The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-07-31

detail what Is has doIe. 1t has saI TWO sessloIi9
each Ioue and arduols 1t is Republican in both
branches, and thai party may be justly heId re
sponsible for its doings. 1t has been stlgmailzed
as q gang Of radicals, a.nest OF ultras, that nave
Dragged the country to the brink OF ruin. That
d.rnanuered man and most cautious of Conser-
vatives Willard Fillmore, is said TO have declared
that the AboItionists in Congress have undone all
that the army has accomplished while that IN
sposted patriot and proverbially law abiding mag
"a trate. Fernando Wood, has proclaimed that Tue
Senate and House of Representatives oush' W NC
driven out of the Capital in the same manner mat
Cromwell dispersed the Long Parilanleh''
Nyoru tho hest answer to this soft Impeachment
., tho az President and this fiery philippe of the
ov,HIsvor Is & calm survey of the record of the
scts,of dis rnucL-rnaligned body during the pres
entand pest session.
Whatever halfhearted Unionists and thiuiy dis
traitors may allege it may be safely asserted thai
no Congress since we have been nation has been
placed in such trying circumstances, has encount-
cred such appalling difficulties ,and has been cloth
ed with such vast responsibilities, as that which
has just adjourned; and it may be affirmed, with
equal truth that the history of the country does
not afford parallel to the zeal, fidelity, and pat
riotism with which it has performed its onerous
and perplexing duties. When compared with the
number and magnitude of the measures it has
matured, the annals of all proceeding Congress
dwindle into utter insgnifcance. In proof barely
glance at q summary of these measures
]. The acts which it has passed relating to the
army and navy, have no precedent, IN regard to
their variety and Importance, in the previous leg
isation G tnis country, and can hardly be match
ed by that of any nation on earth. The immense
armies created by its laws, the splendid navy i
has set afoat the improvements it has initiated in
both branches of the service. the enomons none
tary resources it has developed to sustain this gi-
gantic wal, are the wonder Of contemporary Statos
and will fill posterity with admiration,
II. See the great workiit has done on the sub
ect ofSlavery- and done, too, so cautiously and
considerably. 1t has prohibited the existence o
Slavery in all the present and future Territories
of the Republic, thus by one short but compre-
hensive statute closing up long and bitter con-
troversy, and by an rrevocable decree, declaring
TINT through coming time Freedom and not Slave
~ shall be the general law of the land Il has al
40 abolished Slavery in the District Of Columbia,
tbns Graduating forever the heart cancer OF the
nation. has essentially modified the Fugitive
OlaVe law CUluAius NO OPNAe''iO4- WY -
sons escaping from loyal masters, who take the
oath of allegiance, and have not employed their
slaves in aid Of the rebellion. 1t has added anew
provision to the Articles of War forbidding any
officer or private to return runaway negro to
Slavery, on pain of instant dismissal from the
service 1t has passed two Confscation or Eman-
cipation acts, by which, probably. one third ola
the slaves of the country viii be ultimately made
free mon git has established new test for the ad-
mission of States, by restricting The existence OF
Slavery therein. 1t has approved the Presidents
policy of encourage all the States OF the Union
% initiate measures for the gradual abolition OF
Slavery. 1t has ratified and sanctioned-each
House acting in its appropriate sphere--a new
and effective treaty for stopping the siave-trade on
the high seas. In these various measures, 50 noble
go beneGcent, thisCongress has done the work OF
a halt century. For these alone it should receive
the gratitude and applause of the good and wise
throughout the world. Doubtless it might have
done more; but the direct tendency Of these is to
ultimately rid the Republic of its greatest crime
hs foulest
Ill 1t has struck other effective blows at the
Rebellion, by the passage Of law more carefully
defining and more severely furnishing treason ::
by requiring all grades of officials, with many 9th"
or classes OF persons, TO take stringent oath OF
allegiance by the adoption OF radical and
searching confscatOn act, which seizes ano ap
propriates to Government uses the property OF
Rebels and by the enactment Of a law that leyIe<
upon and sells their real estse for war taxes, thus
striking at the root of the negro Ogarchy by strip
ping its v0taries of those large landed possessions
which give them wealth, distinction and power
w In addition to this long catalogue of impor.
tant matters springing directly ont of the Rebel
lien, the present Congress has consummated sew
erai great measures, which, had it perfected only
these, would have entitled it to the blessings Of
contemporaries and the plaudits offuture genera
tons 1t has given to honest industry that boon
80 lying the sport OfdemagOgues and ny pocrites-
Homestead law 1t has opened up II highway To-
the iron horse from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Sc
curing to the Occident the same facilities for com
municating with the Orient which the people o
New York have SO long enjoyed with those of New
England And not only has it prepared the way
for railroad across the Continent, but has made
il certain that we shall have safe, cheap and con-
venient telegraph running along by its SIDE, A.
belonging to the same GLASS Of Improvements, thou.
offar less consequence, we should not forget tina
this Congress has granted to the capital Of the
Union that desideratum which all previous Con
gress have denied it, a city passenger railway l
has also been mindful of the wants of the country
in other important particulars Ii has reformed
the Prize Courts. 1t has reorganized the Supreme
Court, adapting it to the growth and the wants OF
the country 1t has established Agricultural
Department of the Government 50 that this long
neglected branch of industry may receive its
fostering care.
This list of grand and benign measures might
be extended. Let it suffice. to vindcate this Con
not only from the anathemas hurled at it, but to
establish it's right to be regarded as having dis
charged its duties wisely at least as any of its
predecessors while surrounded by far greater dit.
tculties and temptations than ever beset them
When it assembled in July, 1861, it found the
country involved in a wicked, stetul war, pre-.
cipitated upon it by causless, wanton Rebellion
Though it has adjourned leaving the Rebellion
not yet wholly subdued, it may congratulate Itself
upon the fact that the credit of the nation is un.
impaired, its resources undiminshed, and its de-
termination to crush its enemies undated.
-~ go
NOlEOre SOds 10 be Thrown
We find the following in the Washington (Ju.
ly 2d)correspondence of the New York Eren-
ing POST
The president yesterday stated, in the hear
ing oseveral gentlemen, that he had done with