The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-09-13

been summoned anew to the field by the con.
scription of their sons to support their children
and grandchildren reduced from comfort to the
verge of starvation; the slaughter of noble
youths; types of physical manhood forced in
TO an unholy war against those with whom
they were identified by every interest long in
generation in rebel bastiles Punishment from
homes and hearthstones, are but partial re-
cltal OF the long catalogue of horrors. But DEM
ocrats north and south combined defeated
them. They lost. What did they lose? The
cause OF oligarchy? They lost African slavery
by name only. Soon as the tocsin of war ceas
ed, soon as the clang of arms was hushed, they
raise the cry of immediate admission, and with
that Watchword seek to organize under new
forms contest to perpetuate their unbridled
sway. They rehabilitate with their sweeping
control Of all local and State organizations -
The Federal Executive, easily seduced, Yields
willing obedience to his old masters aided
by his INSCRIPTIONS disregard of constitution
and laws, by his merciless prescription of true
democratic opinion, and by all his appliances
of despotic power, they now defiantly enter the
lists in the loyal north, and seek to wiring from
freemen an Endorsement of their wicked de-
signs. Every foul agency at work to accom-
plish this result. Falsely protesting to assent
to the abolition of slavery they are contriving
to continue its detestable power by legislative
acts against pretended Migrants; they know
that any form of servitude will suit their I'M
holy purpose. They pronounce the four years
lutionary drama. Proscriptive public senti-
ment holds high carnival, and, profiting by the
the example fthe Presidential pilgrim breath
eS out threatenings Of slaughter against loyal
| ty, ignores and denounces all legal restraints,
and assails with the tongue of malignant SLAM
der, the constitutionally chosen representa-
tives of the people. To still the voice of Lib
erty, dangerous alone to tyrants, midnight con-
| fagrations, assassinations and murders in open
day are called to their aid; reign of terror
4 Trh tom Sfntn al-nS love Nv
stand silent in the presence of treason, or whis-
per in bated breath. Strong men hesitate open
| ly to speak for liberty, and decline to attend a
Convention at Philadelphia for fear Of destruc-
ton. But all southern men are not yet awed
into submission to treason, and we have assem-
bled from all these States, determined that lib
erty when endangered shall find a mouth piece,
and that the government ofthe people, by the
people, for the people, shall not perish from
the earth. We are here to consult together how
best to provide for q union of truly Republican
States, to seek to resume &c stars on the old
flag We are here to see that ten Of these stars,
opaque bodies paling their Intellectual fires be-
l meath the gloom of darkness, of oligarchical
tyranny and oppression. We wishEthem to be
brilliant stars, emblems of constitutional liber
lty glitterng orbs sparkling with the life-giv-
ing principles of the model Republic, fitting
ornaments of the glorious banner of freedom
Our last and only hope is in the unity and for
titude of the loyal people of America in the
support and vindication of the XXXIXth Con
gress and the election of a controlling Union
majority in the succeeding or XLth Congress
While the new article amending the National
i Constitution offers the most liberal conditions
to the authors of the rebellion, and does MOI
come up to the measure of our expectations
we believe its ratification would be the com
lmencemeut Of complete and lasting protec
ton to all our people and, therefore, we &C
cept it as the best present remedy, and appea
to our brothers and friends in the north anC
the West to make it their watchword in thu
coming elections. The tokens auspiciou
of overwhelming success. However little tn,
verdict of the ballot box may affect the reck
less man in the presidential chair, we cannot
{ doubt that the traitors and sympathizers viii
recognize that verdict as the surest indication
that the mighty power that crushed the rebel
lion is still alive, and that those who attemp
to oppose or defy it will do it at the risk O
f their own destruction. Our confidence in tn
overriding providence of God prompts the pre-
diction and intensifies the beliefthat when thi
, warning is sufficiently taught to these misguid
ed and reckless men, the liberated millions o
the rebellious south will be proffered thos
rights and franchises which may be necessar
to adjust and settle this mighty controversy il
the spirit of the most enlarged and Christian
philanthropy.
GEORGE w. PAsCHAI., of Texas, Chairman
| r. o. SIDNEY, of Mississippi.
JOHN II. ATKINSON, of West Virginia.
JOHN A. ALLDERDICE, of Delaware.
A. W. HAWKINS, of Tennessee.
SAMUEL KNOX, of Missouri.
/, WRIGHT R. FISH, of Louisiana.
f MILTON j. SAFFOND, of Alabama.
PHILIP WADE, of Florida.
, D. R. GooDLoE, of North Carolina
ID. G. FoRNEY, of the District of Columbia
JOHN A. j. CREsswELL of Maryland.
G. W. AsHBURN, of Georgia.