The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-05-18
Reorganization Of Parties.

The subject OF reorganization OF parties
on question of free trade, finance and pecu-
mary politics, instead of slavery and seces-
sion, is frequently referred to by the press
end many seem to consider the mission of
the Republican party ended with the over
throw of the rebellion and slavery, and that
nothing will be left for it to do but to re-
tire from the field, and give place to new
organization. We do not understand the
necessity, the philosophy or the policy of
such course. The Republican party has
now full possession of the National Govern
ment, and all the State Governments but
three, in the Union. 1t occupies very much
the position of the Democratic party after
the accession of Monroe to the Presidency.
1t re- eel ected its President by an overwnem-
ing majority, and its policy has been en-
dorsed by the people with remarkable unau-
nifty. The policy of the opposing party
has been condemned SO emphatically that
it never can be revived again.
The old Democratic party, by it's disloy
atty, by declaring the war for the Union
failure and opposing its further prosecution
has buried itself beneath load of obloquy
so deep that for it there can be no resurrec-
ton. The leaders of that party are,of course,
anxious for reconstruction OF parties, be
cause that is their only chance for return
to power. Hence the Nea0S caught eagerly
at an article III the Madison Capitol, sug-
.sting a re- organization of parties on the
old Democratic basis and draws comfort
from the fact that Andrew johnson was ID
Democrat before the rebellion. The disap
pointed and disaffected Office seekers in the
Republican party will favor it because that
is their only hope for place at the public
crib. But we can see no advantage in a
new organization which cannot be secured
in the Republican party. That party has
conducted this war for the Union to a sue
cessful issue. 1t has conquered its armies
in the field and at the ballot box-at the
South and in the North, and now remains
master of the situation. 1t has achieved
moral victories greater than its conquest by
arms. 1t has compel ID the enemies of the
Republic at home ana in Europe to confess
its power and respect its authority 1t has
given liberty to four million bondmen, and
sent light and joy into all their dwellings,
1t has broken the rod of the oppressor and
swept away the habitations Of cruelty. 1t
has removed the grand cause of our divis
ions and dissensions for the last half cen
fury, and made us a homogeneous nation
But it has not yet finished its work. The
abolition of slavery is to be constitutional.
lied and legalized, and freedom declared the
law of the land by an authority that shall
be upquestioned-by sign manual of the
Secretary of State, and by the final decision
of the United States Supreme Court. The
freed slaves are to be protected against the
exactions and expressions of their former
masters, and against rapacious and unprin-
.cipled Yankees, and the rights of citizen
ship conferred upon them.
The Homestead law which the Republi-
cans enacted and the democrats opposed, is
to be maintained and made to furnish homes
for the landless poor.
All the benehcent measures OF progress
which have been begun are to be completed
and who so fit to project these measures as
those who inaugurated them The party
which has hitherto worn the name of de
mocracy, having, by association with, and
subserviency to, southern aristocrats and
slaveholding rebels libeIled its name, out
ragged its principles and outlived its useful
ness, and become nuisance in the land, can
not do more sensible thing than die de-
Gently, get itself buried as quietly and as
quickly as possible, and let its memory be
forgotten. Nearly all the respectable, loyal
and intelligent men in it have left during
the war, and the remnant is a stencil in the
nostrils of the public. We go for such a re
organization as shall remove the dead
carcass of the copperhead party and bury
it out of sight and we are for sustaining
the republican party-the real democratic
party of the Union-in its great measure of
reform till it has accomplished its work
Mil. Wisconsin.