The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-07-28

waukee News last fall opened the campaign
with the positive assurance that the army
would vote en- haS8e, the democrat ticket.
But there came time when volunteering
did not fill up the armies fast enough, and
draft was ordered. Immediately the whole
copperhead press changed front 1t was
suddenly discovered that drafting was the
most cruel and barbarous way of raising an
army that was ever invented by the worst
of tyrants. The idea that Government
could take man and make a soldier of him
and make him fight for his country, even
against his own will, was horrible to think
of. Then the only legitimate way Of fill
up the ranks was by volunteering. They
were strengthened in this conclusion perhaps
by the result of the soldiers vote of the
several States, when it was found that more
than SO out of 100 soldiers in the field vot-
ed the Union ticket.
The law providing for draft allowed the
drafted man to release himself from the
draft by paying $500 as Communication mon
ey. Here again was an opening for copper
head editors. They assaulted the commuta-
ton clause, and they assailed the law and
the administration, on account of the COM
mutation clause. 1t was wicked law s-
pecially made for the rich man, and against
the poor man. They continued to blow
about the com mutation clause, until Con-
gress saw fit to change the CONSUMPTION law,
and among other changes to strike out the
Communication clause. Ard 10! presto,
change. Every coppelhead editor common
ced his fulmin ations against the admins
tration and the Republican party because
the wicked communication clause was struck
out, and all who are drafted mast 60 or find
a substitute.
And now another mine for the grumblers
has been struck That is that clause OF the
new CONSUMPTION law authorizing recruiting
ia rebel States, to fill the quotas Of loyal
States. With the intense Copperhead hate
of the Negro, we might suppose this meas
1 ure at least would have found favor in their
sight. But far from it. The Milwaukee
Nea0s devotes a long editorial to decrying
the wickedness cruelty and barbarism of
this abolition administration in dragging
the peaceable, contented, unotfending and
worthy contraband from the enjoyment
and ease of his masters plantation, into the
Union ranks to fight against that same
| loving and loved master, or to be shot in
the place of the cowardIy and craven abo-
Iitionists of Massachusetts and Wisconsin
The sympathy of the editor of the NeteS for
the much abused, and cruelty treated con-
trabands, in view of the cruel intentions of
the abolitionists, is really heart-rending
would be, did wenot know that his tears are
all cockodile tears.
AS specimen Of the consistency and sin
cerity of the Meas in the article just alluded
to, we take from another article in the same
paper only column intervening the follow
ing extract wherein it is asserted and main
tanned that the whole object of the war is to
kill off the whites thatthe Negroes may live
in ease and idleness. Hear him:
awe have no heart to help hunt down
the white population of Wisconsin and
dedicate them to merciless slaughter, whole
sale, that the negroes without our lawful
jurisdiction may live lives of poverty, idle
ness and crime Our admiration of barbar-
ism is not so great as to induce us to exult
in general destruction of the property of
our neighbors, that the white men of south
ern states may become tho dray-hnrses or
northern masters. We do not believe it i'll
the line of our duty to entice rosy-lipped
boys from the laps of their mothers to assist
in .robbing innocent southern children Of
their homes and inheri lance"
There is argument for you-and reason
for you-patriotism for you-given in view
of the fact that the very existence of the
nation, the stability of the government I'M
der which we live is threatened by armed
rebels and traitors The tumble of contra
dictions and Inconsistencies in those few
lines is worthy the logical mind of the
editor of the Meas First, we have the
poor white ''white population of Wisconsin
hunted down and dedicated to merciIess
slaughter; and then the barbarism of "gen-
eral destruction of the property of our neigh
bors, tnat the white men Of southern States
may become the dray horses of northern
masters" who have already been dedicated
to merciless slaughter! Sensible is it not {?
And lastly the poetry comes in of "enticing
rosy-lipped boys from the laps of their
mothers to assist in robbing innocent south
ern children Of their homes and inheritance
to wit: their slaves-or to carry out the
the poetical allusion-'' their homes and
their''-brothers and sisters who have slave
mo theirs. Affecting isn't it? and sensible
And yet just such twaddle as this is daily
put forth, to influence men to vote for a
democratic President who will finish the
job that poor old traitorous Buchanan but
initiated.
General Grants Campaign.
The Chicago Journal of Tuesday says