The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-10-12

to hold them permanently in an inferior
or degraded condition. Slavery was
always a danger. This other condition
OF che coored people would be danger
also, ever troubling us and threatening
our peace. Many of you will remember
when the party pow in power endea-
voured to disfrapchise our foreign born
population, it succeeded for q time. but
Democracy at last triumphed and saved
the political rights Of the foreign bon.
One Of the reasons that iustifes us applies
to the case Of our colcr d population.
They are more numerous than our tor
eign born population were in the DAYS of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, They are just as free /;
the Constitution no longer restraints or
elnb grasses us, and our very Democracy
requires that we should act now as we
did then. And why should we not !?
Have this people ever wronged US? How
or when? 1t is they who have been
wronged. Shall Democracy point its
guns upon the lowly and unfortunate :?
1t would be an Enmanly warfare.
l have thus quoted this speech at CON
siderable length, because the sentiments
are except what he says in regard to the
the foreign born worthy of their author,
and ought to be the sentiments, and are
the sentiments CT every man that right
fully deserves the name Of Democrat.
When my friend comes forward and in
dorSes these sentiments, | will believe
that be has no purpose to overturn the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
and not till then.
Judge Do0little is in the habit Of
quoting and complimenting Hon. Carl
Schurz, as though that gentleman sym
pathized with him. Gould there be
greater error ? can only account for it
on the principle that as misery likes
company, he is hoping that Mr.. Schurz
will fall into the same Slough of De.
8pond" as himself, and that q little fiat
terry may draw him in that direction
He may as we'll dismiss all such hopes.
The high and honorable principles gov
erning that gentleman give no reason
tor hope Of consolation from that quarter
On the contrary, find that in Il recent
speech delivered at Nashville, he express
ed himself as follows, viz
"The demonstrations acts Of congress
were ROT the offspring of hatred and vim
dlctiveness, but Of steru necessity TO pro-
tect those, both white and black, who
stood by the Union and prevented reac-
ton and future troubles"
But it will be really seen that the new
departure Of the Democracy and the
position generally being taken on these
amendments knocks the platform OF my
friend IN 1868, out from under him and
leaves him hanging higher than GiIderoy.
How is he to be relieved from his Ter-
liIous position ?-Nothing short Of anOth-
er platform will let him down What
that platform is have already told you
"0pp0sltion TO q government Of unlimited
centralized power"
That the Republican party is deter.
mined to build up a great central gov
ernment, overshadowing the rights of
the states, he sees in the enactment of the
KukluX bill, and this leads us 70 con.
sideration Of that bill,
Judge DOolittie now maintains that it
is violation Of state rights tor the gov
eminent Of the united States to Interfere
! for any purpose within the limits Of a
state unless called upon first by the ex-
ecutive Of that state, What are the facts
which led to the passage Of the much
abused Kuklux bill, which gives our
Democratic friends north and south, 50
much unhappiness? It was hoped when
the rebellion ended, that as we az o gov,
eminent had set such an example of
c!emency and magnan;mity, the elfec5
would not be lost, but that when peace
was restored, as no rebels had been pun.
ished, they would all be sO grateful that
they with one accord would demand that
the rights of all should be declared pre-
served and maintained, without regard
to color, or the part they had taken in
support of the government. We had
right to expect that the friends Of the
! Union white and black alike, would be
treated with the same degree of kind
ness that the government extended tt
them, and if we restored them to civil
rights and political privileges, that they
would not object to the same rights be
ing extended to our friends, nor would
they had it not neen for the unfortunate
circumstances of the assassination Of Mr.
Lincoln.
| Had Mr. Lincoln lived, the seeded
states would have been restored to thcil
! places in the Union on the basis Of uni
| versal amnesty and universal suffrage
/ That this was his view we knew, for in a
letter to General WadswortA he said
II cannot see if universal amnesty i.
granted, how under the circumstances
4 can avoid exacting in return universal
suffrage" But Andrew johnson became
President, and he sought to reconstruct
those states by ignoring the colored pop
ulation entirely, and without requiring
any guarantees for the future. He who
had proclaimed himself from the steps
of the state capitol at Nashville the Mostt
of the eolored man, became then Their
MOST unrelentlng foe AS he had an able