The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-06-26
THE Ts.ue ia the nezt November EIec-
fIou.

national issue at the next general election, are
becoming daily more apparent The Demo
cratic perty, or that portion thereof that has
no real sympathy with the war which IS now
being waged by the government against the
rebellious States is defining its position with |
djstinctness Since the commencement OF the .
yebe]liop, there have been many democrats, |
who have heartily and energetic~.is co-opera-
ted with the administration Of the country, to
crush out secession, and restore the supremacy
of the rightful government These have oohe
their duty and the country has accorded 10
them full share of public honors. But the
foot admits of no concealment that large
portion of the Democratic party, have never
cared for the success of our Federal armies
especially if any damage to the institution OF
slavery should prove the result OF success
Strange as It may appear; incomprehensioie as
it may seem, there are thousands OF men IN Gil
the free States of the North, who would sooner
see our Union armies vanquished and driven
back, than submit to the adjustment OF chat
tel slavery in this Union. In the alternative
of making freedom national and supreme ev-
erywhere, and the recognition OF slavery no
where, they are prepared to reject universal
freedom and hold on to slavery This is per-
baps not because these democrats see any in
trinsic worth in slavery itself, but with them
the consideration is purely political. The
truth is, the Southern slaveholding democracy
hay g so often, in solid column etood shoulder
to shoulder with the Northern democracy in
great political trials-thus by mutual cooper
alton acquiring the ascendancy of democratic
rule, the Northern pro slavery wing cannot
bear to part with its old ally of power. 1t IS
hardly supposabe case, that the Northern
democracy are so debauched-so sunk in lgno-
rance and shame, as to apologize for, and up
hold the institution of slavery, because they
believe it great national blessing 1t can
hardly be credited that an institution which
is abhorred, deapised and condemned by the
civilized world, should find any considerable
number of advocates in the free States, for the
reason that it is in tself morally or religously
dissemble. But it is because slavery is an ele-
ment of political power, because it has been so
long the controlling power in the nation be,
cause Northern democrats by following its bid
, dings, and holding on to its skirts have so Of
ten been helped to Office and government pat
ronage, the old democratic hacks in the North
would rather see the whole Union blackened
with the curse of slavery, than dissolve their
connection with it.
1t has seemed to many persons a mystery,
why men among us, apparently intelligent,
should be so solicitous to have slavery I'M
touched by the war. 1t is not because all such
persons really love slavery, but because they
love party, and desire office and power. The
only earthly hope of the Northern democracy
to regain its former power in the country, is to
make friends with its old democratic allies in
the rebel State. For this purpose the negro
drivers must in some way be conciliated; they
must be made to believe that the Northern de-
mOcracy does not Intend to harm them-does
not hold them responsible for the war, but
throws the blame of our national troubles on
b, the republicans of the free States.
This line of policy by tae Northern democ
1acy towards the rebel States, has already
f been inaugurated. The democratic party o
| Wisconsin has taken the lead, it has deiber
ately voted the declaration, and published it tC
the world, that the agitation of the slavery
f question is the cause of the war-thus indi
rectly attempting to cast the responsibility fol
the war on the Northern States! The demo
, cratic members of our State Legislature
among their last acts before the adjournmen
of the extra session last week, embodied thu
sentiment above mentioned in the form of {
resolution, and adopted it. Here then we have
: the bold announcement of the creed of tn
Wisconsin democracy; that party proposes f.
= strike hands with traitors, in opposing the ad
+ ministration, and upon this issue it propose
e to 90 before the people in the November cleo
! ton To Wisconsin belongs the shame 0
= being the first Northern State, since the begin
/ ming of the present war, of uttering through
: branch of its legislature, the infamous declara
ton that the Southern rebellion against thu
Constitution and Government of the Unitet
g States, has an apology in the anti-slavery sen
timent of the free States Had it been pre-
dicted one year or six months ago, that sucl
an open, bold and shameless excuse for treason
n would find utterance by any body of response
: BILE men in Wisconsin, it would have beer
secuted as idle and impossible.
: The recent reasonable declaration, pu
: forth by the Legislature, does not stand alone
as the sentiment of the democracy of this State
The leading democratic papers have been con
t stantly finding fault or condemning every ac
and measure of the government, for putting
down the rebellion, and Furnishing the traitors
1 The administration of President Lincoln has
been denounced, and reviled from week tc
week, and for what? Simply because these
a democratic presses are con tinually in fear that
= some great misfortune will befall slavery in
consequence of the admins iration war policy
:, aud thus, the once great national democratic
! party, forever lose all hope of coming into pow
: er again. There are democratic presses in
> Wisconsin, that have scarcely, if ever, uttered
q word of condemnation of jeff. Davis, bu
never allow a week to pass without abusing
- President Lincoln. What is true of many O
= the democratic presses in this State, is meas
ureably true of the leading presses of that pc
litical stripe in other States of the Northwest
q The Chicago Times. the chief democratic paper
+. in Illinois, whose editor is rampant seces
sionist, only few days ago suggested the ides
| of sending an army of people from the North
: to the city of Washington, for the purpose o
driving out by force the Presidents Cabinet
from the Capitol! What leads the Chicago
Times to such reasonable crusade against the
Government tits because of the evident de
termination of the government to crush the re.
bellion, even if it should be at the expense of
the negro traders and the slave breeders.
In view of the attitude which the old pro-
slavery democratic party is assuming, there can
be no mistaking what is to be the real issue
in the next general election. The democratic par.
~ evinces a determination to restore the sIave