The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-12-15
A Union Man at the South.

when the rebellion was inaugurated from
which we make the following extracts ! il
The letter is dated-New Orleans La,
| go '4-' ~ November 18th 1864
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ioll What changes have come over the happy
land since last we met in old Wis. H.
changes that had to come in the nature of
things, notwithstanding all the concessions
that had been made by free and great peo-
pie to the magnates of &drery l was in a
land OF strangers but true to my country, /
have fought them by every means in my
power, have suffered at their hands but am
still In the land or the living, Union man
without any ifs or bats. My motto is my
country first and always" right or wrong.
1t IS far better that the last armed foe be
externinated than that this country be di-
vided with such murderers and cut Threats
as are now at the head of the rebel armies.
Let the last dollar and TIE last man be ex-
pended in this cause. Let thejheart of eve
ry WOMAN in the land bear loyalty to GU
government and let them teach their babes
the art of war and let their prayer be for
the country nothing gives loyal man or
woman SO much pain as to see and know
how the love of country is inteusly disre-
garded by the mass of southern people. All
of the Southern states have state flags and
the flag Of the U. S. was an F'sold rag" when
compared with sour State Flag."nI
The 'State-Rights' men have chosen war
as their means of redress for faucied griev-
ences, we as freely accept it as an arbitor
on the side Of justice and good government
| am still in favor of the 'last resort of
kings" for the settlement of this question,
and | am sorry that my infirlnities prevent
me from bearing honorable scars received
in this struggle for civil liberty, for re-
gard this as the war of the Revolution be-
ing fought over again. Every STAKEHOLDER
was little king, and a dirty, nasty one at
that, ruling over the most degraded of all
human subjects. l have seen the king and
his subject III their quiet home. have
seen them in public, and fighting for their
p4aatom wherever you fEd them as a
mass you see prond, arrogant and con
ceited heathenism- act and move
ment of head, tongue or body, shows them
tobe educated murderers, no more, no less;
and this war as it is carried on by these peo-
pie clearly proves the assertion Speed the
day when the last one of the vilainous
hoard shall meet a just doom for the great
crime Of making war upon so great and
States. 1t was ,unprovoked and premedita-
ted, and cannot succeed, if we but do our
duty, and see by our mornings paper that
.sThe Florida rebel Pirate has met her
fate and that our friend ''Honest Abe" has
received goodly vote for another term at
the ''White House" This is as it should
be- The great heart of the pc ople is for
war, until submission or determination is
accomplished SO let it be; we of the south
who have always been loyal are more bitter
i'll our loyalty than you at the north, for we
felt the rude hand of the murderer feeling
for our hearts blood, we know what was
meant from the start, and have felt the
President did not understand the position
he occupied in regard to the rebels. From
the start the war ON the part of the rebels
has been most bloody and cruel against
armed Federals and quiet citizens within
their lines determination was their mot |
to and it has been most faithfully executed
SO far as Union men within their lines are
concerned.
Their time must come soon; enough 10y |
al men have escaped to see the wrongs of
the dead righted and with the help of the |
government the time will come when they
Ghe murderers) must fee or meet with the
Incorporating hand of 'sRevenge" in |
stern strife for existance, upon equal terms
we will fight them aud gain victory, and
slavery the curse of the world will be no
more, and ''when this cruel war is over,
proud will be the man who can show honor
able scars received in defense of the flag
and country Of our fathers" around which |
clusters '''Halo" that fills to OVERLOOKING
The heart of every loyal man in the land !;
without these we are lost LOST! LOST! |
Some of our family have believed me to
be disloyaL others copperhead and l know
not what, but notwithstanding all am
thankful that have never disgraced my
mother who bore me, nor my country s.
while have my reason | shall never be
found under the banner Of any clan, club,
or organization that is not uncompromising
in its loyalty to the present administration
and all its acts, SO long as power. Errors
every man commits. MIR. Lincoln is but
man ITO err is human, to forgive divine"
MIR. Lincoln has done many things that
seem wrong, that have proved upon trial to
be wrong, but for all that, he has done well.
Why should he not serve in style another
term. Washington had enemies bitter and
wicked; is Mr.. Lincoln less liable than he ?
Nothing conyinces me more fully, than to
see rebel papers sustaining Mr. Mcclellan
for the next President, that he is not fit to
rule over a loyal people Copperheads.
Traitors, and Oath of Allegiance Rebels all
support him, and never from first to last
have any Of these classes been known to de
plore this war, only so far as it was killing
the disIoyal and vindicating the govern
ment. JEFF. Davis is amartyr and his hoard
Of assassins are ''gaI horizons" patriots. If
these men believe what they proclaim let
them enlist in the rebel armies and meet
their brothers in fair open fights, and God