The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-07-23
The Campaign.

The Campaign.
The two great political parties of the
country, have now taken their respective
attitudes and defined their positions. 1t
is for the people to choose between the
two, The distinctions between the Re
publican and Democratic parties, are as
marked to-day, as they were at any time
during the period of the war. There were
really but two great antagonistic parties
then; SO they exist to-day. During the
rebellion, there were the southern seces-
sionists in arms, and their northern sympa-
thizers-these were really all of the So
called Democratic party. The union of
the Democratic party, north and south,
was not SO openly avowed during the war
Is now. Then many of the Democratic
party put on the semblance of loyalty to
the governments fe,o were truly loyal
Now there are no longer any DISCUSSES; !,
the instigators ofthe southern rebellion, are
as closely knit to the northern Democracy,
as if they bad never differed, but had all
their life time been fast friends. The
nomination of Sermour and Blair, and the
platform adopted by the late Democratic
Convention, are hailed with apparently
greater enthusiasm and unanimity south
than north. The alliance ofevery phase of
southern rebeldom with the northern
Democracy, is as complete as it can posi-
bly, be. No class of persons in the whole
Union, will labor more earnestly and de-
terminedly for Seymour and Blair, than
the rebels lately in arms against the Gov
eminent.
This is not for the reason that any con-
siderable number of the rebels have I'M
dergone any change, as the result of the
war; they recognized the mass of the
Democratic party as friends all through
the rebellion, and hold them as friends
still. It is not therefore that the late reb-
els, have come over to the northern Dem
ocracy; they have never been divided in
feeling, but were only kept seperate for
time by hostile armies The southern
wing of the Democratic party, since the
nomination Of Seymour and Blair, make
no concealment, that their hopes have
been inspired for the recovery of the
lost cause" Many like Gov. Wise of
Virginia now declare secession is not
dead, at is more alice than eoer'
The most ardent of the original south
ern secessionists, have no cause to be 9th.
erwise than pleased with the transactions
OF the late Democratic Convention. Scarce
Iva delegate was found in the Convention
from the south, who could lay just claim
of loyalty to the Government during the
war; they were mostly composed of men,
who had been active in their efforts to de.
stroy the Union. They succeeded in OBJ
tanning at the hands of the Democratic
party, such a nomination as they desired
hence the enthusiasm that peryades
the ranks of the original traitors from
Arkansas to the Gulf Nor were the
northern States represented by delegates
In the Convention, who could be other
wise than pleasing to the rebel element
but very few of them had ever been known
of that class, called "war Democrats.
They were chiefly men who had opposed
the war, discouraged drafts, and sought to
embarrass the Government Take the
delegation from Wisconsin as a sample
many of them wero notorious for their
open and rank hostility to the sending of
men and supplies to subdue the traitors in
arms against the Union What is true of
the Wisconsin delegates in the Democra
tic Convention, is equally true of other
States
Every loyal Union man therefore, has
Enthusiastically before him the issue to be
decided in November next. 1t will de.
termine whether all the sacrifice of life
all the suffering consequent upon defend.
ing the life of the Governments and all
the expenditure of treasure, shall 90 for
nought. A Democratic triumph, will be a
reversal of all that has been achieved for
liberty and humanity, even at the cost of
revolution. A Republican triumph, in
sures the equal rights of all-the peace
and perpetuity of the Republic.
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