The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-10

| iAV0 "n"O h0o oS S achieved by the Rapubli-
cans during the past eleven years. a.272
The cause of equal rights demandsgthe as
ststance of all Its friends. Not one of them
ought to stand aloof because all the move
ments OF the Republicans are not approved. |
or because all the acts of Grant do not meet
a unanimous endorsement, Vital principles
are at stake, and to desers them at this time
on account ofpetty details would be, to use
q smile Of Wendell Phillips, to criticise a
man for awkwardness when he is defending
you from assassins. ..1.
HENRY WILSON'S GREAT WORTH AND SER
| T. ailugoo at VICES. q1 .
so. Because the Republicans present Sena-
| tor Henry Wilson to the nation as their can
didate for the Vice Presidency. No more fit
ting nomination-was ever made. tits trib
ute to excellence, integrity, and eminent
ability. In him we behold a representative
OF the workingmen, whose every pulse beats
in accord with theirs: who was born among
them; who has tasted the bitterness Of pow
erty, even to asking his mother for bread
when she had none to give him; who has
endured the fatig ues OF hardxhanded labor
who vainly lh".#oi
HAS begged brother of the earth eq
To give him leave 20 tcu :"
who, Notwithstanding Eall these hardships, 1
all these deprivations all these cruel obsta
cles, broke through thema ALL and by the
powers of his own brai9 has mounted to an
elevation unattainable by the favorities of
fortune and the children o. wealth. AS the
/ Paw
pendence, the
Lord of the lion5heartnand eagle eye"
was with Wilson at the workman's bench.
Schooled in the miseries of the poor,Ehi soul.
tnirsted and yearneG for means and institu-
tions to improve their condition, and give
them education and opportunities. studyin
by moonlight or by the blaze Of pine fag-
, got after a hard days work, he has been in
tellectually, politically ,Eand socially the ar
chitect OF his own fortune His great talents
shone forth and were recognized by his fell
low citizens. They enlisted him 10 their
The down-trodden arI oppressed have ever
found champion in him. His eloquent
voice has Numbered in their behalf and his
practical and sagacious mind has conceived
, and established laws TO succor and protect
them. For nearly forty years he has been
an active, avowed, and uncompromising enc
my of slavery, and when others have talked
he has 1porbed; when others have Gazzled
! with ornate generalities, he has boiled them
down to effective action and wise law. No
man in the Senate exceeds him in knowl-
J edge of all the great questions belonging to
public affairs. Never has he swerved in the
slightest degree from The cause ornberty
and the people. Eepublicanism is TO him
Ike the breath of life. His honor is spot
less, his integrity without stain. Modest,
able, firm, reliable, he is The very man to rep
resent the people-to be the embodiment of
the workingmen
GRANTs -NEsTI3JABLE. SERVICES.
100. Because this republic owes an meal
culable debt Of gratitude to the illustrious
general who brought us safely out Of the vor-
tex OF rebellion, and carried us safely through
the mightiest civil war which history records;
who, after serving Is q soldier in Mexico, had
q varied experience as pioneer, farmer, and
trader, and learned to endure, to persist, aud
never TO despair; who was aroused rom bis
humble and contented position by the firing
on Fort Sumter; WOO, four days after the
proclamation of Lincoln for troops, had rails
ed q company FOR the contest; who for some
time was engaged, as usefully as humbly, In
drilling he Volunteers who was appointed
colonel without any request Or knowledge Of
his own, and ultimately, step by step attain
ed The highest military rank ever known in
this country, every prom son being without
mis- solicitation; VINO Wis nrst assigned TO
the District Of southeast Missouri; who,
manifesting that prompt and courageous in
SEPARATION which ever actuated him, seized
Paducah, and thus secured Kentucky to The
Union; who then entered upon q series Of
victories such as the world had never before
witnessed--daIing, brilliant, marked with
the moot profound military skin, ,consnm-
mate in conception, mastery in execution,
calling into requsition the highest powers Of
the intellect, bringing into play every great
/ quality OF the human mind--~couragc firm
ness, wisdom foresight, magnanimity, exec
utive ability, genius; who gained so many
Important battles that only . portion of
them can DC mentioned--Bem Fort Hen
ry, Fort Donclson, Shiloh, Iuka, Corinth, Ok
ford, Port Gibson, Big Black, Vicksburg and
It's muiftudinous fights, Chattanooga, the
Wilderness, Weldon, Petersburg. Richmond, |
ADpomattoA where Liberty elortously ter
minated the armed hostility Of the rebellion |
I who gained more battles than any other gen
fral known in@hIstory in the same length of
! time who was mover deleatede never ont |