The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-11-15
But he has fought the goo
.oainst fearful odds. He SAYS:
Cant Account for their Defeat.

The copperiohnson press has been racking
its brain ever since the election to find an eX
cuse for the ''radicar' defeat Of conservatism.
They 90 all around "Robin Hoods barn." and
''beat the bush, in the most desperate man.
ner, all to no purpose; because they resolute
ly shut their eyes to the light of truth, and
grope about in the darkness of error.
The Milwaukee N61rs declares that ''Butler
& Co., distributed any quantity of Massachu-
sets money in this district to elect Paine
Who "Butler & Co., " is, we do not know, nor
does the News inform us. 1t declares, how
ever, that the East distributed over million
of dollars to elect western Republican Repre-
sentatives.
The Appleton Crescent, another of the
shining lights of Democracy in this State, at
tempts to account for the triumph of the peo-
pie after this fashion
''The popular mind is infatuated by a thirst
for more war, more bloodshed more carnage.
Nothing can save us as nation from an en-
tire change of government since morality and
public virtue have been swept away into the
vortex of fanaticism and social crime, Save a
war with some foreign power, and even then
the Liberty recognized by Law will tremble
inthe balances
Terrible picture, is it not of a peaceful
people, who only ask as their ultimatum
equal and exact justice to all men before the
law-one set of laws for all the citizens of a
State without regard to color or race. But
our copperjohnson contemporary might have
found some consolation in his extremity,
Had he not heard that John Morrissey, the
pugiIist, and Fernando Wood, were elected
Surely, morality and public virtue have not
"been swept away" entirely when such
shining lights ofDemocracy can be elected in
the great commercial metropolis of the ma
ton. The Crescent man, and his partners in
distress, should take heart from such eviden-
ces of the continued presence of morality and
virtue" And it was probably a comtempla-
ton of some such scrap of consolation that en-
abled him finally to exclaim
Notwithstanding all the appliances of ia
naticism both religious and political, and the
array of the most depraYed passions on the
side of Radicalism, the results show the sig
nifcant fact that taking the whole country in
to account, Radiealism does not obtain the
countenance of much more than one-third of
the people of the United States, altho' it has
and will for some time continue to control the
destinies Of the country by arbitrarily disfran-
chising one-third of the free white male citi-
Zens.'
On the other hand, there are some OF, the
most inveterate cOpperheads who have the
gnmption to see, and the strength of nerve to
admit the result of the late election as The de-
iberate and earnest voice of a free and en-
lightened people. Demagogues may affect to
look lightly upon the result of the election,
and think to retrieve the desperate fortunes
oftheir party by persistent adherence to it's
corrupt and unpopular principles, but even
they viii find sooner or later hat the people
oil this country have no idea ofgiying up the
scheme Of selfgovemment as a failure. The
people propose to continue to govern them
selves yet awhile and their politicians into the
bargain.