The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-11-22


cry unto Him, we shallye see His salvation.
Our souls are full of trouble, but the dark
est hour is just before day."
That is certainly good advice and we ad-
wise the editor of the Era to follow his own
advice a little closer. For instance, in the
very next article following that from which
we make the above extract, he INDUCES his
'unbridled temper in the worst kind of
abuse Of the great majority of northern peo-
pie. 1t says:
''In our public affairs, it is thought there
may be formed two bodies-the one ''unmov-
able'' in its fixedness, the other irresistible"
in its mad career. The one stands like rock
in the mid -ocean, throwing back in broken
spray, the huge waves that beat in vain
against it. The other is like the avalanche,
| rushing from its mountain height, crushing
and overwhelming all things in its desollting
track. The one is President Johnson, backed
by the Conservative masses of the country
The other is Congress, impelled by, or impGll-
ing, the Radical masses, whose greed is still for
gain, and whose cry is still for blood"
After this pretty slnie the editor pro-
ceeds
"The Radical leaders are sufficiently deter
mined. They have hesitated at no treachery :;
lence, they have scorned no baseness, however
| vile; and no wrong however glaring and out
rageous, in the furtherance of their unholy
schemes. And the result of the recent cleo
tions would seem to show that-however it
may be with considerable minority respect
able both as to numbers and Characteristic
majority of the Northern people are, for the
time at least, in thorough sympathy with
their perfidous leaders. But will those lead
ers persist in their lawless violence? Will they
1NS fIn fott fba I'D.
of that fearful precipice to which their evil
doings have now dragged it Will they drive
the country into another civil war, more cruel
in its tercenesS, more overwhelming in its deS-
olations, if possible than the one SO recently
terminated viii they once more ''cry havoc
and let slip the dogs of war ?"
Does the editor of the Atlanta Era call
observing quiet" or treating northern
people in way not to add fuel to the fire /?
RADICAL leaders, Chat is the leaders of the
Republican Union party which comprises
majority of AT least half a million of the in
telligent voters of the loyal States) he says
have hesitated at no treachery; they have
scrupled at no faIsehood and violence; they
have scorued no baseness however vile and
no wrong how ever glarug and outrageous,
in the furiherauce of their unhOIy schemes
And after all that it says, 'the majority of
the northern people are in thorough sympa-
thy with their peltidious leaders,
| Let us look a little at these charges
They have hesitated at no treachery,n
that is, the majority of the northern people
| R,t hot III
Who or what has all this treachery been
welded against The people of the South
attempted to dismember the Republic-to
destroy the government which with us OF
the North they were bound by all the teach
ing of patriotism and loyalty to defend -
The party that to-day constitutes the
great majority of the northern people
resorted TO arms, when there was no other
resort left, to defend the Union they loved, the
government they revered, the constitu ton
they veneratcd, and the flag they held as
the symbol of these united, when assailed
by the parricidal hands Of rebels and trail
tors. The war was none of their seeking or
provoking. 1t was simply war of defence.
They con onered the combined hosts of re-
belion, secession aud treason, but it was
done at fearful sacrifice of precious lives,
of untold millions of wealth, and it has left
a mountain of debt on the shoulders of the
nation And yet after all this, the people
of the North have INDUCED in no vindic-
tiveness against the authors and abettors of
tried or hung, not an estate .confscated-
With all the rights of conquerors to dis 8.
peuse retributive justice, with a nagnan i'm i.
ity the world never before saw, they have
forgiven all, and tdrned to assist in all pos
sible ways, the most relentless and barba-
rous foes that modern warfare has dis
closed All that they have asked or do
ask OF the southern people, is that the
iust and equal rights of all men before the
law, shall be secured by being engrafted up
on or into the fundamental law of the land
that no State shall enact laws to abridge
the right of citizens Of other States; that is
that we may go into the State of Georgia,
and not be liable to be shot, hung, rode
on a rail, or thrown into prison simply be-
cause we come from the State of Wisconsin,
and have copy of the Kenosha Telegraph
in our pocket Is there any treachery, any
fAlsehood or violence, any baseness any
wrong, or anything upholy in these
schemes ~
Our southern brethren" of the press
would consult the best interests of their
section, by looking at the situation as it re-
ally is, in the light of reason and justice,
instead of INDUCING in a senseless TRADE of
aspersion and obloquy without a glimmer of
reason or common sense in it.
The Era speaking of the late elections,
says:
1.-The elections for the present wear are
over. The general result may be arrived at
in few brief words The Radicals have car
ried the Northern States with rush The
Fortieth Congress will be Radical to the core,
with such men as Stevens, Butler and Banks
in the lead. God save the mark -
Our southern friends seem to be incapable
of receiving instruction from experience
They have mounted the term Radical as
hobby, and they will ride it to death, as
they did the term aboitionist. This in.
venting word and investing it with
all the horrors that the imagination can
conceive of, and then holding it up as
scarecrow and bugbear to brighten them
selves and their readers, on all possible and
impossible occasions, is really the part of
children and very sickly ones at that, in.
stead OF earnest men, striving to solve the
problem Of Free Government.