The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-09-18
W. II. Carpenters Review
Mr. Fgyam's Address. . /.

| It would be Carrying the joke too tar, AM
doing Injustice to large portion OF our peo
pie, to represent this address as embodylng th'
| views of the democrats of Wisconsin. Georg'
B. Smith, Esq, one ofthe oldest and most eio
ouent democratic orators In the State, and A
f. r. Butler ESQ, who is too well known al
| a democrat to need any commentator, oP
posed it with all their power; and Jonathan Il
Arnold, a patriot, a democrat, an orator ana
gentleman, nut forth one of his happlest efforts
lnrotastino against the bitterness OF its partzaI
shirt at a time when the government stood II
| need IF the united voices and exertlons OF the
whole people -, ro
and probably never will have again. AS one o.
The delepates said to the rest, not one IN twenty
believed in the address. But they were "a ahgr!
at the administration, angry tnat NhcE nI
had baen Superseded; angry that he dld no.
accomplish some great thing before he was
sunerceded; angry at everybody and angry al
avervthino. they could not express their teel-
;ncrs % home and the world would not hear OF
heed them if they did; and they resolved ~ ~
| coma here and have one long, loud, saucy lain
| and then be silent forevermore. In THIS an
| orniohIa state they wanted a physician VINO
| could minister to a mind diseased sney
knew Mr.. Ryan had the ability TO 40 IL tnoJ
! thought he was in the MOOD TO DO IT, Acooi1
dinghy before the convention was ofgaut~oU'
| M Eldrpdoa of Fond du Lac, moved the APP
| no;rtr,ant Of q committee on resolutions Win
| 3 n Pvan for chairman. This was rather a
| loft handed compliment to the presiding OF
fcer who is ordinarily supposed to have sum
Gent intelligence to appoint committees oes
the bows were not going 10 Iorego .noL
treat thew wanted "saucy talk; anu tneJ
6xed it in advance, so that no bunder couia IN
terfere with their designs. Atter the peI'ha,
nent organization, Mr.. Eldredge renewed LIS
motion for the appointment OF eoninnlttee u
five on Resolutions, with MT: Ryan loE oht'lI
man This was carried, and MIR. Ryan pre-
sented his resolution, filling five columns IN
fine TYNE In the Netos. Mr.. Ryan called 1t an
address. hut no committee had been raised 10
draft an address; and the production IN guess
ton should be called "Mr. Ryan's resolution TO
kill the Democrat; party" Some nave su9~
oested that there was on his part suppressed
disrui.ed patriotism in writing this adaress ;
that he really deprecated the existence ., par
ties in this perilous hour, and therefore ue'ei
mited to destroy the only party IN "nioh ne nc
was entitled to raise his voice, OF eA0'o'oG -.
sertic mowers. There are some features OF the
address that render this theory pausioie' nu'
upon the whole it is not certain tha| 'hiS 10 Ito
true explanation,
The democratic party has been called by its
enemies the pro-slaIery party ms mas oeei :
repeued as a Islander by all the democrats Vi
wisconsin. They have said that with slavery
| we had nothing to do; that 1t was a local III
stitution protected in the States oy INC coheti-
tuition that the provisions OF the cohs'i'utlon
| in relation TO slavery, were a part OF the COM
| nron,;ses mon which that Instrument was
koSed and thatit was our duty to OBEY every
nrovision. whether we approved or diSaPPloV-
| "a Jefferson pronounced slavery a curse anu
n sin Bnt hear what Mr.. Ryan says
"Nature never placed the races together.-
When brought together, the servltude OF Inc
| interior is the best condition of both races a
necessary evil resulting from the violation OF
natural law in bringing them togeehef' ou'
Fapaticism did not SO zee it, &c, &C
Mr.. Jefferson did not SO see it; nobody IN Il
free state. except Mr.. Ryan, ever dld see 1t 50,
nor was it ever heard of III slave 0'a'e until
Mr.. Calhoun promulgated the infamous uVgin
to the establishment of the Christian worm.
The Standards have been universally execfateo
in history for enslaving the Indians. bHt ac-
cording to Mr. Ryan, this was perfectly flsnt'
The sin was in the white race coming neiI;
Mature never placed the races togethei'
| Bnt when the white man had committed the
! sin aginst nat ure of discovering anu s0s'it
nnon This continent, then inhabited by al In
| ferior race, he was perfectly justified IN en-
shaving il. 'sIf 1t is the best condition J0r 00H'
races s..rF .ss.---a a.
Is this democracy Is this the creed, which
if a man does not believe, he shall be driven
from the face of Mr.. Ryan and the whole dem
ocratic party? Mr.. Ryan tells us III the outse'
that cit becomes US to consider the apphcatloh
| Of old principles to new condtlons;" ana ne
has set us the example with vengeance Inc
most cruel and barbarons slavery ever known
on earth. the slavery Of the Indians by the
Standards, u.s. by the doctrine OF this address
justified per Sc made the platform OF demo
cratic convention in free and Christian couh-
irwin the last half of the nineteenth century,
i Did Mr. Eldredge, of Fond du Lac, and John
w, Carey, ESQ.,, of this city, both OF whom
voted for this address, believe in this part OF
lit or did they willingly vote an address they
did not believe in? If this complete Jus Utica
ton of slavery per Sc is an article OF demo
cratic faith. who originated it? Who has ever
before advocated it /? r In what convention has
1 it ever found favor, or IN what democratic
platform has it ever been plank ..-
i But q far more Objectionable, because mo re
i DANGEROUS part of the address, is its manifest
apology for the rebellion and its labored eft
forts 10 throw the blame of it upon the North
! Paragraph is piled upon paragraph to show
that the abolitionists are really answerrable to
this war; and the occasional express Tepudia-
ton of the necessary inference from all 1T
statements and arguments, cannot redeem i
with any intelligent reader. A skilful LAWYER
: wishing to apologize for murderer, would say
: snow gentlemen of the jury, do not ustif,
my client, but you should consider the circum
stances Of this offence My client was an hon
! est peaceable man, pursuing his own calling
on his own premises the deceased came
there came with insulting language and me
nacing gestures; my client declined any dis
cuss;on with him and requested him to g
away; but the deceased became more rude AM
, | nlia
{ every kind of offensive epithet, until finally
! oyerpow cred with anger the deceased ha'
inspired he struck fatal blow blow the Law
cannot Justify, &c" Now read this long ad
{ d Q - and see if it is not in this spirit and 0
r his character throughout This trick of org
n tory, to pretend one thing while really &C
v comprising another, and exactly the reverse
is not new with Mr. Ryan. Anthony practice
e the same art in his consummate Grafton to tn
q Roman citizen after the death of Caesar, i
which every school boy known how he pre-
tested, that Brutus was ian honorable man,
and at the same time convinced the people tina
q he was the vilest of malefactors Had An
e thony said Brutus was murderer, the peopl
would not have listened to him. Mr.. Rya
"a would not have been listened to, had he sal
= the words the rebellion was justihable. Bu
both could, and both have disguisedy, bU
: per eptibly, labored to carry their hearers to
conclusion directly to the point proposed.
5 is pretended that the object of the address
,e to incite the party to sustain the government
1t and how does it accomplish this: By Labor
J: ing. laboring laboring to show, that if tn
North is not absolutely in the wrong, yet tn
South have been annoyed and worried rl hu
man nature could endure no more ''Fhrice
he armed who hath his quarrel JUST" and TIL
he address labors to show that our quarrel is III
g. lust; that the South have taken up arms i
lie consequence of the triumph of sectional pa
ty in the election of Mr.. Lincoln What NOR
has JEFF. Davis ever claimed or said ? .-rs-.
The differences between the North an
South have swollen beyond the reach of arg
meut: a terrible exertion of physical strengi
- must settle the question. If the South wei
~ conquered, if this rebellion, were crushed o
- - then it would be proper to discuss what shou
" he her treatment. But at this time when reb