The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-07-11
Sporting IA Traitor.

The ALBANY AtLas and ArgaS, in remarking up.
on Secretary Cameron's declaration in his recent
speech at the st. Andrews dinner, that the Pres
ident will not let the war end uatil all the causes
which produced it are removed, and when the
war terminates we Shall hear no moro Of Virgin.
ians as such. or of North Carolians, or South Car
olians but we shall all be Americans, one and in
divisible," makes this comment:
"The President and the other members of the
Cabinet owe it to the country and themselves to
let it be known wherever Mr.. Cameron speaks for
the Administration. For if such be the object of
the war, there are q hundred thousand muskets
now in the field, which will never be used to over
throw the Constitution Our brave men have tax
On their lives in their hands and gone forth-as
they supposed-to maintain the authority and in
tegrity of our government, as our fathers formed
it,and they will never turn aside from such holy
purpose TO wage an Abolition crusade, to subiu.
gate the people of portion Of the States, and to
annihiliate State rights and the security and jpro-
lection OF the citizen offorded by the State Gov.
ernments. After repeated declarations of thisk ind
from one member of the Cabinet, it is high time
that the Administration distinctly defines its Do
siton"
The Atlas and Argus is one of that very small
class of miserable newspapers who still defend
treason in the North They do not openly ayow
their real feelings, but 90 to treason as the
temper of the people and our present laws upon
the subject of sedition will permit. While pro
Tossing to serve the Democratic party, they seek
to repress the patriotic enthusiasm of the people
TO OenOunCe the GfoslucnJ ana his Cabinet, to
sheer at every effort for maintaining the Union q
magnify every unfriendly rumor which leaves
Washington. They harp on peace; write elabor-
ate articles on the ha6eaS corpus act question the
Presidents right to call out volunteers over rate
the preparations of the Southern traitors; count
up tho cost of the war in tables of unimagionable
millions moralize ON the death, and suffering.
and woe of war; threaten to withdraw the sup.
port of capitalists from the Government denounce
the efforts to blockade the the South and suppress
privateeriDg, and even descend to the ineffable
meanness of ascertaining the politics of our gal
liant volunteers, and of tempering their praise or
censure according as the object of it may have
voted for the last town constable or commissioner
OF charity.
In this spirit of baseness was the above article
written We can conceive of no more atrocious
SANDER upon the gallant Democrats of the North
who are now in the field. What does Secretary
Cameron propose, that this reasonable sheet
threaten our armies with the mutiny of u hundred
thousand men 2 "When this acar TERMINATES, aoe
shall hear no more Of VrgiaRS as such, or Of N
Car0liaAS, or Of South CarolaAS, but ace shall ali
be americans, one and 9Rd1UiSabie." This sent
ment of patriotism The Atlas and Argus greets
with an outburst oftreAsOn. If this contest means
anything at all, it means that we shall come out
of it as Americans, one and indvisible,' and we
mistake the sentiment of the patriotic North and
the spirit of her sodery, if they do not echoe the
eloquent words of the Secretary of War.