The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-01-17


diary's torch to town, in hopes that he may
be employed to erect new buildings on its ruins
If Slavery is wrong is rot the remedy free
dom and if Liberty is wrong is not slavery its
p
The sapient editor proceeds in his treasona'
BILE article as follows:
"The trainers of the constitution expected
time to come, when one or more of the States,
should determine to secede:
"They declared any state had an inherent
right to secede at pleasure.
"The right of secession is unidentified.
''The founders of our government were con-
sistent secessionists
We can bear almost any amount of personal
abuse, but the malignant ISLANDERS of our veneer
ated fathers, who devoted their energies and
united wisdom, in establishing the most perfect
Government ever devised by man, makes US
FESTIVE, especially in these perileus times.
What object but ruin to our dearest institu-
tions, can such men have, in publishing such
sentiments, false in premises and false in con.
elusion Why parade such political heresiss tor
truths? Where is the evidence of such mems
progress in civilzation2 What regard have they
for ours, or our children's liberties or safety ?
Column after column of such matter are now
weekly and daily scattered over the land, corr
rupting public sentiment, abetting treason, and
giving aid and comfort to those now engaged
with perjured lips and sacreligious hands, in
the work of secession, and the utter demolition
of our glorious cons tuition
These men unblushingly strut about our
streets, proering us their hand 20 shake ,as tho
guilty of no crime that should cause them to
stink into corners, conscious of being ripe and
rotten in treason's work and fit associates for
raitors to our country, and her liberties and
laws. aA s--.
Every member ofCongress, and ezery Nom.
Der of the State Legislature, and the Governors
of the several states are by oath and affirmation
bound to support the United States Constitu.
tion and whether administered or not, every
good citizen feels himself bound, as by an oath,
to support it, but to this brood of disunionists,
perjury is deemed no crime.
1t is lamentabe that so few have ever stud
led or even read constitution as it is fair to
presume not tenth of those rabid secessionists
ever saw copy of the document Every one
knows however, that "State'' has certain
powers and attributes and that without them
it is not sovereign. What says the constitution
about states, and their right of secession9
Section tenth ofthe first article provides that
no STATE shall enter into any treaty alliance,
or confederation mo state shall without the
consent OF congress lay any impost or duty on
imports or exports, except what may be necesr
sary for the execution of the inspection laws /"
"No STATE shall without the consent Of
the congress lay any duty oftonnage-keep any
troops or ships of war, in times of peace-enter
into any agreement OR compact with another
state, or with foreign power, or engage in war
unless actually invaded, or in such imminent
peril as will not admit of delay, sc.
What is secession" but treason against the
U. in regard to each and every one of these
provisions.
Secretarys Floyd and Thompson, Senators
Benjamin, WIgfli, and Toombs Repre- sentative
Keitt, with host Of others, the governors Of
South Carolina and the Cotton states took the
oath to support the constitution containing these
provisions, who now like perjured traitors are
doing all they cam backed by their northern
coadjutors to destroy it-and yet these flppant
editors almoat unrebuked. are preaching all over
the north as we'll as the south. that tile right of
secession is undoubted! That state has un,
doubted right to exercise these prohibited pow>
ers
Heather Rome drove out Catalina because
he corrupted the Roman youth. The crimes of
Catalina against his country almost assume the
hue of virtues in comparison to the turpitude of
such teachings, of the modern democratic press,
in This year of the nine teenth century.
And then these despicable scribblers and printers
with shameless assurance charge the ruinous con-
sequences of their own abhorrent acts and teach
ings, on the "Blaok Republican Party" Prob
Pudor!
Another sentiment of the vile brood is this =
That the trainers of the Constitution refused to
incorporate a clause in it. enabling Congress or
the President to force against seeding state
&c, &c. AS though Sod in giving lite to man,
refused to inc orporate in his constitution the right
to preserve that life against aggressons.
Ifby secession" State becomes q foreign
power, or out of the Union Congress has the ex-
press power to declare war, and this against any
such hostile ''state," whether in North or South
Amerca-and if by "secession !" her status in the
Union is not changed, then use sufficient force to
compel obedience TO the laws, and if necessary,
try the rebels at Drum head court Martial, and
use the next convenient tree as a gallows for the
cuiprts-Jackson had no squeamishness Of this
mode proceeding, in the cases of Arbuthnot
and Ambristes, of Florida notoriety
a seeding State" these dapper gentry would
fain make make us belive, is encircled with halo
of sanctity too holy to touch Attempt to punish
criminals for treason committed within the limits
of such a " State and they are shielded because
the I" State" has seeded, The wife having seeded
from her husbands bed and board, may couple
with whom she peases Attempt to bring the
State to answer for its delinquepces--'' Or, you
can't make war on State, because she has Sc
coded Against what has Congsess the power
10 make war Upon Gray town or Mongom
cry The Constitution provides that State may
be sued, and is the Constitution poweress to pun
sh body of rebels, because shielded by what
they christen State in revolt they themselves be-
ing the authors ofthat revolt Has the acuteness
ola horde of criminals dscerned safe means of
playing their mad pranks to the destruction of all
Government and order, with impunity? Aaron
Burr, shire Nd politician, and keen at bubble,
once tried it. He escaped as well as Benedict
Arnold. Toombs, Keitt, and other enemies of our
country, may be equally successfuli not, it will
not be because of these northern sympathizers in
their treason. # -
And yet we believe the scale beam" ofour con
good eDOUOl
without any splicing, for the present emergency,
but for those ncendiaries and open enemies of it
in our midst. IItwas made though and enduring
old continental material One of its scales freight.
ed with the hopes OPS, 000, 900 of white men and
taeir weighty interests, whether for veal or woe,
of individual, social, and national happiness and
prosperity and the other scale bears aloft to the
gaze of astenshed nations, 1000, 900 black men,
and their wrongs and ruin as individuals, social
and national and that tough scale beam would
have inherent strength TO hold this incaIcula bic