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

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settled resolve 10 get out of the Union, 7 eoiU
do all I can to help them out at an early day."
Tribune, January IA, 1861.
WHAT H. G. WAS WILLING TO DO FOR sEoEs- |
SION IN 1861.
''What demand is proof that the Southern
People really desire separation from the
Free States. Whenever assured that sucb is
their settled wish, shall joyfully cooperate
with them to secure the end they seek.
Thus far, have had evidence of nothing but
a purpose to bully and coerce the North
Many of the Secession emissaries to the Bor-
Ger Slave States tell the people they address
that they do not really mean to dissolve the
Union, but only to secure what they term
their rights-in the Union. Now, as nearly
all the people of the Slave States either arc
or have to seem to be, in favor of this. the
present menacing front of Secession proves
nothing to purpose. Maryland and Virginia
have o idea of breaking up the Union but
they would both dearly like to bully the
North into a compromise Their Sece ssion
demonstrations prove just this, and nothing
more ~" 1ri6tE1s, January 81 1861.
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EXTENSION OF SECESSION.
DAY by day and hour by hour it
grows more and more plain that the estab-
lishment of Southern Slaveholding Confed-
eracY is inevitable. All influences and all
agencies brought co bear by the men who
are trying to save the Union by concessions
and compromises, combine to precipitate
this result. The policy of the more moder-
ate compromisers, who go on the maxim Of
| throwing tub to the whale, or tickling
him with the straws of soft and ambiguous
speech, only drives the more determined reb-
els forward upon their predetermined line of
conduct with fresh earnestness. They do
not wish to be trfed with Such courses in
Cite them to resolute action far more surely
than if they were met by strai ghtforward,
honest opposition. The United States Gov
ernment must treat the Secession movement
as being just what it is-a revolution. The
first and highest duty OF the Government is
to guard the safety and interests, present and
prospective, of the loyal States. It has no
call to run after the stray sheep Of the flock
till the main body of the broken herd is Sc
cured. The first necessity Is firmly and i'm
movablY to limit the Secession movement
where it trenches upon the interests of the
Free States. It must be checked at the Po-
tomac. 1t must be arrested at the Missis-
sippi 1t must be watched in Territories.
The Gulfo Mexico must be held under Fed
eral control." -Tribune, FEBRUARY 6, 1861.
WHAT II. &c. KNEW ABOUT THE SECESSION
MOVEMENT IN FEBRUARY, 1861.
IAN earnest Secessionist, whether of the
North or of the South, may be very blind,
but he IS not necessarily bad man and
wrong-headed as we2may deem him, we in
sist on his perfect right to3hs own opinion,
and to pursue peaceable course of action
IN open consistency Herewith. If citizen
, OF any State really believes that his section
} could do better out of the Union than in it,
he has ample warrant for being q Secession
list. True, if he desires peaceable secession,
r he must confine himself to peaceful instru-
mentallties, and not rob arsenals, capture ar
mories, besege forts, and confscate minis
} and suo-treasaries, while he sbrieks mo coer.
cion.' He must refrain from shooting, if he
has any decided objection to being shot, and
restrict himself to speaking daggers, ysif he
prefers that the friends Of the Union should
notsuse them. But If he will only be pa
tient, and seek his end by legal, peaceful,
constitutional means, we shalt steadily
affirm his right to seek it, and to use his
voice, his pen, his vote, in furtherance of his
object. Bnt, for the sham Secessionists. the
amateurs In treason, who do not want to
dissolve the Union, but only to bully the
Republicans by pretending to seek dssolu-
tlon,bWe have an utter loathing. They are
the basest of hypocrites the meanest of
tricksters. To make shipwreck of our fair
fabric of constitutional liberty in furtherance
OF a partisan intrigue-to plunge the conn.
try into chaos and civil war merely to eyade
the popular verdict embodied in the late
choice OF President-to scatter fire brands,
arrows, and deathawth intent"merely to mar
alyze or cripple an incoming Administrs-
ton, this is to play the traitor on lower
grounds and meaner motives than History
has yet branded with just condemnation .,
Tribune, February Is, 1861
WHAT II. G. PROPOSED TO THE sEcEss1o>y1oro nv
MARCH, 1861.
eff free goods are to be allowed to enter
the Slave States to be sent thence TO Free
States, why is it not better at once to oive
up the contest, divide the Territories tbe
Army and Navy and make the best terms
we can with JEFF. Devils? II the forts are to
be surrendered. whether from military ne
cessity or otherwise, and everything that yir-
GINA chooses to call coercion is to be avoid
ed' why not own at once that the only