The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22
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THE PRESENT. SITUATION.

r should say SOmotnlnS 0SPeoioA'J @sFS
cable to the party to which have hao
the honor so long to belong To deteno
the rarty as a party is unnecessary. LIS
od deeds]are many and great ana are
not to be balanced by few trit1lng er-
rors If such there be. Some bad men
NAV have crept into the party to DO II
mischief and if SO, am not here TO de-
frnd them. Because there are such men
in the party, Is no reson why you ana
shon)d desert it. It has need OF your ser
v,;oe0 n cast out what few devils there
are and send them to their own place
Won may not always be satisfied with the
commander of your good old ship OF
State you may think that you could sail
her better, but that is no reason why you
should join the pirates who attempted 10
scuttle her. The administration OF Presl-
dent Grant has been in the main just ana
wise. There are some things should
have beer GLAD to have had otherwise.
The recent disturbances in Louisiana.
Tennessee. and other States, with the wan
ton and cruel butcheries attendant there
on. must satisfy every well wisher OF bis
country that it would be dangerous 20
now restore to power party 50 strongly
in sympathy with the assassins whose
recent atracties have shocked the whole
country, am glad to see that the better
class of the people OF Tennessee, are
Joining in denouncing these outrages' ou'
"fair words butter no parsnlps, ana
Until these wrelcnes are brought to JUS
tice, the SINCERITY Of these men who talk
so we'll will be colled in question.
The mission of the Republican party
will not be ended until the rights of all
are fully assured throughout the country,
aGdmurderers and law-6reakers are mace
to know that there is power IN this
Government that can reach them. The
assassips IN the recent tragedies should
ne hunted down until not one is lett to
cumber the Garth. and if the State fail to
do it, the United States must. The happi
ness and future welfare ofthe entire 5ouh
requires that these outrages shall cease.
That the financial and political condition
of many of the Southern States is deplor-
able, do not doubt. These wretched
carpet bag governments I have never de
Tended and, never shall. Many of those
States have been cursed by hungry swarm
of adventures, less numerous, perhaps.
than the lice and locusts of EgYp, but far
more devourlng ard destructive. But foi
this destruction that wasteth at MONDAY,
the Southern people are themselves re-
sponslble Had they at the close of the
war came cheeriully to the front as they
should have done, and gwen assurance TO
the colored population that their right
should be respected and protected, instead
of attempting to pass laws practically re-
enslavlng them, and organizing Ku Klux
Klans to murder and terrify them, they
would have gained their confidence and
support. "The thorns that they have
reaped are of the tree they planted" AS
o consequence of the unwise and cruel
policy then adopted, public robbery have
held high carnival, and anarchy, bank
ruotcy and ruin have blighted many
fair Southern State. In saying what
have must also say that many excellent
men from the North, after the close ofthe
war, settled in the South as they had the
right to do, and some have occupied high
public positions, and have done much
to restore the prosperity of that country.
Often they have ieen ostracised and cruel
" prosecuted, and they have the right to
call on the government to protect and de
fend them. Never since the war ended
have I omitted any fit opportunity to
promote good fellowship, and bring back
better and more kindly relations between
the north and south. Conscious of the
strength and power ofthe north, felt that
we could be torbearing. magnanimous
and more than just, and in that spirit I
have been willing to lay garland upon
the grave of the brave but misguided
men with whom we were recently in such
deadly conflict, and in the hope that it
would awaken a corresponding emotion in
the hearts ofour late enemies, butnow our
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