The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-11-16

ltlcia Paper Of the City. County and Post Office
I thursday Morning NOv.l6 1865.
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: ScHoFl EDITOR |
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.1Cur,e. like Chickens, Come Home to
KOOsI,'
Never was the truth Of the old adage more |
clearly and forcibly illustrated than in the
fate of the democratic party of this CO..
try. During all the past sur o;.oo.ho,
armed rebellion wac ,O...
ic party Of .o.,b hoe boon trimming its
sails to catch the popular breeze. 1t has
made great professions of zeal for the Union
1t has fawned upon, hattered and coaxed
the President whom but few short weeks
before it cursed and rallied at, for whom 1t
could find no words of abuse and calumny
strong enough and vile enough. 1t has
made great pretensions to being especially
the friend of the soldiers, and the self ap-
pointed guardian of their interests and the
defender OF their rights-the soldiers Tor
whom it could but few short months be-
fore find no milder terms than ''Lincoin's
hir eIings." "Hired tools of despot," and
similar terms of endearment! All these
things the Democratic party of the North
has done-and more too. And to what
avail? Have they deceived anybody but
themselves? Have they fooled the peopleE
Thank fortune there is too much intelligence
good sense, and above all, patriotism,
among the people, to admit of the success OF
the pure demagoguism and political Jug
pIerv that constitute the sole stock in trade
of the present Democratic party
At the last National democratic conven-
ton held in Chicago something over a year
ago it will be remembered that loud and
deep curses were the order of the day. Not
a democrat in the whole convention, arose
to address his fellows, but his mouth was
fIIeed with cursing and reeiling They
cursed the President and his cabinet they
cursed the people who supported the Presi-
dent-they cursed the army and the navy
the soldiers and the sallors-they cursed
the Union, and the war for the Union
they cursed the emancipation proclamation
and the men and women whom it freed
from the CALLING chains Of savery-and Il
naly it cursed everybody and everything,
except rebels and traitors and slavery and
oppression, We look in vain through the
record of that convention for a word or a
resolution rejecting in the faintest degree
upon the rebels or the rebellion, slavehol-
ders or slavery.
And all through that Presidential Can
vass, the same stream of curses continued
to flow, wherever apprehension happened
to vent itself whether from the rostrum,
the stump or the editorial sanctum. De
mocracy had evidently forgotten that ''cur
ses, like chickens, come home to roost. -
But they have been forcibly reminded o
that fact, throughout the canvass JUS
closed not only in this, but every other
State, where an election has been held since
the final crushing of the rebellion Democ
racy has done it's best to forget and cover VI
!, it's curses, but like Banquo's ghost; they
would not down" at its bidding. Wiscon
sin democracy, that little over year ago
was SO confident in its corruption, so crue
in its curses; has gone down on ''aIl tours,
in aduIation to the administration it had
cursed, and to the soldiers it had reviled
Though dressed in the garb Of an angel o
light, and its arms Cor tickets rather full
of soldiers, to stand between it and an out
ragged public sentiment, it mas miserably
failed in its attempt to hoodwink and de-
cieve the voters, into its support The sol
diers who have lent themselves to the de-
mocracy have found that even they were
powerless to shield copperhead democracy
from its merited defeat. Cover it as il
might, with pSnoply of soldiers even those
curses were bound to find their way home
to roost. All through the campaign just
closed SO conspicuously for the Union anc
constitutional freedom, democracy did it,
best to have the past torgotten--to ''let the
dead past bury its Dead but it was of NJ
avail. No rabid cur ever showed more tea
of water than the democracy of glimpses
of its past course, but the people would not
forget-nor those curses fail to come home
to roost. And we imagine that copperheat
democracy will yet call upon the rocks anC
and mountains to fall upon it, before il
shall cease to be roosting place for those
curses, which ao1U come home to roost
|
ETThe women of Maryland who recently
waited upon the President to solicit par
don for Jefferson Davis presented an address
to the Chief Magistrate, of which the follow
ing is an extract:
Give us permission TO 60 now 20 his prison
bearers of your tuil pardon, and lie, hiu &,
quietly to his home. The Southern Confederate,
Is gone. The wave hAs closed over it. 1t wa,
rich argosy, but its treasures are buried
With your help and by patience and skill, it,
precious theoryr)may again see light and grace
aud ad"rn "uC coilmun country. AS t. Mr.
Davis, you know it is nos, and never can be ii
his power TO interfere in any way 9TH The Gov
ernment"
The "rich argosy" was loaded with gall
ing letters and clanking chains, and freight
ed with thousands of precious lives, which
went down to the harvest of death under the
leadership of Jeff. Davis, And these wo-
men, in their prayer for pardon for him, ex,
press the hope that secession "may again
see light and grace, and adorn our common