The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-11-08

KENosHA DIsGRA oED AGAIN. Ex-senator
Doolittle ''spoke his piece again on Friday eve
ming last at Simmons Hall. The Senator was
introduced by that eminently CAristiamC) gen
tlemen l. W. Webster B. B. P NJ who with a
long drawn face, and very sanctimonious air,
inform ed the audience that they had met to
discuss the political issues of the day in a spir
it of chriStianIy-that never had there been a
time when it seemed so extremely difficult to
get men to listen to christian appeals-to reach
their better feelings and dispassionate judg-
ment as the present. We are informed that
the work of Tuesday only served to confirm
that opinion; SAD! j Mr.. Doolittle spent some
time at the opening of his speech instructing
the boys and girls, who, by the way, made up
the majority of his audience, the precise mean
ing of the terms, "civil war;" and peace
and undoubtedly made it clear to the most
juvenile mind present, that fighting was acGr,
and when the fighting stopped, Dar ceased,
after which, peace followed. With the excep-
of one other slight depression, in which he
proved most conclusively, to the Finnegan por-
ton ofhis audience, by letter which he had
just received from some very reliable gentle
man in the South, that the e Nager'' was
really most ridiculous sort of an anim-i-l-e,
and as to his being good Union Soldier, it
was an awful great Republican lie-that he
couldnot, had not nor never would fight; that in
stead of this Governments owing them anything
they owe the government an eternal debt of
gratitude for the Hard Tack and Bacon which
they had been RECALLED with; we say with these
ID III IL,
not even emitting his startling announcement
tn at Secessia covered over an extent of terri
tory as broad as En- gland, Germany,
France and Prussia, altogether. We would
suggest to the Senator that though this mary
elOus stateme ut might have had the desired
effect of frightening some of the timid during
the first year of the rebellion, yet now, when
the Seeded States, Notwithstanding their au-
full 6igneSS have been soundly thrashed into
good behavior, that it is quite lost, and will
scarcely create any great amount of awe OF rev.
erence in the minds ofNorthe IN men,.
But our intention was, rather to read the
naughty people of Kenosha a short lecture on
their disgraceful conduct than to criticise the
Senator's speech. First, it was ge,y unbecom-
ing, not to say disgraceful, when the speaker
would fain have filled all eyes present with
tears, with his doleful tale of the suffering of
our sorrowing Southern brethren, stating that
over 80, 600 Of them in South Carolina were
actually begging meal and salt to sustain
life with !' not to weep. Perhaps twas some
low Lincoln hireling,' 'who had felt the fierce
pangs of hunger in those vile prison hells
Belle Isle, Libby or Andersonville, and had
felt strength and vitality wasting from sheer
starvation, who when he heard that his fiendish
tormentors were themselves short of rations
instead Of shedding great crockodile tears, be-
gan softly to stamp, stamp, stamp, which was
caught up by others and resulted in a regular
cheer despite the dark frowns of the speaker
and holy horror of the christian gentleman
before mentioned. Shame @
Again, when the Senator gave the gratifying
assurance thatAhis intention" was not to weary
the patience of the audience with long speech
but to be brief" the house came down with
laundering applause. Now this was Very
barbarously What though at
least half of the audience had been denounced
as disunionists? and he Doolittle) was ready
and willing to fight them just as he had fought
Southern rebels and traitors? What though
every man woman and child present had heard
the same silly, sickly, insolent twaddle but a
few days before at our Co. Fair, and had read
it in every speech which the Senator has made
since his fusion with the coperjohnson party !?
We say notwithstanding all this, twas very,
very naughty, besides it was so discouraging
to the Senator. We are quite sure that Keno
sha has again covered herself with disgrace O