The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-09-08


tors and editors now constantly declare that
if they do not succeed at the ballot box this
fall. their only resort is to revolution, blood
shed and anarchy worse than ever cursed
the soil of France
?. The democracy i'll their anxiety to
make out a case, don't count the time very |
close, or they would not declare that the
war has been carried on four years. 1t is
but lately that the three years service; OF
the Oldest regiments expired. The modesty
Iof the convention is exemplihed in explicit
Iy declaring "the sense of the American peo-
pIer that the war to restore the Union is a
failure We believe the great majority OF
the American People are convinced that the
war for the Union is not a failure, but, on
the contrary, that it only needs one more
unanimous effort of our armies reinforce d
by the last call of troops, to make it per-
feet success. .vr gl
8. A Platform of principles should be ba-
sed upon Truth, but, the father Of lies new
CT invented a more glazing falsehood than
is here so soIemnly put forth to deceive and
enrage the people. If these copporheads-
lying Peace sneaks and rebel sympathizers
would specify one instance, where the
CONSTITUTE on has been disregarded, instead u
this general change they would make
stronger point. Or if they had told us
wherein public liberty Or private rights have
eth Ell been trodden down. they would have
made out palmer case.
AS for the material prosperity of the
country" it was never greater. Will these
Peace shriekers tell us when the laborer in
every department Of industry was better
paid for his services, when the business Of
the country of every description was ever
more fourishing--when their was even few
er idlers and drones living Oh the body poll
tic, when the laboring people of the country
were ever more independent, than at the
present! 1t is the wonder ofpolitical Econ
omists of our own country, and still more OF
foreign countries, that such gigantic civil
war as we are engaged in can be carried on
for such length of time, without imparing
a thousand fold more, the material prosper
ity of the country.
4. These ''other peaceable means" are moth
ing more nor less than the consentiug to
the disruption of the Union, and the recog-
milton of the independence of the rebel States
and a division of the Territories and the
public property with them, that peace may
be restored OH the basis of the FEDERAL
STATES, it will be noticed, instead of on the
basis of the restored Union. .t.
5. This refers to the order that rebels III
!; arms or notorious rebels without arms should
E not vote without just taking the oath of al
Iegiance. ....-..
: 6. Was it the aim and object Of the dem
ocratic party to preserve the Union, when
that party advised and permitted the seces-
sion Of the slaveholding states The demo
cratic party has always acknowledged thC
right of secession, and all through the presi
Dental campaign of 1860, advised the south
to secede and destroy the Union,in case. ;
majority of the people should vote for Abra
ham Lincoln. And the very men who pre-
n pared as we'll as those who adopted these
resolutions, declared over and over again
that the south We're fully justified in thei
attempt to destroy the Union. The demo
cratic party has singular way of carrying
out its aims aud objects, if one of them is tt
lpreserve the federal Union
: Z. So much for the infamous traitor, Val
landigham. l
s. The lie is given to this assertion by
every speaker at the late democratic Con
vention, and by every copperhead paper il
the Free States. No greater freedom OF
Speech Or of the Press could possibly be con-
ccived than is thus exemplifed.
8. The only interference with the right Of
the people to bear arms, is the late seizure
Of arms and ammunition at Indianapolis, that
were confessedly procured to arm conspira-
tors against the government, for the express
purpose of fcrciblY resisting the laws of COLI
gress. .r5..l.5.- ..,.... r.. ..,..tF up
10. This is shameless falsehood. The
administration has not disregardcd its duty
III regard to our prisoners in the hands of
the rebels, Every effort has been tried to
effect exchanges, but the chiyalrous friends
the SOUTH" of northern copperheads, with a
barbarity unequalled in savage warfare,
have refused, preferring to starve, torture
and destroy prisoners, rather than consent
to the modes Of exch apge sanctioned by all
civilized nations. ..
IL. The soldiery Of our army has never
yet been able to ''sce it"-that is, the sym
pathy of the democratic party, that is so
heartily and earnestly extended to them in
this resolution. That sympathy was always
showing itself i'll direct opposition to the in
terests, Wishes and aspirations Of our soldiers.
All the opposition that has ever been made
to giving the soldiers the privilege of voting
has come from the Democratic party All
the opprobrious epithets that have been
heaped upon the soldiery as ''Lincoln's Hire
lings," 'ruffianly aud brutal soldiers, " ''the
hirIeing; tools of despot," and others of
like import come from the democratic party.
They show beyond doubt what scare, pro-
lection and regard, "our soldiers may expect
| it they fall into the hands Of the democratic
party.
Democracy on Union Victories.
AS we supposed, the rebel syihpathizine