The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-07-13
VOLUME 26.]
GRAFTON.
Dsliivere.a a K.ro.hs ., sul, 4,h, 1853
By HON. HAuBRRT E. PAINE. o.

so often called us together to bow ourselvei
lin anguish before that God who seemed al
most to have yelled his face from US IL
wrath. now chime forth their most Joyful
chorus! Let the voice of angelic woman,
> who has waited and watched these foul
weary years for the return of blessed peace,
bear to heaven in song, the heart felt graft
tude of a great and happy people whose God
is the Lord! Let this whole people in grand
acclaim shout for joy - i. -.a-r
81 For God, who hath chastened US and hath
yet loved us, who hath frowned upon lis and
iyet hath not forsaken us-God has at last
lifted upon us the light of his reconciled
countenance and blessed us. Thanks to His
holy name He has at length brought to this
nation sweet peace, and freedom, which il
better than peace. s.s 1,. ..ga =. ... .1e9
InesNo more shall your brave sons breast the
hurricane of shot aud shell, Oh the perilous
edge of battle. No more shall your noble.
hearted husbands die uucared for and alone
amid the untold horrors of the field ofstrife.
No more shall your gallant brothers writhe
in anguish, bleeding and faint, on the bait
tiefield, scorched by a Southern sun and
blasted by rebel bullets No more shall the
patriot father languish in hot and hopeless
hospitals, broken by the hatdships Of the
climate and the campaign. No more shall
father, brother, son, or husband suffer and
die amid the interval tornents Of the south
ern prison. No more shall the sorrowing
mother await, in tears and prayers, the
lcoming of the son, whom, in the highest,
hottest love of country, she has sent forth
into the pitiess storms of war. No more
shall the fearful wife hearken, with her little
ones, for the returning footsteps of him,
whom, in anguish, she tore from her treinb-
ling heart and offered up sacrifice on the
altar of that country which she loved better
than life. No more shall mother, sister,
twife or daughter, wall in anguish, as the
CHASTITY messenger of death. stalking from
/ the battlefield, or hospital, or southern pris.
on, crosses the Threshold to say that he,
around whom clustered the tenderest, warm;
est affections of the hearts at home, will
come not back again, will meet them not
again this side of that heaven where rests
the faithful soldier who falls in the cause of
God. aag .t.aI a..a 81 sqao
No more shall the nations heart be con-
vulsed by wall of agony from Bull Rui,,gor
the Chicahoniny, or the Wilderness or Clnc-
amauga No longer shall the friend of re-
publican institutions look forward, with
anxious, tormenting doubts, for the realiza
ton OF his faith IL mans capacity for self
government. No longer shall the friend Of
universal freedom bow his head in shame
because the tread of slavery still scorches
the soil of the freest country on the globe
No more shall the American name be re-
proach anda tysword in the teeth of Euro
pean despots and their satellites. No long
or shall European monarchs or ministers,
with lnsolent levity, sneer at the interna-
tional rights of this republic. No longer
shall they complacently mock at the failure
of the grand experiment of self government
Oh this western continent. No more shall
the ships OF the great republic be turned
scorufuily back from9the ports of third rate
maritime powers.
No longer shall malignant foreign despots
take advantage of our civil war to insult the
proudest flag that ever waved among the
banners of the world. No more shall anibi-
tons European rulers improve the occasion
OF our internal strife to experiment in the
erection of monarchies upon the ruins of re-
publics on this Western continent No
longer shall perfdious Albion lay the fat
tering JUNCTION to her soul, that the "Great
American bubble has burst" No longer
shall dark doubt hang, like a nightmare up
on the hearts of respondent friends of Hu
mainly in Europe. No longer shall insolent
aristocrats assert that republics, however
strong against external foes, are weak as
against interior commissions.
The sun of a bright morning has arisen
upon us at last, dispelling the darkness and
mists and Clouds and scattering the whole
brood of spectral monsters which have
swarned in the four years night that has
hung over u.s. The old flag again streams
forth the symbol of undisputed power on
every foot Of soil of the great republic.
From its azure field no single star has dis
appeared. Disappeared No! No! Those
stars which but yesterday were yelled in
blackness, to day glow with radiance
which to the eye of the peoples friend is
soft and fine as the holy light of heaven,
but to the eyes of the peoples enemies, is,
thank God, more intoerable than the fierc-
est lightning flashes. Yesterday our foreign
enemies sneered at those stripes as the it.
ting emblems of the cruelties of that insti-
| tuition which they hoped would prove our
ruin To-day the wretches tremble at those
stripes as the symbols of chastisemeni, al
ready administered to domestic traitors and
ready to be administered OIL occasion to in
sidious foreign foes.
| Today 1t stands decided, and by '.bur
nished rows of steel" recorded. that the men
OF the North, if driven to it, can fight that
one southern man is not equal to five north
ern men, ard that no state has the power,
by secession, to break up the union of these
states.
The letters that bound the nation are
broken, AID she moves with a tread that
shakes tie earth. Despots who roared like
hons, while the giant was in bonds, now
that the bonds are broken, bIeat like lambs.
10 European aristocrats, who YESTERDAY
sccffed at the American traveller and the
american name, to day, the declaration 81
am an American citizen is more terrific
than an earth quake.
The grand experiment of self government
upon this Western continent, on which hung
the tondest hopes of humanity, has been
tried at last. And it has not failed 1t has
met with such complete and absolute sue
] cess as no other governmental experiment
III human history ever met. 1t has left this
government founded on rock, and. no
; human power from without or within car
{ prevail against it. But it did more. In til,
e great contest between the people of tn,
I world and their despotic rulers, this stupen
dous example. of successful American re
publican freedom will, even though not an
f other blow be struck, avail more to human
: liberty than million of armed men.
Aye, we have country once more! An
that country is freei With exultant heart
we write upon our flag at last Liberty an
D Union now and forever, one and insepara
!, be-" The imagination wearies in the val
= attempt to grasp the gigantic future of TIL
x republic In few generations the seal
:, and wounds and feuds of this great rebe
y hon will have disappeared. The vigoror
enterprising sons of the north, renouncin
= Tie stern climate which has nursed the
! IRON virtues, allured by genial sky al
p iert,Ie soil, will soon spread themselves ov
!. the South. But not as the Cloths, and Va
dals, and Huns poured forth from the pre-