The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-01-14

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the South was held inferiority and subjec
ton by numerous Federal garrsons? Not a
all. ALI the States enjoyed the same rights
took like parts in elections. If any section
was favored, it was the South, to which fur
ther suffrage was granted Ill proportion TO thu
number of its slaves. If any advantage haC
been enjoyed it was by the South, which haC
given the majority of Presidents and chic
officers Yet in this free country, a country
without an army, and whose material means
as we'll as laws were a sufficient barrier agalns
oppression, iii such country we are told Of {
province claiming independence.
We are of your opinion gentlemen, that In
dependence and nationality are words too noble
to be abused. In their abuse, things are com
promised, land the more noble and sacred thes'
/ things the more careful should we not be tt
confound their, with what is neither noble OF
sacred-a revolt in the name of slavery, fra
tricidaI revolt, which would destroy a fret
constitution and tear asunder a common
country for fear lest there might be interior
ence with the internal slave traffic, the con
tinued breeding in Virginia, the sale and sep
aration of families, and lest perchance some
territories should be shut out from the con
quests Of slavery.
In vain we seek in the United States for 6
nationality striving to regain its independence
Not only has independence been nowhere as
sailed but there is absolutely no trace of {
separate nationality, Nowhere, perhaps, il
there more thorough national homogeniety
North and South the race is the same; faith
language, history, and, we boldly add, inter
ests are all the same. All these States have
struggled together, suffered together, triumph
ed together. Their glories, their defeats art
common Their constitution sprung from
the free consent of all all pledged Themselves
alike to remain faithful to its obligations
This pledge is no empty word with which
caprice may idly sport Among the inven
tions of our epoch there is none more extra
ordinary than the right of secession. Slavery
has brought the two sections to strife. The
extinction of slavery will restore unity. The
North and the South will some day wonder
that they could have failed to appreciate the
most complete and homogeneous of national
tiles.
A last resort remains. That we here may
not see the great struggle on the subject Of
slavery, an attempt is made to present the
struggle as one for domination.
But this latter struggle is the very life Of
! free countries. 1t is not surprising that The
North and the South, each strove actively, en-
ergetically, nosiIy for the triumph of their
candidate and policy. But when one of them,
losing the battle of the ballot, plunges with
out hesitation into another kind of battle
when it ressts, arms in hand, the result of a
regular election; when on the very day that
it ceases to rule, it tears into fragments the
common country it is guilty of a
crime for which it is difficult to imagine an ex-
cuse
You will crush the revolt, gentlemen
| You will succeed--such is our beliet-in re
establishing the Union. 1t will emerge frsnl
the bloody trial stronger, more free, more
worthy of the noble destiny to which God
summons it.
1t has been demonstrated to us, it is true,
that the establishment ofthe Union was i'm
possible; it bnt was not also demonstrated to
US, and by irrefutable argument, that you
would be always and of necessity defeated !;
that you would never know how to handle a
musket; that recruiting would become i'm
practicable that your firInness would be ex-
| hausted that your loans would not be ia
ken; that you would become bankrupt; that
riots would ravage your cities; that your
government would be overthrown. You have
given to all these oracles the simplest and
best answer. You will reply in the same
manner to those who assert that the re-estab-
lishment of the Union was impossible.
What seems really impossible is not to re-
store the Union Where draw the line be-
tween North and South? How maintain be-
tween them a state of peace, or even of truce:
How shall slavery and liberty live side by
side? How, moreover, restrain South from
European protectorates, and by what means
arrest the frightful consequences Of such pro
tectorates? Geographically, morally polite
ally separation would create an unnatural sit
uation, a situation violent and hazardous
where each would live, arms in hand, wait
ing for the hour of conflict
We have full faith, gentlemen, that such {
trial will be spared to you. 1t is not that We
overlook the difficulties which still remain fol
you to overcome they are great, greater per
haps than we imagine. War has its vicissi
tudes, and you may perhaps be yet called up
OH to pass through periods of ill-fortune 4e
one fact always remains, and shows on which
side the final triumph will be found, suppos
ing that there be no foreign intervention. =
The flag of the Union has now, for two years
never paused in its advance. 1t floats to-day
over the soil of every revolted State withou
exception.
The South has had it's victories; it has new
er gained an inch Of ground. The North has
had its defeats it has never fallen back
Master to-day of the entire course Of the Mis-
sissippi, master of the Border States and o
Louisiana. all that remains is to stifle the re
volt in the narrow territory where it tlrs
burst forth and back to which it has beer
driven. We believe that you will succeed IL
this; for Europe, the only hope of the South
seems now little disposed to give her aid.
: In, short the rebellion is already reduced t
such narrow proportions that should 1t eve
become distinct confederation, 1accepted a
from WEAKNESS of war, the Confederacy thu
created will not be born with the functions {
life. Neither European recognition nor you
own could give it serious chance OF duration
1t would end in a return to you. But we DC
: light to believe the re establishment OF tn
Union less distant And, in the presence {
: of chat prospect which thrills our hearts wit
l 10Y, permit us, as your friends, to offer 20
: some sincere advice. The dangers Of victory
YOU are aware, are not less than those OF tn
: combat. We give you, therefore, our loya
g frank opinion, sure that in the main 1t WI
agree with your own, and feeling, also, thu
these communications between us have a
: aim more serious than simple exchange
words Of sympathy.
r We holdit to be of the first Importance thu
D the cause of the war shall not survive I'll
r war that your real foe, slavery, shall not re
a main upon the field. We have often aske
e ourselves these last three years why God pc
j United the prolongation Of this bloody stru(
8 GLE Was it not that the real issue might pr
? sent itself with perfect clearness? COnquerin
It earlier, the Federal Government would, pc
: haps, have been led to make concessions,
e enter anew upon the fatal path of compr'
mise To-day all eyes, not not Willingly o bin,
e out at an appointed day to aid the invasic
u of Lee, and falling instantly upon the negI
e in way to show to every witness of its COW
e ardly ferocity what kind Of spirit animate