The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-10-04
The Leayen Working,

A friend sends us the Atlanta, Ga. Eatelligen-
Ger of the 9th, ultimo. This is one of the hber-
al and enlightened papers of the South, and
withal an enterprising wide awake sheet in all
save its politics In that respect it is at least
half a century behind the times. 10 Illus
trate our meaning we make the following ex-
tract from leading editorial. Speaking of
the October elections, the LnteUigencer says:
esIn their result we feel deep interest. Per-
haps they may determine the future polltlcs
condition of the Southern States-thelr status
as to the Uaio,a-whether they shall be consid-
cred mere provinces, conquered territories, the
negro enfranchised and in the ascendant; the
white man dtstrunehiSed and degraded. Such
is the design of the Rddicats, and to that END
they are MISUNDERSTANDING with zeal worthy
or better cause. Hence the interest we feel
in the result Should the Conservatives be de
feated in these States, 1UOe then to the south,
for the oppressors heel will surely be upon
her. But we have strong hopes that success
will follow the efforts of our conservative
friends in each ofthe above named States
Even partial success will defeat that Radical
policy which carries with it contiscatlon ana
plumber, if not revolution in the North ana
consequent shedding of blood" b..
| The editor of the Atlanta LateIigencer, if he
is man of common sense, ought to. know bet
ter than to write such trash as the above. 1t
was by the constant reiteration Of such false
hoods, that the whole body. of the south
ern people were made ripe for secession and
rebellion. 1t is by the continuation of them
that the fire in "the Southern heart" is to be
kept alive and ready to burst out on every oc-
casion in riot and murder, if in no other way
It is no design of the Republican Union Party
(Which the Hateltigencer opprobriously styles
"RadicalsO to disfranchise or degrade the
white man of the South, nor to touch the
South with the "oppressor's heel.9 All the
Republicans ask, is, that justice shall prevail
and that all men shall be equal before the law.
Would such state of things disfranchise or
degrade the white man 4? Republicans want
the southern states and southern society so
re reconstructed that a northern republican may
travel in the South and express his opinions
with the same freedom and safety that a
southern ire-eater may, in the North. But
the editor of the Intelhgencer says, seven par
tial success (of Copperhead democracy will
defeat that Radical policy which carries with
it confscation and plumber" Now, in the
first place, there is no such radical policy as
that spoken of by this southern editor, and he
knows it. In the next place, if there was such
radical policy" there is no prospect for
even ."partial success" in q single loyal
State; so that, if, as he affects to believe, and
as he teaches to his readers, the only hope
of the late confederate states lay in the copper
head democracy Of the north, theirs would be
indeed hopeless case" But, thank fortune
the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the
late rebel states, does not depend upon the
doubtful but certainly distant day, when the
corrupt and deservedly despisedic
mocracy, now undergoing the process of being
galvanized into live party under a new
name, shall again be entrusted with the reins
of power. That much to be desired result lies
entirely with the people ofthose States them
selves. They have only to throw aside their
old time prejudces, and their hatred and fear
of the truth, and free discussion, and their an
tipathy to justice and equal rights, and they
will then be much nearer the coveted gosl
than if copperhead democracy should carry
every northern State in both the October and
| November elections
Those editors and writers, who in a meas
ure have the formation of public opinion in the
late rebel states, would be doing their country
much more efficient service by teaching these
truths we have merely mentioned, than by
| creating this great bugbear of northern radi-
calism, which exists nowhere but in their own
distempered imaginations.