The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-08-22
A Remar kable Article.


A Remarkable Article.
a few weeks ago we clipped from the Mil
waukee NeocS, the leading organ Of Wisconsin
copperhead democracy, leader, under the
title of "The Issues of 1872 Since the issue
of the call for state democratic convention,
we have compared the call with this article,
and from the comparison are satisfied that the
two must have emanated from the same pro-
life brain. We propose to make, here, some
textracts from this article, just to let our read
ers see the basis upon which bogus democracy
| proposes to carry on the canvass of 1867. We
quote the opening paragraph:
''Seven years ago the repu blcan party arose to
power over the nation the protested advocate and
defender of freedom. To-day it lapses to ruin as
the real advocate and apologist of tyranny Seven
years ago the democracy lost their ascendancy he
cause they preferred peace and obedience to the
constitution 10 civil war and taeason in the name
of freedom To-day they rise to power again. be-
cause through the abolition of slavery peace and
obedience TO the constitution have become synony-
nous with freedom throughout the land. In 1860 the
people preferred freedom for the slave to national
freedom under the constitution. Now they prefer
freedom for al, through the preservation Of the
constitution"
| If one had weakness for figures, it might
be qualification to compute the number of
positive falsehoods that are to be found in that
short paragraph. First there is an implied
falsehood in the statement that ''the republi-
can party rose to power over the nation as the
professed advocate and defender of freedom !"
The implication is, that the republican party
was not the real advocate and defender of
i freedom. The next statement is a double
falsehood. In the first place the republican
party has not lapsed to ruin, but is to-day
/ stronger throughout the Union than it was
lseven years ago. In the next place the repnb-
llcan party IS not now and never was sthe
real advocate and apologist of tyranny" To
1 day the republican party is emphatically the
advocate of equal rights to all before the law.
equal justice to all without regard to race.
creed or color. But this is just what the edi-
tor OF the Nea0s means by what he calls ''tyr-
| amy" In democratic parlance it is tairdnny
to protect the weak from oppression=-to ad-
minister the same justice to the poor and
ooWn-trodden that is administered to the rich
ana powerful. To deprive t'our southern
brethren, " ofthe privilege of using the scourge
and the ''cat-o-nine-ta the brand and the
stocks, is terrible tyranny in the estima-
tlon OF the editor of the NeooS. The next state
ment Is Just as void oftruth as the others. tits
true that the democracy lost its ascendancy;
land for the good of the country it is to be
hoped, lost it for all time,) but it is false that
us ascendancy was lost because it preferred
peace to civil war. On the contrary it was
because it was corrupt and rotten to the core
because it had outlived its usefulness. and
resorted to treason, to bribery and corruption.
TO bolster up its sinking fortunes; and finally
resorted to civil war, rather than give back its
much abused power TO the people. Tie fol-
| lowing statement is also falsehood; for the
democratic party has not risen to power in a
| single State, that remained wholly Iowa.
throughout the rebellion and the war for the
union. And why the fact that slavery has
been abolished should be given as a reason for
the rise to power again of the democracy, is
not so plain. If slavery has been abolished,
IL mas been done in spite of the democracy
which has always battled against that con.
summation. IL peace and obedience to the
constitution have become synonymous with
J, freedom throughout the land" it is because
the national republican party, has made them
so at the point of the bayonet in its contest
with treason and rebellion, which copperhead
democracy, and especially the editor of the
Milwaukee Neeos have constantly upheld and
encouraged. The next statement is anothe,
IaIsehood by implication. In 1860, the people
| as now preferred freedom for all under the
constitution and in the union, to a disrupted
union and broken constitution and for that
preference they fought the southern rebels
with bullets, and northern democracy witt
the ballot. We quote another paragraph:
In the changes thus accomplished by events, tht
attitude and professions of the two parties as to I'LL
quesuons OF freedom and progre SIS, are to appear.
| ances reversed. The republicans were once nro.
greesRe party-recklessly and lawessly progressive
| out sun progressive. In other words they sought
| 10 establish tyranny through revolution. The dem
ocracy was once conservative party conservative
as TO all that pertained to national peace and liberty
euI sun conservative. In other words they sought
Ier the preservation Of liberty through the preseTya
non OF the fundamental law of the Union. The rad
A leaders, who We're never the sincere friends o
WAS abolished, went over to the side of despOtism
re democracy who were Away the friends of lib
10y uunef the lew, when slavery was abolished, be
caIpe the sole defenders of bod liberty and law
Gnu now occupy the progressive ground az the de
| Tue whole people,
we might challenge the orld to produce 8
49, transparent mixture, q more complete
hoqge-podge of falsehood a nd brazen impu.
uenee than Is here palmed upon the readers Of
'he Ne''s as a democratic review of the issues
OF 1904. 1t Is very well to talk Of "changes
accomplished by events" so long as nothing
us said OF the principles Il lat brought about
Cne events That have accol nplished so much
Inc republicans" says this wonderful Wi
'el' were once progress live party; in othel
words they sought to es tablfsh tyranny
through reyolu ion" Is tina + the democratic
UNDERSTANDING " the term 'progressiye?"--
Truth declares that the repub ican party wa,
never 'louo4eo with any sue h retrograding
pios, eSS1OH' Inc republican party neye
Sought " es'aohsh tyranny either through
Ie' "'ioii u o1nef"lse. Ther learest the par
" efei o"iii0 " oelng that sort Of a progress
i've party, was in its Efforts IN nreserve III,