The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-07-17
The Hznster Rnee.

From The Richmond (Ya) Wing Of June %.
Since the great battle of Shiloh, and including
it, we have had an almost uninterrupted So les
of victories We have encountered the enemy
generally with heavy odds against Us, and fire.
uuently behind entertainments, but in no single
instance, unless it be the unexplained affair of
Lewisburg, have Southern troops failed to ex.
hibit superior manhood to the mongrel and
many-tongued enemy.
Indeed, the whole experience of the war is
an attestatiOn of the truth long since discover
ed by impartial observers that the master-yace
of this continent is found il the Southern
State. OF a better stock originally, they have
ruled in affairs of State by force eff the strong
er will and larger wisdom that pertnin to aud
distinguish superior races 0fmen, while on the
field of battle they have in every contest held
priority of place, conc sded to them by their
by their present adversaiies.
This natural domipaucy of the Southern PEG.
pie has had much to do IN bringing on the war
The inferior race, grown strong in numbers and
ambition from prosperity have revolted against
and now seek t. overthrow and destroy those
whose superiority was constant source Of EN-
Wy and self repToach There is no fercer ma :
levOlence than that of caste, and it is this which
has so long stirred the Yankee bile. Always
in the presence Of the Southern gentleman, he
has felt strong and painfully repreSsed i'm
pulse to take of has hat. This conscious infe.
riority has CALLED The jealous and malign lit
creature, until he has broken out in servle in
surrecti0n, He has vainly concluded that his
numbers can overwhelm and eAterminate the
subjects of his envy, and that be, succeeding 10
the broad acres and liberal Iabitudes of the
Southern gentry, will come to be looked upon
as a gentleman, too!
With us the contest is one for hereditary
rights, for the sacred things of homa, for the
old rGpute Of the better blood-with the Van.
kee it is rebellious and infatuated struggle
for place he is unworthy of, for privileges he
would degrade, for property he would barter,
and for institutions he could neither compre-
bend nor enjoy. 1t is the old and neyer,ending
strife between patrcian and proletaIian, be :
tween gentle and vile. i i the offer Of battle
on a new field of muscle against spirit-num-
blrs against courage. 1t is not upon Southern
soil and among descendants of Cavaliers and
Huguenots that this battle will 90 in favor OF
brute force.
1t may be that the armies in front of this
city Hre about to rush into mortal wrestle. &c.
When they meet iG will not, perhaps, be upon
such unequal terms as we have generally Ell
countered, But should there be AS great inc
quality Of numbers on other fields it may
and will be neutrazed here, as it has ever been,
by the superior courage and consGancy of our
troops. True to their lineage, theic fame tn cir
pledges, their principles true to the expecta.
lions and prayers Of all who love them true
to the Unreasonable Interests that hang Oh the
issue; the soldiers who fight for liberty and
native land will never give back, never weary.
never cease to strike till certain and glorious
victory perches on their banners.