The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-09-24

c1tire any more ughtlnS 70 retain IiTiii' ~
can be no doubt that this wing OF the parry
constitutes so large proportion IN ITS iante
as to over-awe the more patrlotlc anu 0'O''
the policy of the entire body. II ,,oo,Io
In the present temper OF the ioya- II pD I9at
our orators, on public occasions are ny ~
equal to the statement OF the IiaN1u lo'o', ~
without some powerful agency lnO9 - Pu''o ~
check their downward oenuehoy, on'y WIN
soon be forced into It's open aoiliisS'o!i:
0OO IL co +r1,e is this that even now if dem
-a+ ,,,bo is convinced that the vigorous prose-
o,,t;on Of the war is of paramount Importance
n ali other considerations as the only posi-
tIe salvation for the Union, and avows his |
sentiments, he is instantly ostracised by the
platform adherents. He is thrust from their
councils and confidence he is pronounced an
enemy of his country and consigned to outer
darkness and the black republican party
This sort of political jargon is the very pro !
vocatiye to urge people to discharge their OBJ
Iioations as GOOD citizens, and the same NOUS |
inc after popular bug-bears characteristics the
..Rvan address" and the platform resolutions.
They are almost one uninterrupted strain OF
evil forebodings, oblique perceptions and turl-
ons Recommendations, while the additional re-
solve of the convention which adopted them,to
amend the constitution itself to satisfy unpar-
doned traitors, show evidently they had for
gotten the prestige Of the democratic party,
and how ready they were to plunge 1t INTO an
abyss long ago reached by every body OF men
| in our history, who have endeaYored to weak
en- the faith Of our people in the righteousness
of war for the safety and honor OF the coun-
| trv. The most noted instances nt historic IN
! fanny have been thus acquired, and posterlty
| has always looked back to these symptoms
of Iukewarln patriotism with distaste that no
defense was ever able to Obyiate. The ill-fame
which it casts behind grows like the shadows
of night darker as the world continues its
course Whilst this act Of treachery is now
new to the democracy, and its perpetrators
have sufficient interest to assert its palliatons,
the imposture may last, but these will soon
die from around it, leaving it in naked dis
grace before all aftertimes.
We behold the soil of our country redden
with the blood Of whole generation, and our
soldiers in their graves and our warriors IN
their blood stained shrouds-the murdered
host Of this accursed rebellion,--implore US to
sustain by voice and deed the cause in which
they fell.
| Shall the democracy, who have over been
the war party of the country rally unhesltat-
| ingly and Internationally to the front OF dan
Ger and the protection Of the Union? We
| look back with reverence to its early history,
| let us act with the same wisdom, PATRIOTISM
and unhinching determination to sustain our
government although we do not administer
| its trusts.
The document commonly known az the
s'Ryan Address" was incorporated as part OF
the Democratic creed by the nominating Con-
yention. Il is less definite in its recommen-
dations than the resolutions, but when 1t first
appeared, the height of infammatory Ian
guage was thought to have been reached
| and many of the most answering members
of the democratic party were alarmed at It's
tone and many of the presses which now en-
dorse it. refused it admission into their columns
but on the contrary, spoke of it as an insult
to the party and the country The system
that has brought all similar productions into
| the world was cautious and systematic. AT
first they passed for the spleen of selfish pol
itcians of the New York News and Daily Day
Book school. The popular enthusiasm for
some time, kept down the sprouting disloyal-
| ty of this class in Wisconsin, and the attacks
upon the conduct Of the war had called the
attention of authority to several of the most
violent and dangerous dsloyalists i'll other
States. Owing to these facts the ''Ryan Adj
dress, " and all papers like it, became guard
ed i'll their language, and always introduced
some patriotic common places as a mask to
their real designs. By means, however, of
newspaper falsiications and public speeches
equally disengenuous, and the formation OF
clubs, in which the most Jacobinlcal outcres
were applauded, an open disatfection was Gre
ated towards our cause which, in many places
has since been fomented into open anarchy
and bloodshed, and even in Wisconsin, we
have seen officers obstructed in the perporm-
ance of their duties, unable to execute the law,
without the presence of military forces. The
holder ground of the platform resolutions has
thus been reached, step by step. This is evil
dent on the most cursory comparison. The
Address deals in generalities which are after
wards condensed and pointed in the resolu-
tions The former ventured no farther than
to say in the following moderate terms eve
believe that the Executive acts of which we
complain were done rather in inadvertence,
by subordinate officers than in the deliberate
purpose of subverting the Constitution OR with
the sanction of the President"
The resolutions declare precisely upon the
same point, that
These guarantees have been systematically vic
lated by I! sent federal administration. Not
by accident, not by mistake but upon the deiber>
ATE assumpti'n Of the President of the United
States aud his slbordinates, civil and military
that they may of right violate them whenever in
their judgement it may seem expedient"
And in the same breath, we have the fol-
lowing threat:
"And we bold that every deliberate violation of
the popular lIer or private right by the Presi
dent or his tubnI dinates is crime against th e
Constitution. which will be followed by just con
stitutiUnRl punishment, If peace and constitution
al order should ever again reign in distracted
country.
The extravaganza contained in these ex-
tracts would have been out of place at the
date of the Address. The people had not yet
been tacitly compromised to listen to such
rhodomontades, and would have rejected the
whole affair, with such repulsive feature in
it.
Again, the Address says:
whatever man, officer, party assumes to
be true to the Union and not to the Constitution,
furefatherJ made it and our forefs Tiers en-
loyed it, Is disoyal 10 both Blind submission to
the administration of the Government, is not de-
vOtion to the country or t. the Constitution. The
Administration is Lot the Constitution,
and when the Administration violates the Cons
stitution, loyalty 10 the Administration mag be-
come disloyalty TO the Union.
The statement in the resolutions informs
us that
The history of the world has rarely shown p |
grosser more systematic abuse of delegated |
limited powers or more insolent assumption of |
arbitrary power by the constitutional servants of
the people"
The first was as far as it was deemed ad-
visable to go, at the time of penping the Ad-
dress. AS, however, nothing had occurred in
the interim to intimidate the disloyaists, the
charge of the grossest violation of the Consti-
tuition is made in the resolutions, and thus
the latter present the very case in which ODE
dience to the Administration is pronounced
in the Address as disloyaIty to the Union.
There are not few inconsistencies between
the view of the same subject in these two