The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-06-27


A few months since, Wisconsin was too poor
to send commissioners to Washington to meet
the representatives of Virginia in the noble et
fort of thta State for compromise and peace
To-day we are rich enough to spend MILLIONS
to shed the blood of the men who invited us to
| fraternal council Men of Wisconsin-is there
nothing wrong here ?-KenOshG Democrat.
TIL ere were two reasons thai might, very
properly, have governed Wisconsin in neglect
ing to send delegates to the peace Congress"
as it was fctiti0uSiy termed. In the first place,
Wisconsin was satisfied with the constitution
as il is, and had no disposition to help inaugu-
rate any changes in that instrument. Why,
then, should it send delegates TO inaugurate
changes to which it was unalterably opposed ?
The Legislation in Congress by way of compro-
misses has not resulted in such peaceable set
Element of irritating questions as prove encour-
aging to future attempts II that direction But
every compromise has resulted in a demorali-
cation OF the Government and a new claim for
additional compromises. Let the same rule of
interpretations, addition and subtraction, be
adopted in regard to the constitution, and it
would soon become rope Of sand-a fit coun-
terpart of Mexican force and stability. Flam-
ing pronuncientoes, to be wholly isIegarded
ould soon take the place of a certain and firm
administration Of just and wholesome law.
In the second place, not one individual in
thousand was deceived by the poor steel pigeon
called the Peace Congress, which was assembled
for purposes the very opposite of inaugurating
peace. That ambitious, weak headed old tIai-
tor, John I yler, was certainly the most fit per-
son to select to preside over body composed
about equally of traitors and demented old To-
gies. All the objects the Southern originators
Of the Peace Congress had to accomplish were
to hold the Government from taking any action
to protect itself, while this comedy was being
enacted, TO give time to the Virginia conspira-
tors to mature their plans Of treason. The
more fully the North was represented in this
so called Peace Congress, the better it suited
John Tyler and his associate stool pigeons as
whatever resolutions might pass in that body,
John Tyler & Co. were sure to break in the
end, and proclaim to their constituency that
the North were not sufficiently tractable aud
that nothing could be done but make war On
the Government 1t is indeed pity that Wis
consin could not have been represented in
Convention of such noble traitors and Williams
1t might have suited the proclivities of the real
editor ofthe Democrat that while these old stool
pigeons winked, Wisconsin clapped its hands.
But what damages the present administra-
tiou in the estimation of tha editor Of the Dem.
ocrat is the fact that numbers Of Office holders
have been removed and others appointed in
their place. That paper has industriously cop
led and paraded in its columns, as SO many raw
heads and loody bones, the removals that are
made and why Because its editor, after hold
ing the post Office eight years, blubbers eontin-
ualIy, for the reason that he cannot hold it for
another term of equal length
The amount the editor has already received
from the Government being probably not less
than $4,000 to $4,000 he may think well en-
ployed it enables him to spend his time in
writing the foulest SANDERS against the Govern
ment from which he has received so much ma
teral aid. 1t will be long time, trust, before
the goIuen pefod again arrives Wnen thieves
and tories are in ascendant, and Buchanan will
occupy the Executive office-Floyd and other
traitors the Departments of the Government
When that period arrives, il it ever should, that
editor may recover his equanimity.
No, indeed, Mr. Editor Wisconsin had no
idea of taking part in that national Pantomine
of which the Ring Master was a natural clown.
SOMERS