The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-03-26
I'll. D;.souesty Of Democracy.

The DiAaonesty of Democracy.
We do not know how it may appear to those
people who call themselves democrats, and
who make up the Democratic party Of to-day
but to outsiders it certainly does appear that
the party is corrupt, and full of corruption as
any putrid carcass ever was. If some power
could only give that ''historiaal party the
gift to see itself as others see it, we believe 1t
would petition its friends, lift has any, to bury
it out of sight, at once and forever. The Mil
Lwaukee Meas, the accredited organ of Wis
consin Democracy, says: The grand test
of Democracy is devotion to the constitution
and the laws" This sounds well and to a
perfect stranger to the civil and political his
tory of the country, would a well. But
viewed in the light of the history of the past
three or four years, it appears what 1t really
is, a monstrous falsehood. Was it devotion
to the constitution and to the laws" that in
augurated this rebellion that because the
people elected men who did not belong to this
modern democratic party, to the Office Of Pres
ident and Vice President, attempted the destruc-
ton of the Union, the Constitution and the
laws? This was the work Of the Democratic
party The most braZen and shameless trait
ors in the southern States, made use of this
same language on the floor of Congress when
they were plotting treason against the Con
stitution and the laws" There is another sig
nifcant fact that no Democrat in good stand
ing in the party to-day, has ever yet, raised a
voice in condemnation of the rebellion or its
leaders, without declaring at the same, that
the Republicans were equally guilty.
A little further on in the came article. the
News says: ''Thc Republican party is prac-
ticaIIy dead" The same writer made use of
the same expression, when James Buchanan
was elected, and he has repeated it probably
a thousand times since, and it has now just as
little truth in it, as it had six years ago. II
is the old story of the boy in the dark whis-
Ting to keep his courage up. 1t is the same
story, too, though it may have been in differ
ent words, told by jeff Davis, Breckenridge, Ma
son, Slidell, Toombs, Stephens and others Of
that traitor crew, while they were waiting for
their reasonable plots and plans to ripen.-
Fortunately for the country, for mankind and
the world, the Republican party still lives, and
will continue to, until it shall have brought
that whole brood of traitors and rebels to the
punishment they SO richly deserve, and then
T wicked and diabolical schemes to naught.
The Necs continues, ''The Democratic par
ty has been great in history, but it is to be
greater i'll time to come" Now, this vain
glorious boasting Of what the party has been,
or is going to be, in some indefinite time to
come, is all well enough N its way, but it does
not meet the present exigencies. The present
instead of the past or future, is what we have
to do with, and what is done must be done
now, or the boastings for the future, will be OF
little worth. The Democratic party of the
present, whatever it has been, or may be, oc-
cupies a very questionable position. The party
as such, on the start, recognized and endors-
ed the Southern doctrine of the right of Sc
~cession, at will, and without cause, and al
along they nave clamored for peace on any
terms at the expense Of the Union, and WORSE
even than that at the expense of the Govern
mcnt itself: The Democracy as a party, have
claInored for the resignation of President Lin
coin in favor of jeff. Davis, and a ~reconstruc.
ton of the Union, with New England, lief
out in the cold, for the sake of peace. 1t ha,
even suggested the exchange of the United
States Constitution and Government for the
constitution and government of jeff. Davis
These are some of the phases of the Demo
cratic party as it is. The history Of its past
greatness, nor the promise of its future, can
cover up its present meanness and want Of
patriotism.
All the boastings of what the party is, ol
what it is going to accomplish, i'll the way o.
saving the liberties Of the people, and main
tanning 'the national existence, glory and
power" all pass as idle wind in the light O
the real action of the party.
The Ne,eS concludes its panegyric on the
victorious Democracy as follows:
THE opposition To democracy is in a mi.
nority both in the nation and in the north it.
self. Instead of making themselves a guerril
la party for the plumber of the country, the
perpetuation of war and dishonorable assaults
upon the only historical and traditional polit
ical organization of the land, the republican,
ought gracefully to resign their organization
to its doom, and cordially unite with the his
. - JE-1ou, . II -cJl-
erty in restoring unity and peace"
Without stopping to inquire into the truth o
the assertion in the first sentence of this par.
agraph, We only wish to call attention to the
insincerity and dishonesty Of the whole. The
Republican party is charged with the perpet-
uating the war, for the purpose Of plundering
the country. This is the main idea held out,
and sedulously taught, by all partisan Demo
crats-a sort of foundation upon which they
base all their political efforts for restoration tO
power, both in nation and state. This is call
ed an abolition Republican war, commenced
and carried on, for the purpose of plundering
the country and destroying the rights of the
people. This most unrighteous war they claim
will be at once ended, and peace be restored
to the country, the moment the power is put
into the hands of the Democratic party.
We do not contradict these lying, dishonest
teachings for the benefit of those who utter
them. They know, as well as we do, theil
utter falsity and bagness, but there are those
not SO well informed for whom they are pre-
pared and who might be deceived into believ-
ing them, if uncontradicted, and for that rea-
son we expose them.
MILWAUKEE PosTMAsTER.-We notice by
the Milwaukee papers, that our former fellow
citizen,C. L. SHoLEs, has been appointed Post
master at that city in place of Lockwood re-
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