The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-05-14
oThe arrest of Mr.. VALLANDloHAm-a mai

Yet an outrage upon the laws is the last course
Mr.. VALLAEDIGHAM himself would have cOun~
seled, and we trust it will be speedily suppressed
At the same time ills to be hoped that the Presl
dent will dlscountenance the evident determinait,n
of the military authorities to suppress the free eX.
PRECISION Of political opinions
We clip the above from the Milwaukee
Meas. It will be seen that the NewS adopts
and sanctions the reasonable course of this
shameless and brazen sy%mpathizer with the
rebellion. 1t says that Mr.. ~Vallandigham
represents 'the views of many millions Of
northern men" which ''many millions" we
presume means the Democratic party. But
we believe the editor of the NeWS is much
mistaken. We do not believe one tenth Of
the democrats in the loyal states, to-day,
wo uld take Mr.. ~Vallandigham as the repre-
sentative Of their opinions and views. We
presume the editor of the NewS does coincide
with him in his hatred to the Republican par
ty, or to any other party that puts patriotism
and love of country before the greed Of power
and the spoils of office-any party that takes
from him a fat office. The editor of the NevS
will never forgive the Republican party for
being the means of ousting him from a snug
little office which he had enjoyed for eight
years. For this, in his estimation, Interference
with his birthright and prerogati {, he is will
ing to go in for the utter destruction of the
country, just to punish the Republican party.
But the quotation above is suggestive Of
other ideas. See how ~gingerIy and almost
approvingly the editor speaks Of the doings Of
the mob of rebel sympathizers, who vented
their unbridled rage upon innocent and loyal
men, by the destruction of their property, be-
cause their great leader and exemplar had
been called to account for his easonable prac-
tees. He says the arrest of the traitor Vail
andigham ''could not have resulted otherwise
than in great popular excitement" He deos
not utter a word in condemnation of the out
RACES of the mob, but contents himself with
saying that san outrage upon the laws is the
last course Mr.. Vallandigham himself would
have counseled." But even this is a mistake
or else a wiIful Misrepresentation by the edit
or of the New$; for we all know that Mr.. Val
landigham did counsel resistance to the laws
and that very thing of counselilng opposition
and even forcible resistance to the conscrip-
ton law, and this counsel openly and publicly
was the immediate cause of his arrest. Ever
since the rebellion was inaugarated by his in
innate friends and c%rcnies, ~Vallandigham has
not ceased to revile the administration, and
indirectly to counsel forcible resistance to
the laws, and to uphold and justify the rebels
and traitors. No member of Congress from
the rebel states was ever more insulting and
shameless in attacks upon the Uuion
and Pronunciation of the Government, both in
the halls of Congress and on the stump before
the people, than he; and the only wonder
with loyal men has been that he has not been
arrested years ago. The government that the
arch traitor and agitator has SO long reviled,
has only been too lenient in letting him run
so long. We know he has disgusteA by his
shameless course, thousands who were once
his political friends, and who now fully ap-
prove of his arrest. The fact is, the editor Of
the News, confined to the strongly tainted at
mosphere of a city given over entirely to the
sway of secession sympathizers, is not posted
on the position taken by the great masses of
his own party. He thinks Milwaukee democ-
racy and Chicago Times democracy, aud Val
landigham democracy, to be the same doc
trine held by the great mass of loyal men
who were once proud of the name of Demo.
crat. But we believe he is mistaken. We
know hundreds of democrats who repudiate
Vallandi CHAM and his infamous course. If
the editor of the News does not know many Of
the same kind, his associations have been
bad.
The editor of the NemS winds up with the
undoubtedly sincere hope, ''that the president
will discountenance the evident determination
of the military authorities to suppress the free
expression Of political opinions" The per-
sistency of secession democrats, like the de
itors Of the Ns1oS and Chicago Times and other
noted acknowledgement in calling things by
wrong names is certainly worthy a better
cause. Many honest loyal democrats have
been led astray and duped into reasonable
language by this practice Of calling things by
wrong names. They have become so befog-
ged that they cannot tell the difference be-
tween disloyalty to the Government, or actu-
al treason even, and the ''free expression of
political opinions" No man since this rebel
hon commenced, has ever been arrested in the
loyal States, for the free expression Of
political opinions. But in times Of actual
war, adhering to the cause of our enemies,
giving them aid and comfort, is not simply
an expression of political opinion. 1t is treas
on and as such is punishable. No loyal man
who has the honor and welfare of his country
at heart, will allow his political or partisan
feelings to place him in an attitude hostile to
the country.
THE CowARDLY DUTCHMEN !"-This cpl
tibet was applied to a portion of Sigel's old ar
my corps, in the telegraphic accounts of the
late fight near Fredericksburgh. And a par
tial defeat of the Union army in one of the
battles that occurred, is charged to the coward
ice Of this corps. We cannot say, of course,
that there were no ''cowardIy dutchman'' in
that corps, but we do not believe such an OPP
probrious epithet was applicable to any con-
siderable number of our German fellow citi-
Zens in the Union Volunteer army. From the