The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-01-30
The Light is Breaking

The Light is Breaking.
AS time wears on, and the war against the
Union still RACES, with no hope of a permanent
peace, or a restoration of the Uuion, until that
peace is conquered, men begin to zee more clear
ly the enormty of the rebellion, and TO judge
more correctly gifts causes, and to speculate
more correctly on It's result. 1t is no longer
claimed By intelligent men that the war was &C.
casioned by triumph of one political party over
another in a National Election, nor by the fear
of one section of the country that its rights or
privileges, or institutions would be intringed
upon, invaded or interfered with, by another
section The history of the inception of this
rebellion has, by degrees, been written and it
now may be read by all men. Slavery is now
known and acknowledged as the principal cause
ofthis great and wicked rebellion. Shareholders
themselves have demonstrated the truth of the
theory of the "irrepressibe conflict" that exists
between Freedom and Slavery, Slavery has
suficed in the space of little over half cen.
fury, to destroy all idea of Patriotism, love OF
country, or appreciation of the enormity OF
Treason, in the hearts of the shareholders; and
to destroy all idea of the true manhood self
respect or self-reiance in those who are too poor
to hold slaves, in the Slave States. 1t has
taught the shareholders to despise aud attempt
to destroy the Free Government founded by
Washington and his compeers, and to long for
the power and position of inherited title and
nobility and an irresponsible monarchy. And
it has so crushed out the manhood Of the poorer
masses, that they dare not oppose this effort on
the part of the wealthy few to enslave and de-
grade them. These are the fruits of Slavery.
Time has proved the evil of Slavery, and its
enmity to free government s plainly written
in the history Of the past. The Free States
were too much attached to the Union to endan.
ger its perpetuity by an interference with the
Domestic institutions of the South. They saw
and deplofed the evil, land appreciated the blight
ing effects of Slavery, but they would never
have made a movement towards dissolution and
destruction of the Union to effect its abolition
But the Shareholders themselves having opened
the way for emancipation by this rebellion, we
should no longer hesitate to rid the country of
the curse. The course of the war need not be
turned from its legitimate object to effect this.
We need not wage the war for the abolition OF
slavery. All we have to do is to carry on the
war for the Union, i'll the most efficient manner
to crush out this rebellion, and we need not fear
but that slavery will be crushed out with 1t.
There is 81 tide in the affairs" Of nations, as
well as of men, which should be seized at its
nation, it seems to us, is now at that food tide,
when 1T may be elevated, strengthened and puri-
fed from the ordeal through which it is now
passing Everybody in the Free States and
many of the best and exalted statesmen in the
Slave States, themselves shareholders have for
years declared that slavery was stain upon
our National escutcheon, disgrace to the age
and civilization in which we live, but how to
get rid of it has been the great question that has
puzzled the wisest and most eminent friends of
the Union. Fortunately, for the cause OF Free
dom throughout the world, the Shareholder
Themselves have solved the riddle, and opened
theway for Kidding the nation of its great curse.
The Union must be preserved and the Rebellion
crushed out by the strong arm of power. Slavery
must now be abolished as a military necessity.
1t we have been trying, for almost a year,lo put
down the rebellion without interfering with
sla"ery. Every months experience has but more
clearly shown the hopelessness of the attempt.
We cannot save the Union aoith Slavery, but
save it without that institution for heaven &
sake let the institution go. The President has
declared that there Is no power, ''either with
the military or civil ARM of this Government
to return Fugitive slaves, without enslaving
free men," All that is necessary to rid the
country forever Of slavery, is to carry out this
view of the President, to its legitimate conclu-
sion. Let the idea be acted upon, of letting
the Slaves and Slavery take care of themselves,
while we use, in the most direct way, all the
means that God or nature has placed within our
reach, to weaken the rebels, and crush out this
unholy rebellion, and we shall come forth a Free
people, with no stain of human, chattel Slavery
upon our skirts-nO clanking Of chains of bonds
men to CRATE upon the ear, in the midst of our
rejOicings over the final success of the Union
Cause.