The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-06-20

There never was a revolution before this at
tempted one of 1861, founded so exclusively
upon falsehood and Misrepresentation. The
whole business of this secession and rebellion
is one gigantic fraud. The first movements
were founded on falsehood and fraud and those
main ingredients have been at the bottom of ev-
cry reasonable movement since. The senti-
ments, the feelings and the principles of the
Northern people, have been constantly, studi-
ousy and vilanously misrepresented by wri-
ters for the press. by stump speakers and by
! politicians and demagogues, until the Southern
people have been so inoculated with the poison
of falsehood that their leaders and aspiring pol
iticians could mould them into any shape that
would further their own selfish and ambitious
ends.
Mr. Russell, the American correspondent of
the London Times, throws little light upon
the real object of all this falsehOod and misrep-
| resentatiOn. He informs us that among tn
gentlemen of South Carolina, " the admiration
for monarchial institutions, on the English mod
ell, for privileged classes and for landed arts
tocracy and gentry, is undisguised" There is
now no doubt that the visions of these ''monar-
chial institutions" and that landed aristocracy
and gently" have been the ignes fatuii that
! have led the shareholders of the South into the
quagmlre of treason and rebellion. To realize
those visions they must deceive aud thoroughly
falsehoods enormous, and Misrepresentation
countless, in reference to the Northern people.
That their work has been thoroughly done, is
proved by the armies they have raised, and the
impotence displayed for Northern blood They
are completely blinded by ignorance and false
hood, and yet the process oflying goes on.
We have been led into this train of thought
by seeing the report of speeches made few
days ago at Richmond, Va, by JEFF. Davis
Ex-Governor Wise, Mr.. Benjan in and Mr.. La.
mar, on the occasion of Davis reception in that
city. We make short extract from Gov
Wise's speech, az a fair sample of the whole
The hoary headed old traitor and falsifer is
talking to the people of Virginia. He says,
" You have to meet foe with whom YOU
could not live in peace. Your political power
! and rights, which were enthroned in that Capt.
IOl Wnen you were united with them under the
old constitutional bond of the Confederacy
have been annihiated They have undertaken
to annul laws within your own limits that would
render your property unsafe within those limits
They have aboitionized your border, as the dis
graced Northwest will show. They have in
vaded your moral stronghods and the rights O.
your religion, and have undertaken to teach
{ you what should be the moral duties of men
They have invaded the sanctlty of your homes
and fresides, and endeavored to play master
father and husband for you in your households
III a word. they have set themselves up as 4
petty Providence,b by which you are in all thing.
to be guided and controlled"
Does anybody suppose that Gov. Wise,a maj
of education and varied intellectual acquire
ments, who las been in constant intercourse
with Northern people all his life, believes al
that trash =? Does anybody suppose that he di(
not know that every assertion contained in tina
extract and half column more just like it, t.
be an unmitigated falsehood? If there is an
such person, he is far more charitable than w
are. And yet this whole secession movemen
e is urged on by just such foolish, groundes
. talsehoods as those. Sympathizers with South
ern treason here at the North, do not scrupl
to re-echo the same lying trash, Are they, alsc
led on by admiration of monarchia institl
tons?" Do they think that they are to be in
3 cluded in those privileged classes" of "landeG
aristocracy and gentry?''