The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-08-14
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Official Paper Of the City, County and Post Oiiis.
Thursday Morning, Aug. IA, 1862
The wnntofa Policy.

is resonant with the music of fife and drum OF
recruiting Offices In almost every schooI as
trict in the loyal States that mus1e1s neard' anO
the loval people are volunteering by the tens
of thousands daily. The first 100000 yoiun
teers are, most likely, already enlisted, and in
several of the States the enrolment OF volun'
teers TO fill the last call for draft of 30O,O0O
nine months militia, is progressing rapidly the
people being determined not to have to resort
to drafting to furnish all the soldiers necessary
to mt down the rebellion and restore the Union,
This spectacle of almost an entire population
Of loyal citizens coming forward voluntarily,
to devote themselves to the preservation of their
country and its free institutions, is glorious
lif inspiring to the worshippers o. Freedom
and the believers in the capacity OF man for Sci
Government. But while the people thus step
forward at their country's call, it is useless to
deny that they do so under protest, that the fl-
ture shall not be as the past-that more Wig
orous and decisive policy shall be adopted in
the prosecution Of the war-that another s1
hundred thousand shall not be used up in guard
ing rebel property, returning fugitive slaves
and digging trenches.
These are some of the conditions precedent,
upon which these ''siI hundred thousand more"
have left the harvest field, the work shop, the
store, the school room, the college walls, and
all the peaceful walks of life, for they are the
orkers of the country, The first six hundred
thousand took off from every community its
ldIers, and what might be called its floating
population. The workers are coming now. and
they want to u1ort in this new sphere into which
they are entering. They have a job on hand
to conquer peace, to put down this rebel
ion, and restore the Union-and the only ques
ZION is, how can it be done most effectually, land
most expeditiously. They demand of the ru-
lers they have elected a policy, that they may
carry it out, at the point Of the bayonet, if it is
necessary.
The Confscation and Emancipation Act of
the late Congress has been accepted by the peo-
pie, as their policy, and they will demand moth.
ing less than the full, unconditional carrying
of chat act. III the further prosecution Of
this war. The rose-water, rebelconciIiating,
traitor protecting, aimess policy has not sue
ceeded at all. 1t has satisfied neither friends
nor enemies. After guarding rebel property
for year, we have failed to make one rebel
friend. Hereafter the rebels must be convert
ed into Union men, in the same way that the
Kentucky preacher converted the reprobate--
by hard knocks and lusty blows
We have heard many a father whose sons
we're enlisting declare that they would willing
ly see them go,and would got themselves if thew
could be assured that moie vigorous and de-
cisive policy would be adoptcd-that all the
means that God and nature have put into orr
hands, would be used to crush out this occurs
cd rebellion, and put an end to the war. We
point to the coniiscatiOn act, and say, "there is
the policy; go, and in Heavens name carry it
out to the letter !" But this is not satisfactory
From almost every company of our army in tie
feld, comes up the same complaint that they
are sick and tired OF protecting the property of
rebels and returning the fugitive slaves of reb.
els in arms. There is not hardly a company
in the whole army of the southwest but has
lost more or less of its mea by the hands of
the numbering guerrilas and bushwhackers
while standing guard over rebel property
And all this in spite of the contiscation and
g emancipation act.
In the name of the six hundred thousand
MOI e." as well as of the thousands "who have
gone before, we ask for Policy-a stringent
stern, decisive aear policy. Let us Couciliat Z
the rebels after we have conquered them. We
lsk that no more property of rebels be guarded
oy Union Soldiers, that no more fugitive slaves
De returnad to rebel masters that the shield of
he constitution be no longer interposed to pro-
,ct thoselwho have deliberately and frequently
purned aud spit upon it, and are now in arms
o destroy it, In the name Of the "Six hun
h Jusand more" we ask that no more precious
inc be wasted-no more precious lives of 10y
'lavery-that instead, the enemy be struck in
lis most vulnerable points such quick and
leavy blows as will soonest make him cry ont
or peace. We ask in short. that the confsca
ion act, passed by Congress, be adopted as the
Var policy of the Administration, and that its
provisions against rebels and traitors be speed
y and firmly carried out Ifany cherished in
uitutions OF the rebel States thereby becoms
and ultimately routed out of the
aud, let them accept that as the deserved pun
shment of their great and manifold sins against
10Th God and man.