The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-31

WHAT HORACE GREELEY KNOWS
! ABOUT SECESSION AND
SECESSIONISTS.
WHAT II. G.. KNDw ABOUT SECESSION IN
1850.
"The Nashville Convention has not
quite effected the dissolution of the Union,
but it has achieved something quite as
much to the purpose, by dissolving itse f.
T IL has gone off with very tame explo-
sion, and we presume its gh st will no
longer diSqulet the slumbers Of the most
nervous old ladies'. The whole movement
was farce and a VeJy clumsy one. The
of6ce-seekers of SeWth Carolina are thor
oughly disloyal to the Union, amos have
infected their brethren Of Mississippi
with their views There are a few Of the
same sort in Georgia and Alabama. Be-
sides South Caroline, and possibly Miss
issippi, there is not State in the South
that would secede from the Union if free
ly permitted to do so. Kentucky, Tenn
esse, and Louisiana would vote five to one
against such a proposition. Virginia and
North Carolina nearly the same If the
door of the Union were held wide open
for their egress, South Carolina insight
coax Mississippi to step out with her, but
never another State-and there woula be
a desperate and doWb, full struggle in
Mississippi There would scarcely be an
organized attempt to, secede in any States
hut these and Georgia. "-Zri6une NcVena-
Der 30, 1850.
wBAT II. G. KNEW ABOUT THE SENTIMENT
OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1866.
''The Telegraphic report that South
Carolina is arming aad preparing to give
her Uncle Samuel severe fcgging does
not greatly alarm us. She is rather wolf
ish at present, but she will not hun5 any
BODY much, and we trust nobody will
hurt her. Should she proceed to the ex-
trenaity of resisting the collection Of the
Federal Revenue and expelliDg tbs y. s.
o2lrers from Charleston, we trust her
coast will be ehfectually blockaded by the
Navy, so as to enforce the collection of
duties on all incoming goods outside of
her Jurisdiction, and that she will there
! be left to cool. Let no blood be needless
lly shed, but let no unworthy concessions
/ be made. What we apprehend is not
that South Carolina will practically seoede
| from the Union, hwt that undue tracking
Ito her will be resoFted to on the pretexl
of averting that dsplored catastrophe. The
Tariff Compromise of 1888, and the Ter
Millions to TIE xas in 1850, are precedentt
that must not he followed in 1854 ."~Irib
une, Decenabe, II, 1850.
WHAT II. G. KNEW ABOUT DIssoa.vING TIT
UNION IN 1851.
"Who then is to dissolve the Union L
it the people of the Slave States ? 1t i
they if anybody, for it is not they of thu
free. And here is the rub. Here begin!
to loom the lantern visage OF the fright
full bugaboo, Of which we have heard 81
much Here peers from the land.sphynx
: like, the grim, horrid front Of dissolution
so alarming IN the distance to the timiC
J nerves of College ex-Presidents,a and serv
t lie Professors, mercenary presses and pol
iticians, and those clad ID the purple anC
Q fine linen of trade and commerce. Yes
| all the talk and apprehension, and yagu
alarm about disunion, when sifted and ex
. amined. leaves just this residuum, Onl
8 this and nothing more: that the imminen
d danger Of the dissolution Of this Union
and the destruction Of the Government
t arises wholly and solely from the appre
hensioD entertained of the action Of tn
. Slave States. 1t is an idea conceived i
< cowardice and brought forth In folly. !
a is the base product Of craven timidity
: an emasculated manliness. It shout
k shame the front and bleach the face c
: anything wearing the shape OK man VIII
D processes to arprehend disunion, to trac
: out and see where the idea bottoms.
q rests on plaip, bald, naked fear and COW
o ardice. It is rooted in thu shrinking be
. Of paltroonery. No man with heart bt
o meath his ribs, that beat to a bold an
O manly impulse, or who possesses spir
G not wholly craven, servile, and enslavet
h but would stink away in shame frol
g. preaching a discourse OH the dangers
a disunion, if confronted with en- exposul
d OF the ground upon which all such appr
lie tensions rest" > Tribune My 30, 1851.
10 WHAT H. G.. KNEW ABOUT PUBLIC oPINIo
= AT THE SOUTH IN 1854.
or I'VE look with pity upon the prese
a. condition Of the South as illustrated /
OF the windy, baseless bllghted haranguss
these Southern Conventions It is niue
n like the chickering's of a mad-house- -whe
ev one poor creature fancies himself Kin
ne wondering where are his subjects ar
IL another fancies himself God, wonderir
lie where are his worshipers. So these or