The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-07-23
Characteristic.

As an offset to the Democratic draft nc Of
New York City, the Appleton Crescent, next
to the Milwaukee Nesos, the most influential
and popular Democratic sheet in the state
thus discourses in its last Issue. The editor
has Just been reading the sickeping accounts
of the horrid riot in New York, and this Is
calculated as an excuse and justification OF
of those barbarities. We quote from the
Crescent:
Ignorance, intolerance, fanaticism and blgotry
are ALWAYS the characteristics of the menlais OF
some tyreDt's will ever the banditti TO plot, IN
midnight retl eats agsinSt the rights OF the people
This same spirit is always born IN corruption nur-
ured in vilany and eliminates in oppression,
1t is easy to Distinguish mr.
class of would. be reformers. Argument
never crossed their personal threshold-reason
never crossed their pathway - common sense never
fingered by their side. Vituperaton slang COM
:umely, badinage comprise their stock in trade
Their idea Of all that is supreme, lovely, vlrtuous
and sublime, is thing with curled wool, thick lips
ebony hue, and y fiat nose. Fheir dictionary con@
tains collection ofopprobious ePitbets, Abe Lin
coin. disloyalty, treason, Niger, coppSrhead
emancipation. 90
present AboliIinn>L incoin~A administration party.
This same Abolition party has tfampod beneath
the iron h eel of despotism all Constitutional 0ar>
riers for the protection of the people has ser al de
6ance all law not in accordance win thelr contrac
ted ideas; has sQuandered millions to raise be-
sotted and inferior race contrary to natural Jaws
10 All equality with the Anglo Saxon; has been the
mea ns Of Strengthening nearly million OF precious
white mtu uaelessly; has practically dsunlted the
greatest, best and most prosperous Na'ioh me
world ever witnessed
Could the editor of the Crescent invent any
better way OF, at the same time justifying the
New York riots and instigating similar ones
in this state? We do not believe he could,
even though offered large premium Is
there any argument" treason" or ''com-
mon sense" in that rigmarole of slang? If
there is either, we fail to see it. And yet
this the only kind of argument the masses OF
the Democratic party of to-day are furnished
with, in their partisan papers, and by such
stump speakers as Vallandigham, Wood,
Voorhees,, Seymour &c, Is there any won
der that mobs, riots and anarchy are break
ing out all over the country7
And yet the editor of the Appleton Crescent
pretends to be ''war Democrat" in favor of
putting the rebellion down by force. We
should like to know whether he believes he is
doing the Government he pretends to honor
and respect, any service by this course. If
there were any truth in what he says-if the
President, either by incompetency or dishon-
esty, had laid himself liable to the condem-
nation, the loyalty of the writer of the
above might we'll be questioned, but, when
there is confessedly not the least foundation
for this abuse-when this editor himself fails
to find one instance, to justly him i'll his trea-
sonable course, there seems to us but little
ground to doubt his entire fidelity to the re-
bellion.
But this Appleton editor is no worse than a
great majority of the self-styled Democratic
editors of the loyal states. Actuated only
by their blind, unreasoning partisanship,s and
seeing the possibility that the rebellion
will be crushed out, and the Union restored
and the rebel sympathizing Democrats cleft
put in the cold" they have conspired to make
one united effort, and by lying and detrac-
ton, by mobs and riots, and by opposition to
the draft-make such demonstration in favor
Of rebellion and secession, as shall effectually
prevent such a consumation. On no other sup
position can the REASONABLE course of Northern
Democracy be accounted for