The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-10-05
a word TO the Soldiers.

soldiers have permitted their names to he
used as candidates for office by the so-called
Del ocratlc party, the presumption must be
that these soldiers have forgotten the treas
4 enable record OF that party With reference
to the late Infamous rebellion VI
An impartial review OF the events of the
past five years establishes the following
propositions as facts beyond dispute in the
mind of any man of ordinary intelligence
That the leaders and controllers of that
party. North aud South, labored constantly
and earnestly for years to fire the Southern
heart" for rebellion and war.
That they published the threat through
I out the land that the South would not re-
maip in the Union if Mr.. Lincoln were
That they declared through political
meetings and conventions In all sections of
the country that the General Government
could not and should not ''coerce a. State,
to obedience if it saw fit to break up the
Union; thus inviting the South to light the
torch Of civil war!
That under the administration of the old
traitor, Buchanan, they permitted no less
| than six States TO withdraw from the Union.
and set up and organize new government
under the name of 'Confede States Of
America, with that infamous william, Jeffer-
son Davis, as President. .,ot,,. = sg...--
| That in this manner they brought about
THOSE acts Of war upon the Government,
(which resulted in that dreadful struggle,
(which for, more than four years deluged our
land in the blood of its best citizens
That during this dark and bloody period
In our nations history, whatever influence
they possessed as party was given in favor
Of Treason and against the Government of
the Union!
They denounced and opposed the first
call for troops as wrong and ''unconstitu-
tional y
In Baltimore they attacked the first
troops that moved forward to defend our
Capital.
They INSTRUCTED the operations of our
forces against the rebels whenever and
wherever they possibly could.
They encouraged the rebels to persevere
by constantly declaring tnat we''could never
conquer the South"
they spoke and wrote of the rebels as
''our erriug Southern brethren, and Of the
Union soldiers as ''Lincolns hirelings."
AZ They discouraged volunteering, thus rem
dering drafts necessary to fill the ranks of
the army. ,o,
They opposed the enforcement of the
draft and raised armed mobs which destroy
ed property and human life with fendish
barbarity.
They encouraged and aided thousands to
desert from the Union armi IS, and when
United States officers and soldiers attempt
ed to arrest deserters, they were resisted by
armed men-menbers of this so-called
Democratic party.
They ambuscaded and murdered United
Stat es officers and soldiers in various parts
of the Northern States!
They raised bodies of armed men in Ohio,
Indiana. illinois and other States to resist
the authority of the United States.
They openly advocated the formation OF
a Northwestern Cnnfederacy," to weaken
and destroy the Union
They instituted secret reasonable socie-
ties. with military organizations and stealth
lily procured arms and munitions of wal for
their members
They were slow to believe reports of Union
successes but readily believed rebel reports
of Union disasters
They based all their hopes of political
rebel lion must triumph
They denounced our Generals
Sherman, Butler aud others-as butchers u
''brutes' and beasts = but spoke aud
wrote of jeff. Davis, Lee, Johnston, and
their co-traitors. as the highest types of
Christian gentlemen!
They invariably denied the right of SOL
diers to votesih the field. and frequently
adopted as their motto mot another man
nor another dollar for this internal war !"
Finally, they met in their National Con-
vention at Chicago in August, 1854, and in
the most solemn manner declared to the
world that the war was Failure" on our
part, and of course a success on the part of
the rebels.
The assassination of President Lincoln by
a Northern Democrat was the natural re-
suit OF the secret and public teachings of the
so-called Democratic party.
That every intelligent American must ev-
er hold the so-called Democratic party, North
and South, responsible for the bloc " wal
which has desolated our country-for the
widows and orphans that fill the land With
mourning-for the manned aud disabled he
roes who are seen all around us-for the
load OF debt brought upon the nation-for
the death of thousands of patriots who fell
in the struggle, in battle, by disease, or by
starvation at the hands of South ern Demo
Gratis in loathsome prisons-for all the evils
growing out of the war for prof nging and
inteuslfying the struggle-for in fact.
doubling its duration and horrors by aiding,
encouraging, sympathlziug with and sus-
tanning the late rebellion
I From these DrODositiOnu wa dndune fhe
following: ~
That the soldier who accepts the political
caresses of the so-called Democratic party,
must be either totally lost to every senti
inent of honest patriotism, or totally ignor-
ant OF the political history of the past five
years '' ~ i'a@ ia
| That every true soldier will reject with
scorn the political favors of those who stab
bed at his back when he was facing his
country's enemies in the feld.-Ch,cago
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