on ev
!, cry side, and in making the principles upo
which it is founded, the active and living elt
: ment in the General Government of this cou1
} try. There is no possibility or probability {
! the "great Republican Party" which has jus
achieved the most brilliant and complete politi
, cal victory in the annals of the country, throw
ing away that victory in the very hour of fri
ition, for the sake of forming new party wit
the defeated enemy.
The Editor of the Times holds up hi
hands in tragic horror at the idea that the
| linen who adminste
the government of this great nation shall b
/ couclusively designated by a conclave of tn
mast bigoted of the party in the ascendant 70
the time being, but that their official action an
that of the freemen by whose suffrages the
were invested with the trust of government
shall be rigidly restrained and constrained b.
the Procrustean bed constructed for them BY
an irresponsible nominating convention, rep
resenting, not the people, nor even fairly the
successful party, but the ultraists of faction
numerically dominant, at moment of excite
ment in the Convention
All Of which fanfaronade and play upor
words, and talk of restraint and constraint anC
Procrustean beds &c, simply means that Pres
ident Lincoln is not bound by the Platform
opted in the Chicago National Convention
But to get at this simple assertion, our neghbo
assumes false premises, as the foundation O
his rigmarole. The Chicago Convention wal
not composed of "the most bigoted of the party
in the ascendant for the time being" nor wal
it composed 'of the ultraists ola faction nu
mericaly at moment of excitement, in tn,
Conventions" The assumption was false t.
start with, and all the conclusions arrived a
must be false,
! The last National Republican Convention
that nominated Abraham Lincoln, and put
forth the platform upon which he was elected
and of which he fully and wholly approved
was composed of the conservative portion O.
the Republican party, The members of that
Convention were cool, careful, candid men
statesmen, who Were as far from fanatieism OF
rltrasm ever the Editor of the Times was.
The Editor of the Times is again false and III
sincere in coupling the names Of Garrison Wen
dell Phillips, and Fred Douglas with the Re.
publican party, and talking about the party be-
ing sold and delivered over to those gentlemen.
He knows that they are especially opposed to
the Republican party, and have just the same
aversion to Republican principles, that the FIRE.
eating disunionists of South Carolina have, or
the Edit or of the Times, himself
Again, the Editor of the Times talks of prob
able detection from US" () of what he terms
the rule or ruin Abolition wing of the Rspub-
lican party" which he also styles "this turbu-
lent and discordsnt clement We are igno-
rant of any such element in the Republican
party. As ios utterly and entirely disagree
with this self constituted censor of Republican
ism, in his estimate and definition of Republican
principles, and the mission of the Republican