The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-09-12
If we falter,we fail; and not only will Wash

IT we falter,we fail and not only will Wash
ing on, your Capital, be subjugated and sacked,
but your cities and your fields will be swept
over by an army carrying in its train desola.
tons scai cely surpassed since the Goths stabbed
their steeds in the palaces of the Caesars The
fendish tone of the Southern press, its exultant
threatenings and the events which have already
transpired, fully justify ME in this declaration
Ii, therefore, we think of our lands and gold of
our merchandise and pleasant homes, or even
OF the blood that courses in our veins in con.
trast with the integrity of the Union, we are
LOST we shall perish suddenly, irretrievabv.
and ANONYMOUSLY. But if true to ourselves, as
| verify believe we will be, if true to the kind
ling memories of the past, and to the grandeur
of our mission as people, your armies will as
suredly triumph; and that triumph the Union
sentiment of the South will render complete
and enduring, applause and thus, out of all
this national turmoil, and battle and bloodshed
and wiingng anguish, there will in the end
arise a future for our country, bright as that
rainbow which spans the mists that mount
above the tortured hell Of Niagara's dark wa
tiers. For that future, that bow of promise and
OF beauty may well be accepted as the appro-
pirate emblem. Applause
One OF the most fearful obstacles which has
been encountered in the successful prosecution
of this war is the disloyalty found in the midst
| OF us. Cries of That's So This is espec-
tally true in relation to Washington aud the
Border States but it is in great degree true
everywhere and to this is traceable much of
that encouragement under which the nation is
now suffering
The country is now rejoicing in those bold
and decided measures which the President is
taking to subdue his fatal source Of weakness
and defeat. [Cheers. II is IA cain that tie
stat,oart arms and hearts Of thts great nation t0i}
at the pumps, so tong as men a'e kept on b0aYd
t0th 0agers an their pockets, 1chO at eUery stoiea
opportunity are boring holes IN the bottom VI tie
noble ship on acIlch ,Se are embarked. Applause
Fellow-citizens, the thought of dismembering
this Union, which has been the source of all
our strength and all our joys as nation, can
be entertained by no true man. Dismember-
ment would involve the abasement of ali which
We, Americana, have SO long and SO justly
been proud, and the complete ruin Of the grand
inheritance which we have received from our
fathers, and which it is our duty 80 transmit IN
diminished in its blessings TO our descendants.
1t would conduct US from palaces of prosperity
and power to novels of Wretchedness and 10
graves of dishonor.
When the wise men of old, sitting in judg-
ment upon the rival claims OF two mothers TO
the possession OF the same child, decreed that
it should be cut in twain, and that QUE halt
should be given to the enc claimant and the
other half to the other, it was the false mother
who cepted and exuhed in the Judgment while
the true mother turned away with horror, pre-
t.rring to commit the life her offspring to the
keeping of even her own enemy, rather than
that it should titus perish The filia aud the
maternal instincts ale III this regard the same
The man who is willing that this prospesous
and free country shall be severed by the sword
of treason now suspended over it, may have
been born upon American soil, but he has no
American heart in his bosom. Cheers, and
cries OF good The true son of the Republic
like the true mother, turns away from the pro-
posal with Indignation and adherence. [Great
cheering.