The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-04-12
thursday april IL. 1866
The Same Old Crv.

try and have the right of free speech-of
free blowlng-guaranteed TO all who love
to amuse themselves in that way. We are
not like the old lady who thought scratch
ing such a luxury that it ought to be for
hidden to poor folks. We are perfectly
willing our poor copperhead friends should
enjoy the luxury of blowing to their
hearts content. 1t will do us no harm,
while it must relieve them of great deal
of very bad breath.
The Milwaukee News speaking of the
passage of the Civil Rights Bill in the SEN
ate after the Presidents veto along with
much more of the same sort, gets off the
following
at is thus by art and trick. h~ ,osnoce
impious s''I OF the peop'o az of
representation, that the minority party OF
the country and the minority party IN the
senate cings to power, undermlnes the
government, over-rules the letter and spirit
| of the constitution, plots, ruin to the repub-
| lie, delays the hour of actual restoration and
reunion, and ruthlessly heaps new burdens
| of taxation upon the already over-taxed ma
ton"
| If we had not long ago, got used to this
sort of thing, we might be affected by such
a conglomeration of horrors, but we have
| read Just such infamous TRADES ever since
the first Inauguration Of the rebellion From
the first attempt to relieve the garrison at
Fort Sumpter up to the present time, the
editor of the Ne1os has practiced this kind OF
writing. He declared that it was unconsti-
tutional to attempt to take the supplies to
the starving garrison-he declared it was
unconstitutional to resist when the rebels
fired on Fort Observation-Disclosures to
make the first effort to preserve the Union
-unconstitutiona to raise men by enlist
ment and unconstitutional to raise them
{, by draft unconstitutional to appropriate
means to feed, clothe and arm Union sol
diers after they were raised, and unconsti
tutiona to march them into or through {
rebel state without the consent of the au
thorities of such State, and finally it wa
unconstitutional to fight the rebels and trai
tors under any circumstances. He neve
rejoiced at Union victory because it wa
gained at the expense of the constitution
and was the death knell of the Union. Whel
the invincible Sherman plunged into tn
bowels of the confederacy with his victor
S Gus legions in his march to TIL
sea, the editor of the Meas declared tina
+ every step he took was fresh violation c
the constitution. And when Grant wa
a thanking his way to Richmond, the editor c
h the News could only hold up his hands an
) cry out unconstitutional
q And then again when the people of al
most .every loJa State rolled up their ma
$ jorities for Lincoln and johnson the sam
l. old cry arose, of unconstitutional III
i, constitutional torsooth, because the rebe
o States were not allowed to vote for JEFF
e Davis. After all the experience is it strang
n that we have learned to hear this cry {
n overriding the 'letter and spirit of the cor
n stitution" plotting to ruin the republic
g when applied to the great Union party {
Y the country, and coming from such sourc
n with great deal of stoicism or equanimity
AS an offset to all this solicitude for tn
e constitution on the part of copperhead ed
tors, it may be confidently stated that nc
, one of them ever charged the rebels wit
doing an unconstitutional act.
Again look at the truthfulness of the ed
n tor of the NeDs i'll the above extract. 1h
: Union Republican party of the country tha
IS elected the present executive in spite of til
; most violent and viruIent opposition of thes
q same copperhead democrats and the preser
/ overwhelming majority in both branches {
y Congress, is styled 'the minority party c
q the country" and ''the minority of the Ser
Y ate - The ground on which the Union pal
it ty is styled ''the minority party of til
e country" other than that of sheer love {
n falsehOod, it is hard to tell.