The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-05-21
Are the Southern People
all Rebels.

For q long time after the breaking out OF tbs
shareholders rebellion, it was claimed, and as
we always thought, most justly, that there
was a strong loyal element at the South, that
only wanted the opportunity, to make itself
known and felt. Many loyal men at the
North have frequently been almost d%iscour-
aged, and fairly despaired of the restoration
of the glorious old Union, because there is no
evidence of any union feeling manifested in
in the seeded states, while others declared
that if we should conquer them, they could
never come back as the equals and peers of
the loyal states. This latter ground, Of
course, is assumed on the supposition that
there is no loyal element in those states, to
perform the functions of Government, with
out compulsion.
The following extracts from an article,
written by a southern gentleman for the Wash
ington LteLigencer, shows that those appre-
tensions are groundless-that it is only nee
essary to remove the rebel pressure that brushes
with iron heel every vestige ofloyalty or love
for the old Uuion, to devlope an active loyal
sentiment that has its ramifications through
every one of the seeded states-a sentiment
that, once developed, by the removal of the
crushsng, everything weight of treason and
aristocracy, will bring those r~ecreant
states back to duty and to the Union under
whose beneficent auspicies they have grown
to power, wealth and influence. But to the
extract
Every Southerner knows there are not over
two hundred thousand persons, all told, in
that portion of the United States now in re-
bellion, who are directly interested as slave
owners in unfolding slavery, and that a ma
iority of them are not disposed to abandon a
republican form of government as a failure. 1t
is true that the politicians Of the South who
fomented and still control the rebellion, do
regard a monarchy as the best form of govern
ment, and have been and are laboring insidi-
ously to get their opinion adopted by the peo-
who put them in power. They have already
established a rigid military despotism
which so long as the war continues, will an
swer their purpose well enough. But in the
event their rebellion were to prove a success
which is now more improbable than ever, what
would become of them in case their armies
were disbanded before some stronger form of
government were adopted and organized !?
They have ~pondered well On this question:
They know what in that event would be their
fate,
The writer of this article having been born
in the South, and having always resided there.
and having been in five of the seeded states
within the last six months, is perhaps better
qualified to judge of the public sentiment in
the South than those who nave never been
there. Those residing elsewhere, who are
known as ''sympathizers with the SOUTH"
who are not entitled to be so designated
They do not sympathize with the majority Of
the white population of the Sonth, but with
the politicians that are riding them to their
ruin"
The question is often asked, why, if such
be the state of the case, do not the masses i'll
the south rise up, and, after deposing the rul-
ers, return to allegiance 1t is easily answer
ed, They lack arms, munitions Of war, and
organization, all of which are in the despotic
control of Mr.. Jefferson Davis and his confed-
crates. After having been abandoned to their
fate in portions of Tennessee, Kentucky and
Virginia, and Texas, by our government, it is
not to be expected that the people of any por-
ton Of the seeded States will now declare
themselves for the Union until they see clear
ly that they will receive permanent protection.