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

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accounts state that the Abandonment Of that strong
point ID determined upon and that the retreat to
Richmond has already commenced.
| Richmond will undoubtedly be the first great
battlefield of the campaign and we hope the last
There will be skirmishing and collisions of more
or less importance, but we believe the defeat and
overthrow the rebels will receive there will break
the back Of the rebellion, and though it may lin
ger awhile before it gives up the ghost, yet it
will never stand upright again.
What will BIO the Result of the Ware
What will be the result Of the war, in refer
once to slavery is the question of great many
whe look beyond the present-beyond the i'm
media work in hand, of preserving this Union
and upholding and vindicating the constitution
and laws of the country For eighty-fve years,
the Slave Power has been the ruling element
in our General Government. At first that rule
was the result Of a magnanimity Of a stronger
towards weaker power. Everybody in the
early days Of the Republic looked upon Slavery
as an evil of short duration, which, while it
lasted they could afford to humor. Concession
after concession was made to it, and thus it
grew in strength and influence, until it demand
ed as a right, what had had at first been grant
ed as favor The evil that had been tolera-
ted became finally the power of the Govern
meut he present civil war is the direct re-
suit Of the growth and expansion of that, at first,
barely tolerated evil. Those who studied the
nature of Slavery long ago, predicted this re-
salt The rule that the stakeholder exercises
over his slaves comes to be a second nature that
even in its intercourse with equals, tries for
the same supremacy.
Slavery, Or the Slave Power, thus grown
strong, and confident gifts power, has struck
for absolute rule in the Government Nothing
short of this absolute and unbrol1en rule will
satisfy it. In the days of its weakness, it was
willing To compromise-to divide as long as it
could be assured of the lions share Confident
Of its power, it was no longer content with com
promises. 1t would have none Of them And
while the plant and magnanimous North was
racliing its brain in the invention Of liberal COM
promises to propitiate the shareholders, they
were using the whole power of the Government
for its own destruction. While Congress dis
cussed the terms of compromises which the
South had PREDETERMINED not to accept, the Ex-
ecutiye Cabinet was arming the shareholders,
stealing from the national Treasury and taking
, Government property wherever it could be
found and approPriating it to strengthen slave
ry. 1t was playing a desperate game-to rule
, or ruin. An imbecile or traitorous President
quietly looked on aud saw the Government de.
r /. L
i stay he destruction. Thus slavery CONNIE need
the war-nOt for any of its rights under the CON
stituon assailed or curtailed, not for any pow.
er OF which it had been despoied, for it had the
whole power of the Government, under the con
slitutiOI, but for absolute and supreme rule,
. despite the constitution, despite the laws of the
J., country, and despite the voice of the people, ex
! pressed through the ballot box Thus, and fo1
u such All object, the Slave Power commenced
h the resent war, Ii is a war between the two
Il great principles of Slavery and Freedom and
the result must be the complete triumph of one
y Or the other. Slavery has changed the ." ire
Pressibe conflict" between those principles, from
a conflict of words to a conflict of blows 1t has
removed the arena of the conflict from the 70
J rum and the press, to the field and here again
t with its own weapons and on its own ground
l. 1t is destined to Il more signal defeat
We think it will be universally demanded
by the people that the irrepressible conflict
. be now fought out and decided forever. twill
r not do to leave the conflict so that it will have
= to be fought over again. Freedom or Slavery
must hereafter be the predominating or ruling
5 power for all time to come, We cannot doubt
which that will be- Twenty millions of people
: devoted TO the cause of Freedom will soone,
> or later triumph over the half million of slave
= holders, who are leading on this fight. And
this triumph must be no barren triumph of arms
or OF physical force. 1t must be the final tri
T. umph OF the Principle Of Freedom over that Of
, Slavery. We do not look for the extinction Oh
the abolition of Slavery in States where it exists
, by this war, but we believe that its power will
! pass from its sceptre When the rebellion is
, crushed out and the people of the South return
to their allegiance to the Union, they will come
back as freemen and equals. The Slave pow
er viii no longer dictate the policy of the Gov
. eminent. 1t will be denationaized and hence
forth it will occupy the position it always should
, have held-simply local institution-an evil
that is to be abolished as soon as it can be. II
: will no longer be the absorbent of all the places
OF honor and profit, either in the State or ma
tonal Governments. The non-slaveholding
whites OF the South will assume the reins of
= power, and exclusive legislation for the slave
interest will be no longer the rule. Slavery,
beret of its power, will lose its greatest attrac-
ton, and the Shareholders themselves will be-
come the real abolitionists of the restored I'm.
e ion.
p such we believe to be the only basis upon
/ which Slavery can ever again enter the Union
1t must be that or else Internationally abolish
ed by the advancing army of the Union. It
f would be the height of folly and madness to
f patch up the Union again on the basis ofo com.
promise with Slavery. If Slavery exists at all,
, 1t must be as a subordinate State Institution
never TO be brought into the halls of Concress
as a subject with which the National Govarr
ment has anything to do. No more Fugitive
Slave Laws-no more slave hunting by Federal
officers, at the expense of the Federal Treasury
Those who indulge in the luxury of slaves INNS.
do so at their own risk, with all the chances Of
the Underground Railroad operations There
will he neither wrong nor oppression in this