The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-07-02
The Cemtempt I'm which Ihe Rebels Hold
the Northern fsPeace'' towards.
From the r Richmond Enquirer, june u
TWO YEARS HENCE

NAV possibly nave peace-JhaI Is, AWAY
provided we continue to repulse and defea
the invading enemy. The Yankee .'DemoC
racy" is certainly rousing itself, and prepaI
ing for a new struggle Cat the ballot box /
the qTeat cn3lSe 0fthe ''$pOttS," or, as they ca
il. the cause of constitutional Liberty. Ihos
Democrats are evidently beginning to TGis
q Peace platform for their nert Presjdeatjo
election and if they have the good luck t
be helped on and sustained by more and NOR
serious disasters Of the Yankee army in tn
field, there is no doubt that the present de
vourers of the said spoils at Washington may
soon be so discredited and decried thai ou
enemy's country would be ripe for such peace
full bailot-box revolution.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that thoSe earn
est champions Of constitutional freedom VII
be helped on and sustained IN the mannc
they reouire-namely, by continued and Sc
we're reverses in. the field; and it is the frs
and most urgent duty Of our countrymen 81
70 help and sustain that Democratic party
It is nothing TO us which of their factions may
devour their ''spoils;" just as little does il
signify to us whether they recover or do moi
recover that constitutional liberty which they
50 wantonly threw away in the mad pursuit
of Southern conquest and plumber.
But IL IS Of THE utmost Importance 10 rs 10 atd
aH stimulating dfSsatistactjcEt nmOng Yankees
against their ozcn G0ce~5,nqent md IN demOraliz'
azag aud diS51tegrattBg s0cety ~ INIT God 0baHd'
oaed country. We can 90 this only I'm one way
namely, by thrashing their armies and car
ryiug the war to their own firesides Then,
indeed, conciencious constitutional principles
will hold sway peace platforms will look at
tractive; arbitrary arrests will become odlous,
and Aabeas corpus be quoted at a premium.
This is the only way we can help them. Il,
this sense, and 10 tis e1teat, those Democrats ar
our alsss, md ne stall ctdeaUor 10 do our unity
by item.
But they evidently look for other and fur
ther help at our hands, and Of quite differ
ent sort No doubt they are pleased for the
present, with the efficient aid which the Con-
federate army is atfording them. Chancel-
lorsvile was God-send to them, and the ire
mendous repulse at Port Hudson is quite a
plank in their platform. Yet they understand
very well that no matter how soundly their
armies maybe happily beaten no matter
how completely Lincoln's present war policy
NAV be condemned by its results, yet all this
will not be enough to enable the un.err!jied Dem>
ocr0cy 10 clutch the "SE07iS or as they phrase
it, to restore the Constitution Of their fathers.
This Of itself would never give them Peace
Democrat President and Cabinet; it would
only result in another AboIitionist Admins
tration, with a new Secretary Of War; and a
new Commander-in-Chef and slightly DIFF
ferent programme for crushing the rebel
lion" Those Black Republicans are in pow
ers after long waiting, pining, intriguing IN
the cold shade of opposition; and they have
now the numerical prepOnderance 50 decided
ly that they both can and will hold OH to the
Office with clutch like death The Demo
Gratis can do absolutely nothing without ''the
South" as they persist in terning these Con-
federate states and they cannot bring them
selves TO aQg the Thought Hut ne ag0uld refuse 10
altte zetth kLc1aas alas IRE used u d0n Il grand
UHioersal Presidential Camp0lgn, FIR 70 Demo,
crutle President, aglh II Peace plaJorDr, and The
"C0aStitattoa as II Is " In fact, this whole tx 0
years war, and the two yearsrno war which
has vet to be gone through is itself, in their
eyes, only a Presidential campaign, only
somewhat more vivacious than ordinary.
This explains the Vallandigliam Peace
Meetings in New York and New Jersey; and
the ''manly declarations" Of Mr.. uoratio
Seymour and other patriots ''Do not let us
forget, says Fernando Wood, writing to the
Philadelphia meeting, ''that those who per-
petrate such outrages as the Punishment of
Mr.. ValIandigham, do SO as necessary war
cause and declare for peace and agaiaSt The car -
This would sound very well if the said de
claring for peace could have any effect what
ever in bringing about peace. If a man fall
ing from tower could arrest his fall by de-
claring against it, then the declarations Of
Democrats against the war might be Of some
avail. As it is, they resemble that emphatic
announcement of Mr.. Washington Hunt F.:
'Let us be proclaimed upon The h0HSetop2, that
no citizen of New Yorllshallbe arrested with
out process of law" There is no use III bawl-
ing from the housetops what everybody knows
to be nonsense. Or this resolution OF the New
Jersey meeting:
ResoI0ed, That, in the illegal seizure and
Punishment Of the Hon. c. l.. Nallandighan
the laws of the country have been outraged,
the name of the United States disgraced, and
the rights Of every citizen menaced, and that
it is now the duty of law-respecting people to
demaad Of the Administration that it at once
and forever desist from such deeds Of de&Pot-
ism and crime" Enthusiasm.
Demand. quotha The Startling that MIR.
Sterne saw in the cage, said only, 81 can't
get OUT. 1t would have been more manly
to scream, Il demand to get out proclaim
on the housetops that | acH get OUT"
throws an instructive light upon the whole
movement and its objects.
ResolUed, That we renew Our declaration Of
attachment to the Union, pledgingto its friends
qcherecer t0uad, our unwaveriRg support, and
to its enemies, in whatever guise, our indy
ing hostility, and that, God willing, we will
stand by the Constitution and laws Of our
country, and under their sacred shield will
maintain and defend our liberty and rights,
'peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must, .
TGreat cheering
This phrase, wherever found, implies that
there are friends of the Union in this Confed-
eracy, and the resolution obHgingly pledges
to them the support of the New Jersey De
mocracy--not, surely, witeut an equivalent
return.
To the same meeting, Gen. Fitzjohn Porter
writes letter, declaring, of course, for the
Constitution and resistance to despotisn, an(
ending thus:
The contest of arms, however, will no
be required the certain and peaceful remedy
will be found in the ballot box. Let lis al
possess our souls in patience. The remedy i
ours"
Gen. Fitz John knows well that the RENE
DIV is not theirs. unless 'the South" consen
10 ltlTOW IFS NOuCo liilO
and it is for this, and this only that the Dem
ocratic hook is bated with peace" But in
speech of Senator Wall, of New Jersey, be
fore Democratic club of Philadelp hia, (whlel
we find printed in the Ssa6Rel is a passag
more fully e<pounding the Democatic plan
than any other we have seen. He says:
''Subiugation or humiliation being alik'
impossible. l am in favor of an immediate
cessation of hostilities, for an armistice-tha
mid the hull of the strife the heat of passion
shall have time to cool, and the calm, males
tic voice Of reason shall be heard. In th
midst of such a calm am for endeavoring t.
learn from those in arms against us wha
their demands may be, and inviting their co
operation in the name of common Christian
ity, in the name Of a common humanity, t
some plan of reconciliation or reconstruction
by which the sections may unite upon NOR,
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