The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-01-17
The Ezemoss,n Be.nocrat en- secessso

8 In all human probability, James Buchanan
viii be the last President Of the United States =
Such is the startling announcement made by The
Democrat the organ OF Democracy in this county
in its leader of last week. Does any body doub
that with the editor Of that delectqbe sheet Tho
wish is father to the thought 2" If so, we believe
they have entirely too much confidence in human
nature. After making this announcement, tht
editor proceeds 10 argue, at length, the question
of dissolution. He proves, to his own sat
isfaction at least, that the slave States have no
only the constitutional right to secede dissolve tht
Union, and demoish the present Federal Govern
ment, but that they have sufficient cause, in The
election of Mr.. Lincoln to justify them in a resor
to revolution and disruption of the government
The arguments of the editor of the Democrat il
favor ofsecesson might be considered lame b,
some people, but not so with him. He says, . tht
fr amers of the Constitution hoped, and no doub
expected. the Union to be perpetual" and in the
next sentence, lie says, "They the trainers of the
Constitution expected time to come when one or
more Of the States should secede" It looks to us
if this is a flat contradiction, but the Democrat
may not think it so. In the same paragraph, he
says, They the trainers of the Constitution de
clared any State had an inherent right to secede
at pleasure" Perhaps the editor of the Democrat
will have the goodness to inform US when and
where the trainers of the Constitution made such
declaration.
Much other matter OF the same sort is crowded
into this plea for secession and the South Carolina
traitors. dc not follow the argument through
because that is not our object. We simply wisl
to show up the spirit that actuatcs modern Democ
racy in this time Of our national peril.
In another column, the editor of the Den,ocra
says:
''Reglets are daily expressed in our hearing
that Mr.. LINcoLN cannot be installed in the office
to which he has been elected
Now, without wishing 10 mpugn the Dem 2ero
editors verac'ty, we venture to say that no such
regrets have hccl expressed in his hearing EXCEPT
i'll jest Thereis no Republican in Kenosha Uhe
believes that Mr.. Lincoln cannot be Installed II
the office to which he has been elected, nor do We
believe there Is Democrat in Ken osha so lost tC
all sense of patriotism, dey old of love Of coun
try as 10 bar llr for an instant such belief unless
the this same editor. He continues, eDemo
Gratis az u ell as ltcpublicans join in the wish
though he does not tell what the irish is that they
join in, and we suppose it was put IN merely as Il
rhetorical flourish, for it has neither sense nor trul
In it. The gist of this article is that the. edito!
hopes that " Mr., Lincoln will choose the better
part" and basely ignobly, and eowardly refuse
to accept the cffce-the trust and res ponsbility-
given to him inasked and unsought by thev voice
Of his oounirymen. -- = 4s--a 81
Thus, after attempting to show that James Blu.
chanan must necessarily bethe last President OF
the United States that the South Carolina traitors
ha We Justice, Right and the Constitution on THEN
side and IL there is no power or authority in The
Federal Government to stay Its own destruction
that this great ind free people have no resource
alternative but to sit down in worse than drivel-
ling imbcciliy and calmly witness the destruction
other Free Institutions, their Constitution their
Laws and all those elements of national greatness
at the will of the first mob of traitorous insur.
gents that see fl to light the LEGENDARY torch
This is the view that northern Democracy takes OF
the present state of things, and the editor Of the
Democrat seems actually to revel in the contem-
nlation of this picture he has drawn -
After show ing that the Southern States have the
RIGHT TO secede, and that the Federal Government
has no authority power to prevent them, he
proceeds to show that in case of war, the North is
entirely unable TO cope with the South. He
thinks that Northern men are apt to underrate the
st rength and resources of the Southern States and
goes on to mark out the weakness OF the North,
snd the strong points the South would have, he
SAYS. 9 the Southern people are more military in
feeling than those OF the North Many other
matters lie brings up to prove his position that
Northern men are an ignorant, cowardly race who
are entirely unable to cope with the science, gal
lsntry and bravery Of Southern men.
1t is perfectly proper, we presume, for the edi-
tor of the Democrat to revile. belle, and defame his
ueighbors, and at the same time eHalt the South
Carolina Jnion breakers and traitors, TO the
yant. Of beroes patriots, and statesmen The prin-
ciples of fhe Republican party which he SO persist
entity bellies protect him in the right Of Free Speech
and a Free Press. but were he in South Carolina,
among the heroes and patriots ofhis imagination,
and should ind lge in such freedom of the press,
he would be allowed few prayers and a short
shrift before he would be dangling from the first
Palmetto branch that could be found.
The southern insurgents are no doubt delighted
Mt the reception of such cheering accounts from
their northern allies If they believe such witness
es as the Democrat and its coadjutors, they must
suppose that the victory has already been won,
thar Lincoln will never dare to accept 6he office
to which he has been elected, and that they have
only to persist in their rebellion to frighten the
North into quiet surrender of the Government
AGAIN into their hands. Whether the editor of the
Democrat and his hacker expect that in such a
case. the emoluments and perquisites Of their Office
will be continued in the family for an indefinite pc
Rod under such d dictatotsbip,we are not inform
ed. but we strongly suspect that such hope, and
perhaps promise to that effect, lay at the bottom
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