The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-05-09


of the United States necessarily passing through
Kentucky, as the Plug Uglies attacked a New
York Regiment passing through Baltimore? Can
you SymPathizs with and allow your traitors to
Join the South, and expect the friendship of the
Government? Win not regiment recruited
Tor Je Davis call forth another regiment TO fight
them on your own soil, ifyou have any Union
spirit worth preserving Clearly, your pretend
ed neutrality is active war against both parties.
Therefore let Kentucky at once choose between
the contestants. What has become of the hes
'tating States? Maryland is knocked endwise,
and is hurried around the vortex Of anarchy in
broken fragments, and must now stretch forth
her arms to the Union for aid or perish. Nlr-
gii'ia Is broken in two and her panic stricken
secesslonists are scattered like chat before the
storm they cannot organize against the Uni
ted States amidst the terror and disorder that
reigns III the eastern counties Is the war in
tile North as jeff. Davis promised 4? What
northern city, town hamlet or cottage is in dan
ger: Aye, Kentuckians, safety is only in the
Union. Choose the Union, and your beloved
Institution Of slavery will be respected, if you
must hug the viper to your bosoms There has
been stlong regard here in the North fer the
border States, but there is now an intense dis
IKE OF your Vasclllati0n you pretend to cover
up treason and war under the pretence of an
armed neutrality Drop your two edged sword
and go at once with the South if that be your
Ultimate purpose. Many think that such a
course would shorten the contest and obviate
the DIRE necessity of shedding oceans OF
| blood, perhaps of another war. In such event,
| The United States will doubtless adopt the hint
given by the New York Herald, the paper that
mas leu the South to the jaws Of destruction,
| anu now comes back to us and exposes your
weak point OF attack. Slavery will be abolish
cd in The weaker Cotton States, South Carolina,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida, by an or
der ofthe day. as John Quincy Adams predict
ed. Northern troops as well as Southern troops
will then be employed i'll REFRESHING disorder
and restraining massacre, and Northern as well
as Southern patriots must then sheath the
sword, and settle by discussion and legislation
the disposition Of the freed people. Such are
the ideas whose trembling outlines present
| themselves to the Northern mind as the prob
able pl ogramme OF action, whie the vast ener.
gcs Of the people are aroused to meet the first
shock of battle.
We enter on the great apocalyptic war hope
fully joytuly, and enthusiastic believing the
contest which the Southern people have precip-
itated in their blindness, will beg the richest
boon 10 them that Heaven cansgrant. Though
blind, they have seen clearly. In her wild de-
lirium the patient has called for a medicine
tor could have prescribed. In her calmest mood
the South expelled Yankee pedlars and hung
preachers, under the suspicion OF abolitonisn
as she termed it. In her g fine Madness" she
has called down the armed legions of Abolition
to OYelrun and take possession Of her fields, hel
ports, her cities; to emphasize their heresies
with the roar OF cannon, and to dignity them
selves with all the "pomp and circumstance o.
war" Nay, they have not separated from the
Mat EnrH t1D
bowels. Southern slavehol lers will this sum
mer see men on their soil whom but for seces
sion they had never seen; will hear language
but for secession they had never heard and Sam
DO and Guilty, as well as the dominant race >
will be initiated into the mysteries of abolition
and learn its wild, disorganizing theories. The
southern States dreaded the dissemination OF
the New York Tribune and inCend4ry prints.
but there is not an abolition papeI(as they term
them) III the United States bat will follow the
Northern army, with its weekly and daily is
sues, III ITS march down South and men who
were Heightened at Helpers book have tern
down the ievee and let in Northern publications
like Lopd to cover the land. Ideas 90 with
war ia modern times. The conquered always
adopt The opinions, systems, and literature ofthe
! cVn4Ic OF, Tor these opinions are clothed with
the pieouse Of success and power. The 1eason-
Ing OF The South is contemplate, but her mad
He's - divine Her reasoning deiies human
Slavery and builds temple for It's worship.
and WIltes cut ritual enjoining every knee to
DO" 10 ,and punIshing every tLOught against
II Us INC most objectionable blasphemy but
her NIa5t nadness has called down the hosts
OF Inhde,s . set fire to her temple dash tie
grim luul flUnl his throne, grind its fragments
into powder before his face, as Red Battle
stamps his foot. Yes, the dense darkness of
the South has led her 10 eternal day her apos-
tacy has brought her into the presence of the
true !SOd-even as she falls, she rises. Arrayed
against a People now whose arts and manufac-
tories have supplied her with tho implements
of battle; whose fires and iorg1s can melt mouu-
tains Of ore into every form hat peace or war
reuuire; though borne down by The weight Of
mlghter forces, though staggering beneath the
volIeyed thunder belehed from engines foreign
to her cline Though she tall beneath fiery bill
lows and descends to the abysses Of Death-'hs
not lone. She ascends with the bloom of In
mnrtalify on her cheek and the joy Of Eternity
in ber eve-her dross almost consumed, her
weakness and her fever departed. The lost
PIeiad has returned to its sisters, brighter than
hefore-" Tie Queen Of the South''-"Tbe
Paragon of Natons?' No longer the New Da-
bemey or Congo, but the worlds witness in be-
half Of Freedom against Slavery. Free Labor
shall raDcvate her fields, and with her will be
the spoils and the fruits If not the shout Of vic
tory Though she must yield her sword to the
invader, she receives i'll return The key of power
the great truth that Freedom alone can un-
lock the citadel of greatness, that Peace and not
War can impart the distinction that she covets.
God alone is great, and great while he is alone;
man is strong only in the fellowship OF his race
and the good will of his species.
If war we must have, such | ardently pray
may be its results. There is no one so stolid as
net to see that this war is conflict Of ideas.
If we are overthrown, who does not see that a
contest fought upon so conspicuous theatre
the world being spectators-would be regarded
as the Judgment of Heaven in favor Of slavery
of the right of stronger nations to ens'aye
the weaker. When the Court Of Heaven re-
cognizss the Southern Confederacy, England
and France will do it too; and the change of
opinion which Secretary Stephens predicted in
favor Of slavery, will be rapid and permanent
Write me your opinions in full, and l will
give them all the publicity l can.
j. 7. MILLS.