The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-04-26

ings of my own heart and conscience. believe it
nance and your encouragement, 1 shall 90 through
on that line. CHEERS and laughter.) And when
come talk about sailors and soldiers about this
to be done and that to be done all want Is for you
to wait and see SO far the future is concerned
Wait, and see if do not stand by you, although
every other man may falter and fail. (Cheers)
want to see measures of policy brought forward
that viii advance the interests of the people, and
of that portion of the people who have constituted
the gallant and brave men VINO, in both branches OF
the service have upheld the national flag and sus
| tanned the country in the recent struggle. thank
you, gentlemen, for this encouragement | thank
you for your countenance on this occasion. 1t
cheers me on and gives me strength to perform the
work before me.
If we are true to ourselves, if we true to the
Constitution the day is not far distant when this
Government will be restored Let us go on and re-
store the Government. Let is enlarge the area of
, our commerce and trade. Let us not only inspire
confidence at home, but respect abroad, by letting
the nation resume its career Of prosperity and.
greatness | know that some win find fault with
me and say am too lenient too kind, and all that.
If we were all to be put to death, or punished, or
thrown away, for one offence or for the second OF
fence and were to be and excluded from society,"
and communion with fellow men, how many of
us would be lefti / have felt when have done
wrong and have repented of it, that was as sincere
and honest as he who had done no wrong at all 4
Then we must reason with each other and underA
stand our nature and what Is necessary to restore
peace and harmony and concord to distracted and
divided people.
In time OF war it is right to burn villages sack
cities and devastate fel1s-to lay waste country
and cripple anu reduce the enemy put IN time OF
Eeace the converse of that course is precisely the
right one and the true policy of nation is to re-
build its cities restore its villages, renew its fields of
agriculture and let all the ayocations of peace and
prosperity be restored, know there some who
have been at home calculating during the war, and
who bring now to the consideration Of questions OF
peace and harmony and avocations of civil life All
the feelings of resentment which animated us when
the excitement was up and running high. But take
the brave men who sustained the nag on the field
and on the wave, and you Will find better feelings
and better Judgment on these questions than you
will find with those who have been sitting in the
closet and never smelled gunpowder. tCheers
Yes, from the private up to the commanding gene
raj, they know better how to treat the present cir
cumStanceS than any OF those closet patriots and
humanitarians.
Then my countrymen, fellow citizens soldiers
and sailors, let rejoice that peace has come Let
us rejoice that the relations of the States are
about being restored. Let us make every ef-
the relations which existed between the Fede-
raj Government and the States. / thank God
that peace is restored. thank God that our brave
men can return to their families and homes and re-
sumo their peaceful avocations. thank God that
the baneful planet of fire and blood which, short
time ago, was in the ascendant, has been chased
away by the benlgnant star of peace. Now that the
bow of peace is suspended in the heavens, let us
cultivate the arts and relations of peace, and all
those associations which appertan to them in peace
The time is not distant when can have a politl-
cal millennium, political jubilee, and when We can
proclaim to all the nations of the earth that we are
again united people and that we have triumphant
ly passed through our third ordeal having peace at
home. and power to bid defiance to all the world
Remember one thing, gentlemen that in my past
life, though slanderers may misrepresent no man
can say l have ever deceived betrayed him. 1t
VIII be for you to in the future who will redeem
thank you, gentlemen, for the complement you have
paid me.