The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-01-30
SECESSION ORGANS!
What they Say oftheir own Prospect

What they Say oftEseir own Prospects.
From The Memphis Argus, Jan. g.
Federal forces have been massed in Kentucky
too great for a man OF Sidney Johnson's calibre
to venture to attack; and the paralyzlng OF
Price through the withdrawal of McCulloch has
rendered the overrunning of Missouri to the
Arkansas frontier easy task to the Federals.
We are forced to back out Of Missouri-check-
mated in Kentucky. Chase has obtained his
moneys in Wall street.
The blockade is unbroken by us yet In one
word, we are hemmed ia. Day follows day
and in lieu OF being weakene d ~aNl khs aketl-
eral armies, at all points. being strengthened
Almost every article of manufacturing and TO-
mestic necessity is quadrupled in pricesand our
money will soon be exceeding scarce tor lack OF
paper wherewith to make it. ,
Cnbined Cribbed, confined as we were, ana
evidently would be, our shortest, clearest, and
most noble policy was to find in the rapid use
of our early revolutionary enthusiasm an over
match for the slower and less spirited, but more
enduring North. We speak plainly to-day, be-
cause ere the full military policy OF our leaders
was made known, we perslstently opposed any
outside pressure by the press upon 1t. we
speak plainly, because as 4 Southern paper we
have right to speak, and ask to see the Dene-
fits that we are to compensate for this prostra-
ton Of business, these domestic bereavementS
and heroic sacrifices made by our women as well
as our men. We ask why the year has pass
ed, and we further than ever from recognition
at home or abr DAD? We ask why we are fifty
fold worse off than when the war commenced?
Indir ectly every mouthful we eat is taxed, our
boys write on taxed paper, our girls wear taxed
cahcoeS our men do a taxed business, and nope
lessly ride in a taxed hearSe to taxed grave,
and we, forsooth, are hunting 1.-THE cause" If we
dare to turn from Messrs. Mason and Shdell to
look at the country we were born ana bred In,
and, having looked, we are hurting the cause
if we dare tell what we see.
From The Memphis Argus, Jan. 9th.
We have yet to lean that this Confederacy is
the private property OF Jefferson Davis, or the
joint domain of his Cabinet, and we lind 1t still
harder to comprehend how either the President
or his Cabinet came to be considered the auto
crat dispensers Of veal and woe to this people
untrammelled by any responsibility to the same.
We, for one, were and are lar from consider
ing that in voting Tor the secession OF Iennes =
see from the despotism Of Lincoln, we were
merely making choice between two irrespon-
sible Sultans, propped by duplicate divans.-
We never meant in abandoning the Union to
abandon with it the rights OF speec and OF the
press, and as long as we can Wag tongue or
WELD a pen, we shall do both IN the assertion
of truth, however paatabie or unpahtable to
L
Our assertion, last Tuesday, of the true state
of our affairs has caused quite hutter among
few home soldiers, irresponsible and illegal
wielders of authority &c, men who, holding
their positions from the higher serVltors OF the
people, think it sacriege, and weakening OF the
cause" to fault any of their acts or no acts and
who, unable to deny our statements, would cover
the sins of their supcriOrs by asserting that a
statement of the results arising from SAID sins
I .
We seldom anathematize, but in some cOnnec-
ton we can scarce help saying-something of
the enemy. We spoke and speak of the state
of this Confederacy, which, judging from the
policy of both cabinets, Is already better known
TO the Federal Cabinet than it is to our own
We see access TO peace rendered more and
more distant by the w0undrousiy accommodating
power of the Federal armies and navy. We
see the advance thai was easy six months ago
difficult to-day, and likely to be impossible to-
morrow. We see that, from a shoe latchet to IA
steam engine. we lack everything, and that the
families of our obedient soldiers are suffering
from the seeming fabulous prices they have TO
pay for everything Of domestic use. We look
to the future, and seeing but war, ask ourselves
ask our readers, why all looks darder and dark
er as day follows day and our vast armies pre-
pare to rot in their camps, while their mothers
and sisters suffer from their absence at home.
Three times since the inception OF this
has the road been opened unto us into the very
heart Of the North In July, after Manassas
when Fremont resigned when JohuAOn moved
to Bowling Green. We blame not Beauregarj,
Price or johnson; but we ask why they We're
not permitted to do what they wished to do and
could then have doue-secured our peace and
our liberty? Whom do we blame The men
at Richmond. Not ours to ask why's and where
fores. We say our people are so situated. We
say the leaders Of the war have been the lead |
ers through it, and we simply sta'e the results
From The Tren on LTenn.l Standard, Jan. 10.
We regret to say that considerable evidence |
Of disuyalty to the Confederate Government |
has been manifested in some of the counties in |
" est Tennessee, since the call upon the militia |
was made; one county (CarroI) having gone so
far, we learn, as positively to refuse to submit
to the detail. In Weakly county, also, we
earn there was trluble on Monday last, which |
led to the fear that serious difficulties would |
occur there but we understand that matters |
were settled peaceaby and without bloodshed, |
which was at one time apprehended. In Nc |
Marry county, however, the dissatisfaction reach !
ed itsshighest point, as we see from The Vest
Tennessee Whig that it was found necessary to
send troops into that county TO arrest some Of
the authorities, and TO send detachments of sol
diers into some of the other counties for the
same purpose.