The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-11-19

negro slavery. We have lost We may
have to do without it. The inconvenience
may be great for while. The loss is heavy
thus, however, is already well nigh accom-s
plished.
Yet behind this dark cloud is a silver lining.
If not for us at least for our children. ''In the
place of these bondsmen, will come an i'm
mense influx of people, from all parts of the
world, bringing with them their wealth, arts
aud improvements, and lending their telents
and sinews to increase our aggregate wealth.
Thrift and trade and common destiny
will bind us together. Machinery in the
hills Of Arkansas will reyerberste to tho mu-
sic of machinery in New England, and the
whir of Georgia spindles, will meet responsive
echoes upon the slope of the far off Pacific
Protective tariffs. if needed, will stretch in
their influence from the lakes to the gull,
and from ocean to ocean, bearing alike, at last,
equally upon Arkansiau and Vermonter, and
upon Georgian Differences Of section and
local sentiment will wear away and be for
gotten, and the next generation be more hom-
ogenous and united than any since the DAYS
OF the revolution. And the descendants Of
these times, will read, with &C much pride
and as little Jealousy, Of these battles Of
their fathers, as the English and Scotch de-
scendants OF the heroes Of Elodden-feld read
of their ancestral achievements in the glow
ing lines Of Scott, or as the deccendents of
highland and lowland chiefs illusions to their
fathers, conflicts III the simple strains of the
rustic Burns.
Let us live in hope, my grief-stricken
brothers, that the day is not far distant when
Arkansas will rise from the ashes
her desolation to start on brighter path of
| glory than, with negro slavery, she ever could
have reached while the reunited govern
ment, freed from its cankering sore, will be
moro vigorous and powerful, and more thrifty.
opulent and happy, than if the scourge Of
war had never desoated her fields, or made
sorrowful her hearthstones!
The sooner we lay down our erns and quit
this hopeless struggle, the sooner our days of
Prosperity will return ~
shall send this address to every hill and
corner Of the state to the citizen and soldier,
at home or in prison, and will send with it
my prayers to Almighty God to arrest them
in their pathway of blood and ruin Why
trust Davis longer? Had he twice eur pres
/ ent resources he would still fail. With Cue
cess he would be despot." But the whole
thing is tumbling to pieces Soldiers ore
leaving Disguised and disheartened; and many
! have gone 10 their home i'll the national gal
axy Maryland AID Delaware will never AGAIN
| be shaken. Kentucky has entrencEed herself
i'll the Union behind wall of bayonets i'll the
hands Of her own sturdy Sous. Missouri is
firmly set in the national galaxy as MaG,achu-
sets, Tennessee, tempest tossed and bolt riven,
under the guidance Of her great pilot, steerz
for her old mooring, and will be ehfely an
chored before the leaves fall vhie the ray
of light from the old North State, fishing out
titfully from the darkness across the troubled
waters, show that she still, is not lot, but is
struggling to rejoin her sisters None of theae
states will join the south again Then, with
caippled armies-witn devastated tielda-vith
desolated cities-with disheartened coldiers,
and worse than all, with weak and corrupt
leaders, what hope is left to tie few remaining
states, but especially to poor oppressed down
trodden Arkansas? NONE! Better get our
brothers home while they are left to US. Open
the way for the return of husbands, fathers
SONS, and bind up the broken links Of the old
Union. The people must act to do this. |
tell you now, i'll grief and pain, that the lead
ers don't care for your blood. Your suffer
ings move them not. The tears and walls Of
your anguished and bereaved ones, fall on
hearts of flint While they can make dol
lar or can wear all epaulette they are content.
Finally, with a grief stricken and sorrowful
heart inplore mothers, sisters, wives and
daughters to assist by all their arts, in saving
their loved ones from this terrible SC ourge,
ere ruin overtales you and them irretrieyahly?
While God gives me strength, daunted by no
peril and swerved by no consideration Of self
/ shall give you my feeble aid
80 those who differed from me in the COM
mencemeit of this rebellion-the extent and
bIoodiness Of which no mertal could Ioresee-
l must say, that Developments show, that y3un
were right and wrong. But let bygones be
forgotten, and let US all unite to bring about
peace, and to lure our lost PleiRd from her
wanderings, that she may again sparkle in
our nations coronet Of stars
Your fellow citizen,
g. W, CAN'T.