The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-17


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Hang everlasting things
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yalor then may we sing:
sUpon what a slender cc1d
Hang earthly things
s.The men will be marked who have do ne this
The people whose sons and brothers are IN II nell
will not forgive the insult
Looking at these remarks in the lght Of the past
we would question the sanity OF the author ssA W
not know that his opposition to negro soldiers wa
because he was opposed to tie use of any means 10
putting down the rebellion.
AS a member of the House Of Representatives
1854 he voted for the repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise that slavery might 20 into Kansas and
Nebraska. As a member of the Indiana Constitu-
tional Convention in $780, he made but one speech,
which was against permitting free negroes to come
into the State.
GRAND OPPORTUNITIES.
With grand opportunities for usefulness, and con-
Meeting his name with the greatest reforms of the
century, he was blind to the time and place, and
remained bigoted adherent to slavery His pol1ti-
cal record, extending over period OF nearly thirty
years, is a dull, monotonous page OF weary com
monplace diversified only with blots, and record
ing no act to which his friends point with pride
pleasure.
His unbroken record of blunders, unredeemed by
any good measure, presents the question whether
ne is promising material for great reformer. Re-
form should be the normal condition of every polit
ical party. Abuses constantly arising; old ones
are being discovered; new improvements in admin
istration are necessary. Reform should be steadi-
ly made, as daily business and not merely by fits
and starts just before an election.
THE WORD DIsHoNORED.
The very word "reform" becomes odious when
it used mask to conceal the repusive features
Of men who have cnampioned every great abuse in
the past who Lave been unfathful to their country
who have brought upon the country Its chief mis-.
fortunes, and whose names are indissolubly con-
nected with the greatest political crimes of the age
WHO ARE THE REFoRMERs.
Think of it, the leaders of the rebellion, the
of
murder, the plundering hacks and hunbugs that
have come down to us from twenty years of Demo-
cratic misrule before the war, the broken-down
fugitives from the Republican party who had been
kicked out for incapacity and fraud, and, in short
all the authors of the great m1sfortunes that have
fallen upon our country for the last quarter of a
century, uniting together and shouting themselves
hoarse with the cry of reform With such men
plumber is the purpose and reform the pretense.
They incapable of reform as they are OF max
ing reparaton and atonement to the country fonthe
innumerable crimes they have committed. Many
of them bankrupt from the rebellion, lank,
starving, fierce, and ravenous as fam1shed wolves,
and the first opportunity will bury themselves in
the public treasury as the yutre does Its head IN
the newly -foundcarcass.
The relics of the rebellion, these lingering re-
mains of the Sons of Liberty these connecting links
with former generations of frauds, robberles, and
shams. these putrescent "reminiscences of slavery,
congregated at ST. Louis and dubbed themselves re-
formers.
Remember that they are the men who brought the
war upon the country, who have buried half mill
lion of soldiers, who have piled up billions OF debt,
and who have peopled the land with widows and
orphans.
What think you of such reformers? With them
we may say of reform as was once said of patriot
ISM that it is the last refuge OF scoundres. What
think We when the wrecker OF railroads, who has
amassed his millions taken from ruined stockhold-
ers when the land grant statesmen, the voter of
subsidies, put forward as the champions OF re-
form and the protectors of the people =? 1t would
be another illustration of the fable OF the wolves
who procured themselves to be elected guardians
OF the sheep whom they afterward devoured.
DEMOCRATIC IDEA OF REFORM.
1t is Democratic id "a that the relics and debris
of rebellion the pardoned traitors OF an lnhuman
civil war who were reared in the lap of slavery
that the graduates from the high schools Of the
Ku-Klux and Wnte-Leaguers the administrators
and defenders of unreasonable and Salisbury, and
the alumni of Tammany Hall, constitute the true
reformers of the day. To the Democratic mind the
education furnished in these institutions gives the
highest guarantee for reform and integrity in
Office.
Every profession in favor of civil-service reform
by the Democratic party is utterly hypocritical.
Should it come into power every Republican officer
will at be turned out, and 1T is tor this the
battle is being fought Tilden and Hendricks. as
Governors have had the power to introduce this
reform into their States but their
have been remorselessly partisan. If they were in
earnest in their profession on that subject they
could stop it any day. and show their faith by their
works.
We are asked to forget their history and to accept
as an atonemen for the past the promise that they
will become great reformers in the future. Ihls
reminds us of the fable of the two old rats, who,
after having laid waste the cheese-room and the
pantry asked admission to the new kitchen upon
the ground that they reformed rats who wished
to change their business and knew how to keep out
other animals of the same character.
UPON WHAT PROSPERITY DEPENDS.
The prosperity of the country depends upon the
continued administration of the Government upon
the true and tried principles of the Republican
Marty The proposition of the Democratic leaders
+op times for everybody. II the Govern
ment is put into their hands, is like the advertise
ment of Quack medicines to cure all the ills that
flesh is heir to- The st. Louis platform resembles
the veracous publications OF Bulls sarsaparilla
and Brandreths pills, which are warranted to XIII
or cure as the case may be. The political quacks
who made the st. Louis prescription are among the
most deadly in the profession, and have extensive
graveyards in all the Southern and IN most OF the
Northern States.
The States of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi,
South Carolina and Florida as certainly Repub-
Iican as are Vermont and Massachusetts, With an
aggregate majority of not less than 100000 divided
about as follows: Louisiana $4,000; Alabama, 10
600: Mississippi, 10000; South Carolina, 3o,OOO
Florida 5000 Yet the hope of Democratic sue
cess in the approaching election depends aDso-
lutely upon carrying these States, which can be
done only by murder, intimidation, ana fraud.
There is not a well-informed Democrat anywhere
who does not know that these States are largely Re
publican if permitted to have fair election. They
count with great confidence upon violence and It's
consequences. What has been done successfully IN
some of the Southern States they expect to be done
in all. Murder thus becomes fixed political ele-
ment in the Democratic problem. Should they
carry these States it will be by bloody revolution,
which no more deserves the name OF election than
the murder of the Christians by the Turks.
sLAUGHTERs IN THE SOUTH.
Five. ten or twenty negroes are killed, and some
times one white man is the common report, but
every announcement is followed by the stereotyped
lie that the negroes began the attack, and the
whites were acting in sef-defense. The negroes,
poor unframed, almost unarmed, and unskilled in
the use of weapons, always represented as pre-
clpitating themselves upon their well-armed skill
full and intrepid enemies, and procuring themselves
to be shot for no other than to make little
political capital for their Northern friends.
HAMBURG.
The murder, few days since, OF ten negroes in
Hamburg. S. G., under circumstances of extraor-
binary atrocity, is but the opening Of the Tlden
campaign in that State. 1t was the beginning Of
the work of intimidation, terrible blow to strike
terror into the hearts Of the colored people: Upon
a very mean and scanda1ous pretext about 300 white
men suddenly assembled in this little town. lnhab-
tied almost exclusively by colored people, perpe-
trated the foul murders, sent the women and chill
dren to the woods in deadly fright, and searched
and sacked their humble homes.
Had a hand of Sioux Indians suddenly p0unced