The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-05-28


Bsund to- haven HanrIyr.
The miscalled Democratic papers are inst
now full of wrathful threatening mourning
over the fate ofthe infamous convicted traitor
and rebel sympathizer, Va~LLondighGm! When
he was coveted and sentenced to Fort War
rem during the war, the case was awful. His
sympathizing friends, the editors talked glib
" of the cruel manner in which his doors
were broken in at the dead of night"-how
he was Conducted by armed soldiery
from the presence of his home and friends'-
how he was 'denied compulsory process for
witnesses to establish his innocence'-how he
was confined on 'iron-ribbed gunboats, de-
Tended by frowning cannOn-aud finally how
he was conveyed across the country to a dis
tant prison" All these hardships and many
more like them such Democratic papers as
the Milwaukee Neps and Chicago Times, were
conjuring up, and parading before their read
ers, as actually having been inflicted and suf-
fered, while yet the infamous secession advo-
cate and treason upholder, was furnished with
the best parlor of the Burnett House, Cincin-
natl, where he was Accommodated during the
trial and until the will of the President could
be made known, III regard to the sentence of
the convicted criminal. Already had he been
incarcerated in a gloomy dungeon by the
'hireling minions of the despot, Linco In &C
cording to those model democratic papers,
when the news came that the sentence was
changed by the President, to one of Danish
ment beyond the Federal lines to Dixie.
Of course this event took all the force from
the highly wrought horrors that had been
depicted before, of gloomy cells in a distant
prison." &c. But they were not going to give
up so good a chance for the manufacture of
political capital, so they have varied their
catalogue of horrors. The Milwaukee Nsws
discourses on the change as follows:
'He Vallandigham) is by force transmit
ted unarmed and unprotected to the tender
mercies of a hostile government. BY all the
laws of earth or of heaven he is the public en-
envy of the government where he is sent
Within the rebel lines he is at any moment
lawfully liable to death or Imprisonment, on
the order of any rebel military commander
To Danish him there, leaving him to trust to
the mercy Of a rebellious people for his life,
is an act of refined cruelty without a parallel
in the history of nations"
The editor of the NescS should not so dis
trust the gratitude or chivalry Of MIR. Vallan-
digham's southern friends. Ifthat convicted
| frai+or o,-ar cooIya a U-orJ Iororoforr IN fha
southern confederacy or to any of its officers or
supporters, we have yet to learn the fact. On
the other hand, from the time President Lin
coin was elected, he has not ceased to revile
traduce and belle him and his every act. Nor
has he been hardly less abusive of the Gov
ernment itself. He has repeatedly styled the
war against the rebellion a wicked, cruel and
unjust war-unnecessary and waged for the
purpose Of crushing out Liberty and for the
purpose of establishing a despotism. His
most gentle designation for the President of
the United States, has been the cruel Despot,
and officers of the government he has always
styled 'the minions of the Despot." We ven
ture to say that no traitor in all the south, has
been more bitter in denunciation of the ad-
ministration and the government, than this
same V~allandigham. Instead of being 'lia-
BILE to death and Imprisonment. y at the hands
of the rebels, he deserves from them, (and he
will probably receive it a crown of laurel
and an ovation of thanksgiving. Instead of
being sent to tender mercies of a hostile gov
eminent" he goes to his own friends for
whom he has labored early and late in seas
on and out of season. He has retired from
the presence of his enemies 'the minions of
the Despot, Lincoln" where the constitution
is broken" and Liberty crushed under the
foot of despots, to that part of the United
States where he can enjoy ''the Constitution
as it was, and the Union in it's original purity.
We fail to see the ''retined cruelty spoken of
by the Neus, in this most lenient ofall punish
ments. He can undoubtedly exclaim in the
language Of a far more worthy exile-"what's'
banished, butset freefrom the things l Ioathe?
He is not banished but set free for a short
time, from 'abolitionism'' from a 'despotic
abolition government. from contact with
'Lincoln hirelings'' and 'minions of Lincoln,'
from the "'Washington Despotism'' &c.-all
of which he has declared a thousand times,
on as many stumps, that he loathed and alb
horred." He does not deny nor will his friends
deny for him, that he has repeatedly used such
language and such epithets in speaking of the
Federal Government and its officers, bat we
challenge his friends and supporters to plo-
duce the evidence that he ever discoursed in
such abusive strain towards the rebels or their
confederate government. He ought to be
most thankful to the ~''despotism'' that thus
SO gently takes him up from among his loathe
some' enemies and sets him downin the midst
of his friends and admirers. And he probably
is. Our democratic friends will fail to make
capital out of such a martyrdom.
H. -.l.I Co--.- - /