The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-05-24

We make these quotations to show the
position Of the administration as claimed by
the editor Of the Milwaukee News and 9TH
ers who claim that Mr.. johnson occupies the
ground they occupied during the war for
the Union.
In April 1853 just after the passage OF the
CONSUMPTION act, passed for the purpose oil
filling up the thinned ranks Of the Union ar
my, the editor of the Milwaukee News with
view of expressing the democratic idea OF
sus tanning the war for the Union, wrote as
follows
Fifteen hundred thousand men have been
furnished the government to carry out Its
policy for the suppression of the rebellion
and the force has been insufficient The
very last dollar of property the nation pos
sesses has been mortgaged for all time aud
for every cent of its value that this policy
might prevail. The very negroes have been
tun loose, and the savage Indians SUN
moned tothe field of carnage to put down
this enemy. All without avail. The enemy
is comparatively as strong to day as he was
two years ago, and stands thrice defiant, viz
tuaiy recognized as independent by all
Christendo n9save ourselves"
In August 1873, the editor of the News
expressed still more strongly the position OF
democracy them and then according to his
authority the position of the administration
now on the subject of putting down the re-
bellion, as follows
"Subjugation is tyranny established. -
| characterization by the Federal Government
| is the anuihiation of Free Government. -
Subjngation and emancipation as here re-
'ferred to are the twin devils OF despotism
''and all wrong How shall men answer at
THE bar of impartial history for attempting
theinglorious coDsumation 2
That is strong and to the point There
can be no doubt as TO the position OF the
| man who wrote that nor of the party that
sustained and sanctioned it. The writer says
| that he has not yet changed hls views or
principles i'll tlle least, and that President
johnson, Secretary Seward Stanton, and
all those great men who were mainly iu-
strumental in the work of 'subjugation and
! e.rnancip rtion in the classic language of
| the News, twin devils of despotism and
Ill wrong dow occupy the same position
tbat he and the democr.tic party did IN
| 800 AID do pow IN our State campai gu
| IN the fall Of 1868 the democratic platform
| declared. ia reference to the war for the
Union as follows:
''Resoiceli, That the end does not Justify
the means: aud that no cause however sa-
cred, can justify disregard Of public ana
private rights secured by the fundamental
law of tie Government : that, the usqrpa-
| tons Of federal officers. civil and military
against the constitutional rights of the
states and people remaining loyal to the
| Gn,on have been and are UNIV arIanted un-
necessary wauton and criminal And that
the present federal administration in CON
dnctlng TIE present var, has left the world
iii dolbt whether their principal object is To
| restore the constitution at the south or sub
vert it at the North. The history of the
| world has rarely shown "A grOssrr or more
systematic abuse Of delegated and limited
powers or a more iusOlent assumption Of ar
bitrsry power by the constitutional servants
Of the people"
But we cannot spare room this for more
quotations to show the utter want of loyal
ty, patriotism, and truthfulness of the edi-
tor who assumes to be par excellence the or
gan and mouthpece of the present admins.
tration, and to dictate to the President
whom he should appoint to office, and whom
he should dismiss We have given enough
to show, that if what he claims is true, that
he speaks for the administration, by author
ity, true friends of the Union are left out in
the cold, indeed.