The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-07-13
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KENosHA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1865

development of the poor despised black
b If however they are to be denied the right
OF suffrage in the rebel states, and are to be
subjected as a governed class to the rule OF
malignant rebels, what hopeless future OF
trouble and persecution, and contumely
awaits them If they are to owe their eE-
IJoyment Of the elective franchise to the flu
lure action of white rebels, how many years,
how many generations, how many centuries
do you think will elapse before they ever
vote. tell you, friends, it is to all intents
and purposes now or never.
And l hope that the Federal Government,
which now holds these subdued rebel States
in the conqueror's grasp, will never relax
that grasp, until freedom and the ballot for
the blacks stand written in their constitu-
tions i'll letters which can neither be mista,
ken or erased. -
Ieil ME II You have the face to do 80,
that it would have been better to permit the
nation to perish than to call upon the negro
to save it; but do not tell me, after he has
heard that call, and has SO nobly responded
do not tell me that the black hand that
drops tho musket ought /. not to take up the
ballot except by the condescending grace OF
perjurcd white traitors.
There have been two other parties to this
war. They have not, indeed, been open or
avowed nelligerents, but they have been
hardly less jealous, hardly less active than
the nominal combattants. What shall we
do with them, now? They were the Empe-
ror of France, end the governing clssses of
England. England pretends to be Christian
nation. We. are wont TO count her among
the nations of christendoin! But, for this hon
or, she is nowise indebted to the history or
character of the ruling classes Of that land.
For the cool, calculating diabolism, with
which they have avowed their purpose, 30 to
deal with the struggling giants on this con-
tinent, that they would exhaust each other,
and ''the American bubble burst" and re-
publican liberty disappear from the face OF
the earth, and England get great gain with
al, savored less OF the celestial fragrance of
Christian philanthropy, than of the burning
birthstone of the bottoInless pit! believe
that the aristocracy Of England consists Of
the most unprineipled, misa pthroeic eonspir-
ators against human rights, on the face OF
the globe; and if they were the acbole of Eng
land, every Union soldier, who has watched
her through this war, might, with just rea-
son, swear of England, as the Roman swore
of Carthage--Delenda est Britannia! Eng
land must be blotted out! Human liberty,
human progress have not, even in Austria,
such malignant, Inscriptions, nendacious
enemies, as are the governing classes OF
England. Under the lying pretext of ae~-
tratttg, they have in ten Thousand ways, on
the land and on the sea, at home and in the
provinces, exerted the whole power of their
government for the dissolution and destruc-
ton Of this republic. re.- s4dv;7 ss,.,l
u, And the Emperor of France, taking ad-
vantage Of our civil war, has sent an army
to Mexico, and overthrow the Republic,
and established an empire. Language is
inadequats to describe the enormity of this
insult to tie American people. And yet the
impudent despot dares to protest in advance
against our sending soldiers to Mexico.
My fellow citizens, having saved this Re,
public and forever established the impracti-
cabiIity and superiority of self government,
let us, avoiding foreign wars and complica-
tions, diligently labor to consolidate our
disturbed elements into one peaceful whole,
and exhibit the same skill, and vigor, and
energy in the re-establishment of peace,
which we have shown in the conduct OF
war, and we shall have the solid satisfaction
of beholding in few short years, our en-
emies, the aristocracy of England, the
French Empire, and the Mexican Humbug,
crushed into eternal ruin by the sheer weight
of our example, land all this without the
firing of single shot or the loss of single
life. Let us not, by rushing too soon into
war with these governments, cause the
hearts of their people to cling to the rulers,
through the patriotic feeling always inspir-
ed by foreign war, and so steel them against
the influences of our example.
But, But if we cannot honorably avoid a
war with these per fidious powers, then let
us SO wage that war that no French EN-
pre no British aristocray shall survive to
curse the world. .f
God of Heaven grant that this Republic
may stand, for countless ages the solid rock
on which shall be dashed in pieces all toes
of the people and the peoples rights.