The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-11-21
Resignation of BreckinrIdge---A ScRth-
ing EXpOsmce of his TrensOm.

The Louisville Journal of October 29th has this sting
ing comment upon Brecknrdge's recent manifesto:
we have heard that John G. Breckenridge has publish
ed manifesto to the people ofKentucky, dated at BOW
ing Green, the rebel headquarters, but have been
unable to get a sight of it. The St. Louis Republican,
appears to have been fortunate and gives US some
insight into its contents. MIR. Breckenridge it Is
written at the first moment since his expulsion from home
that he could place his feet the soil of Kentucky
This is most impudent perversion of the TRUTH for he
never expelled from home he left Lexington i'm
PEELED by his guilty fears of arrest and his retreat
lighted by the burning sefconseiousness ofhs COM
pcity with treason.
| When the mock "Duken CT Tobin's comedy is compel-
ed to Icy aside the robes Of authority he does with
constrained grace las well bred dog walks down stairs
when he preparations making for kicking him down
and in the spirit Breckenridge resigns his seat as
member of the Senate of the United States saying, "
exchange with proud satisfaction term Of six years in
the United States Senate for the musket of soldier
This IL the buster of the "Ancent Plsto Tor we all
know that the service of the ex-senator if he serves ut
ALL will be in some honorary position with sword ard
u charger. St. Louis contemporary says the adj
dress would fill two of its columns, and is made of
Breckenridge says there is long
err Senate the United States within the meaning and
spirit of the Consttutionhe United States no longer
exists-the Union is dissolved"
But Kentucky is still of the United States his
deceived and betrayed constituents still loyal they
recognize proudly the existence of the government OF
their fathers and they deny that the Union is dissolved
By what argument Mr. Breckenridge assert that the
Union dissolved now more than was Ia August las
that the existence of the United States has been i'm
pered the session of Congress- when he occupied
his seat Senator OF the United States from the state
of Kentucky and drew his pay from the federal treas
urery for his services If Mr. Breckenridge believed
when he took the governments gold, that the United
States longer existed, that the Union was dissolved,
he acted like petty larceny thief and swindlsr He
knows that his is indefencble he is setconVic-
ted of the vest treachery to the state which has honor
ed him. and being unwlingto face the indignant peo-
pie of Kentucky, he has sneaked from their pres
ence and, surrounded by cuthroats and thieves, IN
cendaries and feons, body guard, has issued his
impudent manifesto.
We do care particularly about seeing the text OF
the last dying speech and confession oJohn G. Breckn
ridge. We know that he cannot justify his conductbu
that he has the nsdous talent to conceal his real pur
poses beneath gttering sentences and honeyed words
The Republican calls them FRIVOLOUS and unJustlhabie
excuses for bad act But the trial and condemnation
of Mr. Breckenridge held and pronounced before
the jury of popular opinion months and months ago
While he holding the second office IN the gilt OF the
people and presiding the Senate of the United
States; while he afterwards candidate for the
presidency and while he exercising the duties OF
United States Senator he plotting to betray his
country, and in league with the Infamous traitors
who conspired to break up the government
OF all the persons engaged in this nefarous work, he
reached the lowest depth of degredaon for he allowed
himself be used fourth candidate to distract and
divide the of toe country with the full confidence
that it would lead to the election of Mr.. Lincoln, and
thus present the southern macontentS pretext fol-
their acts of secession. While those who wsre his Eel
lows in this treachery left their seats in Congress, he re-
manned there, and aid to them in opposing every
appropriation ofmen and means to resist the rebellion
although it menacing, within five six miles, the
very federal capital where he sitting. No man is
more deeply and terribly responsible for the blood and
page crime and horror of the last six months He
knows that he is guilty Cain after the first ratricde
arefugee from his native state with the brand upon his
brow and the gnawlng vuture of remorse at his heart
His fate will be that of traitor.
| In last hattie