The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-08-15
AenOsha, Thursday, Aug. 10, 1861
The lesson to be learn. d.

the United States, it is patience. We are sat
isfed of the Justice of our cause and the purity
f our intenliors, and the genuineness of our
patriotism, bat We need patience and trust in the
final triumph of the Right When this
reasonable rebellion broke out, before it
had time to gather force and assume the
alarming aspect it nov wears,we believe few
we'll directed blows might have been dea 1t that
would have, for u time, at least, secured peace,
but the cause would have remained to break out
again, when we least expected it. The fire OF
rebellion might have been smothered and for
awhile kept under but not extinguished. 1t was
therefore, no doubt ordered, wisely, that trea-
son and imbecility should hold the high places
of the Government, and thus permit the great
wickedness to rpen, and bear It's fruit, which
is nothing less than war and bloodshed. 1t was
necessary that the nation should be punished
for its wickedness ami folly-wckedness in fos-
tering that sum of all crimes, slavery, and folly
in entrusting the administration Of the Govern
rnent so long TO open and avowed disunonists
and traitors The very men who have been
for years, entrusted with all the power of the
Government, have declared their intentions I'M
der certain contingencies, to destroy the Gov
eminent and break up the Union, and yet with
an infatuaton never before exhibited, they have
been retained in place and power. And even
yet, after the war has been raging nearly six
months, hunIr of traitors and Gisunionists
occupy high places of trust and responsibility
dau tbo n how IN
throw.
Under sucl circumstances, need we wonder
at the occasional success OF our enemies and the
corresponding defeat of our armies The peo-
pie of the North need the discipline of defeat to
fairly rouse them TO sense of their response
bilities, and thoir to Ing neglected trusts In
their fancied security, they have forgot en- the
value of a Free Government, and the tluthful
motto, " eternal vigilance is the price Of libe,
ty," has been forgotten, or remembered only as
q meaningless formula.
We may judge somewhat of the utter care
lessness snd thoughtlessness OF the loyal PEG =
pie of the country when we take into conside-
ration the fact that when this rebellion finally
and Offices and posts of trust AID responsib ill
~ in the Executive department, hardly one was
filled by loyal, uncorrupted citizen of the Uni
led States Perjured taaitors filled nearly all
the Offices, foreign and domestic, civil, military
and naval, Never before in the history of ma
ions, was such wide spread moral corruption,
| Never before a Government whose Offices
we're all filled by traitors. Need we wonder
any longer at the temporary success of The reb
/ els We have affected to believe them too
! poor in money, men and ammunition TO sustain
is serious fight with this greatand strong nation.
But we have deceived ourselves. Only few
years ago, there were Thirty Millions of dollars
surplus in the National Treasury. In time Of
profound peace and of the greatest commercial
and financial prosperity, while that surplus in
| ne treasury should heve been doubled, it was
all swept away, and in a space of three yeai
The National Treasury was bankrupt and ma
tional debt of hundred millions of dollars was
contracted, when the present Administration
came into power, and the signal was given fol-
the traitors to act. Does anybody know wha
HcCfSCOp''O
cumulatons Of those three or four years. togeth
cr with the borrowed millions We do not
The traitors who flied all the executive offices
under the imbecile Buchanan, took care of the
money, and the well equipped and victorious
rebel army, is now rioting upon the proceeds o
the Federal Treasury While we were smiling
Mt their aboTtive attempts to negotiate a loan
IF fifteen millions. they were raising, equipping
and subsisting their armies upon the $l50,00O,
900 stolen from us While the Governmentwas
embarrassed with an empty treasury and debt
the rebels had the snug sum of at east 300,
100000 laid up as their stock in trade. This
was the use they made ofthe Government attel
they had determined upon their monstrous anC
parricidal scheme
With such advantages, we might have ex
pected the temporary success OF the rebels
The loyal people of the North could no: com
prehend the oial turpitude which century
contact with the corrupting institution of sla
very would engender, and they could not ap
preciate the fact tina nearly third of the pop
ulation of this country could have seriously de-
termined upon the destruction of such a Gov
eminent as ours When Senators and Repre-
sentatives, in their places in the Halls Of Con
gross, publicly proclaimed their treason and
boosted of it, we would not believe them. To
the Northern mind such thing seemed impos
slble. But we have learned the fearful truth
| tulness of those declarations What we then
deemed to be bluster and bravado we now kno W
to have been treason anG rebellion unmasked
Our incredulity and disbelief of the declarations
of the traitors themselves has worked to our
disadvantage thus far. While We were debating
the policy of compromise and inventing new
sacrifices to maze to the moloch of slavery, the
enemy was pertectng his plans and laying the
| foundation of treason aud rebellion wide and
deep. Under the speeious guise of constitu-
tional secession, revolasioa and tire overthrow
of the Government was planned, and so ingen-
iously that all through the Free States that
its advocates and abettors were AMI still
are openly and unblushingy assisting IN the
great overthrow. With our enrgies thus
paralyzed, all our plans constantly and
Immediately laid before the enemy, is it a
wonder that we have been circumvented and
efeated?
Whatwe must learn now is patence and trust,
even under temporary dofeat-to work and
wait for the fruition of our labors No great
blessing is ever secured without great labor
and patient perseverance. The Liberty and
the Free Government, under which we have
grown TO be one of the great nations of the
earth, was only secured at the end of a seven
years war-at the sacrifice of many valuable
llVes and untold millions of treasure. Patience
and nrm faith in the final triumph of right and
JUSTICE upheld our fathers in the most sore tri-
as and under the most hopeless reverses.-
Inc Union of these States was cemented by the
oiood OF patriots and heroes. 1t may be that
time, the great di sintaoro ton -, - ! Al -.