The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-02-19
ReariuR its Fruit.

no opportunity go unimproved,to condemn,nh
eaul, with. and ,ayiIe the administration on the
ground tina. it was for the Union add the Com
stitution. but opposed to the party III power
heo:ns now to see the bitter fruit Of its course.
Many really loyal men, have claimed the right
TO condemn the administration, and find fault
with its course, and conduct of the war,on mere
ly party grounds. In doing this they did not
believe that they were aiding. encouraging and
abetting the rebels, and they have spCrned the
charge of doing such a thing, with earnestness
and anger. Such men have been loud in con-
demnation Of the suspension of Habeas Corpus
by the President, and the arrest of even fragrant
secession sympathlzers, i'll the Loyal States
They have called any interference with the
broadest expression Of jisloyal sentiments, usur-
patton aud an Infringement upon the citlzens
right OF freedom of speech. There is no doubt
but that many opponents of the administration
have intended to be loyal to the Union. and the
government, while INDUCING in that opposition
and there are also many who have used this
~pretence of opposition to the administration as
a cover to their real reasonable practices against
the government, and aid to the rebellion.
But it begins now to be seen that this oppo"
sition, however meant, whether merely for po~
litical purposes, as against the party in power,
or with malice yrepsnse,' to aid the rebellion in
its attempt 20 overthrow this government, Is
bearing it's legitimate fruits. The rebels are
now deriving their greatest moral power and
strength from this course of the opponents ofthe
administration, and friends of the rebels Real
loval Union men have seen from the first how
this course was going TO affect the struggle in
which the government is engaged with treason
and rebellion, and have not ceased TO warn the
loval portion of the Democracy, in all fIiendli-
ness and good faith, of the damaging effect their
course must have on the Union cause. Now it
appears that the rebels are only intent III hold
ing out. until their friends, the democrats OF
the Loyal States, shall have gained power sut'
fcient to an actual war with the Re
publicans. They are encouraging themselves
and their soldiers to hold out for a few months
more, when they expect the governors OF seVe~
raj of the northwestern States will recall their
soldiers and employ them if necessary against
the Lincoln Government. There is no question
but at this present time, the great moral power
of the rebellion, and its courage TO persevere
in its attempt to overthrow the government, is
drawn from the supposed divisions of the peo>
pie and the antogonism at the parties in the 10y
al States. In all their editorials, speeches and
appeals, they count more on the aid they are to
receive from the Democrats Of the North, than
upon tn strength Of their own arms. The peace
resolutions that have been introduced and dis
cussed in the Legislatures OF Illinois aud Indi-
ana ara hailed With rejoicing among the rebels,
Here is a speciman:
From the Augusta Ga. Constitutionalist.
There are inklings of a disposition among q por.
ton Of the population OF the united
States TO bring the war to q close. The party III
opposition to the Administration at Washington
denounces Lineoln's mode of conducting the war,
his Emancipation policy his many and gross usur>
pations of power aud his violations of the Constl>
tuition. This party Is tired Of the war as now WagN
ed, and we hope il is really tic ed of prosecuting n
war at all upon the Confederate States. But what
can it do I! Can the Legislatures Of The North
western States recall their armies from the field,
and will they do it ? Ifthey would, The net would
be hailed W it'll rejoicing among us, for we should
then feel sure of bringing the conflict to Il speedy
close.
The Democracy has boldly attempted to intro
duce these same resolutions into our State Legis
lature, and the rebels will soon be rejoicing ovel
the idea that they have another State on their side,
that is going to recall its armies from the field
People may fatter themselves that the Etterance
of their opposition 90 the administration the war
and the Republicans, will not aid and encourage
the rebels. But they are wotully mistaken. Read
the following extract from the Charleston Courier,
and learn how "uRspeakably gratifying" it is g
the rebels to hear the democrats of the Loyal States
.'giving expression in bold, direct and earnest Ian
cuage," to their opposition to the Administrative
and the war;
From the CT arleston Courier.
y Foremost among these States in opposition to the
administration and the party that control pub
) lie affairs in the United States, are the powerful.
and popular States of Illinois and Indiana The
resolutions adopted UNANIMOUSLY IN a convention OF
the Democracy OF huntington county. IndIana,oi
the 9th of last mouth SHOW plainly that the people
+ of that State are fully awake TO the evils they are
suffering, and do not hesitate to brand New Eng
land as the author OF the war which has cost SO
fearful an amount OF suffering. In that resolution
/ thew declare that had it not been for the fanaticlsU
/ and peculatiOn of New England this desU!ating
= and bloody war would never have been waged.
3 1t is unspeakably gratifying to hear the people
9 of these States giving expression IL bold, direct
, and earnest language to such sentiments. 1t shows
? plainly that they are conscious alike of their q eat
power, and of the suffering, at the hands { those
. with VIII IN they are confederate. They hate the
snivelling, intolerant, sordid, mean Yankees at
4 heartily as we of the South do and such a peo'
= pie can and must appreciate the fine and noble
1 qualities we have exhibited during this bloody war
= Conscious of their ability to maintain a separate
= and independent ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with the
, malignity ,fanaticism aud sordid spirit of New Eng
Undetermined that the South will accord then
the free navigation of the Mississippi,and that they
= never can obtain that boon by force of arms-wt
are hopeful that the States of the Northwest viii
{, speedily initiate the example of their Southern
brethren, and come out Of the dsgraced, enfeeb.
; led, and bankrupt Union.
: Will anybody pretend, after reading that,
that the course Of the Democracy is not giving
r aid aud comfort to the Rebellion?
Another fact is evident from these extracts
form the southern press and that is, that the
rebels in contemplating the speedy close o.
the war. through "asceudancy of the Democ
racy at the North, " never even intimate that
peace is to come on other conditions than the
dismemberment of the Union, aud the recog,
milton of the Southern Confederacy. Demo.
Gratis may talk about a cessation OF hos ~tilities,
and acompromise with the rebels, and the I'm
ion as it was, ard all that sort of thing, but
their ~accomplices at the South never even hint
1T a willingness to compromise or to treat on
any other condition, than the concession of
their right of secession and the recognition Of
their independence, Read the following from
the Richmond Dispatch ola couple of weeks
since and see if what we have said is not liter
ally trueE;
PROSPECTS oF PEACE
From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 80.
If we meet with no great and unexpected dis
asters, if we do rot relax our exertions, the war
must virtually be ended by the l. st of June. All.
the signs of the times, the ascendancy of the
Democratic party at the North, the partial fail
ure of their draft, and the entire cessation of
volunteering; the admission by them that q