The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-10-23

Resolutions Adopted by the County DEM
ocrstic Meeting held in h ristsl last week.
The democrats who got together at the Agri>
cultural Hall last week. and nominated coun-
~ ticket, which they expect Republicans and
Union men to vote for. Of course. passed a
lot Of revolutions The Kenosha Times has IA
vored the public with two of these resolutions;
these two are probably regarded as the cream
of the who!e--the embodiment OF the democrat
ic wisdom of the county. The first resolution
quotes sentiment from Senator Douglas, Ut
tered short time before his death; this Is all
we'll enough, provided those who voted for
it cared fig for the advice of Douglas, or even
gave any practical proof that they are disposed
To follow the counsel of that statesman, in re
spect TO the upholding OF the administration in
the prosecution of the war. The second reso-
luton lads as follows:
Rssotued, That while we deny emphatically
that it is necessary to suspend or destroy the
Constitution to preserve it, and regard all such
doctrines as dangerous. we pledge the Govern
ment hearty md honest support, in the use
of all means recognized by the Constitution,
Christianity and the rules OF modern civilized
warfare, to crush the rebellion, and preserve
the Union, in the shortest way under the Con-
stitution.
Now if the first part of the foregoing resolu'
ton means anything, it is, that there is dis
position somewhere to suspend or destroy the
Constitution, - in the conducting of the war -
If ii is intended to convey the idea that the
President or Congress, or any department of
the government, has ever proposed to suspend
or destroy the Constitution, then the resolution
expresses sheer faIseh1od Dare the author
of the resolution. or those who voted for it, tell
the people who it is that believes it necessary
to suspend or destroy the constitutional order
to save the Union or suppress the rebellion?
The latter part of the resolution above quot
ed. expresses willingness to sustain the gov
eminent, to crush the rebellion in "rcGy ane
der the constitution" This is mere catch
phrase of the tory democrats all over the north
in order to keep up show of loyalty, they pro-
fess to go for the war eonstitutiondNy At the
same time they denounce the Presidents Proc
lamation of Emancipation, the confiscation acts
of Congress- and various other war acts and or
dees of the government as unconstitutional
We happen to know that some of the leading
spirits who voted for the resolution above cited
hold the Presidents proclamation and other
acts of the government wrong and unSonstitu'
tional. If the democrats who assembled in
Agricultural Hall last week, to nominate coun
ty ticket had believed the emancipation proc
lamation. and other prominent measures OF the
government for the suppression of the rebel
lion constitutional, they would have said so -
but this tehy dared not do, but adopted an equiv
ocal resolution, with sufficiently large loop
hole for any northern secessionist to escape
through. This resolution which bears the evil
dence of insincerity and hypocrisy upon its
very face. was no doubt regarded by it's au-
thors as an ingenious strategy to catch simple
Union men.