The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-05-31

O'rls p4ss d TIT CITY County and Post Ulllc'
Tharsda, May 81, 1866.
: ; sCa0rF.. s. G. VIA GA.
Propr4esors.
s.v EDITOR
COpperhead Support Of the Administrator
Union men who have worked side by
side, and oand in hand with the PRESIDENT
and the statesmen who compose his cabinet /
during the war of the rebellion for the sue
cess of the Union cause, end who would
fain have labored in the same company ior
tho FINAL restoration of the Union, and the
obl;,erat;on of all marks of treason and re-
belIion, find themselves in rather humiia-
ting position. They see the very men they
onnosed and commended with, now step into
the front ranks, and assume at once tue
honers and rewards of patriotism, while the
real Union men are branded as traitors and
disunionists, and compelled to take the
back seats, if they are not cast out as alien
enemies, altogether. Indeed the Union
majority of Congress many OF whom QIke
our own member Gen. II. E. Paine) were
elected by the votes Of Union Soldiers in the
field, are constantly threatened with torcl'
BILE expulsion and dispersion, ano are styled
the Revolutionary faction of Congress
Many of the copperhead editorial supporters
Of the President advise him to dispense the
present Congress at the point of the bayon'
ct, and install a new Congress in the same
way.
The Milwaukee Ne,os, which assumes to
be the organ of the administration In this
State. dictates removals from and appoint
ments to office, in late number, says:
.'The president may be ultimately COM
PEELED to employ military force to carry out
his purposes Of restoring and preserving the
government. In this particular, the gov
eminent and the people have been patient
and long-suffering but as there is limit
to forbearance in dealing with consplracies
and revolution. 80 there is limit to the
forbearance with which the executive branch
of the government has dealt with the usur-
patIOns Of the revolutionary faction in con-
gress
White the real Union men of the country
woulo be glad to support the President and
the administration in the effort to re-estab
fish the Union in all its integrity on a more
enduring foundation, they. would like to
know how far the support of my policy"
is going to carry them Does it include
these extrerae measures of employing the
military force of the country to dispense
Congress as in,imated by this copperhead
organ of the administration
The same paper from which we copy the
above intimation of What the President may
be compelled to do, has the following re-
FICTION upon the former course of the Pres
ident, and the party that elected him:
interpreting the motive of the radical
party Chat is the party that elected Andrew
Johnson) by it's present action, We lind that
it prosecuted the war-not to restore the
Union, and not to restore national peace.
aud not to preserve the government-but
! to abolish slavery, TO enforce black and
white equality, annihilate state power, and
! to establish a central and sectional despotism
over the people of the United States -
It might be well 10 ask the President
whether this Interpretation of his motives
! in assisting in the prosecution of the war Is
correct We should like to ask Senator
inent supporters Of the Presidents policy,
whether this Interpretation of their motives
by this new organ of theirs, is correct
one So far as ne are concerned, and those
with whom we labored, and for whom we
are authorized to speak, we can say, the
editor of the Milwaukee Nea0s is a base and
malignant liar, who judges other peoples
motives by his own reasonable impulses.
We will go as far in the support of the
administration, and such of its supporters as
did not aid the rebels and traitors in their
attempt to subvert the government, as we
can, without stultifying ourselves, and Civ
ing the lie direct to our whole past lives, but
awe must not only support the President s
policy, but the policy" fevery unrepen-
tant rebel Who chooses to assail US, as '.revo-
lntionary factionists, traitors &c, we beg
to be excused
AS another instance of the support that
! the ttadrninistratiop., raca;,,as Of +bo bo,,de
of its copperhead organs in this State, we
make another extract. The Milwaukee
Meas in the same number from which we
take the above extracts, speaking of the
speeches of different members of the cabinet
refers to the Secretary of War, in the fol-
lowing complimentary terms:
Among the most extraordinary of these
emanatlons from the cabinet is the speech
| Of Edwin NJ. Stanton The utish aainis
| ter Of l0or and deSpotiSnt conftsses to late
conversion and very doubtful regeneration
In every line Of his cautiously written con,
lesslon, II Is apparent that his depressed ana
oeS0ttem impulses are at war with the spar
ing words of enlogy he felt forced to utter
IN behalf of the president. base IN eUery
9'Sttnct, ne naturally compromises his na1t-
eUotent principles acith his empty purse
He can bring no support 20 the president,
and no honor to the cause he equivocalv
and reluctantly espouses.'
President johnson may admire that kind
OF support Of his administration and the
members OF his cabinet, but we doubt it,
it is the same kind of support the editor OF
the Ne'0s gave the Ur.ion cause, and it's up
holders, all through the war.
OF Secretary Seward, this same copper
head supporter OF the administration, speaks
IN hardly any better terms. In referring to
the Secretary's late speech at Auburn he
charges him with coarse Iibels on the Dem
oeratic Union men of the country" mean