The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-04-30
Should there be Party DistInctEOn
annnnR LnHnl Men.

D D. DSooE
should there be Party Distinction
among Loyal SGen.
We have, from the breaking out ofthis wick
ed and u~nprovoked rebellion, commended that
there should be no party distinctions among
loyal men-that there should be but two par
ties; the party for the Union and preserva-
tiou of the Government, and the party against
the Union and the Government. This we be-
lieve has been the principle acted upon by
the Republican party, as a party. The olive
branch has been held out constantly. Never,
since the administration Of John Quincy Adj
ans, has there been greater liberality shown
in Federal appointments towards political OPP
ponents, than during the administration OF
Abraham Lincoln.
Nor has this iberality been confined to
Federal appointments. The Republican par
ty, wherever it has been III power, has gener-
ouslv divided the offices of trust and honor
and profit with their political opponents, ealy
asking from the recipients of their suffrages
that they be loyal to the interests of our com
mon country, to her institutions, and to the
administration. In our own State we have
acted on this principle. Our present popular
and able Governor, Secretary Of State and
Bank Comptroller, were members of the Dem
o~cratic party, as well as loyal men, and were
nominated and elected by the Republican par
ty, in Difference to the principle that there
should be no party distinctions among loyal
men at the present time. In this and many
other counties of the State, where the Repub-
lican party was in a large majority, the same
liberality was shown, and a strong effort made
to do away with all party distinctions save
that of loyalty and disloyalty to the Govern
ment.
But this liberality on the part of the Repub-
can party has never met with any correspond
ing return from the Democratic party, as a
party. That there are many honorable and
noble Individual Democrats, who, acting on
the impulse of patriotism and love of country,
as stronger than love of party, have given
their influence towards the establishment Of
the doctrine above enuncIated, we are heppy
to say, but they have done this in opposition
to and despite the shibboleths Of their party.
That there are yet thousands of loyal men
in the Democratic party of the North, we
know, but that their attachment to party,
and their p~reiudices, which have been Guilt
waited and strengthened by designing and pro-
f~essional politicians and demagogues whose
loyalty may well be doubted, induce them to
assume a quasi disloyal position, towards the
Government, is equally certain. Their tealty
to party blinds them as to their duty to their
country. They forget that they cannot serve
two masters-that they cannot be true to a
party hostile to and founded upon its Oppose
ton to the administration, and at the same
time true to the Government Of which the
administration is the only representative. In
a time IF actual war-of armed and organlz-
ed resistance to the Government for the avOW-
ed purpose of it's destruction; opposition to
the administration is opposition to the Gov
eminent. Whatever weakens the hands OF
the administration strengthens the hands OF
the enemies of the Government now in arms
for its destruction.
In view of these facts which we believe
cannot be successfully controverted, we ask
the loyal democrats of Kenosha county, how
thew can consent to be used as plant p%artlsans
NV wicked ambitious men, who think to make
themselves a place in a discovered Union and
a disrupted country who influenced by a sell
fishness that mocks at humanity, and derides
any principle that centers not In sell, are
ready, in this hour Of their country's peril to
strike hands with traitors in arms, parricldes
and rebels, for a division of the remains and
ruins of a once happy, united, prosperous and
honored country. Such are the nomlnaliy
.Peace Democrats who now aspire to, and
actually do, rule the present Democratic party
Gas far as it acts as a party, )and dictate its pol
icy. They are the men who propose and ad-
wise armistices, peace conventions, treaties
and COMPROMISES with rebels in arns-Who
cry for peace at any cost, even though the
once glorious American Union be shattered
into half a dozen miscalled confederacles, pow
erless for any thing but evil, that would soon
become a Kissing and a %by-word among the
nations of the earth, respected nor honored,
either at home or abroad. What care such
men for the ruin they occasion, as long as
they manage to keep their rapacious hold up
on some fat office, and their feet upon the necks
of the people?
In all candor and earnestness, and friend
ship, we call upon the loyal democracy OF Ken
osha county, ere it is too late, to look to the
course they are being led into by the mana
gers of the Democratic party, and such disloy-
al organs as the Chicago Times and Milwaukee
Neps. Though not in arms against the coun-
try they have one object in common with the
rebels and traitors who are in arms, and that
object is the dissolution of the Union and the
establishment of three or four contederacleS
or monarchies, on its ruins. This IS VIVA
peace Democracy means. You need not take
our word for it, but read the letters and speeches
of eminent aud loyal democrats themselves
We publish several such extracts in another
column of this paper. The universal tcstimo
nv is, that the imam who finds fault with ev
cry act of the Government to sustain itself
!, and at she same time declares himself a Unlor
man, is even worse than an avowed disunion
ist,' and that there can be nc such thing as
treating for peace with rebels in arms.
= We say read the letter of Gen. German, the
S speech o John Van Buren,, the letter of n. B.
l Baker, and others of the same kind Of Dem
ocrats.