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


ness and manly resolution among the Ere;
State men are determinedly opposed t.
Southern gasconade, we shall see the enc
of it. A civil war, forsooth, ia behalf O
slavery! The absurdity is imnense."-
Tribune, January 81, 1865
WHAT H. G. KNEW ABOUT SECESSION II
1856.
"MOnsieur Tonson come again! AmiC
the loud thunder and fierce lightning o
secession md the slave-trade direct with
Africa N he Charleston papers, come
the somewhat softer tones to eve and cal
Of q Southern Commercial Convention.
'Ah, here we are again !! as the circut
clown says when he rushes into the ring
turns six somersets and makes twelve ia.
ces. Here we are again, with tho grim
ace and ground-and-l fly tumblipg of a
Southern Commercial Convention. List
We elements Take heed, ye Continents
Record it, history and posterity The
South will be free of the North! Away
with this accuzscd dependence on North
ern capital, Northern enterprise, North
ern labor, Northern talent, Northern ge
MUS! Let independence pe our boast
So say the South, and we cry Amen, If
they can do it-but there's tie rub. The
call to the uDcOnverted regarding this
new Convention is of course loud Tt is
OF course long. Several such documents
rs the Declaration of independence could
be cut out of it and hardly missed, mere
length considered. What Il wants in
substance it has in rebell;ous expansion
Like a comets tail, it stretches over a
ornament of woEds. But long as it is it
has no merit of novelty. 1t is the old
story. 1t is the bowl Of Jerenpiah rpixed
with the wrath Of Acnille.. But it is
stale to fetidity. We have had it all be-
fore-over and over again. We bad it
NOT the grand Sanhedrim at Memphis,
when the heavens. &nd earth we've com
passed In magnilogpent palmetto 'splur-
ggts,' and the r ght Rev. Bishop Otley
dlsCoursed on the AEaddin-like splendor
and riches Of Ammonia. Next we find
tbs same Convention re- Assem- bling the
year following at New Orleans, and here
even the wondrous party Of the Memphis
Sa@ mnches and Doo5ittles was exceeded.
Mn. Albert Pike, the poet, was there in
ali bis glory. He spgead himself like a
rainbow, and the South glowed and
glistened as the priszss of the envy pFean.
HIS majestic swoop next took up objur-
cations, and, borrowing Sydney Smiths
old and celebrated summing up of the
taZa5lon system of England, our bard
Pike told the Independent Soutbqons-
the Romans the men who denoWnced
ourmeChanics as q: easy filthy" and
not TT to sit down in' company with a
Southern gentlemsn's body-serEant'
that the same South. from the crib to the
coffin, from the wooden platter tie. the
Family Bible, from the foot stool 10 the
from the wants of plai ntive
infancy to the props of gibbering age,
depended on the North! On this theme
Albert howled like Ossian-cynicaE sac
chanine hOwling-fit to- permeate the in
nerm0st ganglionic tissue of every ueere-
ant Southern who does his industry and
genius at second han@-W no draws for
his sastentation the skilled Thoughts, the
skilled labor, and skilled brain of the
Nonta-the despised, vulgar, rabids debt
paying intidel, ism-choked, ism-covered,
North : @! O! Or
Tribune. No0ena6er 5, 1856
WHAT H. G.. KNEW ABCTT SECESSION M 1857
eve print this morning letter on
'DisNaion' from our well-known CORES
poDdent, j. S. p, now at Washington, in
which that gentleman alleges his tancied
grievances with much more perspicaeity
than he states his opinions. He complains,
fret, that he is callAsd by the Tribune a
DisHnionist,' and in the second place, that
he is declared TO have lately become such.
With this personal matter we shah make
very short work. The writer is 10 a very
low state OF mind, and appears to have
upol his political creed a fatal
ity quite Oriental He has fixed upon a
predetermined order of events, and has
Guietly seated himself to await the terri
bic cOnsummatioA with the stoicism of a
NIllerite at midnight in ii cemetery. True,
be talks of leadiHg forlorn hopes and an
n"nnces that be yet carries the flag of re-
slstence ! but then q soldier who leads a
fOrlorn hope so feebly, and waves tue flag
OF resistance So TREMENDOUSLY, may fairly be
considered already enamored of defeat.
But it is not merely in his fnrlorn hopes
and flags that the writer is inconsistent.
He seems to be very much il the dubious
position of the cat in the adage. L de-
sire, he says, no such thing as the disso-
luton of the Union Let the North and
South, he says, in u moment after, part
in the manner that become, the civiliza-
ton of the nineteenth century, Prepare,
then, he says, in another place,
in deliberate and sober manner,
for what apparently awaits u.s. We be-
leve the main idea of a Federal Union of
separate Commonwealths to be politically
just. We do not believe that the great
statesmen who framed the Constitution
were de'uded by sounding fslIacy or
by 'glittering generality We believe
and reason teaches us to believe, that in
union there is strength Now, we are
not ready to throw away these advantages
nor to discard their strength. The future