The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-09-05
who are the Friends of the Unions

tits afavorite pastime with Northern sympa-
tbizers with Southern Rebellion and Secession
to boast of their love for the Union. In the same
sentence in which they declare that every stare
has a Constitutional right to secede at pleasure
and that the present war for the Union ana the
Constitution is unjust, unhoy and wrong, on
our side, they make the strongest declarations
of attachment TO the Union They will yield
10 nobody in love for the Union, but Will declare
in the same sentence that it is perfectly lawful
aud right for anybody who lives south of Mason
81 Dixon's line, aud owns slave, TO break it
up at any time With what tenacity and inge'
nuity do these same men attempt to prove that
the Republicans are the real disunionists, and
therefore unfit to be trusted with the powers OF
the administration. Half the burden of Demo.
cratic electoneering during the last Presiden-
tial election was that the Republicans were Abb
oitionists, and therefore in favor Of dis0nion
while they claimed that Democracy was the on
ly real Union party. Time and the trapspira-
ton of events have proved both assertions false
1t is claimed by some. even now, that the
Democratic party--the very men who are fight
ing for the purpose Of breaking up the Union
is the Union party. They tell of the great
personal and party sacrifices Democrats have
made md are still making for the sake of the
Union. We take issue with that kind OF Union
men, and will show the falsity of their preten
sions. The Democratic &c. Committee Of this
County have called County Convento to
choose Democratic State Convention; and to
whom is the call addressed? The call says.
1.-THE Democrats of Kenosha County aud all
others opposed to the sectional policy and plat
form of the Republican party, are requested Ia
meet by their delegates" &c.
What is the sectional policy of the Rcpub-
lican party? The authors of that cali know las
well as we do, that it is the preservation of the
Union, and to support the Constitution of the
United States, that all portions of the country,
North and South, East and West, may enjoy
all the rights and privileges guaranteed to them
by that Union and Constitution Men may call
such policy " sectional but that does moi
make it so. If any are opposed to such apol
cy, they will of course respond to that cal, and
if none other, the Convention, we believe, will
be very poorly attended.
In favorable contra distinction to this illiberal
and partizan call, is that of the Republican Co.
Committee. 1t says:
The Committee, therefore, invite all Friends
Of the UniOn who are in favor Of speedily put
ting down treason and crashing out rebellion
by a vigorous prosecution of the war, to coope-
rate with us in the Convention"
Which sounds the most Sectional" and ''par-
titan? We submit to the " friends of the I'm
ion, " of whatever party persuasion they may
have been heretofore, that their Union predilec-
tons and procvities can only be made availa.
BILE and practical by merging cheerfully and en-
tirely with the great majority of the American
pc ople now fighting for the preservation of the
Union, under whatever name they may be
called. What is left of the Democrats party il
only that portion which is now either at heart
in sympathy with the rebels in arms, or in ia
vor of a patched up peace by treaty with the
rebels, on the basis of a dissolution Of the I'm
ion. Be not deceived by the plausible talk Of
declared secesionists. They may declare Mcil
devotion to the Union. while they clamor fol-
its peaceable dissolution, and denounce that as
a sectional policy" that looks to the preser
walton of the Union, and the equal and impair
tial execution'of the laws in all portions of the
country, as the only bulwark of our Free Insti-
tutions.