The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-10-29
Senator DoolittIe in Kenosha,

On Friday night, last week, Senator
)oolittle made his second advanf here.
lnce h. opening of ther-tesent campaign
The event of his comino here is of no
'o''IOi0 eoiiS' ,uence, except to note how
:" TUG man has fallen. Prior to the
'oi .nencement Of the meeting in the
evening, the boys got UP torch light pro
cession, by borrowing alot Of torchestTom
abroad Mr.. Doolittle as he gazed on
the torch bearers, and the sqads of Ii tile
barefoot boys on the sidewalk, smile it
is said lit up his solemn yisage; he see m
ed to enjoy hugely this little demonst'a-
ton, as it was the first appearance of any
thing like an ovation, either in Kenoslia
or Racine counties, during the past two
years
Of his speech, friend has furnished us
an outline in another column 1t is doubt
full whether there has been another cop
perhead speaker on the stump in Wiscon-
sin, who faces a past record with such I'M
blushing audacity as Mr. Doolittle. There
was scarcely leading Democrat in ALT
country whom Doolittle was not heard to
denounce in the most bitter manner dur.
ing the first three or four years of the
war Although not one Of the copper
heads, whom Doolittle protested to scorr
three years ago has changed, yet he now
holds them as the true patriots Of the ma
ton. Almost any number OF instances
can be cited, where Doolittle in years
past, has expressed his utter detestatioT
and loathing of the Democratic party, anC
his deep religious conviction that tn,
principals and measures of the Republi
can party, were the only safety and hope
of the Republic. And now he has the
ridiculous efrontery to proclaim that the
Republican party has changed and lef
him, and that the Democratic party hal
gone from its mornings also, and come
over to his stand point.
/ There was time, when Mr.. DoolittlC
had reputation for truth and honesty
but he now INDUCES in such shameless
falsehoods as to half astonish his new
copperhead relations
The La Crosse Republican gives Doc
little column of greeting on his late ap
pearance in that city, from which VIZ
take few paragraphs, because as appro
pirate here as elsewhere,
"What a precious brace of patriots
James r. Doolittle and Wade Hamp
ton
What fine trio-Senator Doolittle
sandwitched between Sat, Clark and Brick
Pomeroy!
You have abandoned your old Free-Soi
friends and now hold political fellowship
with copperheads, rebels, pirates and as
sassins
You have changed your song from "Joh1
Brown" to "My Maryland"
You have lost your principals and you
friends, and upset your trough and fod
der
Dear Mr. Doolittle When you drew thc
taxi to strip rebels Of property for ths
benefit Of the freedmen, did you imagine
you would SO soon be engaged in the hum
iliating employment Of "tearing YOU
shirt" for the Rebels?
Beloved Jeems-W hen you declared il
the .. S. Senate that you "believed il
He'll as military necessity for Rebels,
did you expect to have your own garments
scorched by the Devils sulphur?
Instead of holding your former higl
position as Christian, a patriot, gen
tieman and a Senator while you stood
aloof from the Democratic party, you have
again become identified with party tina,
embraces nearly all the blasphemers
traitors, vagabonds and outlaws of the
land, who neither love country nor God
In view Of all these things, and con
sidering that you have "boxed and re
boxed the compass" have you not sup
piled sad illustration Of the wretched
condition of the "1eturn of the SOW tina,
was washed to her wallowing in the
mire ?"
| Now, beloved Jeems, we do not believe
you will long remain in the Democratic
party. Your five political somersaults
during the past twenty years are quite
sufficient to render your return to the Re-
publican party, at no distant day, mat.
ter of certainty.