The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-11-12
wbat the Election has Gained.

Now that the election is over 1T Is wei
70 consider what has been gained, as an
equivalent for all the labor and ef1ort
which has been expended. Union, Peace |
and Equal Rights, are the ends to be SO
cured in all good government; these have
been achieved in the late contest, although
their full realization may not be attained
until the 4th of March next. Gen Grant
has among other things, avowed his policy
as follows:
oThis much wish and declare to be my
policy that such degree OF peace ana
Tranquility shall exist in this country Inal
n man NAV speak his own mind IN any
part of our great land, and that Witncut
moIestation or hindrance.
The state of things here promised Is one
of imperative necessity. For many months
uast, freedom of speech in many paris u
the south. has been as much restrained as
in any despotic government OF Europe
Assassinations for the mere expression OF
opinions have been matters OF almos'
dailv occurrence. These outrageous pro-
ceedines must have and end, and the peo-
nile confidently look to Gen. Grant, to re
store order and peace to the country.
After fifty years of contest as to the
right of all men to be free, the election OF
Gen. Grant finally seals the restoration OF
the Union, and Pounds an indissoluble ma
tionality on the basis of universal liberty
and manhood suffrage. The great doctrine
of human rights on which our government
is founded. has at last been interpretated
and admits of no further dispute. We
are nation in which all the inhabitants
are, or may become citizens, all possess
equal civil rights, and every adult male
citizen enjoy equal political privileges.
Eight years ago, nothing of this could be
truthfully said of us; four millions of
people had no rights recognized by law,
except such as pertain only to prop rty
The election of 1868 settles forever the
controversy of human servitude, and the
inalienable right of all without distinction
of nationality or color, to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. a ol
For many a long and weary year, had
the hand of oppression been laid upon
millions of our population By the law of
nature and Of God, the enslayed were en-
titled to freedom /; at lenght in the Provi-
dence of God, emancipation which had so
ong been withheld as just right, became
a recognized necessity When every other
means within the reach of the government,
seemed impotent to save the Republic,
emancipation came to the rescue. Out of
emancipation, has grown the necessity for
universal suffrage. Our national Consti
tuition too, which had long been tortured
into recognition of slavery, has also been
forever Invested from such imputa ton
No longer can civilized nations of Europe
point to the foul blot of slavery as one of the
palpable inconsistencies of our pretended
free institutions. We have now a constitu-
ton from which all apology for iniquity
is expunged flag unstained with human
oppression; the sovereignty of the nation
is shared by the weakest of it's people. In
closing this article we cordially adopt the
language of the New York Tribune:
LET those who, under God, have won
this signal and closing victory for Free
dom, the last that remained to be won In
our long struggle with American Slavery,
now press forward to the full enjoyment
of the fruits of their great struggle Let
even the yanquished learn that it is better
to serve in heaven than it would have
been to reign in He'll. And may our can
didates elect, with charity for all, with
malice toward none, but with firmness to
the right as God gives them to see the
right, make SO noble use of the powers |
Teposed in them, as will vindicate the con- |
tidence of the people.