The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-10-27
Letter from Hon. jeremiah Clemens.

From the Philadelphia Press.
The Hon. jeremiah Clemens, late Senator
from Alabama, has written letter, under
date of October, from this city, to friend
at Huntsville, Ala, in which he invites the
return Of his State to the Union under sepa-
rate State action. He takes anti-copper-
head ground in his view ofrebellion and Sc
cession, and says
For attempting to preserve unimpaired
the Union our fathers made, MIR. Lincoln
was and still is, denounced as tyrant the
Federal Congress as band Of ferociOus mis-
creants, General Grant as butcher, Gene
raj Sherman as a merciless ruffian, General
Butler as beast, and, lastly, the people OF
the North were proclaimed incapable of self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tools of the .bascst
and most degraded despotism, who had pro
foundry disgraced themselves by an ignoble
love of gold and brutifying fanaticism. =
These, aud many other nsjJd and geatSeneda-
b epithets, were applied to all who dared
to doubt the right Of single State to de,
stroy the liberty and happiness of the whole.
| But all is changed when the principle Of Sc
cession comes to be applied in jeff Davis do
minions. The people of North Carolina are
now told that they shall not even consider
the question of restoring the Union anc
their Governor is warned that if he does
not repress the expression of every wish fol-
a return to more peaceful times, his State
will be desolated with fire and sword
Good God how blind muat that infatua-
ton be which bows the neck of an unques-
tionabIy brave and gallant people beneath a
yoke so galling-a despotism so pitiless as
this !" .e....-
Referring to the hope held out to the
South in McCleIIan's election, he says:
"The election Of McCleljan, If that Dsre
possible. a0ouLd O'ly proloag the soGr, and
make the desoJGtiCa Of your land more conf
ptete lie Nigh &2spemd military operations
for time, and negotiate for q peace, but
the ouly terms J.fjrs0a Davis Will e0sr offer
him arjU be such as he doT8 not accept. Nh.
DaUis has 40 9ded 0y officiating his S0re-
rsjgaty, and IF NcCiejjG@ acre 50 mad as to
Gcc6de to his damU.sd&, his own residence
would soon b. a loss comfortable one than
the White House at Washington. From
This source, therefor, g0u haze nothing TO ex-
poet bat still greater ecenttaL destruction 0ma
prolonged mi8ery-eviIs, it is true, which will
be shared in some degree by the North ;
but that is poor consolation. The plain
and direct road to a peace is before you. -
You need not suit Mr.. Davis, or Mr., Lin
coin or Mr.. Mcclellan OH the subject. You
went out by separate State action you
can come back in the same way. In the
Southern Confederacy, at least, there onght
to be no denial Of your right TO do SO. II
was the doctrine the leaders inculcated when
they wished yon to please them by going
out of the Union, and they cannot object to
it when you wish to please yourselves by
going in. This is your remedy-a remedy
independent Of the will or wishes of those
who are compromised too deeply to expect
ready forgiveness, and who wish to make
you the sharers of their own destiny, provi
ded always that destiny is calamitous. p