The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-11-01
WHICH rs RIGHT?
LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE

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4 Kind hearted people, prompted by the purest a
o send missionaries to heather lands, to convert
n heather from the worship Of blochs ard stones viii
e Oh for some God-inspired Missionary to convt
rs from the worship Of the btochheads that we ha
, | set up.
!, 70 j. II. D0015ttze
In your late speech at the Kenosha Cou,
G ty Fair, where you was expected to reply
! the arguments Of Senator Howe, but did no
:; you attempted to show the wisdom and saf
! ty OF admitting to seats in Congress the rel
els Of the south, by asking how they can e,
ert an influence for evil, they being in til
minority. To this | replied, by buyin
{ traitors like you who. can be had cheap
And | further charged you with PREACHER
and unfaithfulness to the people Of Wiscor
sin. This charge propose to substantial
by an appeal to the record
You were employed 10y the people of Wis
cousin as their public servant, by their &C
credited agent the State Legislature, to d.
their will. and perform the duties of Sena
tor in Congress, for which you were to b.
literally paid When you accepted that ser
vice you agreed to perform its duties, anC
took an oath before God and the people tia
you would perform them. Within the past
year bill was under consideration in Con
gress intended to secure equal rights to all
known as the Civil Rights Bill For thi.
bill your employers duty Instructed you anc
your colleague to vote. This your colleague
cheerfully did, while you fatty refused to dc
so, alleging that you, being on the ground,
saw reasons for not doing it which we, the
people, did not. What that reason was
don't b@o,o, but being a Yankee have the
right to guess, and as / don't believe YOU
are an idiot, who acts without motives
guess you saw or MoWgM you saw some bread
and butter on the other ahrif What shape it
was in we don't know, but sha all aeh1a you
get ii.
Having refused to perform the service re
quested OF you, your next plain duty was to
resign the sit uation as requested, and give
place to some one who would do the will of
the people This also you refused to do an d
you now keep the place and draw the pay,
and are daily using orr money, while work
ing i'll the service of our common enemy
This you know to be true. aud the people
q of 10 IIc T i;
the stand, that we know it to be true, and
they will also decide whether the charge
made against you is sustained o. not.
On the stand you denied my charge, and
appealed to what you did before you proved
traitor, to refute it What you UoJantarsJy
did for the cause Of Union, aud n5oi15ntarily
for Liberty, is not What we fluid fault with.
All that you and did for the cause, in Civ
ing our sons or otherwise, it was simply our
duty to do but not to brag of in public -
All the sympathy a father eau feel who has
been called nine times to stand at the open
grave Of beloved child, can and do give
you, and while | drop tear for the bereav-
ed, raise my eyes in thankfulness to God
and say, "blessed are the dead who die {" in
the holy service of their country yea doub-
ly blessed, if the shame of their erring faith
ers is hidden from their eyes.
That God has kindly spared my beloved
sons, and shielded them through many
hard fought battle is "a cause of increased
thankfulness to me now, for | know they
will vote rs they fought against wicked
rebels and worse apostates.
You complained that insulted you when
you had been invited to address the people.
|, and many other loyal people thought,
and still think that yo4 insulted respecta
BILE audience wbeu you attempted to defend
Andrew Johnson's course noao, by bringing
up what he did, aud said he would do eight
cen months ago. and by charging us with
having "swung round the circle " and be-
come traitors and enemies to the best inter
ests OF the country, while y0W and your ad
herents only remain loyal and true. Our
charge against him and you is that You re
fuse n0ao to perform what you promised then
ye have done it unto the least Of these, We
have done it unto me
Having been elevated on the shoulders of
the people you may imagine yourself too tall
to notice an humble individual whose daily
toll supplies his daily need. But remember
Those who raised you can drop you, and
they will too. You may try to influence the
minds of the men CT the north against their
fellow-toilers at the south but we are not so
blind as not to perceive that blow against
them is blow against as. We are on the
same string, aud are not all such fools as tc
try to lengthen our rope by cutting off on,
end of it.
Again, on that stand, you appealed to ou1
mercy and forgiveness for your clients, s>tht
rebels. What? q cried you, will you new
may make tiny duty to prosecute, the pub
nc good may require me to expose and con
Wet criminal, but God forbid that shonlC
insult even the worst criminal Your crime
against the people of Wisconsin,, which you
tongue denied, but Of which your actions ev
cry day convict you. | felt it my duty to ac
cuse you of, and if need be prove upon you
for am one Of the people whom you hav
betrayed. l have done what think m
f duty, and have no apology to make. You
: greater crime against God and humanity, /
joining with oppressors to grind with you
heel the down trodden poor, leave you t
S answer to Him who has said ''inaslnuch a
: Ito carry out the will of the PEOPLE Il
whole loYal peonle. the people who electe