The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-06-15
Thursday Morning June Is, 1865
8 5. SCHOFF. G. VINEGAR
Proprsetors.
4 ScuoFF EDITOR
Wanted---A Hero.


Our democratic friends of the coppery per-
suasion, are just now iu want of hero-a
recipient of their fulsome adulations. Never
was a party, ''worse put to it." as Mrs. Par
tingtcn would say, for leader. Byron
wrote long ago, 81 want a hero--an uncom-
mon want" And the want is no less un.
common now, than in Byron's time. Japh-
ct in search of paternal parent, was not in
a more trying condition than this remnant
of the late democratic party.
The chief actors in the Last Presidential
canvass, made such a botch of it that it will
be a long time before the party will dare to
let them take hold again. All their pre-
dictions, resolutions, hopes and expectations
have been SO signally bro't to nought, that
an ''entire change of programme" is needed
Mcclellan the pet hero ''of an hour" has
gone to Europe, that time may sooner draw
the veil of forgetfullness oyer hie military
and political career. Fernando Wood, the
the great engineer of thu Mcclellan and
Pendleton Peace fzzle, also found it neces-
sary to take tour to Europe, and with his
great exemplar of the army, like the Jews
of old, will ''tarry al Jericho till his beard be
grown"
Vallandigham is, to use common phrase
''played out, and it will be long before the
party will care to take him upon its shout
ders again, though he will not Danish him
self nor pubmit to be banished by the party
Willingly.
In its extremity, the party has made sew
eral spasmodic efforts to appropriate Presi-
dent johnson, but he don't stay appropria'
ted, and it is just now turning its attention
to another victim. Gen. Sherman has been
selected as subject, and he is being be,
/ slimed with insincere praise, with the hope
that the rejection of his treaty with john
son by the administration, maybe made. Some
thing of. Every copperhead sheet in the
country has commenced its panegyrics on
Sherman, which invariably end in a bitter
philippe against the administration. Now,
this is all well enough, if the insincerity and
| the base motive were not SO apparent, When
Gen. Sherman with his veteran army start
ted from Atlanta, for Savannah, on that
great march that has made him so famous
and for days apd weeks was lost in the
bowels of the confederacy, these same papers
saw nothing in his course to praise but
everything to denounce. In the first place
they knew that he and his army would b.
gobbled up entire, and they even went Sc
far as to express their belief that it woulc
serve him right. Then he was called s
blood thirsty and cruel monster, who was
taking his army through the unprotected
rural districts of the confederacy numbering
old men and children ravishing women, anC
burning and. destroying property. They
copied these denunciatory articles from
southern papers with great gusto, as one ar
i gument to prove that we never could con
quer ''our southern brethren "a in such ar
unholy warfare as Gen. Sherman was wag
ing.
We are glad to see that these copperhead
sheets have changed their opinion of the gal
liant Sherman and his manner of conducting
the war. We shall be very much mistaken il
in the character of the man if he allows him
self to be made political tool Of by the
copperhead clique of the late democratic
party. No loyal man can afford to submit
to the embrace of that party Cor rather
remnant of a partly that was so lately in
sympathy, if not in league with traitors anc
rebels in arms against the Union and oul
Free and popular government. Such ar
embrace is certain political death to the
victim.