The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-23
LETTER FROM WISCONSIN.
BRISTOL, Kenosha Co, Wisconsin,
December 10 1870.

December 10, 1870.
lMessrs. Editors: Having had the
privilege of reading some three or four
of your valuable papers, THE PILOT. for
wardrd hy MY sonJ ID Eddy, some of
which gave a description of your
beautiful Lake, (christrned by stornD
bounding with us milionsof fish, ducks
and geese, while Its banks and landscapes
are crowded with pictured scenery,
enriched by the elk and bounding deer.
ard scarcely surpassed in fertility OF its
snii, thought of sending you and your
noble pioneers, few lines of cnngratu
la'ion IN finding the Eden and Garden OF
the E'ralries.
! Oh, how [ should like to share with
you th,ee rich bnunties that Nature and
! Natures God has spread out before you
econd only where it is said: Eye hath
not seen nor ear heard"
But anoth,r cause for congratulation.
| 1t is located IN uae of The Banner States
vi the West for progressive liberty. When
read IN your paper of a Banner County,
not one to- modest or make afraid or vote
~ opposition ticket, thought | should
like To remove tn the county. But then
il would be with me, provided was ser
tied on the banks OF Storm Lake, like
the III Irish g MI man that went for
war! 10 the maurner's bench Curing
religious revival. who was discovered by
the minister searching very diligently
nnde. th- bench. AMI asked him how he
felt: Said he wanted TO go Heaven
with them, bur couldn't go without his
pipe" My pipe would be your lack,
A ,I,<r e ~ oar,
grat,iatipn is the triumph o; full
Liberty Of our glorious Union. The
Lord aised up Washington to go forth
and lead Ii tic band OF our patriotic
fathers to certain victory. and rescue
their inhrritors from the ir.m hand OF ,y-
rants and despos $. But another still. The
dark pail ofslayery hung over us for a
half century or more, eciipsing the sun ut
liberty, causing tyrants to boast Of their
great z IDS of Diana. But AN Olive dive
came down from the celestial sphere with
Westinghouse mautle and spread it over
tile should, RS oT Abraham Lincoln, who
by the assistance of a tree, liberty loving,
patriotic people, met the foe aid they
were ours" and at the same time Tcmnv-
ing the eclipse aud black ve,l from almost
four M llion OF Atric's tawry sons and
daughters under servll. chains, and crush
ri the greatest rebcli',l that eyer existed
upon this sin cursed earth.
Your n, bic State was me- al idle OBJ
Aervtr, but hand in ia d with her sister,
State rushed TO he fr lii win sword and
bayonet. winch the record OF your ialiel
y doubling Thomas among y.,nr readers
let him brust his hands among the
wounds 1T Cul-, AM his doubts will
vanish like the tle~s In Il midday sun.
am M prophet ur the sun III ~ prophet
bnt ] seem tn see down the stream of time
when the nations of the whole earth vii.
know no KING, no tyraut, no despot and
no Lord, except the Great L einai Am
| already behold he small cl,ud arising,
although, M larger than II mnns hand. l.
10 increasing. Alread. the Pope's power
is crippled, and the Bonapar rs will b.
nnmbrred with those that aoerc King
William may sway his scept.r over MS
new Great ed satellites for short season,
and then follow IN the train ct o her
shorr lived tyrants, and is not. But upon
their graves tn. re will GENE forth II
p:op.t, whose God is the Lord, whose
voice ut praise viii he like when the
morning stars sang together. and the sons
OF God shouted tor joy. Liberty. hu-
man ty ana the right vii ecno from the
b, lis of horses and there Will not be II
tyrant To show his dctormed head in all
q IDS holy mountain, or III the whole
universe OF Gnd. The little stone Gu
frnIr the mountain is beginning to roll,
aud we be Co him W no stands In under.
Tn, day star daw Ms from On high. The
hong prayed for millennium will surely
Usher In upon us. and h re VIII be none
to>ty: Know " the Lord"
In cone u SION, hope and trust that
While you edit IA paper thar has the right
RUG, as you now do, your shadow will
never grow less, but win your CO. work. RS
nf the press in the unknown future. by
the powers of wisdom and love be reunit-
Ell, redeemed from pain and sickness, he
permitted TO dwell together in immortal
youth unframed by tile wars of the
elements, the wreck of matter, and the
crash of worlds
| Yours trniy, SAMUEL EDDY.
Storm Lake Pilot H1f tf#