The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-09-05


of the Confederate Vice Presidcnt-the
men who, in ante-rebellion days murder
cd, scourged and maltreated men and
women in the South who were suspected
of enmity to the peculiar institution"
and who, in post-bellum days organized
themselves into Kuklux Klans, and have
murdered twenty-three thousand black
and white Republicans for disagreeing
with them in political belief--these are
the meA who to-day furnish the ever
wheIming majority of Mr.. Greeley's sup
port. The point of variance is not as to
what these men have been in the past, but
whether their sudden conversion at Bal
timore, on the 9th of July, was real and
honest; whether these Sauls of Tarsus,
who have for years been pursuing with
the torch and sword the friends of liberty
and equality have, by virtue of the Balti-
more Convention, become the true and
accepted Pauls to lead the hosts they have
heretofore prosecuted to a better and
higher political life.
Passing over the question whether Mr.
Greeley's success would entail another
attempt to disrupt the Government with
out saying more than that, should the
South desire to secede, Mr. Greeley is
pledged to aid them in their secession to
the full extent Of his power, let us adduce
some evidence to show that Southern men
and Northern, too, for that matter
understand that Mr.. Greeley's election
means the success of the principles fought
for in the rebellion, and payment to the
South for the losses sustained by its trea-
son.
The Lexington (Mo) Caucasian, the
first paper in the United States to name
Mr.. Greeley for tne PresidsR cy, and to
whose editor Mr.. G.. addressed friendly
letter on the Presidential gu estien, has
Tor its platform to-day; estate Sow
ereigntYl White Supremacy and Repudi-
alton! Down with the Fifteenth Be
damn edment Total Reputation of the
Monstrous Yankee War Debt incurred in
the prosecution of an unconstitutional
crusade Mr.. Greeley conceded the right
of secession, and of course the war to pre-
vent it was unconstitutional for the ac-
complishment of an unconstitutional and
horrid purpose !" This is the original
Greeley platform.
Hon. Jere. S. Black, Mr.. Buchanan'c
Attorney General, the ablest jurist who
espouses the Greeley cause, declares in
his letter advocating Mr.. Greeley's cleo
ton, that "the Reconstruction laws were
UNJUST bills of attainder," and the Four
teenth and Fifth Amendments are "frauds
upon the spirit and purpose of the Con.
stitution."
Ex-Governor Brown, of Tennessee, in
speech at Nashville, says Greeley is "ir
favor of restoring to the South her pris.
tine rights"
Hon. s. S. Golladsy, M. G. from Ken,
lucky, said at the same meeting: "Gree
fley was in favor Of paying the South fol
her slaves, and I believe he is STILL"
E. ]. Ellis, Greeley candidate for Elec-
tor,sald in speech in Louisiana: "Twelve
millions of people 1.-THE South would hail
as lover halls the dawn of first smile
the flash of the first brave sword drawn
for vengeance and liberty"
The Quitman (Ga.) Banner, q Greeley
newspaper, says:
"The atrocities Of the Northern soldiery
are still too fresh in our memory; the
scars on our hearts are not yet erased; the
names of Chicamauga and Elmlra still
suffuse the eyes with tears and the heart
with terrible thoughts of vengeance"
Congressman Beck, of Kentucky, in a
speech declared that when it was neces-
sary to secure such legislation as the De.
mocracy deemed wise, they would demand
and compel Mr.. Greeley to yield acqui-
escence"
Mr.. Greeley himself, in his conspiracy
for the Cincinnati nomination, agreed to
favor the pensioning of rebel soldiers,
and the Indianapolis Nes0s, whose editor
is member of the Greeley Central Com
mittee for the State of Indiena, denounces
as "a shameful doctrine the sentiment
that the rebel soldiers shall never occupy
the same position" Ii. e., paid pensions
and given land warrants
General Hodge, in speech at Licking
ton. KY, declared that he had "seen thou
sands throw their lives away upon the