The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-01-14
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NUMBER 80.

races to its own soluton-the most natural
solutions are always the best. Under the rule
of the common law, the free blacks of the
South and of the North will find their legiti-
mate place in your society of which they will
become useful members, honorable aud honor
| ed.
| In thus ordering in definite manner all
that relates to slavery and the colored race,
you will have done more than is generally
imagined for the lasting pacitication Of the
South. What remains for you to do on this
point may be stated i'll three words-Modera-
ton, Generosity, Liberty.
| There can be no question, as you have often
said, of an occupation Of the South of reduc-
ing the Southern States to the condition of
provinces, where the conqueror will maintain
his garrison and the public life will be suspen-
ded. Save in the districts yet ravaged by
guerillas and ia the heart Of which the Fede-
ral troops must finish their work. victory will
everywhere bring with the re-establshment
of the Union the re-establishment as prompt
| ly as possible of constitutional rights. You
| hope, gentlemen, that those who you conquer
! to day will tomorrow meet you in debate,
and you will accept in all their truth the
struggle of the press, Of the Legislative hall,
and of the ballot, which will replace the strife
of the battle field.
| We all feel it is much better that you
should have to encounter difficulties fruitful
of liberty, than that you should seek for your
selves the deceitful advantages OF a dctatori-
al regime.
To apply to the South an exceptional rule
would be, alas, quite easy. 1t would be easy
also to pronounce the death penalty, to out
law, to execute conliscation bills; but in
treading this path of vulgar tyranny you
would sacrifice two things-your high re-
nown in the present, a lost Union with the
South in the future.
But if, Oh the other hand, you show the
world the novel spectacle Of victory without
reprisals, of liberty strong enough to survive
civil war ; if your constitution remain, and
slavery alone fall in such conflict; If on
the morrow of the struggle the law remain
supreme, if elections for the Senate and House
Of Representatives be again opened as III the
old time if tie representatives OF the South
er States re-appear at Washington, if, taking
the oath to be faithful to the Union and to
support the modified constitution, they find
themselves on a footing of perfect equality
with the representatives Of the North, If it be
permitted to them to attack and to embarass
the government, you will have won the most
glorious of victories, and assured to your
country the best chance OF prosperity and
greatness
Accept, gentlemen, in the advice which we
tendon to you, proof Of our esteem. 1t is
not of every government it is not OF every
people that such things can be asked. Pro-
tracted civil wars tend to arbitrary customs,
stir up passions and hates, and at last engen-
der development OF military power and IT.
responsible authority which generally hinders
a return to control, to free opinion and to
strict letter of the law. We honor the United
States enough to believe that they will be Ca
pabe of setting us this too. after so many
other examples.
The moderation which we hope for from
you at home we lOGk for also from you
abroad Assuredly Oh the morrow Of the
submission of the South there will not be
wanting a class Of persons eager to recall to
you wrongs, real or fancied, suffered at the
hands of this OF that power. They will point
to your armies and dsposable fleet. They
will prove to you that foreign war is per
haps the surest way to draw together the two
sections 80 lately hostile. They will tell you
that common enmity, common dangers, are
the cement needed to strengthen your scatter
ed edifce.
You will not believe them, gentlemen. You
will feel that after these jars 1t is needtul be-
fore all else, to restore to America peace and
liberty. You will not seek new adventures,
and thus lengthen the the temptation Of dicta-
torship, the peril of exceptanal rule.
You will fear return to the aggressive
policy which, with its iuvasions and turbu-
ence, the influence of the South forced upon
you the day when, to assure the extension OF
slavery, it awakened in you hearts wicked
covetousness and pushed you to the violation
of the law Of nations. Your glory will be
to take the opposite of those violent declara-
tons, of those flibustering expeditions, OF
those INSCRIPTIONS ambitions.
| The temptations which a great army ex-
cites are of the class most difficult to repress.
May you not hesitate to reduce your forces
after peace? Not only your material prosper
ity, but your very liberty, is involved in dis
arming, in reduction Of your expenses and
return to the old idea Of small armies and
small budgets.
! But we do not deceive ourselves Your
small armies, do what you may will be large
compared with those Of three years ago. Your
military education is completed; you have
replied but too we'll to those who smiled at
the recital of your battles Of 1861. You have,
learned but too quickly to face death and to
| kill, and what you have learned you will not
unlearn You will not return to your former
situation.
! But while we do not expect again to see
YOUR effective force at ten thousand men, we
do hope that effective forces which are now
numbered by hundreds Of thousands will not
long be witnessed on American soil.
III.
Courage You have before you one Of the
most noble works, the most sublime which
can be accomplished here beow-a work IL
the success of which we are az interested as
yourseIves-a work, the success Of which
: will be the honor and the consolation of oul
time.
This generation will have seen nothing
more grand than the abolition Of slavery III
, destroying it with you, you destroy 1t every
where and the energetic uprising OF peopl
which, in the midst Of its growing prosperity
was visibly sinking under the weight OF tn
tyranny of the South, the completely OF til
, North, odious laws and compromises.
Now, at the cost Of immense sacrifices, 20
have stood up against the evil; you hav
t chosen rather to pour out your blood ant
! your dollars than to descend further the siop
f of degradation where rich, united and pow
erful, you were sure to lose that which Is Ia
t nobler thon wealth, or union, or power.
E Well, Europe begins to understand, will
ingly or unwillingly, what you have done
| In France, in England, everywhere you
cause gains ground, and, be it said for tn
= honor Of the nineteenth century, the obstacl
= which our i'll will and our evil passions cOul'
, not overcome the obstacle which the in
: trgues of the South could not surmount, is al
, idea, principle. Hatred ofslavery has beef
= your champion in the old world A poo
champion, seemingly Laughed at scorned
: it seems weak and lonely. But what matter
4 it ere the account be closed principles vii
, stand for something, and conscience, IN al
= human affairs, will have the last word.
4 Tbis gentlemen is what we would say t.
: Il!lS' So -'ar,a II all VIC With us and bet