The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-12-25
KENOsIA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY
The Fu,s,urre Or Or cur CountrY. v


T. The Eufure Of cur Country.
War is the greatest calamity that can befan g
Nation. But it is an instrument that an All wise
Providence has ever made use of when a people
become corrupt, socially and morally, to bring
them back to sense of justice and duty to God
and to their fellow men, Wien we consider that
| for long years this people as Nation, have adj
ministered the affairs of government without
a due regard ofthe high obligations, which they
SO people owe to Heaven; can we wonder that
God left US to blndly follow our own way and
thus become involved in one ofthe greatest wars
that ever cursed any Nation of the globe.
Cur forefatbers bequeathed rich inheri-
| lance 1t came to a Sp0tlesS robe; no widow S
aud orphans tears had discolored it, no blood OF
murdered victims 10 the Molochs shrine, stained
IFS purity 1t is true that sum Of yillainies"
isted then but not as now. not as in wears after.
But our Fathers uever designed it's perpetuation.
The declaration Of independence proves it, and
the word stare is not fonud in the constitution o.
the United States, for those who drafted that in
strument would not have it there, and it never
wac designed that that hydra headed curse should
become national, that it should be perpetuated
Men have come to regard political aggrandizmeni
Of greater import than God Self and self-emol-
ument has ben the highest aim of many of our
politicians; Men vote tor party and not for prin'
cpe. The present generation like the past, have
become politically corrupt, The Constitution has
been mutaated, until it means almost any thing
but liberty Old Rome in her darkest days OF
blood, never presented sadder picture to the
world, than we do to day. Almost financially
ruined, surrounded by traitors on every hand
lurking like tends in our very midst and fatteuing
| upon the spoils of the land; seeking and holding
| fiices high in the gift of the people, they labor
with matchless energy to overthrow the very
essence and principle of Liberty. This in a meas
ure is owing to the ignorance of those aoho eote
The ignorant are always led by the corrupt; they
become their willing tools-Demecracy I'm namel
like the silvery tones of the lutte and harp has a
charm more potent to win the heart of the igno-
rant than the best of logic the soundest of reas
on Its name sounds like the music of sweetly
flowing waters and the song of the poetry Of the
flower be>spangled prairies, to the of the OPP
pressed foreigner as he seeks for place to rest in
the LAND of the Free and home of the brave. -
He dreams that it is the passport to wealth and
renowu ard soon learns to sing its songs, and rev.
ell with bacchanalian gods, till at last, his gray
locks go down to The grave, sorrowing that he
never found the precious p' 0m'Sed bourne. be-
ieve that G rcd Almighty has hand in the present
war; and believe he will rule and direct this
war to the freedom of the downtroden and OPP
pressed of our land No sin can prosper is as
suredy written in the book of Fate, as in revela
ton And unless, slavery is speedily abrogated
believe such calamity win befall this
Il 81; Tho
overthrow of the Egyptians the firm and lasting
perpetuity of the Union, and piare for our gov
ernment among the nations Of the earth, depends
up, its speedy abolition. When we take retro
spective of the past, and view the euormty ofthe
crimes that slavery has perpetrated, can we Won
der that our land is deluged with blood. For
years the command of heaven has been, 'Let my
people go, And the prayers and grOans OF the OPP
messed and those that love God, and fear him,
nave como li weet incense before high heav>
en- aud God could not turn deaf ear. Slavery
has plunged the cold steel into the heart OF the
victin drunk the life blood of helpless innocence
and made barren, deserts dreary waste, the
field that once blossoned the rose 1t mas snap
ped asunder the bonds Of Union, that should have
held with an eternal fealty, the veal of COM
mon Country.
ii has armed brother agsiust brother, and faith
err against son. With these truths before US we
can tell aoeH what the future of orr country scW
be, unless slavery is ahrogeted With its aboli
ton ceases party strife can then travel North
and South, and preach the same gospel, and
worship under the same vine and ig-tree." Free
schools and manufactures will spring mp in the
South and nieu of enterprise and educat ion vii
go there and build up IT'S institutions no
longer held down by that one dark curse,
equally degrading to the poor white, who is but
little better than the poor black, aud almost az
much a slave.
The mail, and postofice department then will
then become paying instead of nonepaying
thing, as it always has been, and blessings gene.
raj full and free will flow and cover the land But
let ne war close without accomplishing its tull
mission patch up the broken bleeding mingled
thing with compromises, and like the serpent in the
fable, when ii has acquired sufficient strength it
will turn and sting you again.
Heaven will be satisfied with nothing but the
discharge of our whole duty TO our fellow men.
God will bold US responsible as people, 1t we
would stay the effusion of blood if we would bad
up the broken hearted if we would dry the wild
owls and orphans tears, let US act for the future
glory and we'll being of our beloved country. We
hold its moulding in our baud to day shall 1t be
bright and full of hope or dark and bloody.
Let every American Citizen answer for the rights
act for the right and the God of the rightw bless
US as people, and as Nation,