The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-07-13
BY SCHOFF, VINEGAR & co.

bondage. They will cause the soil hitherto
scorched by the foot of slavery, to blossom
as the rose in the sunlight of freedom They
will cause the land which was scaIded by
the bloody sweat of the bondman and bond
woman to glow in the blessed radiance 81
free labor. The lash, the stocks, the auc
ton block, the slave pen, and the chains
and bowie knife and bloody broil, will give
place to the church, and the common school
and the other emblems and instruments Of
christian civilization. Agriculture, unde.
the influence of freedom, will put on hel
beautiful garments. b Even the North will
be rivalled, in rural loveliness, by that
southern land, from which the repusive
squalor of slavery has been purged away i'll
the holy baptism of human freedom. ...
g Your gallant son, whose strong arm and
stout heart have, with the blessing of Al
mighty God, achieved these triun,phs, now
comes home TO receive, in the sunlight Of
your smiles, the high reward Of his noble
labors. And home, sweet home, is sweeter
to him than ever before. But you will lose
him at last Sooner or later, he will pack
his .knapsack for q new home in the sunny
South; and it he acaunot persuade you, his
father and mother, and sister and brother,
to follow him thither, he wiilsat least be able
TO induce one, who was in bis fancy his
guardian angel, on the tented field, to be-
come in fact his guardian angel in his south
ern home. ','@ ''s - sa2'' ~7'F '.''F 7f +
And SO the vigorous northern race trans
planted to a generous southern SOIL win
possess and rule the land, will cover it With
II Oft
FIJI farms. The commerce which the storms
Of war have swept from the great southern
avenues ofstrade, will at length revive. For
a generation the conflict between the ideas
and interests, aud sentiments of these patri-
otto immigrants, aud of the faithless south
eril men and women, whose very religion is
treason, will rival in bitterness the fearful
at arms, which is now so glorious
ly ended But What is a generation in the
life of a great nation-a nation which. by
the unparalleled deeds and suff.rings Of
these last four years, has demonstrated at
once its right and resolution. to live as long
as the earth endures This struggle will
surely end at last, in the complete, solid.
permanent pacification Of the country. This
people, which has been divided into sections
more hostile to each other than ever were
those traditional foes, England and France,
will at length, for the first time in its histo
ry, become honogeneous-one in interest,
in sentiment, and in patriotic love of coun
try. Who then shall measure the years of
the life of this nation % 'a.asss@ 77sesf =
Never before has the sun of this day of
the nations jubilee, dawned on US SO bright
and beautiful as now. There was always
present, in the national heart, one cold dark
thought, to chill and check its widest pull
sations of joy. The memory of our guilt
was ever present. The dark spectre haunt
ed us, even on the day of the nations iubi
lee, he roar of cannon, the chime of bells,
the glare of bonfires the harmonious song,
aud tho stirring strain of marti | music
could not drive it wholly from the nations
heart. Before our eyes it still always, eve
rywhere, shook its clanking chains To day.
thank God, the nation stands up like the
strong man, on whose heart rests not a
single cloud. Not all the joy of all the ia
bilees, since 1776, could equal that which
thrills the nations heart to-day. aa
Let us not be wanting i'll gratitude to the
author OF this, our great happiness To
that God, who, notwithstanding all our
faults. has loved US still, who notwithstand
ing all our blunders has saved us still is
due the highest praise He has indeed been
to us pillar of cloud by day, and of fire
by night, to guide us through the wilder
ness of this fearful war; Who can survey
the history of the last four years, without
believing that God has been the steadfast
friend Of this republic, and has specially in
terposed for its salvation? How has the
majestic march of His providence swept
away the devices of human wisdom, the
works of human power! What fully was
our wisdom compared with His wisdom !!
What weakness was all our strength, com
pared with His strength! How that first
Bull Run battle racked our hearts with an
guish How jubiiant were our treacherous
foes! But who noW, dares attempt to esti-
mate the heritage of woe which we had
to future generations if de
cisive national triumph on that first field
had crushed the incipient rebellion, and.
with slauery stall intact postponed the in
evitable struggle! Who doubts now that
it was wisest, and best, and cheapest in the
end that the revolt, which sooner or later
must come, should attain such colossal pro
portions. as to settle, by its overthrow, the
question of future revolts against this gov
and at the same time the fate of
human slavery on American soil Who
us, now, doubts that love moved
the hand which smote us for our SINS SO
sore on that horrible field! Was it not a
benignant God who interposed to deter our
victorious foes from the capture of our cap
ltal, and to save us from the train of wars
which had followed it's loss!
q During the six months which followed
that battle with what indignant ca,nor did
you Call ON the unready commander of our
armies, to lead them into Richmond y
But now, with the light of accomplished
events blazing full upon us, we can see how
much better the Almig hty knew than we
knew, when it was time to make use of a
mere drill master and when it was time TO
entrust the sword of the nation to the hands
of such heroes and giants as Grant, and
Sheridan, and Sherman.
Never before did our sun 90 down into a
blacker night than that which followed the
raid of the Merrimack in March 1862. The
Congress and Cumberland had proven help
less as fragile whale boats, in the Jaws Of
this shapeless leviathan of the deep. The
nation, with an intense agony which words
cannot depict, beheld Camp Butler, Fort
ress Monroe, our Navy, Washington-al
our great maritime cities, the easy future
prey of the unknown monster Was it not
henignant God who in that fearful mig
guided through the waves, the Monitor
which. on the next day. overthrow that prone
Goliath AMI averte1 national calamities, from
the contemplation of which our minds, t,
this day. shrink with horror!
In 1851, we, who had been ruled by tn,
slave power, with an iron hand. for man,
years, could see no deliverance from it's gall
ing yoke. We were, indeed, at our wit
end. The constant, unvarying success G
our relentless masters. had led us almost t
fear that the shareholders were invincihe
that even God might be on their side Blu
we find at last that He vouchsafed them TEN
porary prosperity, only to make them ina
for their ultimate utter overthrow.
Again and again, since this war began, q
after Chickahominy, and Characteristic,
I.1r, hIfsl.o OF ot1rr l.. i