The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-05-30

fnend sent us the other day a country pa
per from a small town in Alabama 1t is Sled
with the most improbable and monstrous nom
sense that man can imagine. The whole
Northern people are represented as the most
abandoned blood thirsty and ruthless savages
that ever lived seeking only slaughter, rapine
and plumber. The editor goes into the most
frantic appeals to his readers to volunteer arm
and go forth to fight those Northern barbarians
to fight for their homes, their wives and their
daughters, their children and their hearthstones
He tells them in two or three different articles,
that the Northern army is composed Of brutes,
only thirshng for blood, and burning with a de
sire to murder children and to violate women.
The editor who writes this trash, in the interior
Of Alabama is evidently sincere. He is as delu
ded as his readers-a blind guide-blinder than
bat-leading the blind.
This war is represented as commenced by the
Northern people for the purpose of destroying
the laws and government Of the country and in
shutting anarchy, barbarism, rapine and all
kinds of violence in their stead.
| Such a state of things is monstrous, and five
had not the evidence of our own senses, we
would believe impossible, in this enlightened
age of the world. 1t has only been brought
about only by most damnable system of lying,
misrepresentation and violence, that was ever
practised upon credulous people. At the
South, this systematic misrepresentation has
been carried on by the slave holders, to preserve
the Opuarity and influence Of the Institution
of Slavery. When it is remembered that of a
population of 5000 600 Of whites, less than half
a million are slave holders, the necessity of
some such system becomes apparent. The great
mass of the white population must be kept as
ignorant and debased as the slaves themselves,
or, in fee, elective goyernment,t the majority
would rulean6 the small minority ofslave hold.
ers would come into subsection, and the nsttu-
ton, bereit of the prestige of absolute rule would
soon lose its popularity and become in a short
time extinct. At tt e North, this systematic mis-
representation of the great majority of the
Northern people has been carried on by the
nominal Democratic party, for the purpose of
retaining political power. Northern Democratic
papers have for years lied just as sedulously
as the Southern papers have The Repub-
hcan party has been called the Abolitionist par
ty,the Ganisonian and Abby Kelly party, whose
only obj ect is to steal slaves and excite servile
instruction. The whole Republican party has
been represented for the last two years by North
ern Democratic papers, as aiding and abetting
and sympathizing with John Brown, and as
being a party ofJohn browns. This systemat-
Misrepresentation has produced its Effects
The Southern press has copied these misrepre-
sensations and the people have believed them,
! and thus civil war, in which the country is now
embroiled, is the legitimate result
The people Of the South are blinded by their
own ignorance, and, actuated by the absurd
fears this ignorance has begot, they are led by
designing and AMBITIOUS demagogues into wa,
for their own enslavement Blind as thew are no
reason can reach them TO appeal can save them,
because they are bound TO rush on 10 their own
destruction. Why will not some euliqbtened
, philanthropist Of the South step in and enlight
en- his misguided and deluded fellow citizens :?
There must be men enough in the Southern
Sta ties who know how false and senseless these
representations are, that are urging the pesule
into this war! There must be Southern men
enough who knolc that this is no war against
peaceable Southern people or any of their rights
or lnstitutions-th the North has commenced
no war against the South-that their wives and
2 their children and their hearthstones would be
safer and more sacred in the hands of the North.
ern army than Oh their own plantations. The
editor or the orator at the South who would
devote himself to the object oropening the ewes
OF his countrymen and presenting the state Of
the case to their understandings, and succeed,
would deserve place by the side of Washing
ton. This is no war Of invasion of Southern
: States. Let the South lay down its causeless
I rebellion and obey and submit to the Constitu-
ton and the laws that it has always had the
most potent voice in framing, making and exc.
cutting. This is wal to uphold the laws to
protect good citizens in the enjoyment of all
their constitutional right at the South as well
as at the North. Is it impossible to convince
, the Southern people only at the point of the
bayonet? 1t does really EN- to be so, The
monstrous wickedness of human slavery seems
, to have blinded the eyes aud dalkened the un-
! derstandlngs of the whole people upon whom
it is fastened, and may be that its eradication
will be the only means of freeing its victims
from the thraldom of error and misrepresentation.
To show that we have not exaggerated the
mental darkness and delusion under which our
Southern neighbors are laboring, we copy a
few items from the Southern press
} The Richmond Dispatch says,
Preparing with rapid strides to
meet the Illinois babUon and his co-workers in
iniquity on the borders of our once happy old
State, to welcome them " with bloody hands to
hospitable graves" Stepped for
ward to drive back the half starved Lincolnites
VINO, with open mouths, are seeking to devour
US with eager avidity. Well let
them come-those minions of the North Wen
meet them in way they least expects wen
tst out our carrion crows with their carcasses
= Yes, from the peaks of the Blue Ridge to tide
water, will we strew our plains, and leave their
bleaching bones to enrich our soil.
Col. Corcoran has found it very
easy to swallow an oath binding him to come
to Virginia to cut our threats and steal thc poor
negro from his comfortable home
Lincoln seems to still persist in refusing not
only Confederate State ships permission to pass
oId Point, but he dem1rs in granting British
ships that privilege, and in all probability will
continue to do so until the Old lion gets fully
mad springs to his feet and brings roar that
will make the Ape quake with terror and his
rotten feet return home. No hon
est man or nation can do otherwise than exc
crate the whole batch of politicians spawned in
to existence from Black Republican stools.
They are all in good spirits, and de.
termined to give Old Abe's canaiNe warm re-
ception ifthey come TO invade the valley.
Here are some paragraphs from Memphis, the
first from the APpeat, and the last two from the
AralaHcke:
If the hungry and rayenous pack |
of hyenas who were sent upon their hellish |
m issions of plumber and rapine are driven back |
into their dens, they win turn upon their silly be-