The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-03-10
For the Telegraph
OUR TRAITORS

We know their name is Legion, and if a
history of their lives were written it would
fill more columns of equal size, than the en-
cyclopedia of the world. But we propose tc
give brief sketch of the history of few Of
the principal ones who have figured in our
country:
The first that we shall notice, was a man
of considerable talent, who at one time occu-
pied an honorable position in our country,
during that stormy period of our struggle for
a place among the nations Of the earth
He held the office Of General in the army Of
liberty. But jealousy, ambition, love of gold
and an aspiring nature, lured him from the
path Of duty, and he betrayed his country in
the hour Of her darkest peril, and drew the
sword against his own kinsmen against
those who had heaped honors upon him, and
given him rank and station. But alas his
new found glories sat not lightly upon him !;
he was despised and Stunned Of men, and
murdered victims were ever shrieking his
infamy in his ears, and the finger of scorn
was pointed at him even by those to whom
he'd sold his honor At last he died, neg
lected and alone, subject of commiseration
and adherence. Such is the history of BEN
EDICr ARNOLD, and such will be the history
of many who to-day breathe the pure air of
God Almighty, In a land made glorious by
the halloWed memories that cluster around
the immortal name of WASHINGTON, JEFFER-
SON, and their heaven inspired compatriots.
While their names shall ever be SYNONYMOUS
with liberty, and generations yet unborn
shall lisp their praise, and marble shafts
point where their sacred ashes slumber, the
name of Arnold shall sink to infamy blacBer
than the Caverns Of despair. What con-
trast between the patriot and the traitor =
While the deeds Of one shall live on through
long eternity, and throw lustre as bright
as the diadem on seraphs brow, the 9TH
er is enshrouded in gloom and darkness, and
associated with 'things of horrid shape"
But look at another, an aged man whose
silver hairs should mark him wise; a sage
whose name had rang in England's palaces,
and whose presence was sought in lordly
halls. At last he was made mighty pe0-
pies chief Executive. Thirty millions Of
grateful hearts spoke his name in praise
But soon there came time that "trled men,.
souls" He was not equal to the task Tho
him the result of his folly. He became th9
willing tool of periured villains more deer
and devilish than led an Arnold into hades
He fell, and to-day the name of JAMES BIZ
CHANAN is hiss and byword by those lip
that once were lOudest in his praise. Nc
bard shall sing in heavenly strains in homo
of his name, but down, d0wa, a thousand
fathoms down it shall sink into forgetfulness
There Is a despair and wretch edness wiring
ing his heart with horrors worse than death
Like a skeleton wan and emaciated, and de
crepid with age he stalks along, starting al
his own shadow, and shrieking as is if the
ghosts of murdered victims through his GU
pidity, want of manhood and firmness, were
turning their CHASTITY faces and glazed eyes
upon him from every corner and through ev
cry crevlce. Stands upon the brink of thu
grave, and an eternity he dare not enter =
fearing to meet the avenger of blood that h,
is assured In his hours of halIucination is up
on his track. Dreading the fearful iudg
ment that awaits him at the bar from which
there is no appeal, knowing that from tin
bloody fields Of Shiloh, Bull Run, Antietan
and others, there are thousands of witnesse
against him at that bar; and there will b.
too, prayers Of orphans and widows hear
broken and destitute, and tears bottled III
as a witness against him. How can he NEE
that fearful doom! Will penance and pray
er wipe the stain of blood away? Will tear
wash the treason from heavens record
may, but never from the hearts of his coun
trymen; it will cling like the leprosy anC
blast his name when earth is dissolving into
the chaos from which all matter came.
Such will be the unwritten history O
thousands all over our land who, in the ter
rible ordeal through which our country il
passing, have stood aloof, and by their &C.
tions, words and sympathies have prolonged
the work OF the angel of death, and added
countless victims to the pale, mutilated hos
that tread the shores Of death through this
''cruel war" Though they have been tolC
that there was a time coming when the hon
est indignation of JoyaJ people would hur
them into an abyss as bottomless as the pit
they needed it not. Drunk with the love O
treason and party, they have went on laying
up wrath against the day of wrath, and sooi
the thunderbolts of Jehovah will fall upor
them, and hghtnings more fierce and blast
ing than fell upon Sinai's brow, will cur
their wreaths Of scorching flame arounC
them, and they will be torn by torments
fiercer than racked the rich man, when he
begged for one drop of heavens fluid to coo
his parched tongue.
There is another traitor that demands &
passing notice from our hands. His voic,
has rung i'll eloquence in the halls of Con
gress. His record is, Il have not voted TO
any army or navy appropriations since tn
meeting Of congress on the 4th of July 1861
propose to recognize the existence of sec
lions as fixed fact. l propose to establish
four instead of tho grand sections of the Tn
ion | am not Southern man, although il
this most uahO}y and unconstitutional crusad
against the South, in the midst of the inva
sion, arson, instruction and murder to whicl
she has been subjected, and with which sh
is still threatened-with the torch of the in
cendiary and dagger of the assassin suspend
ed over her, my most cOrdjdt SympdtbieS ar
leiu her," This is the record of a traitor VIII
could utter on the floor of Congress such pes
titerous maledictions against his country, ant
not one word of encouragement or hope t
her IN the dark peril that seemed ready {
swallow her, to engulf her in the NAV of sc
cession, but breathings of hope to her mos
malignant enemy.
For this treason, and for discouraging en-
listments, this traitor was banished from hi
country. But his accompllces in crime sough
to make him governor of his state. Blu
thanks to Almighty God there were Iowa
hearts there, men whose sIres had fought an,
bled for the principles Of constitutional lii
erty, and equality Of man, when our countr
mas in its infancy and as they looked upo
the relics of that heroic struggle the old rus
ty musket and sabre hanging upon the wal
the eyes of that sainted patriot father, Ions
since gone to a hero's rest and reward, seem
ed looking down to watch the actions of til
son and grand son then, with united heal
and voice they spoke at the ballot box but
few months since IN times that tolled forey
er the death knell of Ohio's traitor, an
launched him forth upon the BOSOM of til
world condemned man, leaving mar
worse than branded Cain when his brother
blood cried from the earth for vengeance III
on his murderer. And now an exile, RUNE
in fortune and name, Vallandigham wander
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