The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-05-17
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atlcla Faps' Of The City County and Post OtiC
Thursday May II, 1866.



PUT TO HIS Wrs-The leading organ of
Traitors and Rebels, in this State, the Mil
waukee Ne10s, just now assuming to be par
excellence the organ of the administration,
finds its past record an announcement one
We took occasion last week to copy two or
three items from its leading editorials of
two or three years ago, proving beyond
bubble its sympathy with the rebellion and
hostility to the Union cause. In attempt
ing to explain away the force of the
extract We published, the editor Of that de-
lectable sheet aud selfconstituted organ of
the administration makes the matter ten
times worse. He says. sit gives Us pecu
liar pleasure to re-publish this extract at
the present time because instead of being
proof of sympathy with the rebellion, it is q
proof that we then entertained precisely the
same view ofthe proper objects, which is now
declared by the President of the United
States"
The Object of the article at the time it
was written, was to discourage enlistments,
and to incite its copperhead readers to forci.
bic resistance to the draft, and thereby to
prevent the filling up of our wasted regi-
ments that the rebels might stand better
chance to carry out their plans of disunion
and destruction Of the government. 1t will
be seen that this copperhead assumes that
President Johnson and the administration
has gone over to him aud now occupy the
same position he did, when he he was doing
all that he dared to do-daring all that
forgivipg and long suffering government
could possibly overlook-to aid and encour-
age armed rebels and traitors, in its destruc-
ton. The editor of the Meas evidently
means to be complimentary. We should
consider it decidedly left handed compi
ment."
The Madison State Journal commenting
upon this same explanation of the Meas,
takes another view of the matter 1t says
"Some of the supporters of the present re
construction policy of President johnson al
lege that it is in strict accordance with the
views of President Lincoln, and that Mr.
johnson is carrying out to the letter, the
purposes Of his lamented predecessor They
even call President JohnsoDs present policy
the Lincoln and Johnson policy" The
Milwaukee News claiming now to be thor
ough and hearty supporter of Mr.. Johnson
totally dissents frcm this view of the sub
ject. In its leading editorial of the 18th
inst, it reiterates what it asserted in 1864,
when it discouraged volunteering and Incl
ted resistance to the draft by representing
that the policy of President Lincoln in OPP
posing the attempt of the rebels to destroy
the Union was to enable the negroes to live
lives of idleness and crime to make the
white men of the south the dray horses of
northern masters, and to rob innocent
southern children of their homes and their
inheritance The News continues of the
opinion that the war was waged under Pres
ident Lincolns administration fol these OBJ
jects, and it closes its article with the fol-
lowing reference to President johnson as
now the leader of those who then opposed
the war policy of his predecessor
>" The confidence of the nation that An
drew johnson will resist and prevent the
full accomplishment Of these objects, is now
the only hope OF a complete reunion and
final peace Of the sections; and we really be.
lieve that if Andrew johnson had filled the
Presidential chair four years ago, divided
south could have been easily overcome by
united north, and that the lives of at least a
hundred thousand brave soldiers would have
been spared to witness the reunion of the
States and glory in the vindicated virtue of
the Government"
We do not call attention to this infamous
assault upon the memory of the martyred
Lincoln, and that great host of heroic dead
who laid down their lives a willing sacri-
ice III the struggle for natl onalty against
treason for the purpose of connecting Presi-
dent johnson with it, or to hold him in any
way responsible for the opinions of such
sheets as the Milwaukee News. Mr. John
son would probably spurn the monstrous
libel with hearty execration 1t is not only
an assault upon his predecessor, but upon
bis own record during the whole period oil
the war. Our purpose in quoting and call
ing attention to it is TO show the spirit of
the men in our State who at this time de-
bounce the Union majority in Congress and
FF-"~N ANS ANSOnotA uSIlou pOiiCy Ol EreSl- |
dent johnson With hardly an exception
the men who in 1864 were supporting the |
election of Lincoln and johnson and the pol |
icy of crushing the rebellion, now approve |
the action OF Congress in resisting the inn
mediate and unconditional restoration of the |
rebellious States to all their ancient powers
and privileges, while those who then, like
the editor OF the News, were denouncing
Lincoln and johnson, and opposing the EN-
ployment OF force to resist the designs of
traitors who declared the war failure, and
who characterized the attempt to raise vol
uateers to reinforce our wasted regiments in
the held as an effort Ito entice rosy-l Tipped
boys from the laps of their mothers To AS
SYST IN RoBBING INNOCENT SOUTHERN GILL
DREN OF THEIR HOMES AND INHERITANCE, ~
are now clamor0us for immediate restora-
ton and for the reconstruction policy of
President johnson We trust they are ut.
terly mistaken in the purposes of President
Johnson, but, if their present conception of
the scope and meaning of his restoration
plan be correct, it certainly ought lotto be
called THE Lincoln-Johuson policy" Most
clearly the Copperhead Democracy think it
is something else
ST The Chicago and North western Rail-
way Company control and operate more
than one thousands miles of Road IN this
respect that powerful corporation has no
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