The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-11-01

err cease fighting? They nave laid dowr
their arms. will you show no mercy %
. reply if they have laiG down their arms il
was because they were whipped and conld
no longer hold them but they have given
no token Of Sorrow or evidence of repentance
| Ga the contrary, impunity in crime has
made them impudeut in demand, and they
now, through you, their attorney, claim a
seat on the bench ofjudges, sitting in judg-
ment on their own crimes--the Congress Of
the United States.
Forty years ago this fall, publicly
pledged myself before God and my fellow
men, to take the law of God as my guide,
and Christ for my example. The path then
chosen, | have stumblingly followed, and
shall continue to follow, until find a bet
ter in obedience to His holy teaching
cheerfully extend the hand Of forgiveness to
a TepeHt@ut brother, even unto seventy times
seven But | have yet to learn that God ever
| pro posed or promised to call from their dark
abode the uaSyepe11t0pt re6eLS against his
righteous law, or give them "a seat at his,
| hight hand, and constitute them judges in
their own cases, or law makers for Others
Until | have some such example, | propose,
as the most mercitul course to be pursued,
consistent with safety, after rendering the
rebels powerlegs for evil, to leage tA6m where
they are, until liz i'll his own time shall say
to them aud their attorneys, Depart, ye
cursed, into everlasting-" in short, until
they are sent to join their fitting associates
aud cODgenial companions
You further argued against the proposed |
amendment TO the Constitution that it might |
open the door TO negro suffrage, against the
will Of our and their foes, the un, epentant
rebels and then the rebels would kill them |
Aud the total sum of all the argument | |
have ever heard against negro suffrage may |
be condensed to this, that from 1i0t9ce they |
might vote wrong, or from ignorance, they |
mighty vote foolishly. But if these are good
reasons for DISTINGUISHING men, what will be-
come of you and me, aud Of the party with |
whom you now act,
Let us look back little. A few years
since our attention was drawn to the case
of the greatest General and widest tacticiau
in America, Geo B, Mcclellan. | atiyi5edly
say the greatest, for when the word "On 10
Rlchmond'' was given to the finest army the
world ever saw, and Robert b. Lee with all
lhe hosts of hell and rebeldom Oh his side,
aided by the thousands of traitors IN our
midst, could not stay the prOgr IS Of that
army, keep it ont of Richmond, or destroy
it, Geo. b Mcclellan not only did keep it
out Of Richmond, but lie dispersed and de-
stroyed it in the swampS Of the Chlckahom.
my.
Well, no sooner did the villany of Geo. B.
Mcclellan appear, than tratorous symp4-
.hizers with rebellion took him up and voted
l. !, /
he devil, vote worse than that? But you
aud /, what in our ignorance did we do P
We too, a drunken tailor, and by our votes
placed him where the assassins knife made
lin President. Can negroes vote in more ig-
lorance, Or with more folly than that Can
more ignorant, foolish or malignant voting
,e done by any body, than has been done by
White men ? Possibly; for you now propose,
understand, to unite our folly with traitors
naliguity, and take this ilnbecie drunken,
aior, after he had proceed himself 10 be Such,
md vote for him to be PRESIDENT Well,
hen you have done tbat, when you have
athomed that depth of infamy, you may
safely conclude that you have touched bot
ON aud from that level you may root
around without danger of being stumb ed
,ver by a negro
For these opinions Of mine you have no
light to hold thc Republican party RESPONSE
Die. belong 20 no party. A humble fol-
over Of Him who said "A corrupt tree cam
.ot bring forth good fruit | would 'n00
llso lay the axe at the ROOT of the vile
rec Of slavery and oppression, and cut it
iown, root and branch, ''and cast it into
he fire." | know there are some now, who
Jay as their fellow. servants did Of old to the
Master, Not so, Lord, but let it stand this
lear, also, while we dig about it and dung
t. But depend upon it, the Master kn010s
,est, and though you continue to root around
t all your lives, you will only succeed in
lrtying your own noses.
Yes an radical | mean to strike at
he root Of our present difficulties. If err,
t is in obedience TO Him of whom am not
ashamed, and my most earnest desire is,
hat when meet him face to face, Gas in the
course Of nature | soon must | shall have
80 performed my duties here, that He shall
not be ashamed Of me-
Bristol, kenosba Co, Wis, Oct. 1866
HERMON l. EAlONS Sen.
E9y- Turks Island, in the West Indies, was
visited by terrible hurricane on the 3Oth
nltmo, destroying 800 houses, killing 20
and injuring many others, rendering 5000
people homeless and destitute, and sinking
IS vessels with 20 Of their crews