The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-06-06
Jhe Aetsusjts Jelegraph
GIG 5sg5 Of ae CITY. County inc Pos Jtuc
Thursday, June 6, 1861.


toned some few weeks ago, the reception OF
the Vicksburgh Republican, genuine radical
paper, just started in that hotbed
of rebellion and secession, Vicksburgh, Miss.
Soon after, came the crowings of the rebel
press of the south, that the Vicksburgh Re
publican had given up the ghost" that a
y.a@!. republican paper could not be sustained
in Mississippi, and all that sort of thing. But
thank God the Republican still lives, and is
likely to until intolerance and injustice is
done away with in the fairest portion of our
grand Republic.
We have been handed the semi-weekly Re
publican of May 18th, which is full of strong
republican doctrine, and well satisfied with
the support it is receiving at the hands of the
union citizens of Mississippi. We clip the fol
lowing leader from This issue of the Republican
to show our readers the way an independent
radical dares to talk, even in Mississippi, since
reconstruction under the acts Of the last Con
gress, was initiated.
INTOLERANCE.
As an evidence OF the hostility existing and
openly manifested in Mississippi 10 The opera
lions of the military bill, we need but cite q
few instances where this feeling has exhibited
itself in open denunciation of the editor OF the
Republican. In private circles, on the street
corners and in public meetings he has been au-
nounced as an interloper, who came among
them as an emlssary from the North, 10 create
dissention and strife between the cOlored peo-
pie and their former masters. That the eotab-
lishment of radical newspaper should nave
the same effect as a bombsheil falling III Then
midst we can readily conceive. We also UNI
| derstand why it is that they use nothing but
! abusive language and denunclation towards
! the editor as their argument. When we SEE
an Old demagogue, who has led the people Ol
! Mississippi by the nose for many years, stand
| on the rosJrum and denounce the editor OF The
| Rep.t6ltca14 i'll The vllest terms, as though he
| were guilty OF great crime, by establishing
| a radical neWspa per, and asserting that the
| cid shareholders were the only friends OF .Ae
| colored people, we can see the spirit OF lnGoI-
erance which actuates our frlenos OF the cop
| perhead persuasion. No Northern man must
come here, no foreigner, none but true and re
liable Southern men must settle among them.
Kill OIL The Republican newspaper, GriFe all
the radicals OUT OF the state, Withdraw The
military, and give them possession OF all the
Offices ana 1uil control OF the State Place
them III power as they were before the war,
and they will give you every assurance that
tney VIII be as big rebels as they were then,
Ii IS, therefore not astonishing TO us, to SET
these evidences of bitter hostility towards our
enterprise, and we would indeed be surprised
| il they should take it kindly. But 1t viii not
| be long before change Will come upon the
spirit of these people. We will prophesy this
much TO wit: that before long these same
men will, ,a0IenS VoIeRS submit TO the law OF
| the land
The copperhead speakers at all public meet
| ings and everywhere else, incucate the idea
that the radicals are endeavoring to turn the
colored people against their former masters
and friends. This is a most unblushlng So
| phistry-a political trick-a bare1aced false
mood A few facts will explain the whole
| matter. The Yankees, under Llncoin's proc
| lamation, freed the colOred people. The Yam
KEGS sent their money, their missionaries and
their teachers among them to educate and
| enlighten them. The Yankees furnished mon
| ey to build their churches and preachers 10
! preach to them. They furnished food TO the
destitute and clothing to the naked. The
| Government, composed entirely OF northern
men, has established the freedmen's bureau,
given them the civil rights bill, and finally en-
tranchised them. Now, let us ask, what nave
the southern friends done in favor OF the col
ored people?
The Legislature of Mississippi has passed
several very severe laws against negroes, mu-
lattoes and persons of mixed blood. 1t has
passed law binding out negro children whose
parents could not or would not maintain them,
until they are tWenty-one years of age, thus
lnstituting new system of slavery for cOlored
children. 1t has passed a law imposing a fine
and Imprisonment for negroes to have fire
arms without permit. 1t has passed a law
for selling into slavery idle colored people, for
term sufficient to work out the cost Of pros
ecutiOn. 1t has passed law holding the cot
ored people to a very rigid performance Of q
contract, while the white contractor is at full
| liberty to swindle them as much as he pleases.
Now let our colored readers and our white
readers too, compare the two parties and
! Judge for themselves, who are the cOlored
mons hest friends