The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-09-10
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If the Vallandigham- peaceDemocracy OF
Wisconsin, could only be induced to apply
the above couplet, and actually take the view
of themselves that others take of them, they
would at least save themselves much scorn
and contempt. But they are so blinded by
partisan, hate, prejudice, or actual dlsloyalty
that they can only see things through very
distorted medium. The Milwaukee NeagS, the
chief organ of this misnamed democracy like
that great, ungainIy, foolish bird, fills its own
eyes with dust and then idiotically imagines
that its nakedness is hidden from all the rest
of the world.
| The last number of that electable sheet, de
clares that never was the democracy Of Wis
consin more united, more fraternal in feeling,
or more certain to succeed than in the coming
election. And yet in the same number you
may find a dozen articles Of foul-mouthed
abuse Of twice as many hitherto prominent
staunch democrats, who have publicly declar-
| ed that they cannot and will not support the
nominees or the party of which the Ne1oS is
the leading organ. Seven or eight OF the
hitherto leading and influential Democratic
newspapers have repudiated the NepS-Ryan-
VaIIandigham- peace platform and the candi-
dates nominated upon it, and last, but not
least,a loyal Democratic Convention has been
called to still more publicly and openly repu-
date the copperhead democracy OF which the
Neaos is the organ, and that call is signed by
some seventy of the abIest and most promi-
nent Democrats in the State. And yet as II
these things were not patent and known to
everybody, the Meas complacenty pats itself
and its copperhead supporters on the back
and says, we are all right-never was the de-
mocracy SO united and harmonious as IN the
present canvass. Has the editor Of the Ne1oS
actually filed his own eyes with sand, or is
he trying to throw sand in the eyes of every
body else ?
Again the Ne1os has information direct from
the army that the soldiers are going to vote
the Copperhead ticket almost in body, while
everybody else can see as plain as the sun at
MONDAY, that the soldiers-officers and prl-
vates-are more disguised with copperhead
democracy of the Ne,cs Ryan-Address stamp
than ever before There is hardly town or
four corners in the Northwest, where some
indignant war democratic soldier has not
spoken in searching terms of the loathing with
which the entire Union army views the course
and the candidates of the Copperhead peace
Democracy. And these democratic soldiers
talk of their own political associates, who now
array themselves in opposition to the Govern
ment on the plea of political opposition to the
Administration, with ten fold more vehemence
and bitterness than any Republican speaker
thinks of doing.
And these things are patent and known to
everybody, andthe Meas in taking it for.grant-
ed that nobody can see anything, because it
chooses not to, or rather to pretend not to see,
makes itself extremely ridiculous, and as the
Green Bay Ad0ocate aptly remarks hiss and
a bEC NOiu I'LL LiOliCoG liCii'
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THE PRESIDENTS LETTER-On our fourth
page will be found President Lincoins letter
to the great Springfield Union Convention
We call the special attention Of our readers to
this letter, and hope there is not one who
will fail to give it a careful perusal Like ev-
cry communication that comesfr from 'old Abe
it is brief, to the point, and on the matters it
treats, unanswerable. There is no flourish of
words, no rounding off of sentences for effect.
No person can read it without being convinced
of the truthfulness, honesty and earnestness
of the writer. The objections that have been
raised to his course, by partisan malice are
answered plainly, and the whole matter plac-
ed in so plain light that no man can honest
y longer carp and find fault.
If IAN honest man is the nobest work of
God" then we ought to be thankful that
Abraham Lincoln is at the head of our Gov
eminent, at this perilous epoch in our nations
history, for we believe he comes the nearest
to being an ''honest man, in the sense above
intended, of any man who has filled the Pres
idential chair, of late years. He has pursued
the course he has, because he believed it was
right, and best calculated to accomplish the
end in view-the preservation of the Union
and the Constitution, and the perpetuation of
the blessings Unconstitutional Government to
the people Of this country. In the perusal of
this letter we are struck with the quaint,
straightforward manner of meeting every
bubble of the fault finders There is no cheat
ingaround the bush, nor choosing high sound
ngwords of double meaning, to cajole or deceive
people. The people will take this letter home
to their hearts. They will believe it-believe
in the truthfulness and honesty of the writer
in spite of the efforts of Copperhead Democ-
racy, to create distrust alarm, and eventual
y disloyalty. The simplest layman, who
never knew the meaning of the term politics.
and much less was ever initiated into the mys-
teries of political quackery, can understand
and appreciate the full scope and meaning of
this letter. And therein lies its strength, and
its danger to copperhead democracy. The
people, uninHuenced by demagogues and dis
honest partisans, are essentially devoted to