The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-05-22
GENERAL oRDEL no. II.


The three states of Georgia, F lorida and South
Carolina, comprising the Military Department
/ of the South, having deliberately declared them
selves no longer under the protection of the
| United States of America, and having taken up
1 arms against the said United States, it became
a military necessity to declare martial law
! This was accordingly done on the 2jth day Of
! April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in free
country are altogether incompatible. The per.
sons in these three States, Georgia, Florida and
| South Carolina, who have heretofore been held
SIS slaves are therefore declared forever free.
We fail, entirely, to see the point Of dread in
that proclamation. Those three States have
been the hotbed of this rebellion, They have
| fed aud nourished treason against the govern
| tons until their .4e teachings have eliminated
in this accursed rebellion. Why should not the
cause of this hatred 10 Free Institutions and to
a Free Government, be at length reached, and
eradicateds
We repeat, we can see nothing heinons in
this notwithstanding Tor which it's uthor
should be court-mar.ialled or even recalled O,
deprived of his command. 1t has been stated
that successor to Gen. Hunter was on his way
to Port Royal, and that the President was 90.
ing to come out with q most unequivocal con
demnstion of the. Proclamation and its princi
pies. Gen: Hunter was 10 be fairly scorched
by the hot rebuke of the President. But as yet
none Of these things have transpired, and for
one, we hope they never will. Whether Gen.
Hunter has the power or not 10 enforce his proc
lamation, he has shown his good will to avail
himself of the most effective means Of putting
down the rebellion
We think every friend of the country, every
person who wishes to see this rebellion put
down and peace restored to our unhappy and
distracted country, and the Union restored on a
safe and permanent basis, should think several
times, ere joining in this clamor of condemna-
ton of policy that reason, common sense
philo sophy, experience and the judgment of at
least one half the loyal people of the country
suggest and approve. In all the State Of South
GsIolina there is probably not one STAKEHOLDER
loyal to the Union and the Constitution. The
only loyal element left is, the slaves of these dis
10y al masters. In that portion of the State occu-
pied by our forces the slaves constitute the only
native population left. They are there without
masters, and without the policy declared by
Gen Hunters Proclamation, in case of a patch
ed up compromise as the basis of re-organiza-
ton of the Union. the United States would be
held responsible to the owners for every one of
those negroes. And that seems TO be the
end to which the matter is now tending. We
presume we have not a few good Democrats in
the loyal States who would see no Inconsistency
IN making the loyal States pay all the expenses
of this war, and then 3n the top of that pay the
rebels for all the slaves they have lost, and all
the property they have destroyed. We must
confess that we have no such tenderness for the
authors of this most unholy, most unual ural and
unprovok ed war, and this great and atrocious
injury to our country. IF the President does
not sustain Gen. Hunter in the position be has
taken we shall be sorry to say the least
We know moi what potent argument may be
made in favor OF allowing the institution 20 come
out of this storm, Gifts own raising unscathed and
unimpaired, when every other interest of the
country is suffering so much, but we presume
there must be such, or there could not be so
many people, entirely devoted to such poll
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