The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-10-18
For the Telegraph.
Senator Doolittle Insulted--Who is Respon-
sihle.

MEssRs. EDIToRs.-The Copperhead frater-
nifty are making great ado about an alleged in
| sult to Senator Doolittle at the Kenosha Co.
fair. 1t may be well to inquire who began the
insult If Mr. Doolittle, occupying as he does,
high official position, expects to be hand
somely treated, he must not insult the people
to whom he is indebted for the office he holds,
and on whom he has traitorously turned his
back By the favor of the loyal Union Repub-
licans of Wisconsin, through their representa-
| tives, Mr.. Doolittle was elected United States
| Senator. He then stood on the Republican
platform, and pledged himself to support its
measures. He then denounced the very rebels
and secessionsts, which every Republican did.
He now denounces and puts his old Rcpubll-
can friends into the general category OF trait
ors, while he recognizes as true patriots and
friends of the Union. the very men whom he
once declared enemies, in language as strong
as he could possibly command.
If the farmers of Kenosha county could stand
silently by and listen to such insult, without a
word of reply or self defence, they would not
be worthy the name of freemen. They freely
gave their sons and brothers and their money,
to save the country and they are not the men
to allow themselves now to be classed with
traitors, and keep profound silence out ofre-
spect for Mr.. Doolittle because he happens to
be a United States Senator.
Senator Doolittle places himself on the false
and ridiculous assumption that he has not
changed! Has the Chicago Times changed ?
Mr.. Doolittle has been in the practice, ever
since the beginning of the war, until very late
ly, of denouncing the Chicago Times as most
infamous secession sheet. Mr.. Doolittle now
adopts the Chicago Times as his favorite pa
per he invariably inquiries for it on railroad
cars-in news rooms, &c. But Mr.. Doolittle
dare not tell the Chicago II INES it has changed.
The Times is now just what it always has been
an open and bold apologist for rebels. Not
one year ago, the Milwaukee NelrS, the leading
rebel paper of Wisconsin, was in the practise
of applying the most vile and contemptuous
epithets to Mr.. Doolittle ; now the NeocS prais-
es Mr.. Doolittle in exalted strains. Has the
Ne1CS changed its politics, or has Mr.. Doolittle
gone over to the copperhead ranks? Who are
now Mr.. Doolittle's associates, wherever he
goes? They are the very copperheads and
traitors whom scarcely one year ago, he pro-
fessed to loathe and abhor. Have all these
coppery men changed, or has Mr.. Doolittle?
1t is true that in this country, one of our most
valued privileges is free speech. But every
man is Notwithstanding, held justly accounta-
BILE for the use of free speech if he publicly
SANDER and defame without justifable reas-
on, he must expect free speech to repel with
just indignation the insult Men who talk
about the violation offree speech in the case OF
Mr.. Doolittle, seem to forget that free speech
has rights on both sides it has not only the
right to attack but also to defend. If false
hood be publicly uttered, it is entitled to a
public refutation and denial. NINDEX.