The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-03-24

The speech of Clemens was short but very
much to the point. He said -
sFThe object of the meeting is the restora-
ton of civil government-to bring us law
ard order-to secure peace.
We were hurried into revolution against
our earnest protest. This people was for
the Union. Madison county gave l, 800 ma
iority against secession, yet we were car
ried away without support. we hau no
arms. Buchanan was in the Presidentidi
chair Day has come at last. tnank o9u'
and we can say that we take sheiGer uiiuer
the Stars and Stripes
We propose to call upon the Governor ol
the State to convene a Convention, TOR the
nurpose of resembling the Act OF Secession.
How far the Governor will pay respect 10
our action, cannot say. 10 be CANDID
think he will pay it none. In calling upon
him, we avoid the charge OF preclpltancy'
and follow the constitutional method After
that, we have the right to call upon our-ln-
berent rights-to act for ourselves.
Falsehood, fraud and crime took us out
of the Union. They told us that secession
was necessary to save slavery Durlng the
ten wears preceding the rebellion, the State
of Alabama had not lost ten slaves a year
We had rebellion, and the consequence now
10 that there is not one man in the State OF
Alabama who can say he has the title to
q SINGLE nigoer. Not all of us have a title
To ANYTHING. The practical result is eman
cination. Cotton they said was king-would
secure us recognition and Independence
The result is Confederate money is worth
five cents on the dollar They said civil lib
ertv and State rights would be secured by
secession. The first act of the Confederate
Congress deprived the people of the right to
select their own President. If man owned
twenty negroes he was excused from mill
+arv duty. If man had ten starving chill
dren he was not. The man who owned the
negroes could stay at home with his wealth !;
the man with starving children must leave
them and go to the battlefield.
You and may have had some fear of the
success of the Confederacy. Thank God
there is now no prospect Of its succeeding.
The following resolutions were reported to
the meeting:
ResoIusd, That we believe that the effort
TO DESTROY the old Government and erect
separate nationality, has proved the ruin OF
the rights and liberties Of the people. We
therefore call upon the State of Alabama to
convene the Legislature that it may call
Convention, in order that it may provide
some mode for the restoration of peace and
the rights and liberties Of the people.
Res0LUed, That the longer the war has
continued the more imminent have become
the dangers to the liberties Of the people,
We therefore invite the citizens eff other
counties in the State to unite with us in this
call upon the Governor, and suggest the LIST
Monday in June as the time for the holding
of that Convention.
Mr.. Humphreys made an eloquent speech
in favor of the resolutions, in the course of
which he said
In February, 1861 addressed you from
the other corner Of this square. | appeal
to you to say now, if the consequences of
secession which [ then predicted have not
been too sadly felt. And if | was not i'll err
ror then, Ipray you, as you love your coun-
try, listen to me now-listen to me as you
love your families and life.
| intend to aid in the preservation of the
organic law Of the State. | do not want to
see anarchy, | want civil government, CON
stltutional liberty, rights of property, per-
son and conscience secured. Believe Inc,
we will sooner or later see twill see it not
with this wild revolution, with its devasta-
ton and slaughter But out of this revoIu-
ton will come brighter day--a perfect re-
alization of the benefits of Republican Gov
eminent. We have been six or eight months
afraid to speak above our breath. Now
Federal army is here, and we speak openly
and freely.
In 1860 went to Washington and Balti-
more. ] took the Baltimore& Ohio Railroad,
and as was conveyed rapidly through
Pennsylvania, Ohio Indiana Illinois. into
Missouri on the Great Central Road through
Illinois to Cairo, | felt all the way that was
in my own country. l was permitted to adj
dress public meetings in Illinois as | do here
to-day. told the people of Illinois that
thought they were wrong. | heard Repub-
licans and Abolitionists more severely de-
nounced by all Illinois candidate for Office,
than | have ever heard them denounced in
the South.
Alabama should at once rescind the ordi
nance Of secession. am confident we shall
have as many years for getting good rid
dance of this institution as we want. AS
far as the execution of military orders OH
the subject is concerned, the officers and
men of the Federal army are bound to carry
them into effect l am in favor of such po-
litical action Of the Government as will oh
viate the necessity of such orders Do not
misapprehend me. | beijeUe tile institution
Of SLaUeTy is gone as a permanent Mjag-
oUertiTO10D By the action Of the S0Uthe,R
SeGteS | believe in case of return to the
Union, we would receive political co opera
ton, SO as to secure the management of that
labor by those who were slaves There is
really no difference i'll my opinion, whether
we hold them as absolute slaves, or obtain
their labor by some other method. But that
question is not now before us
heard it said, the other day, that our
friends south Of the river would hear of this
meeting, anu who we were that participated
in it. | want them to hear of it. | want
them to hear that here in Huntsville, where
there is an encampment of Federal Sol
diers, we can express freely and publicly
Onr opinions that we are safe and protected
in our rights; that whenever depredations
are committed by white or black, the per-
petrators are promptly brought to punnish-
ment.
am told that there is difference be-
tween MIR. Lincoln and Mr.. Chase. For nv
part | wish Mr. lincoln to succeed. IfChase
be elected next President there will probably
be more radicaiism in the Government of the
country. But it is hardly possibleIthat we in
Alabama shall have anything to do in ma
king the selection.
Before adjourning the meeting Mr. Glenn
ems said:
Before | declare this meeting adjourned
| wish to state a fact in relation to the com
mencement of the war;
Some time after the ordinance of seces-
sion was passed, was in Montgomery, and
called upon President Davis who was in the
city, Davis, Memminger, the Secretary
of War, Gilchrist, the member from Loun-
dis county, and several others, were present.
As | entered, the conversation ceased They
were evidently discussing the propriety Of