The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-19
Che Aenosha telegraph
ffica Paper Of the City, County and Post Office
Thursday Morning, Jan 1885
The World Moves.

The World Moves.
The new year 1865 opens gloriously and
grandly in the cause of humanity, Freedom
and the cause Liberty throughout the
world" generally. But little more than
half a month has passed, and yet almost
every day Of that time has been crowded,
with events, that ip ordinary times would
be nothing less than marvellous
The Constitutional convention of Missouri
has passed an ordinance declaring that
slavery shall no longer exist in the State
On the 18th Gov. Fletcher issued procla-
nation, declaring Missouri free state, in
accordance with the emancipation ordinance
passed by the state convention. Hundreds
Of business houses and private dwelling
houses were brilliantly illuminated III hon
or of the event. Bands were playing fire.
works exploding and thousands upon thous-
ands of enthusiastic citizens thronged the
streets to witness the grand spectacle.
Tennessee has followed in the track of
Missouri. Her State Convention on the 14th
unanimously passed resolutions declaring
slavery forever abolished and prohibited
throughout the State; also resolution
prohibiting the Legislature from recognizing
the right Of property in man, forbidding it
from requiring compensation to be made to
owners, abregating the declaration of State
independence, the military league made in
1861 with the Confederate States, and all
laws and ordinances made in pursuance Of
them. All officers appointed by the acting
Governor since his accession to office, are
confirmed The propositions are to be sub
United to the people for ratification Februa-
ry 22d, and on March 4th the election
is to be held for Governor and the Legisla-
ture. Nearly three hundred delegates par
ticipated in the final vote. The greatest
harmony and good feeling prevails through
out. Parson Brownlow is the unanimous
choice of the Convention for the next Gov
ernor.
The following dispatch is not one of the
most insignificant signs that the world
moves. Parson Brownow few years since
the prosecuted editor of small newspaper,
then thrown into prison for his devotion to
the great principles of Freedom, now, nomi-
mated for the office of Governor of the state
that SO lately countenanced his persecution.
NASHVILLE, Jan, 14-Union convention
in its session to-day nominated w. g.
Brownlow for Governor by reclamation. A
delegate asked if he would accept, where
upon he responded in the following Language:
Gentlemen, | settle the controversy by my
assuring you that | will accept. Applause
| cannot be expected to do anything more,
and certainly l ought to do no less than
tender yeu, as q convention, my sincere and
unfeigned thanks for the honor and distinc-
ton you have conferred on me. | will not
speak to you gents, but what you will lack
in speaking if the people should ratify the
nomination | will try to make up in deeds,
acts, and God being my help, if you will
send up Legislature to reorganze the Mil
tia and pass other necessary business, will
put an end to this Internal system of guer
rilla fighting i'll the State, in East Middle
and West tennessee, if we have to shoot
every man concerned. cloud and contn-
ued applause.)
Following close upon these demonstra
tions comes the discussion in the Kentucky
Legislature on the questions of abolishing
slavery in that State. No State has been
more welded to the accused institution
than Kentucky, but its days are now num-
bered in that State. The dispatch dated
Frankfort, Ky, JAN 14th., says;
The speech of Hon. W. Perkins, before
the Legislature to-day, elected much re-
mark. He said that he had sustained the
legal enactments favoring 81 avery because,
he deemed slavery in some respects benefi-
cial to both races, although he had never
believed in the inherent right Of one man to
hold another man in bondage, but that
these benefits had ceased to appear, and the
rebellion was responsible therefor. He lust
flied the acts of the Administration in re-
gard to slavery, and vindica ted the right of
the people to amend the Constitution and
abolish slavery, believing the Union to be
the immutable basis of the Government, and
the Constitution its mutable policy, to be
changed as necessity or expediency requir-
ed. He concluded that Kentucky's interest
required the proposed amendment, as slave
~ had retarded her development, and would
i'll future more seriously check her advance
ment