The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-09-10
The Old Issue Renewed.

The Old Issue Renewed.
When peace was announced after some
five years of war with the rebellion, there
was manifested a general satisfaction
throughout the country. A cessation of
violence and bloodshed was what the
country desired. But ic has been ques-
ton whether peace was not declared too
soon; the rebellion was disarmed but not
subdued The elements of its violence
were only quoted for time, but ready to
be revived whenever favorable opportu-
nifty should offer. Events during the past
few months show that the spirit of trea-
son has not been exterminated it still
lives, and now manifests Willingness to
renew the fight The evidences come
from all parts of the South, that the war
for the Union should have continued for
at least another year, so that rebellion
might have been more effectualIy crushed
and destroyed.
The reasons for the conclusion that the
rebels were not sufficiently whipt, is the
defiant attitude now assumed by the old
leaders of secession; they declare that the
election Of Seymour and Blair will be the
signal for the assertion of their rights lost
by the war. The rebels of the South
make it Enthusiastically clear that they in
tend Democratic victory shall compen-
safe them for what they lost at Gettys-
burg, Vicksburg and Richmond. The re-
bellion virtually declares that Gen, Grant
did not subdue it, and that it is ready to
fight the battles over again These are no
mere statements originating with north
ern men for political effect; they are
borne out by the open and defiant decla-
cations Of southern leaders These evil
dences of violent resistance come from ev-
cry State in the South; there can be DO
mistaking their import. Frank Blair
promises revolution if he is elected. Rob
ert Toombs declares that "the reconstruc-
ton acts are null and void, and shall not
stand The grinning skeletons that have
been set up in our midst as legislatures
shall be ousted by Frank Blair, whom our
party has expressly appointed for that
purpose" Said Howell Cobb: "In war
we drew the sword, and babe them def
ance; in peace we gather up the manhood
OF the South, and raising the banner of
Constitutional equality, and gathering
around it the good men of the North as
well as the South, we hurl into their teeth
the same defiance, and bid them come on
to the struggle. We are ready for it if
you are" Albert Pike calls upon the
young men of the South to swear that the
Ohio and Susquehanna shall be like rivers
of fire. which no Northern Hun
shall attempt to cross and live. "Seces.
sion is not dead, says Gov. Wise; it is
more alive to-day than ever. l support
Blair because he promises Revolution. .
j. M. Ramsey of Georgia declares that
the true men of the South are ready to
rally once more under the rebel FLAG "and
try the issue at the cartridge-box," and
promises that there are men at the North
who will lead their batallions. "If we
are successful in the approaching contest"
says the Mobile Tribune, eve shall gain
al that we lost in the Lost Cause ;"
"The country is by Ear too large to re-
main very long under one Government. /"
says the Memphis appeal, "and the day
Will come when the South will be indie.
pendent" "By the election of Seymour
and Blair," says Gov. Vance of North Car
DINA, "all that the Confederacy fought for
Will be Won" The Mobile Tribune de-
clares that "the counter-reyolution will
not be conn lete without more blood-let.
ting; )" and the Richmond Enquirer adds
The white men of the southern States
nave seen the day when they could use
the bullet, and if God, in His anger, per
mltsthe necessity to arise, they will use it
again" with the skull and cross bones
OF the Lost Cause before u.s." cries the
Meridian (Miss) Mercury eve will swear
that this is White Mans Government
we must make the negro understand we
are the men we were when we held him
IN AFFECT bondage" Gen. Blair at the
head of the militia will be a match for
Gen Grant at the head of the regular ar
my, boasts Gen. Ewing. The Georgia
democratic Convention declared: There
might once have been necessity for the
Rebels of Georgia to submit to the militia.
ry authorities, but there is none now
The Democratic chivalry of the north are
marching to our rescue"
Such IS only a small sample of the enun-
cations of the rebels who lead public
sentiment in the South. These are the
KIND OF men in the South who are moving
heaven and earth for the election of Sew.
mour and Blair; and marvellous as it NAV
be, these are the men with whom the
Democratic party North, Is linked IF
northern Democrats disown the treason
able utterances of their southern sevmour
and Blair brethren, why do they manifest
no disapproval of their treasonable boosss,
What Democratic journals north are fonpd
openly rebuking these rebel threateninosg
what evidences appear that northern and
southern democrats are not in full spmpa.
thy and communion .