The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-07-03

men who have not the independence 10 DC el-
Their Republican or Democratic.
DEMOCRACY REDlDIvUs.-The d$nsocratlc
editors and politicians are busy at work trying
to galyanize new life into the Democratic par
| ty. and get it into working order for the COM
| ing Fall campaign. Various are the shifts re-
sorted to by the different democrats to CON-
pass the desired ends. The memory of Douglas
is appealed to by many, as charm to keep the
old members in the party together as we'll as
to make new converts. 1t is claimed that
Douglas Democracy was of puref and better
kind than common Democracy, and it might be
great deal purer and better, and then have
little to boast of. We have no disposition to
detract one iota from the fame of Mr.. Douglas
1t is claimed for him, that the moment Stump
ter fell, he went to the President and rendered
him his support until the rebellion was crush
ed That was patriotic and praiseworthy in
Mr. Douglas, but according to the testimony of
his friends, he should have done that some
time before, instead of waiting until the war
had actually commenced. The Chicago Post,
edited By Mr.. Sheahan the bographer of Mr..
Douglas and it is said bis most intimate friend,
says that Mr.. Douglas regarded Mr.. Breck-
enridge as the most infamous and the meanest
of ali the conspirators, land had he been sustain.
ed by the Republicans during the previous ses-
sion in passing the Crittenden Compromise, he
would have exposed to the people of the South
| the long and deliberately planned scheme OF
Cobb, Breckenridge, Yancey and several north
,ern Congressman and politicians to seize the
federal government, destroy the Union and
erect southern republic. He would have ex-
posed on the stump these men and their tPea-
son, and have made even the south too hot to
hold them.
| 1t seems to US that this is no great praise OF
the patriotism of Mr. Douglas. 1t is confessed
that he knew of''the long and deliberately plan
ned scheme of Cobb" and others tto seize the
Federal government, destroy the Union and
erect Southern republic But he refused to
expose "these men and their treason" because
the Republicans had failed to sustain him du-
ring the previous session in passing the Crit
tenden Compromise" Is it Douglas Democra
cy to sacrifice the whole country-its peace,its
pros perity, its honor if not its very exis tence
to punish political opponents The man who
stands by and sees murder committed, with nc
effort TO prevent it, is punished as an access o.
ry to the crime How much better was Mr.
Douglas, according to the showing of his mos
intimate friends, than Breckinridge, Cobb an6
Yaneey themselves, if he knew nearly yeal
before hostilites commenced, that there was {
conspiracy on foot "to destroy the Union ana
erect southern republic" and yet made nj
movement to expose the traitors? Such De-
mocracy is that We believe will hardly commend
itself to men who have to suffer all the horrors
of this war, which might have been prevented
if the plan of the treason and the traitors them
selves had been made known ia time.
But in the next paragraph Mr.. Sheahar
puts another face upon the mat ter. Speaking
of the attachment of Mr.. Douglas to the Dem
ocratic party, at the time of the fall of Stump
ter, he says:
He never felt so attached to or more firmly
j convinced of the justice of the great principles
q he had adv coated as he felt then, when be knew
n that the triumph of the opposite doctrines ha(
brought the country into actual war"
So accustomed has Mr.. Sheahan become tt
charging to the Republican party, the war an(
all its horrors, that he forgets what he said bn
a moment previous, and goes out of his way t.
make the false charge. If,as Mr.. Sheahan say
Mr.. Douglas knew of and could have "exposet
to the people the long and deliberately planne'
scheme OF Cobb, Breckinridge, Yancy and sew
eral northern Congressman and politicians. /,
seize the Federal government, destroy the Tn
ion,and erect southern republic" then it wa
not the triumph of Republican doctrines tina
drought the country to actual war;
The Democracy will have to employ SOM
smarter logic than the editor Of the Chicag,
Post gets up, to Prove that Democracy shoult
be allowed to take the reins OF the governmen
, again into its parrisidaI hands.