The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-09-06


is now before us. We must elect our brave
Standard bearer. 1t cannot be done without
earnest, constant, vigilant labor from this un-
til election. But we have done it once and it
would be libel upon our patriotism to say
that we cannot do it again.
The Presidential ElectiOneering Tour.
We have no room to give the particulars of
the Presidential Electioneering tour that final
ly eliminates in Chicago to-day The speeches
of President johnson should be collected and
bound for preservation, as memento of the
nations disgrace. We have been through the
ordeal of fire. and came out proud and erect
though scathed and bruised by the conflict, but
how shall VIC come out of this ordeal of FOLLY
through which we are now being led by this
modern Moses? Can we come out of it other
wise than Inundated and debased to the dust
in the eyes of the Nations? But thanks to
people, and the recuperative energies of their
Free Institutions the cloud of shame will not
always cover our faces. The man who dis
graces the high position to which a magnani-
nous and Freedom-loving people elevated
him, will soon have strutted his brief career
upon the stage, and the nation will be reliev
ed by the regular course ofevents, of the infa
nous burden it is doomed to bear yet awhile
longer. Unless he succeeds in permanently
corrupting and -debasing the people, as he is
now making the attempt to do, we shall yet
Stand up in the full dignity of American citi-
zens, when A. johnson, has taken his place
beside John Tyler and Willard Fillmore, and
none so poor as b do him reverence. Indeed,
we think he will never, after this short acct
dental regnum be again as much honored as
when he was that alderman of a village" he
so frequently alludes to in his most elaborate
speeches.
| But to return to the tour. The most impor-
tant speech made along the route, was proba-
bly, that at New York. We have only space
for some extracts. During his speech he lhus
apologized for the rebels:
But was going to bring your attention, as
| l am up, and you must not encourage me too
much ''go on, " ''go on, J" as one of those
men who have been engaged in this thing, and
pretty well broken down, l going to call
| your attention to point The Southern States,
| or their leaders, proposed a separation. Now,
what was the reason that they proposed that
separation? The time has come to think
| The time has come to consult our brains and
not the passions of our hearts. The time has
come when the reason should bear sway, and
feeling and impulsion be laid aside. What
was the reason that the South gave for separa-
| ton? What was it =? They said that the con-
stitution of the United States was insufficient
for them, and that they were not secured in
| their rights under the constitution Whether
it be true or false that was the reason assurh~
| ed that we will separate this Government ;
we cannot have the constitution executed as
I whole, and we will take the constitution of
our country in a separate condition, and we
i will enforce it. II was separation it was
against the Union. This was treason I took
my position in the Senate of the United States,
and assured them, as | have since, that the
j Union was perpetual, that it was a great
magic circle never to be broken. But the
reason the South gave was that the constitu-
ton can't be enforced-hence they wanted to
| separate. They attempted to separate but
they failed. But while the question was pend
| ing they went, and what kind of Government
was it? What kind of constitution did they
| adopt? Was it not, with some few variations,
the constitution Of the United States, under
which they had lived from the origin of the
/ Government until their attempt at separation.
| They made the attempt to separate that they
could live under that constitution and enforce
its provisions.
Again he don't want the rebels degra ded
II say this, and repeat it here to night I
! do not want them to come back into the IN
| ion degraded and debased. T''Good, Good"
and applause. [ want them, if they are to
come back at all, and are to become part of
this great whole, called America, to come back
with all their manhood, Applause, then they
| Will be proud to be q part of these United
States. [Cheers.l have not approached the
point that intended to make ; but to go back,
why is it we distrust them and say they are
hypocritical? Ihave just called your atten-
ton to the constitution under which they
were DESTROYS to live, and that was the consti-
tuition of their fathers, where they wanted
separate institutions
A little further on he helped Grant fight the
rebels at the south, and now he is going to
fight them at the north:
"The rebellion has been suppressed it is
terminated. The men of the South join in
with those who were irving to SUPPRESS the
rebellion. But we find that those who played
! the game on the otheB hand are still fighting.
and fought those in the South who were try
ing to break up this Government. I am OBJ
posed to those in the North who are trying to
break 1t up now, [cheers, and l am against
al those who are opposed to the Unfon-
| CHEERS. l am for the Union, the whole I'm
ion, and nothing but the Union. TGreat
cheering helped my distinguished friend
on my LETT turning to General Grant, to fight
| the rebellion in the Southland we must not
forget the peculiar phrase that he was going
TO light 1t out on that line" I was with
MIN, and have done all that 1 could and
when we have whipped them at that end of
the line, want to say to you that I am now
fighting them at the other daughter and
applause 1t is struggle for the Union of
the States.
1hese are specimen bricks of the whole
speech. And with few variations they are
specimen bricks of his speeches all along the
route 1t was simply disjointed stump speech
delivered in portions to different audiences, as
the scenes shifted, but all the while and at ev
cry stopping place, it was of the sameintense
ly demagogueical harangue-the same charges
| OF treason and rebellion against Congress. and
the same fulsome iattery and cajolery of the
dear people ~ While charging the peoples
representatives with being traitors and disu
nionists, he thought to make amends by pre-
tending great love for, and confidence in the
people themselves.
And all this is so out of place in view of the |
ostensible object of the mission of the Presi |
dent and his friends-coming to assist in law |
ing the corner stone of the Douglas monument |
to assist in the transfer of the remains of the
DEAD Douglas from their temporary to their f.
nal resting place; in short, coming to the fu-
neral OF the once honored and respected, and
still loved and cherished statesman. The Chi |
cago Tribune thus describes this funereal train.
The President is coming to the funeral. He
comes with music and banners and fireworks
and cannon. He comes with speeches and nro'
cesslons. He comes Wanting his own glories |
shouting his own praises, singing his own pae.
ans, threatening honest officials who do not
swear fealty to kim, and holding out brides in
the way OF public offices to other men to do
violence to their consciences. He is cominr To
the funeral distributing his advertising cards.
He is coming to the funeral of patriot, and
on the way is threatening civil war; he is com
ing to the funeral OF Senator, threatening to
dissolve the Senate by the sword He is com
ing to the funeral of freeman, asserting how
easily he may declare himself dictator: he
is coming to the funeral of an Illinoisan. de-
handing that Illinois shall declare the inferi-
GRITTY of her sons He Is coming to tho f,,r,n.n1