The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-03-13

Union.
It is worth while TO be historian,
when historical study and research are
used to enforce III the most eloquent
words, and by the most important IN
stances and authorities, the great facts
Of +he are which most affect us This
was done so admirably by Mr.. Ban
croft. in his address to the New } ork
Common Council on Saturday, the 22d
inst, that we print q few passages
which especially deserve remem-
brance. After showing shat the splr-
it of the fathers Of the country was
for liberty, % for the rights Of man
Kind" he passed on to say ofthe cause
Of the war: !
= For myself, / was one who desired
TO postpone or hoped rather altogethN
err to avoid the collision which has Ia
ken place, trusting that society by ae-
grees wo'dhaye worked itself clear by |
il, own innate strength and the virtue
and resolution Of me community. But |
siaysry has forced upon ns tine issue,
and has lifted up its band 20 strike q
death~biow At our existence IS 4 peo~
pie. It has ayowed itself y desperate
and determined enemy Of our nation
al life, of our unity as raPuO1c, and
henceforward no man deserves the
name OF q statesman who would con-
sent to the introduction OF that element
of weakness and division into any new
territory, or the admission oil another
Slave state into the Union.
OF the progress Of corruption under
the rule Of slave power, lie said
I" During eleven years Of peryerse
government, those rules are disregard
ed and it came to pass that men who
should firmly avow the sentiments OF
Washington and jefferson and Frank
lin and Chancellor Livingston were
DISTINGUISHED for the public service
that the spotess Chiet>Justice whom
Washington placed IT. the head of our
Supreme Court could by no possiblll-
W have been nominated for that office,
or confirmed. Nay the corrupt lnfu-
ence invaded even the very home OF
Justice. The final decree OF the Su-
preme Court in its decision on par
ticular case, must be respected and
obeyed the present Chlct~Justice has
on one memorable appeal acoompa-
MED his decision with an impassion-
ed defamation, wherein, with pro
found immortality which no one has
yet ever fully laid bare, creating the
people of the United States as a shrew
to be tanned by al open sc'rn OF the
facts of history, with 4 dreary indus
try,collecting evidences OF cases where
Justice may have slumbered or weak
ness been oppressed compromising for
want OF evidence by confidence of as
sertion, with q partialty that would
have disgraced an advocate, neglect
inghumane decisions OF colonial courts
and the enduring memorials OF colo
NAL statute>books, in his party zeal to
prove that the fathers OF our country
held the negro to have mo rights
which the white man is bound to re
spect,' he has NOT only denied the
rights of man and the liberties OF man
kind, but has not left Il footh"ld f0l
the liberty Of the white m"u to resi-
upon.
"That ill-starred disqulsition Of Ia,
ney, who, trust, did not intend tC
hang out the flag of diSunion, Is the
fountain-head Of this rebellion; that
otfense to the conscious memory OF the
millions convulsed our country with
the excitement which swept ever thosI
OF us who vainly hoped 10 pres erye a
stong and sufficient though mario"
isthmus that might stand between the
collecting floods. No nation can adopt
that Judgment as its rule and live.
OF the conduct Of the war he said
:. Finally, the people OF the Unitec
States must this day derive from the
example OF Washington lesson Of
perseverance. We have been forced
into a strife from which there has beer
no safe escape but by the manifesto
ton of an immense superiority OF
strength. The ages that are to come
will hold n close and severe reckoning
with the men IN power to-day on the
methods which they may adopt for
solving the question before them. In
the present state of things the worst
rashness is that which yields to com
promise from the teYerlshness OF I'M
patience. All the wise and good Of
the civilized world have their eyes up
on US. All civilized nations are wait
ing to see if we shall have the courage
to make it manifest that freedom is the
animatng principle OF our Constitu-
ton, and the life of the nation. But
here, too, on this day we have only to
read the counSels OF Washington
When by his Will lie lett swords to his
nephews, he wrote: These swords
are accompanied with the Injunction
not to unsheath them for the purpose
OF shedding blood, except it be for
self defense, OF in defense OF their
country or its rights and in the lat
ter case to keep them unsheathed, and
prefer falling with them in their hands
to the REIMBURSEMENT thereof "