The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-08-07
Party FIrst---The Country Afterwards.


The leaders aud prominent men of the Dem
ocratic party, in spite of the war we are ell
gagged in-in spite of the fact, that all loyal
men are called upon by every motive Of PARROT
ism, love of country, and attachment to the ia
stitutlons of freedom, to forego their partizan
clamor, and to join in the work of protecting
and preserving the Constitution and the Un"
ion-continue to harp on politics, and to pre-
vent men from enlisting by stirring up. and
creating party prejudices and party hate. The
Milwaukee Nescs of this week, winds up po-
litical leader, uuder the head of "Parties," as
follows:
"There can be no compromise between those
who battle for the Constitution as 1t IS and the
reconstruction of the Union as it was, and
those who seek through fame and blood an
impossible Union upon the ruins of the Union
our fathers made. 1t icdS because the party Of
the Constitution 1cas defeated that ace had aoar
When the party of the Constitution is traumph-
ant, ace shall again haze peace We fear neoer
before"
This is an answ er to the appeal of Repubi
cans to forget party spirit, party rancor and
hate for the time being, and to devote the en-
ergies of the whole loyal North to putting down
and crushing out this accused rebellion But
the Old rule or ruin policy of modern Democra-
cy is still strong, We are told at this late day,
that the only cause Of the war was the defeat
of the Democracy, and the triumph of the Re-
publicans, in the election of President Lincoln,
and that the only thing needed to give peace
a.. "a bn nj IOamOpra
party. No man, if he believes the assertion
made by the editor of the Neacs, that 1t was
only because the Democratic party was defeat
ed that we had war, and that we shall only
have peace when that party again triumphs' is
going to enlist in the army. And this the ed
itor well knew when he penned that ialsehood.
| Why should Democrats enlist, in Il war not Tor
the country or the Union, but a political war
only for party supremacy? This is the idea
inculcated by the NeacS, and those who are OF
its way of thinking. A widely circulated pa
per like the Milwaukee Ne1cS must, of course,
have its influence among the people. That in
duence is against enlisting and against the I'm
ion cause, and just to that extent in favor OF
!
list to fight the rebels when they can bring
about peace so much easier, by again placing
the Democratic party in power and such men
as the editor of the Ne,oS, again in some snug
and lucrative office. We are sorry to say that
the Milwaukee NeseS' doctrine has several &C
tive and unscrupulous advocates in this place.
They lose no opportunity to declare that this
| is an abolition war-that the Republicans are
all Abolitionsts, and that they are waging this
war only for the purpose of robbing ''our
Southern brethren" of their rights and their
81 ives, and that it is only necessary to take
power from the Republican party, and give it
to Democrats, to close the war at once. The
creed of such men of course. is-Party first
the country afterwards.
We beseech our fellow citizens of whatever
political party they may have hitherto been, to
beware of such reasonable teaching. What
ever its object may be, its only effect is to
strengthen the hands of the rebels and traitors,
who are fighting for the destruction of this
free and benefcent Government and the dis
memberment Of this once glorious Union. This
Republican administration has almost ruined
the country in its anxiety to prove that 1t was
not actuated by any ill-will against the South
or its institutions. Precious time millions OF
money, and we fear tices even, have been sac
rifced to prove to the country aud to the
world, that this is not war upon any party or
any section, or any institutions of any section
or party-that it is a war simply and solely in
defence of the Constitution, the Union and the
Government handed down to US by eur revO-
lutionary sires against the rebels, traitors, and
would be PARTICLES. Come up to the work, in
the name of the Lord, and we shall conquer Il
glorious peace, preserve our beloved Union in
its integrity, and hand down to our children
the priceless boon Of free government ant
free institutions, strengthened and cementet
by the blood Of heroes, patriots and martyrs.