The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-10-27

ton of all the States" &c. The rights of
citizens, and of the people of the several
States and territories under the constitution
are studiously ignored, whenever that plat
form speaks Of "States." How can a con-
vention of all the Estates" be called under
the constitution 1t provides that on APP
plication of the legislatures of two-thirds of
the several states, Congress shall call con-
vention, to propose amendments &c, and
when ratified by the legislatures or conven-
tions of three-fourths of the States. the
amendments proposed shall be a part of the
constitution, &c. How do the Chicogo mag
mates propose to procure the application of
two-thirds of the State legislatures and
when? Is it possibility? who are the
fanatics making such preposterous resolu-
ton? Gould such convention in favorable
circumstances be convened within year?
And what right has political national con-
vention to operate on the sacred sovereignty
of separate state, to compel it to make the
requisite application? While the machinery
of some thirty-four states are in motion to
move congress TO call a convention, and
while some year hence congr>s5, having re-
ceived power from tweuty-four states, pro-
ceeds to call convention, then how long
will it take to elect its members, convene
and do up the work And in the meantime,
what of our armies, and what Of the head
rebels? Come, platform makers, in behalf
| of treason, please answer the last question.
What becomes of Uncle Sam during all this
time? Does he go to bed with jeff Davis
to restore his energies latter your four years
of Iaborious failureT'' And if such myth
cal convention meeting, 'fails to restore the
federal union of the states" what then P
And this proposition comes from party
whose partizan leaders have so persistently
howled the catch words, ''the constitution
as it is, and the Union as it was" But now
they are the terms convention of all the
states, o not in accordance with its provis-
IONS but hostile outside and revolutionary
to it, and in destruction of the present con-
stitution, and its guarantees. They desire
not a convention to establish and make more
firm our liberties and privileges, but to
restore "peace" with traitors and rebels sat
the earliest practicable moment as the basis
of the Federal Union of the States ~ There
YOU have it, and all its black venom sugar
ed by peace, that the poison may be more
sure to destroy our government.
The constitution prohibits the states from
entering into any treaty, alliance or con-
federation" and yet the Chicago platform
makers, knowing that no convention could
be called under the powers Of the constitu-
ton, advocate a violation Of that constitution
by having convention called some other
: way, which could be done only 10y treaty,
alliance or confederation" with Georgia,
; South Carolina, Virginia, Jefferson Davis as
persons or states outside of the constitution
| al forms. Here is consistency and patriot
ism with vengeance! These meu have
) had much to gay against the Coercion Of 6
( state" What is that clap trap phrase?
thief has limbs to be bound by the coercion
, of an officer, murderer neck to be stretch
p ed by the hangnan, and thus coerced. But
= what arms, or legs, or neck has d Stale by
which to c0erce it? Can you catch a town
= coun ty or state Can either of these corpo
7 rate bodies commit treason? Is not the
= slang cry of politicians coercion Of a state,
the tub lrifted to tue whale, to attract til
attention from the harpoon about being
S thrust into its vitals? Even some of tina
class of cowardly politicians concede tina
D men and animals may be coerced, but tt
'coerce state" is the sacrilege of a sover
r eignty!! Every resident of the state O
S Delaware may commit treason, and it is al
right to have him swing for it; but to ''co
! cree the state of Delaware" horribIe Mr.
g Davis committing the thousands of murder
y he has been the author of within the las
three years, may, as man, be coerced, bu
e being the president Of bogus confederacy
: OF ruflans, and doing the same deeds, can
= not be ''coerced, because of his official pre-
q rogative as head Of a government his necl
: is too sacred to be stretched, for you would
in so doing, "coerce state!" 10 such pit
s iful shifts is demagogueisn put, to euight
ell us nludsills i'll good morals and good DO
G litical doctrines!
: Had not our fathers, before the adoption
e of the constitution, enough to do with tn,
federal union of the states" by articles o
confederation adopted July g. 1776? They
Il found by experience that the federation O
the states, was worthless as a government
1t was the imhecility of the federal unior
= of the states that induced our patriot faith
. ers, not as states united, but as people ant
c citizens determined to be free, to ahrogatt
Y ''the federal union of the states" and go
I the purpose Of forming a more pert5ct union
8 and of securing the blessings Of liberty t.
: ourselves and our posterity," they made thu
present constitution 'as it is, extending it,
) protecting egis over the whole land, form
ing the people into one government, and by
it we are known, not only at home, but t.
all the nations of the earth, as one nation
- By it the citizen of Kenosha is a citizen O
New Orleans, and Of all parts of our Union
3 And by it each citizen is protected, aside
from the protection afforded by the state o.
his domicil, i'll his life, liberty and the pur.
suit of happiness. These, and the Thousand
other rights and privileges under the consti
tuition las 1T is, are to be sacrificed at the
call of the Chicago Convention, that our pc
litical and material interests may i'll all COM
ing time rest on the narrow, visionary ''ba-
: sis of the federal union of the states I" Who
are the fanatics? And yet every citizen
that votes for the candidates of that treason
able platform, votes to carry into practical
effect the Iuinous principles it enuncates-
votes for the destruction Of this nation as a
i government-votes for the success Of rebels
in arms! Can such be the true democracy
Are they the friends of the Union and CON
stitution? few citizens in Kenosha city,
born such, aYow their intention to vote for
the candidates Of that platform Can TWEEN
ty-fve such be found? Patriots should Clio
ry in their Intelligent vote, for the reputa-
ton they are now earning, is not theirs
alone but their chiidrens after them. That
a citizen born can have such proclivties ID
matter of establishment and regret.
MUDsILL
KENosHA Oct. 90, 1864
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