The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-03
n trust, ana who will interpose his

can trust, and who will interpose his
arm to shield them in SUCH emergency.
So also in regard to the advancement
of the insidious doctrine Of State rights.
The country can afford to have no man
in the Presidential! chair who is tainted
in the least by doubts as to the suprem-
acy of the nation; who is undecided as
to the question of so-called State sover-
eighty. IF we have, indeed, fought
through bloody war of four years,
leaving this question still undecided,
let the ballot-box which remains to us
express tue resolution which the nation,
as whole, feels upon the subject An
other most important matter: There is
plain, palpable determination ca the
part of the Southern people to defy and
trample upon the Fourteenth and Fif-
teenth Amendments to the Constitution,
and to substantially deprive the colored
people of the rights which the country
has conferred upon them. For the
Republican party to recede from its
lifelong position upon this question
would be browning act of injustice and
infamy. 1t must not do it. The people|
should see to it that no. step be taken
backward. If the memory of Lincoln,
Chase, Sumner, Wilson, and other great
anti-slavery statesmen is worth anything
to chem, they will not permit tie party
to falter upon this subject. The candi-
date of the Republicans must be man
of convictions, who can be trusted; who
has shown his faith by his works; who
will not betray the interests confded to
him, nor insult the sentiment which
placed Abraham Lincoln in the executive
chair and twice elected U. S. Grant to
the Presidency. TIE INTER OCEAN
clamors for no harsh measures toward
the South. 1t simply asks that the
Constitution as it now stands be obeyed,
not only in letter bat in spirit. In this
lies the only safety, and we insist that
he who shall have the direction of affairs
for the next Presidential term, and in
whose hands will be the power of en-
forcing the laws, shall be man who will
Dare to be just to the humblest as we'll as
the highest, and who will see to it that
the solemn pledges Of this nation are
redeemed.
We enter the Centennial year with
universal liberty written upon our Con
stitution. Let there be no receding
Let not this year of jubilee mark the
beginning of new season of persecu-
tion and wrong-doing to an unfortunate
race. The work begun should rather be
perfected and completed until it can be
trurhfully said that every man within
our borders is free to think, to act, and
to vote as his conscience dictates, un-
trammelled by law and undeterred by
persecution. Let us again repeat that
we want no Johnsonism in this Centen-
|nial year! The country must not be sold
out by weak sympathizers or mawkisn
advocates of Cancellation and ccmprc-
mise. The Constitution and the laws
grant protection ample and sufficient
protection if obeyed-to all citizens os
the Union. What We want is to have
the laws enforced, not to conciliats
offenders by ignoring their crimes and
rewarding them for their commission.
These are the convictions of THE INTER-
OCEAN. With candidate such as we
have described the success of the ticket
next fall, and the security and prosperity
of the country, will alike be assured.
Inter Ocean.
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