The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-09-15
Let Ms Reason Together.

to be deceived themselves but to help to de-
ceive others. Many of these men have
worked with us, filling up the army of the
Union with volunteers, and i'll raising MON
lev for bounties, and for sanitary stores for
the sick and wounded soldiers Of the Union
armies, We have given them credit for do
ing this honestly and patriotically, for we
knew that they did it as individuals, and
! not as members of the democratic party
What they did in the line of patriotism and
4 pat riotic beneyolence, they have had to do
in conjunction with the Republican Union
Party. AS party, the democracy has new
er done anything to aid this war for the
Union That party, in its partisan charac-
ter has always styled the war, an abolition
war;" a ''war for the niger, ''Abe Lincoln's
war;" &C. As such the democratic party
has always opposed the war, and done all
that it could do to make it a failure-to dis
courage enlistments, to decry successes and
magnify our defeats and lnisfortunes, and in
the efforts of the administration to put down
the rebellion. These things are patent to
Everybody, and individuals whose patriotic
impulses have inpclled them to act with
and work with the loyal party of the country
for it's preservation and the restoration Of
the Union, ought to be able to see and real
ize the facts as they are.
If individual democrats in this communi-
ty who have worked withsus,in spite Of shib-
boeths of their party, have been honest (and
we will not doubt but they lave,) we can
not see how they can still cling to the cor
rupt carcass of the party. Iney can only
do it through their extreme willingness to
be deceived themselves and to try and de-
ceive others. They k54oae the organs of their
party--the partisan democratic Newspaper s
for the past two years and the most
of them for the past three years have con-
stantly, in every issue, Daily and Weekly,
clamored against the war and for peace
for peace on any terms. Their constant la
Dor has been to show up the horrors Of the
war, Although it is bad enough, even for
the best cause, democratic editors and ora
tors have constantly and persstently mag
nifed those horrors, and at the S me time
have as constantly and persistently declar-
ed the war an abolition war to free niggers
and enslave white folks-Abe LincoIns war
against deiocrats-and all that sort of
thing.
The democratic party met few days
since in Chicago, and several hundred speech
es were made by almost as many leaders of
the party And among all the speeches
made there was not one in which the war
was not denounced as cruel, wicked, blood
thirsty, unnecessary, useless, and an entire
/, failure OH the part Of the administration
and those who have been fighting for the
: ton of the Union The burden of every
speech was Peace, Peace-gige us peace !!
Peace at any price and on any terms An
unequivocal Peace Platform was adopted
, Such notorious Peace men as Vallandigha1n,
! Ben Wood, Fernando Wood Pcndleton
Mahony, q. c. Burr, the two Seymours and
others Of that class of notorious peace shrek
ers ruled the convention, made its nominal
tons, indited its resolutions and made its
speeches. The Platform declares that.
'Justice, humanity, liberty and the pub
-" lie welfare demand that immediate efforts
"be made for cessation of hostilites,
with view to an ultimate convention of
the States, or other peaceable MEANS to
b" the end that at the earliest practicable
moment peace may be restored on the ba-
81 sis of the federal union Of the States"
/ Nothing can be palmer than that. 1t
means immediate peace on any conditions
the rebels in arms choose to dictate I'm
mediate cessation of hostlitles-the with
drawal of our armies north of the Ohio and
the Potomac, from Missouri, and the raising.
of the blockade, by leaving every rebel port
open, and the abandonment of the Mississip-
pi River from its mouth to Cairo-all this
to be done Oh our part-for jeff Davis says
we can have peace at any time by doing
that and letting them alone-''with view
to an ultimate convention of the States, or
other peaceable means" The other peace
able means, in case the rebels do not choose
to go into a convention of the States" are
permanent disunion and recognition of the
Southern confederacy.
1t IS the height of folly to shut your eyes
to these palpable facts that are so plain that
the ''wayfaring man, though fool, can err
therein, and say that the platform and the
speeches are of no account, as long as slit
tie Mac" is all right. That is where Won are
deceiving yourselves. That platform was
drawn up by Eallandigham, himself, with
the full knowledge beforehand that McCIel
Ian would endorse it, by excepting a nonli
nation upon it, and it was with this know
ledge that Vsllandigham himself made the
motion to make that nomination unanimous
VallandIghain, the two Seymours, Rynders, |
Pendleton Mahony, and that class of men,
are old stagers in political wire working.
and at the present more watchfuI and des- |
perate than ever, and it is not the part of \
wisdom to act on the ground that the hero
of the Chickahoininy campaign, is going to
TOOL them all. Men don't act on such as
sumptions in their ordinary business trans
actions and why should they in the far
more serious political duties, in which the
welfare and existence of the whole couutry
may depend 1t is an old saying and none