The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-06-28
The Disunionists.

AHe DcInOcTatlc party is very iona or
Boosting of its loyalty, affecting to be filed
with great anxiety to have the Union re-
stored and charging the Republicans with
all manner of disunion projects, because we
demand guarantees for the future from the
rebels. Who are these glib fellows who
thus charge the party who have saved the
nation with being disunionists We let a
contemporary answer:
''Ihey are the men who declared that Sc
cession was not treason.
They are the men who declared that coer-
cion OF armed rebellion was unconstitutional.
They are the men who styled Union sol
diers hounds, bull dogs 'hirelings,' Hes
slams, 'minions, and thieves
They are the men who threatened to fire
in the rear of our gallant armies.
These men opposed the raising of armies
by volunteering.
They opposed the raising of armies by
CONSUMPTION.
They opposed and denounced every meas
ure by and through which the Union was
restored
They declared that the Union cause
should not have a man or dollar, if they
could prevent it.
They called the war for the Union an un-
holy war.
They denounced Abraham Lincoln as a
tyrant, 'usurper, APE, 'baboon,' fool,
and assassin
They opposed allowing our soldiers to
vote; and declared, whom they voted, that
their votes were dishonesty cast
Every rebel in the South belonged to that
party and does yet.
Every deserter and bounty jumper, and
fugitive from the draft belonged to that
party, and does yet.
They concocted conspiraces in the interest
of the rebels
They organized reasonable societies.
Their followers murdered draft officers
and mobbed draft Offices
Their friends in New York got up th,
most disgracefnl riot known in American
history.
Their most exalted leaders were choser
from the most bitter enemies of the Uniol
10 the North.
Every one of the rebel leaders was mem
Der of that party.
They declared the war failure and tina
it ought to cease, and went into Presiden
tial contest with a played-out failure for
candidate upon that platform
Their allies and agents maintained treas
ouable correspondence with armed rebels.
They rejoiced over rebel and mourne,
over Union victories.
They opposed the establishment of
national currency, and declared it worth
less.
By every act and arti6ce of which un
armed treason is capable, they injured tn
national credit abroad, and furnished tn
national honor at home.
Their party was and is the receptacle Q
every alsgraced officer dismissed from tn
Union service, or compelled to resign on &C
count of cowardice or incapacity.
To the crime of sneaking treachery the,
added the infamy of black ingrattitude t
those whose patriotism and bravery save
them and their sons from CONSUMPTION
Their newspaper offices, and none bu
theirs, refused to hoist the Union flag, unit
compelled to do so.
Their last Vice President was a rebel lead
er; their last President a conceited an,
traitorous coward and his predecessor wa
the author of letter to the rebel leader en-
couraging secession, and pledging the Nor
thern Democracy to sustain rebellion witt
arms in case of resistance to secession
And this is the party these theIpapers ant
men who have the unblusbing effrontery t.
charge the party whose exertions and polio,
saved the Republic from death, with disuni
onism.
Do they imagine that the people hav
forgotten their misdeeds so soon or tina
they received political amnesty with thei
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