The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-03-28
sossGsern Fan sa&ies.

In the long catalogue of human errors and
from the beginning of history 30
the present time. there IL no more melancholy
instance Of national madness than that which
now prevails in the extreme South. What Lord
BroughRm calls 1.-THE wild and guilty fantasv
that man can hold property in man, has taken
such complete possession Of the Southern mind
that by the natural and inevitable working of a
principle so utterly false and atrocious. a thor
ough unsound state of the intellect has haen
produced VIII rever that faIsisy has been allow
ed full sway. If the sluveholdersare to he indoad
by the deliberate utterances of their most nonn-
lar and admired authsfs and public teachers as
we'll as by their recent political conduct in the
States most completely under their dominion
the conclusion is unavoidable that they have
fallen victims to an insane flnatieism snrnass
ing anything ever before ksiown in the civilized
world
To correb0rate this statement. it il not necas-
sary to quote from reckless and obscure news
papers, or from the heated expressions of VIC
lent politicians, though the Southern press and
Southern speeches exhibit abundantIy a wild
ness OF sentiment and feroctv OF feeling the
like OF which can be found nowhere else out.
side Utah and the frantic sermons of the Mor
mon preachers. We purpose to cite, by way ell
illustration, certain deliberate and weil-eonsid
cred expressions of opinion by one of the rec
ognized leaders of Southern intellect. the only
respectable periodical which the South bas been
able to maintain for any considerable PERIOD
We mean DE BOWS Review, monthly Maoa
zine, published at New Orleans and devoted to
commercial, statistical, aad other grave TONES
We Of the North are SO accustomed TO Pm
Slavery assumptions and reasenings that wa
have i'll some degree lost the sense Of their min
gled atrocity and absurdity, and We receive as
things OF course, propositions at which the rest
OF the civilized world IS struck aghast with hOr-
ror and establishment. Such is the force ofcpe
tom, that we are not surprised that men nrofass
ng to be Christians and Democrats. lovers of
justice and OF freedom, should hold others in
Slavery, and should hold others in iAleness NV
appropriatlng TO their own use the hard earn
ings OF their victims 1t is only when the NAT
ural results of characters formed under the j..
Huence OF such a monstrous perversion of truth
and right show themselves IN treason rebaliion
and public robbery that we are startl ed and dis.
gusted.
But to our citations from De Bow. Its sec |
ond Article IS on The Message the Constitu- |
ton and the times" Ii asserts Chat the Fed |
eral Constitution is by far the most absurd and |
paper ever pennsd by practical
men," Mr.. Buchanan's remark that the women |
Of the South are afraid of slave instructions II
pronounces silly libel. The women of the
South fear not war, ''tor every one of them feels
confident that when their sons and husbands
are called to the field, they will have a faith
tut body-gUard in their domestic servants =
Slaves are the only body-guard to be relied on
Bonaparte knew 1t, and kept his Mahommede1
slave sleeping at the door. All history ntovas
it.. The writer might have added with trne
saveholding logic, that it was especially proved
by the Charleston Conspiracy of 1920 and Inv
the southampton Instruction of 1881. and stilI
more by the nightly patrol Of every town and
parish in the South.
Here is De Bows theory Of the present rovo-
luton, which it seems is not owing to abolition |
alone.
Our women are all conservative. moral, reljg-
lous, ana sensItlYely modest, and abhor the North
tor its infideity, gross immortality Righteousness
anarchy and agrarianism. lis they and the cIcr-
gy who lead and direct the Disunion movement |
II Is gross mistake TO suppose that Aboliti0nism
alone Is the cause Of disuniUu between North and
South. Ihe Cavaliers, Jacobies and Huguerofs |
who seEled the South, naturally hate cou+arnp' |
and despise the Puritans who settled the North |
The former are master races--the latter a slave
race, the descendants of the Saxon serfs Tho for
ner are Mediterranean races, descendants IF tLo
Romans for Cavaliers and Jocobites are of Nor
man descent, and the Nornans were of Roman de- |
scent, and SO were the Huguenots Tie Saxons
and Angles, the ancestors of the Yankees cs,1o
rom ne cold and marshy regions If the North
where man is little more than a cold. bIoode5 -
phibious biped ''i'
We are the most aristocratc people in fbo ,,o1
Prlde OF caste, and color, and privilege, makes ev
cry white man an aristocrat in FEELING. kr,-too
acy IS the only safeguard Of liberty tba onI, 49,
sr watchtul and strong enough to exclude ,ot,,.
'hial despotism. At the North the progress and
OF opinion is to pure democracv IssS
government, anarchy, and agrarianism TbairJ
RED OF the south VIII accelerate this noyious cIr
ent OF opinion, and anarchy will soon wind M
Military usspousn. There viii be as many Mill.
airy despots as there are now States for no 11sTIr
,er VIII WELD means sufficient to conquer or frsa
nto one several States 1t will be great inonroxe
nent IN Northern affairs, and the sooner X cor
bout the peter. Military despotism ia far nraf
raDle 70 Norlhern democracy, agrarianism. inf.
elity, and Tree love. ia
We were prepared by the unerring signs of the
ines ~ expect the election of Lincoln, and pre-
AIRED TO Dissolve the Union sooner H. 80 p .4
)ur enemies, the stupid sensual ignorant rnassa,
the North who are foolish as they are denrav. +
d, eeuld NOT read the signs Of the fines dd not
ream OF dlsunloD, but rushed on "a beadiassIz, a. I
greedy drove OF hungry hegs at the ali of their
WneIF' Iney ere promised plander, and fnd a | +
-hifiei PROMISED bread and were given stone'
ur enemies are starving ana dsorganized Tho T
]ld, naked, hungry masses are at war yyifb tbai
aoers. 1hey are mute, paralyZed, panic strick :.
!, ana nave no plan OF action for the fu+uro :. L
inter mas SET IN which will aggrayate their srt n
rings, ana prevent any raid into or Invasion nf =
e oouIh' Asey who deluded them. must talle
re OF theI1 Inc public lands viii neither feed q
ID are cut of by their own wicked foliI - "
ade OF the South, which alone could relieve and a
stain thea" s'''0 's4'eFe ana -
IN announcer article, apparently from fha Same i;
m Mayor Woods proposition for the sccas =
On Oh New ork City, is eagerly welcomed .s II
TACT llkely TO occur, and is pronounced tbs Of
osI brilliant idea Of these eyentful fimes N