The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-10-15

nesus; and that no cause, however eacred, can |
iafrify disregard Of public and private rights
secured by the fundamental law of the govern
ment that the usurpatons of federal officers
civil and military against the constitutional rights
OF The states and people remaining loyal 70 the |
Jnioui have been and are unwarranted, unneces |
ssry, wantop aud criminal And thai the present |
federal administration. in conducting the present
war, hes left the world IN doubt whether their |
principal object is TO restore the constitution az
the south or subyert it at the North, The hlsto~ |
ry Of the world has rarely phOwn a grosser or more
Systematic abuse of delegated and limited powers !
or n more insoIent assumption of arbitrary power
by the constitutional servants OF the people.
6 ReS0tved That we will consent TO no dismemS |
beTment Of the Union, and to no abrogatlon or |
sus pension of the constitution. The one is as hos
ly and binding duty as the other. The Union
is strength, the constitution is freedom. Better |
liberty and right out of the Union, than govern
nent above the constitution and the laws,
& Res0}Ued, That the Proclamation Of the
PRECEDENT o. the United States of September %,
1862 subjecting civilians to trial by court mar
iial for political otfen5es. some of which are un~
known to the law the Both sec ioA Of the con
scriDtOn act of the last Cong e5s suDiectng Of
.enses against the civil law committed by per-
in the military service to3trigl by court mar
tial; the Ash section of the Indemnity act Of the
last session Of Congress annuiling the right of civ
il action and criminal prosecution for any act or
omis sion against personal liberty property com
ntted by virtue of any order by the President of
the United States, or under his authority, or I'M
der color of any act of Congress during the pres
ent rebellion and many other official acts OF Con
zrc5s the President and his subOrdinates not on
y lend 70 show conspiracy 10 establish, but il
executed, do of their force establish militia.
ny despotisn on the ruins Ofthe Constitution 1t
is id'e TO pretend that this is only temporary
evil. Human history records no voluntary surren"
der OF popular liberty to military usurpdtlons,-I
The only hope Of the country in the steadfast eff
for ofthe people to sustain the Constitution in al
its 70. ms and guarantees, and to remove all the
terrible incubus Of the present administration and
TO establish constitutional administration IN Its
stead in the form and the right is given by the
Constitution. The frtt effective step to restore
the Constitution at the South is to restore its full
ObseG vance at the North
II ReSOtved, That the terrible waste of blood
and treasure in the contuct Of the war desolsting
the homes ofthe county and impOverishiug the
people, is amongst the great evidences Of the alb
solute necessity ofa change OF administration, ds
soon as the forms of the constitution will admit
Had Mr.. Palmer seen fit to read these res
olutions, they would have put an entire diff
ferent face upon the platform. 1t would have
shown that Mr.. Palmer could not have endors
ed that platform SO readily and at the same
time have been such patriotic supporter of
the government, in favor of the vigorous pros
ecution of the war, as he at one time claimed
to be.
Having, as he supposed, so triumphantly
indicated the patriotism and loyalty of the
copperhead platform, the speaker proceeded
to expatiate on the enormous cost Of the war,
for which he constantly intimated that the
Republican or Union party and the present
administration were responsible. He gave
figures Of tho present cost of the war, of course
putting them about double the real sum, and
from that statement deduced the amount that
Wisconsin is held for, and concluded that we
were all mortgaged for about as much as we
were worth or ever would be Upon this
point he dwelt at some length, but he failed
to show how his election was going to help
the matter.
The fact was, and it was plain enough to
all save prejudiced eyes, Mr.. Palmer was not
honest either in the statement of his own po-
sition, or in the position Of the Union Repub-
linan party of the State He held out the idea
constantly that he, himself, and the party he
represented was in favor of vigorous prose
cutioR of the war, until the rebellion is crush
ed out. But he did not tell us how he recon
cied this position with his own words on the
occasion of his nomination, when he said
Il hope to see the disgraceful assault upon
American rights in the person of Vallandig
ham, eliminate In bis election to the Office of
Governor of Ohio"
Nallandigham is known and acknowledged
by every body to be in favor Of Peace on
any terms He believes that any State has
re right to secede at will and that any war
to prevent them was a wicked and unholy
war
And again the Chicago Times is aclInowl-
edged to be good authority on Copperhead
principles and is endorsed by the Wisconsin
copperhead Democracy. That paper makes
this declaration
$50 long as the present political policies of
the war are persisted in-so long as the war is
continued as the war of political party
every dollar expended in it is wasted, and
worse than wasted. AND EVERY LIFE
LOST IN IT is AN ABOMINABLE SACRI-
FICE AND A MURDER, indeed, by those
upon whom the responsibility rests of the pre-
yaling policies. The man who does not wash
his hands of all participation in such war
SHARES TIE GUILT OF THOSE BY
WHOM IT is PROSECUTED. Support of
this war and hostility to it show the dividing
line between the enemies and friends Of the
Union. HE WHO SUPPORTS THE WAR
| is AGAINST THE UNION, because the war
is the most terrible engine for the destruction
of the Union which Belzebub himself could
have invented.
The protested Democrat, therefore, who has
his senses about him, and is deliberately for
the war, is not Democrat, in fact but an
| Abolitionist of the most radical, violent and
destructive kind.
This insidious, reasonable and disloyal Ian
guage is endorsed by Mr.. Palmer, and those
who support him. In his speech he did not
come out plainly and squarely with such Ian
guage, but throughout there was an intima-
ton of such views. He declared that he be-
Iieved there was, and had been, since the in
Iauguration of President Lincoln, plan on
foot by the Administration, to centralize the
Government-to destroy the State Govern
ments, and then to usurp the liberties of the
people, and erect military deSpotism on the
ruins of the Constitutions This however, was
only in passing. 1t was not dwelt upon, the
speaker no doubt having sufficiently studied
his audience to see that such GORGEOUS folly
would not be swallowed here
During these platfudes, the audience MAIN
tanned respectful bearing. An occasional
cheer was got up, but they failed to denote
such a feeling present in the audience as en-
thusiasm. For some time previous to the
close of Mr.. Palmer's talk there was a very
general disposition to leave the Hall. And