The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
MALLORY.
The Copperhead.

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A SPECIMEN OF HIS SPEECHES DURING
THE W AR. LINCOLN HARGED
WITH sON!-JEFF. DAVIS OPIN-
ION APPROVED j UNION SOLDIERS
INsULTED.--THE BRAVE WISCONSIN
GENERAL, STARKWEATHER, LIBEL
LED AS A HYPOCRITE.- MALLORY
| OPPOSED TO "GREENBACKs'' THEN!
The following report Of a speech
made at Madison, on the Dist of Octo-
Der, 1868, by J. A. Mallory, the present
candidate Of the Peoples Reform, Soft
Money Democratic party for Governor,
is taken from the Daily State Journal
Of the following day:
Judge Mallory-Who is some sort Of
q one horse police court magistrate in
MilWaukee-was put forward to do the
heavy work of the evening, and made
q two hours speech.
"He began by saying thatin the Dem
ocratic party honesty and capacity were
considered necessary qualifications for
office. He proposed to inquire how this
Republican Administration would
stand tried by this text Here the
speaker exhibited a pamphlet and said
| it was the Constitution Of the
United States; that if any Republican
was present he hoped he wouldn't be
| frighted at it, and that he would advise
him to read it. He then proceeded to
read from the amendments to the Con
stitution respecting free speech, free
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bear arms. He then read the oath Of
the President. How had he kept that
oath? We heard nowadays a great
deal about loyalty. The Republicans
claim to have all the loyalty. His bet
ter Judgment was that both parties be-
lieved they were loyal. He thought the
mass of Republicans, except the lead
ers, believed themselves loyal, but the
Democrats k91020 themselves to be 10y
al; that was the difference. Why, the
Democrats had ruled this country long
before Lincoln began splitting rails,
(sneering) 1t was the government Of
the constitution to which Democrats
were loyal; the Republicans were loyal
to the Lincoln Government They
could not be loyal to the old Govern
ment, and therefore had to make a new
one before they could be loyal at all.
When Lincoln cOaS elected on the trea-
son0bze Chicago 2o!0tforna, 1t qcus acjtb
the design Of destroying the Union,
Let them be loyal to the Government
tkey have made; we will be loyal to,
the Government our fathers made.
"The present war could have been
prevented if the Republicans had ioin~
| ed heartily with the Democrats in get
ting up an honorable co?npY0m aee.
When we told them there would be
war they wouldn't believe it. When
we told them that 5000 men coulGnot
put down the rebellion. and afterwards
that 100000 couldn't, they would not
believe us. They hGU82a't the o5&5355tgs to
comprehend S2lcb matters. We 1eUey
expected they could 4u21 this g0uer?a-
ment. Why, good God! q party only
six years Old expect to conduct the af-
fairs Of this great country! we always
considered it impossible. AS, we'll ex-
pect boy six years old to accomplish
mans work. Unless the Democratic
party was speedily restored to power
the government which Washington
made would be gone forever. # the
Administration had tried cts best to
distract the country 0isd traneYJe on
the constitution 1t cou}6 mott do 50 more
| efecti0ezy than 1t had done.
by the Constitution, Congress alone
! had power to call the army into the
field and regulate it. The sole poaoer
Of appointing the officers from Majog
General DOM, belonged to the States,
Could zee 6ezie0e 1t possible Lincoln e.
er read the Constitution aohen ne took
at his Gets? lie had asu2ped the at
| thorjty belonging to the States. The
soldiers from each State instead of be-
ing formed into a corps by themselves,
as the Constitution required, and COM
manded by officers appointed by the
Governors Of the respective States.
were distributed about without refer
ence to the States whence they came.
and commanded by foreigners men
from outside the State they came from.
Why2 1t is part of the machinery to
make new Government instead Of the
one our fathers made. What has lin
coin 2ssttg2ed the poa0er Of appointing
the officers for2 ne can see it pzai9slg.
It a0Gs to enable him to establish q cen
trolazed despotism. The conservation
act was part of the same plan. Army
voting was another part of it. The
Administration controls the officers
and the officers control the men. The
men have to vote as they are told.
Here there was considerable confu-
| sion caused by a number of soldiers
from camp, some belonging to the soth
and others here on their way back to
regimenes in the field, who were scat
tered through the audience-They be-