The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-31
WHAT HORACE GREELEY KNOWS
ABOUT SECESSION.
TCONCLUDED.1

tacle affords lesson. Our real disorders
are verbal merely. Fifty noisy fellows get
together and make tremendous row over
what one or another says, and talk them
selves INTO the assertion, and sometimes into
the belief, that the Government is on it's last
legs, and that, unless somebody or other
does something somewhere, very suddenly,
to compose this tempest of speech, we may
all as we'll give up the ghost at once, for our
doom sealed, ami ruin howls at the gates.
Mr.. Toombs cries out to lis confederates
down Georgia to seize hold of the pillars
of The national prosperity and pull them all
down bout his and everybody's ears. But
wouldn't those Georgians have time of it
Yet 1"ombs refuses to be paeitied, or to stop
talking, unless this small personal favor be
grant him. But the talk finally stops.
The t. kers get temporarily restored to rea-
son, cud the absorbed and breathIess actors
ard listeners turn their heads and behold
that ne world still rolls on it's axis, the sun
and stars alternate in the sky, the business
of maakind in general, and of the country in
particular, goes on just as usual. Nothing
is broken or damaged, and no new kingdom
has come. The tremendous bubble has sud
denly burst, the rolling mists that darkened
the sky have all evaporated, aud public af-
fairs gain take on their old form and dmen-
sious like landscape from which a cur
tain Of fog and mirage has just lifted."-
Tribune, FEBRUARY 3, 1860.
WHAs H. G. INFORMED THE COTTON STATES IN
NOVEMBER, 1860.
''Eir. Sanders informs us that the Fire
eaters viii not wait to see whether Mr.. Lin
coin proposes to do them any wrong or not.
And lie adds that the Cotton States have al
ready given due and formal notice that they
will secede in case of Mr.. Lincoln's election.
''We beg leave to assure Mr.. S. that he is
entirely mistaken as to the facts. The Cot
ton States have given US no such notice, and
they are not going to cut up any such didoes
he presages. A few noisy politicians have
exhaled large am ount Of unwholesome gas,
but the Southern People regard their bravo
do with silent contempt. jeff Davis & Co.
tried to make Mississippi get ready for Sc
cessiOn nearly ten years ago; and the result
was that JEFF. was beaten for Governor oil
that State by so poor atool as Henry s.
Foote. Ivel son & Co. tried the same game
in Georgia, and were utterly routed under
the lead of Howell Cobb. So Sam Houston
badly thrashed the Flre-eating crew in Texas
only last year. And if they put themselves
in the way of another such exercise, they
will get served worse in 1861 than they have
ever yet been. There will be no call for Mr.
Lincoln to put down rebellionI and nulifca
tion in the Southwest; the People of the
Cotton States will do that whenever the Cd.
portunity is offered them. They are not go
ing to have their mails stopped ard theil
coast blockaded to crafty the mad ambition
ola few self-seeking counterfeilnrs Of Pro.
Slavery tanatcism. We dare the Fire-eaters
to submit the question of Secession or nc
Secession because of Linoolns election Il
the popular vote of their own people. They
Will be badly beaten in every State except
Sonth Carolina, and probably beaten in hel
popular vote also. And let them be assured
OF this-that they cannot make lents o.
jumping out Of the Union and expect the
North to hold them. Whenever any consid-
cradle portion Of this Union shall really in
sISt on getting out Off, me insist that Mey be
ALLOWED to 90, and we feel sure that the North
generally cherishes kindred determination
So let there be no more babble as 10 the abil.
Ity OF the Cotton States to whip the North
Ii they mill fight, they must hunt up some
other enemy, for we are not going to fight
hem. If they insist on staying in the Union,
they must Of course obey it's laws but il
the People (not the swsshy politicians) of the
Cotton States shall ever deliberately vote
themselves out of the Union, we shall be in
favor Of letting them go in peace. Then
who is to fight? and what for?"-Tai5une
November 2, 1860.
WHAT H. G. KNEW ABOUT THE FOLLY OF COM
PROMISE AND CONCESSION IN 1861.
Some weeks ago we warned the Republi-
cans of the Free States that measure was
being co1cocted in Washington that would
yield up the vital doctrines for which they
struggled in the recent Presidential contest.
and we urged them to let their opinions on
that subject be Known to their Senators and
Representatives without delay. We have
reason to know that that appeal was not
made in vain. We now say to the tried and
true friends OF our cause throughout the
country, that the advocates of what is called
Concession and Compromise are again at
work, and With more vgor than before. to
induce the Republicans in Congress to sun
port some policy that shall humble the North
and make shipwreck of our party and its
creed. We rencwedly call upon them TO
promptly make their opinions and wishes
upon this question known at Washington.
To this end let them speak through their To-