The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-08-29

oom,NheIe ne is, is only stepR toward
his speedy extinction? Four or five mill
lions Of Industrial failures in the very
thick of American energy and enterprise
and civilization are intolerable Tt is not
at all necessary to resort to any such syn-
ecdochlcal suggestions as to "whether the
political power welded by the negro ele
ment in the South is not a serious me-
mace to Republican institutions" WHY
not meet the question fairly and squarely ?
OF course it is menace-a frightfully
serious one, if the freed negro is an in
dustrial failure. What is to become of a
race SO stupid and SO useless? IF Divine
Providence has permitted them for in.
scrutable purposes to exist as slaves, and
if it is evident that they are not fit to be
anything else, and #, nevertheless, He
has consented to their emerging from a
condition where they We're useful, to one
in which they can be no longer of use,
but only menance, can it be with any
other purpose than to bring them to an
end? This seems to be, humanity speak.
ing, not only a logical conclusion, but the
only one which the conditions Of the
question admit of
This is one of those cases where a re.
ductaO adj d6surduna is the best thing to be
done with it. It is quite useless to argue
with g man who maintains that emancipa
tior is an industrial failure. If he be-
lieves it he is past being reasoned with
if he does not believe it he is not honest.
IF he believes it aud uses it as political
argument, it Is because he hopes to con-
vince others that the principles which
his party advocates lead TO such conclu.
sions. 1t he does not believe it, but hopes
to convince others that he does, then he
means to cheat somebody. It does not
matter which horn of the dilemma he ac-
cepts. In the one case his intelligence is
to be doubted; in the other, his moral in
tegrity. In either, the pretence that be
is an advocate of enlarged and liberal
views in politics, that his party is the
party Of reform, of freedom from OLD err.
rors, OF nobler and juster views of human
rights-the pretence even that he is a
Republican is a mere sham. To be Re.
publican presupposes certain degree of
intelligence to be liberal in politics re-
quires at least fundamental belief in the
natural equality of all men.
There is no necessity for believing that
the Greeley democrats, should they get
possession Of the government, will pay
off the southern war debt, pension the
rebel soldiers, deprive the negroes of the
right to vote and to hold office,or attempt
to reduce them again to slavery. IF they
should have no regard to the guarantees
Of the Constitution, they would to con
of their own safety. 1t would
be dangerous to attempt to do any of
these things; to attempt to do some of
them would be to Te-establish state of
civil war. But if the Greeley democrats
had the courage to propose such measures,
the welfare Of the southern blacks and,
consequently, Of the whole South, may be
put In serious jeopardy without any abso-
Lutte violation of the Constitution.
That we have good reason to appre-
bend the possibility of such things is evil
dent enough, when one leading organ of
the Greeley democrats talks, without re-
buke from any other organ, of emancipa.
ton as an Industrial failure, and suggests
the doubt that Republican institutions
are in danger because negroes have q
right to vote. It is bad state of mind
for party to be IN, and the risk is not a
slight one of entrusting it with power.
The peace and prosperity of the country
are possible, and probable on favorable
conditions, but they are not yet so posit-
lively assured that they may not be put in
the utmost danger by the reckless meas
ures Of INSCRIPTIONS men, and the distur-
Dances in all the relations Of society, DO.
litical, social and commercial, which
would be sure to follow.
90
Saturday night, Mr.. John Waskowich,a
carpenter, who mas been in the employ of
Mr.. Heathcote, of Fond du Lac, some
weeks, died suddenly while lying down
for nap.
The report of the executive committee of the
recent international Musical Festival and Peace
Jubilee" at Boston, is out, and throws considera
light upon that singular performance. 1t appears
that the total expense amounted to $3.50 900
the.receipts were $4,000, leaving deficiency of
$4,000.
1t is reported that Manton Marble, the sole pro-
prietor and editor of the New York World. is In