The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-10-01

civil promotion. 1t is prize offered Tor the
: the greatest proficiency in disloyalty and pub
lie disturbance. 1t is made the qualification
of the Governor ola large and powerful State
to have declared void the acts of Congress, the
] authority of the public servants, and excited
2 insurrection among the people whose govern
5 ment rendered to him. The example of Val
5 Iandigham is more depraved than the COM
bined terocity of the New York rabble, be
cause 1T leads to such outbreaks. The only
compensation in this shocking transaction is
that the brutal murderers who are instigated
by such teachings will serve out their period
Of Incarceration and stink out Of sight, but the
IOhio traitor will never be forgotten as long
as the name Of Benedict Arnold is remem-
bered. 1t will retain its bad pre-emnence af-
ter his more feeble imitators i'll Wisconsin,
shall have persisted forever.
A lanentable want IF political candor is Oh
servable throughout all this enormous plat
form. The Northern or Loyal States have
been visited, as we are told, with an experience
of woe and danger, of tyranny and oppression,
to an extent seldom found on the pages of his
tory, and the final conclusion is announced /;
BETTER Liberty anil right ont Of the Union.
Than q Gocsrn.teat nboce the Constitution, and
The iaoS.' This piece of gasconade is not an
original conception with the platform. 1t is
an old fire eaters sentiment, drank too with
Applause for the last quarter Of a century in
South Carolina and the slave cities generally,
from whence it has been transplanted by our
| Wisconsin oracles. And to give point to this
motto, we are further told that in certain con-
| tingencies, the masses will be found worthy of
the fathers who founded the Constitution ''by
initiating their example under the lawless OPP
preston" That is. the Constitution is to be
preserved by levying war against the federal
authorities as orr fathers did against George
the Third and the Stamp Act 1t is to he de-
plOred that able men will work themselves
up to such pitch of infamatory expression
as at an hour requiring so much elaboration
as the present, and it is still more wonderful
that such Southern exotics should make their
appearance in the meditations of modern ex-
FOUNDER. To cap the climax, the geuius of
Wisconsin, in infusing hatred Of lawful au
| thority soar to such a height that it declares
! the history Of tile world has rarely shown a
grosser or more systematic abuse Of powers
or more insolent assumption Of arbitrary
! power, and that the Administration, i'll cou-
Quoting the war.has left the world in doubt
whether their principal object is to restore the
Contribution at the South or to subvert it at
the North In other words'we are told that
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the Constitution in the North, have been equal
to all the great battles and the expenditure of
a thousand million of treasure, and hundred
thousand lives, engulphed in this war against
the South.
Is this not the language Of insanity?
We are told that the South are destroying
the most benguant government on earth, but
in another breath we are informed that our
own authorities are systematic oppr6ssors, in
sOlent asstlners Of power, and deliberate viO
laters Of the law, and that no man can tell
whether they are attempting to destroy the
constitution or to save it; that we are right
in defending our country, but that the admins
tration is not the government, and that we
have a right to revolt from it. If we would
march firmly against the enemy, we are point
ed to greater foe among our comrades. The
broad ground is admitted that the South has
robbed us Of our fairest possessions, but we
are especially instructed that we have been
robbed of our most precious privileges by
our own government in the North We are
told that most undoubtedly we should defend
the Union of our fathers, and the same breath
admonishes lis that the very means employed
to do 50 are i'll danger of being used in the
most unholy device ever conceived by tyrran-
ny and ambition.
The armies Of the South are our enemies on
all the battle fields in this war, and on the seas
of the earth. They have destroyed our peace,
shed our blood, and sunk our ships for two
years. Yet We are told that an equal enemy
prepares destruction for us at home, and that
both of them are foes to us Of the greatest
magnitude.
In crisis demanding the utmost single
ness of mind,an honest patriotic party ask adj
TO 10 i
they repair to pubcist of note he gives
them platform and their confusion is com
pIete.
They are thus imbued with the idea that
the national administration and the democrat
ic party constitute hostile elements, and that
the latter must find fault with and denounce
every act of the former. The safety of the
country is at stake, and may be deeply and ia
tally affected by this ruthless prescription
yet the most abject subserviency to these pref
udice is the only acceptable pledge of party
obed fence, although it banishes justice and
patriotism from our sympathy and aid i'll the
moment when it's life or death hangs upon
passing events.
Again an able bodied youth experiences an
antipathy towards shouldcring musket, and
consequently desires to defraud the country of
his enrolment. His political instructors tell
him that the war is a nefarious one and may
become ''unholy' i'll its present handsa he |
willingly participates in these views. He and
thousand or more like himself finally adopt |
an address and string of resolutions setting
forth these doctrines, and he stands upon his
platform. The laws Of Congress, the decency
of patriotism, and the common peril OF us all will
have been superseded by his platform. He |
lives and breathes under the Ryan .dispensa-
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so have his friends and guides VIII the /
democratic party much longer submit to such |
guidance. We call upon them to repudate }
this stupendous system of contradiction and
selfish distractions and once more raise the |
standard of our former triumph and glory
Amidst all these inhammatory appeals no |
word is spoken of the ceaseless cares which /
weigh down those guiding our destinies; no |
thought is bestowed on the mighty task of
Il government sending forth thousands to bat !
tie who may never appear again among their |
friends no sympathy for the wisdom which |
has preserved our national capitol from des- |
ecration, and which has kept the country I'M |
eutangled with foreign nations, and unscathed |
by their hostilities. We are not enioined to |
admire with gratitude the development of our
colossal finances, or the resources and prosper.
ity which strike other nations with wonder
We are not referred to the material comfort and |
independence of almost every
branch Of industry,or the magical develop
ment of heretofore unknown sources of secu-
rity and power. Why are we not remin-
ded of the opulence that has settled upon the
cities, or of the suspicious rewards that are
gathered from labor in the country Even
the narrow partizan cannot offer his congrat-
ulations that our favorite arm of defense on
the sea is now wall of iron that the batter
ries of the old world cannot indent or de-
fleet from its course. No cheering word es-
capes from this mass of luminosity, turbulence
and remorseess egotisn; not an interest or
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