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

The leaders at the South and their sympa-
thizers at the North, are trying to awaken
sympathy for the rebels and indignation against
the Administration, on account of the Alnnes-
ty Proclamation issued by President Lincoln,
in connection with his Annual Message. Il
Northern Copperheads declare that the South
ern rebels cannot honorably accept the terms
offered by the President because they are too
humiliating, and the Richmond papers echo
back the cry, and declare that brace people oil
like the Confederates can never accept such
terms-that they will die in the last ditch
first, and all that sort of thing.
There seems to be no longer a hope, even
among the rebels themselves or their copper
head allies, that they will ever bel able to
succeed in their plan of destroying this Free
Government and establishing their oligarchy
or monarchy, with slavery as its chief corner
stone, upon its ruins They do not fight now
for success, but to put off the evil day of well
deserved punishment, as long as possible and
thus by extending the struggle to secure as
good terms as possible, Hence the cry against
the Presidents Amnesty Proclamation, as be-
ing too uncompromising to be accepted, and
the threat to die in the last ditch before &C
cepting it.
We have read accounts of murderers and
others, eff the most hardened character dying
game" Drawing it out to the last with a bold
front, and thereby winning the applause of
their flash companions as brave heroes But
honest men judge them by their true charac-
tiers and see in this bravado only further evil
dence eff their hardened and wicked natures
1t is in This same light that all honorable and
loyal men now look upon the bravado and
threats of the rebels. Crime, although it may
take at times very attractive forms, seldom
rises to the dignity of heroism. The rebels
and traitors who have made the attempt tc
destroy this Government are criminals of the
darkest dye. Felons and robbers are but nov
ices in crime, compared with these traitorous
PARTICLES. The world will not give them
credit for heroisnl, for their determination tc
Idle game" The few copperhsad editors
among us, of which class the editors of ths
Chicago Times and tbs Milwaukee Ne,cs are
prominent examples, will fail most signal,
in their attempt to make heroes of the South
ern leaders. They have exhausted the vocab
ulary i'll condemning the President for the
terms he has offered to the rebels, and have
declared over and over again that the brave
people of the South can never honorabIy &C
cept them. If those editors could by an,
chance possibility come to look upon this mat
ter in its true light they would see that thu
dshonor of the rebels never could lie in til,
acceptance Of any terms, however apparently
| humbling they might be. Their great dis
| honor lies i'll the crimes they have already
committed Anysacrifco they may now max,
to retrieve what they have DONE will be
crown of honor to them i'll the eyes of all tru,
, men.
We see i'll this Willingness of the rebel lead
ers and their Northern sympathizers, to dis
cuss the terms upon which they should be al
lowed to lay down their rebellious arms, anG
return into the Union, evidence of the hope
lessness of their cause III the bitterness witt
, which they assail the Amnesty Proclamation
we can see that they have had the matter O
submission under consideration and that they
also fear the people themselves will accept the
conditions of the President without waiting
for the leaders to wrangle for Or bargain fol-
better terms for themselves