The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-05-23
KENOsIIA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, MAY %, 1861.

J They put her knee in the leaden boot.
; Her cries grew weaker
AT this part of the recital of the President,
thrill OF horror ran through us all.
| They then put the fire TO the pit of her stom
ach.
| FRANCHISE was silent; she had ceased t.
Shrek
Gentlemen, FRANCHISE was innocent! I knew
at! 1t was / who had hidden the diamond boz
in her bed,in order that she might be tried con
demned, executed
The ladies covered their faces. If had had
a knife in my hand, would have struck it in
20 the old Presidents heart.
But the President closed his eyes, collected
himself for a moment, and said;
They crushed her right hand every finger
every joint, like that
He made a gesture. My nerves ieIked spas
medically in imitation Of it.
A cloud of blood passed before my eyes, and
the terrible scene vanished.
FRANCHISE had tainted in confessing the
theft. Yes, she had confessed it, but proclaim
ing that was her foster brother, that she had
come to Paris to see ms; that to see me she
had braved everything to hang once moro upon
her foster brothers neck
The President had scarcely finished this ago
nizng sentence when I saw rise before Madam
de Hacqueville, like phantom, woman, with
difficulty and paik drawing of her gloves, per-
mitted 10 be seen a hand broken and crushed
which she placed on the head IF m. de Page
Like one crushed, the old man raised his
hand in terror beneath that hand which weigh
ed him down.
The other people were pale; I looked at my
sell III the glass l was more than pale; | was
green.
Tears and sobs from the eyes and mouths of
these two; ruined by each other, mingled to-
gether; and NJ. de Page took that hand and
carrying it to his lips, kissed the host, and he
Was paidoned as the dying man is paYdoned-
for Madame de Casa Blanca passed the arm that
was fee around the Eecll of NJ. de Page.
That evening" continued the President,
{ there was Court Ball. / appeared at it still
clothed in my judicial robes, and beaung with
me the death warrant of FRANCHISE. Bending
my knee TO earth, | said to Louis XVI,
Sire, to-day the bones Of my foster sister
have been broken upon the rack. l was her
accuser Sire, and she has confessed all
Well p said the king.
Sire, l invented the story of the theft
The king recoied III terror.
And wherefore, Monsieur
Because wished to prove to France that
with the torture the most trightful falsehood
wss believed, the hottest truth assassinated-
Sire, TO this proof l have sacrificed the thing
dearest to me in the world. My opinion, there
fore, cannot be duubted.
Messieurs, said the king, let he ball con-
tinue. Then turning to the Ch0Dcellor,he said,
Monsieur, from this night the torture IS abol-
shed III France. Let it be made known through
out the kingdom
Taac Voice of &rce:losss ga Sc. E.osszs,
The course Of the St Louis Democrat in this
crisis, end ~ fact for years past, has been such
that everybody wiki a spark of manhood could
but admire L.. Since the capture Of Camp
Jackson, it has stood finn against the nobs and
traitors that have disgraccd that ci!y, threaten
ing the lives OF Union men, and even carrying
their threats INTO execution. Its course should
be gratefully remembered by frcemcn every
whe~c III its issue of Tuesday, Gov. jackson
is handled without gloves, in the folio wing Ian
age:
"The defiant robbery and perjury which mark
the later acts of the General Assembly, and
which axe ordinary episodes in the secession
drama, originated manly with him. He is
known rs a secessionist by every me- mber of the
Legislature, and, III fact, by every person who
has access to him or hears him tank Il is there
pretend that he is not a sacessionist. jackson
is traitor in the core Of his heart, ard in the
eyes of the American people. He manifested
his reasonable purposes before his Inauguration
and he has been scheming ana plotting ever
since to realize them. Who can doubt that
Missouri has been launched on the swift seces-
sion current?"
Again it Uses other equally fearless and praise
worthy language, toni which we extract:
"The relations OF Missouri 10 the United
States, as far as The former is represented by the
Governor, the General Assembly, and the DIS
is now, and has been for some time.
one of actual war. The fact was proclaimed to
the world by the reply Of the Governor to the
President. The war has been an active one for
months on the part Of the disunioniss.
The circumstances which surrounded the Of
ticers in command of Camp Jackson, individual
ly and collectively, classified them rs secession
lists in the eyes of the public. Where was their
loyalty or chvalry when they received the sto
len property Of The United States under the
guise of barrels Of brandy and boxes Of marble
and such like devices What Did you want
with siege howItzers except to shell the Arse.
nal? What meant the blue cockade so general
ly worn in the RAJ ks? Who that was presen.
can forget the continual cheering for jeff Davis
and Gen. Frost
The very atmosphere above the camp was
heavy with the accents of treason. The topog-
raphy of Llnde's Grove and echoes were des-
ecrated with the names of traitors Capt, LYON
said then truly enough that Gen Frost's com.
mand was regarded as hostile to the United
States He will be sustained in that position
by the nation by the administration, by history,
and by the laws Of the land
x x X x :;
IfJackson calls the secessionists to arms,
Gen. Harvey will finish what Captain Lyon
commenced in souch fine style. The fate of
Missouri rests o. the will Of the Governor. In
tiny event, St. Louis is safe under the protec-
ton which twelve thousand bayonets under the
immediate command of Harvey, viii not fail to
extend to her. We grant that peace is desirable
and we say that the preservation Of peace is
easy. Let the secession programme be aban-
doned, and war is impossible let further at
tempts be made to carry it out, and the fast
nesses of of the Ozark Mountains will fail to
hide the traitors from the red right arm ola na-
ton fired with righteous anger,
Campaigning AxioE2ss.
!. One well-fed, well equipped, we'll appo int
ed brigade is worth two that are i'll provided