The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-05-20
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character this week The Yumored alliance
between France and England against the
United States is the most important
That such an alliance has been made is
discredited in high official circles in
Washington, if we can believe the reports
that reach us from there, but that it has
been formed there appears to be good
reason for believing. The London Times,
which speaks for the British public and
the Government, says that the Alabama
claims cannot and will not be settled on
the basis proposed by this country; that
England has already gone to the verge. OF
national humiliation in granting what has
already been conceded, and that she can
60 no farther, even if war should be the
result. The Times also says that Mr..
Summers speech is a virtual declaration
of war on the part of the people of this
country, whose sentiments he utters. This
looks very much as if the British govern
ment had made.up its mind that war was
inevitable, and affords good reason for
believing that the alliance between France
and England has been made. Well, what
of it? Suppose it has, 1t don't mean
war The United States don't intend,
and never did intend, to fight about
the Alabama business. The American
people have always understood that if
England can afford to let the question
remain an open one, America certainly
can. England will be sure to lose more
in such an event than America. In the
event of war between England and any
other Power, the Alabamas and sGeorgias
that would be fitted out and escape from
our ports would sweep English commerce.
from the seas as rapidly as our own was
destroyed by the pirates that left the Eng
Flish dock yards; and it isn't at all im
probable that America might find it easy
some day to concede belligerent rights to
Ireland or Australia. "The villainy you
teach me will execute, and it shall go
hard but will better the instruction, "
says Shakespeare's Jew. Let the matter
rest. The whirligig of Time will bring
in his rvenges. ----But John Bull will
pay. This old brulser of the seas will yet
eat his leek. though, like Pistol, he will
ovoar fea rfnllv over it
The war in Cuba remains in nearly
the same condition. There is very little
fighting done on either side. The Cubans
still occupy the passes of the mountains,
where they are SO strongly posted that the
Spaniards find it next to impossible to get
at them. The Cubans must have learned
their mode Of fighting from the Ameri.
cans. Watching their chances, they oc-
casionally sally out in parties of four .ol
five hundred, attack train, plumber it Of
provisions and arms, and then hurry away
to some point that is but feebly garrison
ed, capture or shoot its defenders, anG
after this is done, scurry back to thei1
mountain retreats, with arms and supplies
enough to last long time. The Spanish
generals march against them in large
force, and that is all they gain byit. The
Cubans hang on their TANKS. fire on then
from every ambush, cut off and shoe
stragglers capture trains, and do vas
amount of other damage. This sort O
warfare is more annoying to the Span
iards than to meet an equal enemy in thu
open field. Besides, the Spanish troops
will soon have other enemies, allies of thu
Cubans, to meet-the yellow fever and al
empty treasury at home. We predict the
ultimate independence Of Cuba.
The Democratic members of the Indi
ana Legislature have resigned in body
This is the most astonishing news that WI
find in the papers this week. It is al
most impossible to comprehend why Dem
ocratic politicians of the Nasty school
as these gentlemen appear to be-shoulc
give up drawing their pay, or do any
thing to separate themselves from the lob
by, SO dear to the patriotic hearts of leg
islators. The fact, however, that the bod,
Of which they were members were deter
mined on ratifying the Constitutions
Amendment, measure which gives re:
pectable negro the right to have word tt
say as to who shall govern him, may &C
count for this action on the part of thes
heightened and sweet-scented statesmen
There is one other fact that may enabl
: us to comprehend this queer action. Th
!. session was so near its close that but