The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-09-08
.ol AN APPFA L t3.
ITHE DUTY Of 10y L MEN
BY THE PRESIDENT OF TIE KBsosnA U. L. A.

1t NAV be well to occasionally to the prlnclples
and purposes of our Organization that minds may be
refreshed and impressed in regard duties to each
other and to the Country, loyal men and citizens
These principles and purposes expressed and pre-
sented are not unmeanng words and phrases. 1her
wisdom and significance and the necessity of close prac-
tcal adherence them part are becoming IN the
course of events in this grand historic time more and
more apparent.
Parrcidal hands, in the interest of the viest Ogarchy
and the meanest Desposm the world has yet SEEM have
been and now are raised for the destruction OF the best
Government the wisdom of man ever devised The Union
which our Fathers made and sealed with their blood
is atenlpted to be subvered and dsnembered, and de-
stroyed and upon its runsthe ruins of Constitutional
Democratic Representative Governments to be es!ao-
shed if the conspirators succeed, grand Slave empire
while in the North, separate governments be maintained
at all we are to have petty cashng State soveregnes
without common principle bond of interest In the
first as ever where Slavery rules is to be ignored entirely
the commonest rights and claims OF humanity: all that
tends to human enlightenment and improvement and pro
gress be especially closed out and kept out as dan
Ioerous to the security of human chattelsm- Educaon
Science, Religion and Liberty, must be yelled and
forbidden deites with shrnes or worshlppers-Whe
abor honest honorable and noble where free and justly
Encouraged and compensated Is to be driven and scour
oed made serve and degraded It's marks and brands up
on qivering flesh and its iron entering the SOUL In the
second the divided and Inundated and conquered North
for the success of the South is the defeat Of the North
ahough the great dark overshadowng Presence OF Sa
very may not be there at and immediately the SEEDS
of generalization and dissolution will take sure root on
the destruction of Naonaty and sooner or later one by
one the divided States will be caught the southern Ser
pents COILS when will be completed the deadly aSsl1ata
ton and Darkness social political, and moral, will Co
yer this land as the the face OF the great
deep. -.#..| ..5-.-
With the setting Of the of Liberty on this cont
will sink into despair not only the hearts OF down
trodden millions on SOIL but the Light planted
here as beacon to guide the Nations to high Repub-
can civilization will be utterly extnguished The epe-
rment of segovernment will be pronounced failure, and
the car Of democratic progress throughout the world rolled
back for ages.
It cannot be assumed that this is oyerdrawn picture
of the results of the triumph of avehodng Despotism
in the great death struggle has commenced by its mad
appeal from the ballot to the buetfrom the peaceful
arbers appointed by the Constitution and Laws, to vo-
Hence and the sword Its in the struggle Is the
making of its own unbrdled, brutal WILL above all human
enactments and Constitutions principles right and
iustice-and all divine requrementsthe supreme and
only law of the Land.
We cannot escape if we would-we must work out our
salvation feemen and restore our Government IN It's
INTEGRITY and aesy in the suppression OF the rebellion
land the extrpaton of its cause must be subugatd
ourselves and become worse than vassals than
Feuda Aristocracy. The conflict admits of no trueeno
compromise Freedom and constitutional Government
Tor Slavery and Desposm, must be driven to the wall
The one or the other the result of the contest will be
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veal or woe.
Which shall it be? Is it not insult to the enIg hten-
men the patriotism, and the manhood of the North to
ask this question After than three long years
Heroic conflict with the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands
of precious lives and billions of treasure,the enemy
driven from than half the territory he at first pos
sessed harassed to the point Of desperation and weaken
ed almost to the point of destruction with the victory
aready than half for Freedom and the Right,
ARE we call this question: and pause to ask it? With
completing the task have undertaken, TO
sop short Of its full accomplishment? Are to be lured
by the sren song of Peace when know that the only
terms enemies would accept involve the destruction
of the Government Of Fathers, and own degrada-
ton and dishonor-' when know that Peace and I'm
ion be had only by putting forth all strength,
crushing the southern and overhroWing the South
en Governments Are to count dollars and cents,
and regard personal and security and life and party
and selfish aims weighing i'll the SCALE when the nation
al Life is i'll the balance, and the great enduring interests
Of Humanity and Freedom, dependent upon the pres
ervaton of that life are in mortal peril? Let towards
and peace sneas and copperheads these questions
they may, but thousand times NO. is the response
! OF every loyal and patriotic heart ..s.sr
And while there be no stopping place for US short
of crowning victory, decisive crushing defeat
no peace but conquered one unless purchased at the
price Of honor, of Freedom and the Union, and Of Nation
alityso there be middle ground for northern
to stand upon-no neutral ground for any to occupy
He who in this perous crisis, is not Enthusiastically and
openly for us is against
He who In this perilous crisis, fails to give active aid
and support to the Government and those constuonay
chosen to administer it. is dsoyal and unworthy the name
and privileges of American citizen, and whether native
adopted should be spurned and denounced, and east
out
All alike public enemies and traitors, and should
be hed-Who, In this perilous crisis not only fail
der active duty bustop to snive and cav and complain
at this that and the other measure Of policy which those
ghtuy in power have found it advisable and necessary
to adopt; and it is all the in character and design
whether these snivengs and complaints heard the
street corners, in the columns Of newspapers, APP
pear in the dgn6ed form of Wade protests):
Who seek to magnify the difficulties of the posonpre
dieting for the country nothing but ruin, for brave
soldiers nothing but disaster and defeat the rebellion
never to be subdued and the Union never restored Who
speak disparagingy not only of the Government but Of
our brave soldiers in the field as mercenary hirelngs,
and tLeir cLnsar and Reaats