The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-05-29

The Sentinel says "war is progression. The
determination of the Republicans to bring it on
and perpetuate it, renders it evident that such !
is their opinion .-Mt,oaukee NeVS.
The systematic effort that is being made, at
this late day. to charge this war, with all its
horrors upon the Republican Party, is in keep
ing with the general course Of the Democratic
press ever since the seizure of the southern Forts
and Arsenals by the secessionists under the ad-
miristration of President Buchanan, How the
Republican Party brought on the war while the
Administration and all the Federal offices-civil
ard nilitary-with hardly solitary exception
were in the hands of the Democracy, it is not
necessary, for the purposes of Democratic edit
ors, to say. But this simple fact, unexplained,
knocks in the head, all their TRADES about Re.
publicans bringing on the war or perpetaating
it.
History will place the responsibility of this
war with all its lamentable consequences whore
it rightly belongs, primarily upon the institu-
ton of slavery and the Shareholders of the south,
and secondarily upon the Democratic party of
the North. Slavery has demoralized the PEG
pie of the south, destroyed all idea of patriot
ism, fidelity and regard for Republican institu-
tions, and set up in their stead, only the mo-
moch of human chatteIisa. In a course of years
these Shareholders came to think that the per-
petustion of slavery, and its extension over the
continent, was the oaly end and aim of life 1t
rendered its adherents and sympathizers bigot.
ed, prejudiced, ignorant and unreasoning, and
begot violence, treason and rebellion North
ern Democrats fed and fostered this prejudice,
ill-will and sectionalism with the hope that it
might be turned to political account. 1t did its
best to "infuence the southern mind against the
great majority of the people of the northern
States, by declaring them abolitionists, and
disappearing entirely the aims and objects
of the Republican party. 1t is quite probable,
that without the misrepresentation of Northern
Democrats, the shareholders would never have
comm anced this war, and il is quite as probable,
that without the subsequent approval and sym
pathy Of northern democracy, they would no t
have persisted in their rebellion as long as they
have.
There is little doubt that the sympathy and
encouragement received from these Democratic
papers does more towards nervng southern
arms, sustaining sinking southern courage, tina n
anything in their own operations or expecta-
lions. They read in these papers that the Re
publican party is alone responsible for the war :
that the Democratic party is in favor of peace,
at all sacrifices peace with the Union if posi- :
Die and II not peace with dsuDiOn that the
Republican party is fast losing power every
where, and finally that at the next fall elections
the Democratic party is going to triumph IN
every State. The rebels conclude from these
declarations that they have only to hold out
until next fall when the Democratic party again
is to come into power, to have everything ey
desire, or even ask FOR. Peaceable secession.
with all the border States and the Mississippi
river given up to them, with an international
treaty, by which the northern States shall b
bound for all time to hunt and return all fugi-
tive slaves that escape into their borders.
Such is the kind of encouragement that the
rebels cannot fail to draw from every democratic
paper that finds its way into secessia 1t is not
difficult to tell who are the men who are doing
more than all others to perpetu&te the war
Those who are giving the rebels this hope of
eventual success in their efforts to destroy the
Union when Democracy is again triumphant, are
the men.