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

Relations? Are these the matters to
which he devoted his youth and In which
he has employed all his mature years and
power? What has Minister to st. James
or the headship of a petty committee to
| do with his historic career? Nobody
knew or cared who was in London or who
sat at the head of that committees table;
Everybody knew who rung his clarion for
the oppressed and against the oppressog.
| Nobody cared whether Motley or jaw or
SchencE or Adams lounged about Down
| ing Street. Everybody cared for him
mendous blow, and made that gigantic
crime tremble under his terrific maledic~
tons. Nobody cared as to who guided
our foreign affairs. Everybody cared as
to who guided our domestic policy. SRA
The time has come when the party that
has done this work asks continuance Of
power. It's ambitious enemies have be-
guiled certain of its former supporters
from their steadfastness,a and are now seek
ing his co operation They 60 to him with
plausible words. They promise equality
and fraternity with the negro, open courts,
open schools, open churches, open inns,
and equality in all places Of public resort.
They mean no such purpose. They care,
| fully exclude their promises from the re
ports Of their conversation. They hate
the party that has conquered-its ideas
and its managers. They Will drive out
those ideas with their managers,so surely
as they elect their candidate for the Press.
idsncy. That body of unrepentant men
cast nearly three million Of votes in '68.
The friends Of the slave, Of liberty aud
Of Union cast only a little over three nail
lions; hardly II quarter of million diff
ference. If that quarter of q million is
taken away from Grant, and given to
Greeley, IL wiki still be the two and three
quarters milliens that elect the latter and
that will control his policy. Samson could
as properly have expected to have been
elected king bf the Philistines after they
had ffattered him into their power as
Sumner to control these Philistines if
they succeed in his capture. They will
mock at his pleas They will hang and
say. Thencgro Of the South will have
to hide himself from his murderous foe,or
crouch at his feet in revived servllity
and a more hideous5 slavery. Their white
hrothers will have to abandon their posts
or refrain from putting forth their just,
| powers f0rtheir improvement
The church will feel the blow, and her
broad and busy work for the elevation Of
! that country will be stayed.
! And this to avenge private griefs, or
! because the chief OF the party he is not
inclined to favor. Better endure these
ills than fly to those too well known and
too fearful to contemplate.
Mr.. Sumner may fancy that with Mr..
| Greeley as President and himself as Sec
rotary Of State the millions OF graybacks
will accept their leadership and meekly
march TO their old Republican steps. Far
from it. II is power tor their ewn sake.
they want ); power they will have, if they
cast almost the entire vote of their party,
as they will The Wade Hamptons will
shove these leaders from their stools, and
sway themselves the scepter they have
saized. Not even the Presidency and
SeCretaryship can prevent this mastery.
The tools to those who own them. And
Charles Sumner will serve in the prison
| house Of Jefferson Davis II he holds
the chief cierkship in that dungeon, he is
\ still q slave and not q ruler, We entreat
Mr., Sumner to give pause, Letthe voices
| of his own past recall him from this fatal
stcp. Let the cries of the emancipated
Brethren preserve him, WHO are instinct
lively and almost unanimously against this
action Let his own State keep him
steadfast, as sagaoious to- day as in all her
| history in this struggle EaE
Let him dislike and disaY0w the chief
nominee, if he chooses but not disavow,
! for any such reasons, the principles and
the party which are in him represented
He is only an incumbent for four shore
years He may be endured, il endurance
is necessarily But let not MS supporters
be slaughtered out Of malice to him, or
out of any feeling that he is unfit for his
| station. We doubt this unftness We
believe he is one Of the W isest rul ers
America has ever possessed. But Mr.
Sumner thinks otherwise. let him think
so and say so; but let him not, for that
reason, strike at the party which alone
can preserve all that made him immortal.
We beg him to join hands with his friends
in the preservation of his nation from the
peril over hanging it. to keep faith with
the loyal men Of the South TO strengthen
them IN their endeavors to establish the
true, The right, and the good over all that
still heated and disrupted soil. May me.
continue to lead Massachusetts, and the.
country in this good path and not destroy
utterly and forever all his poverty going
over to an enemy that will clip him OF
his strength, put out his eyes, and compel
him to make sport for them as they feast
in the house of authority to which no has
admitted them. This is the hour Of his
temptation. May he prayerfuliy reject
the pleasing ill, abide with his longtime
fellow workers,and labor steadily through
these former ind still acceptable channels,
for the completion of the real work of his
life, which is infinitely graader than any
Of its foreign episodes even the perfect