The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11


ofhich they are interested in guarding
from increased taxation.
At all events, whatever the causes
of, or the danger arising from, the SOL
| id South, force in aid of the negro vote
| is not the remedy nor the means of
effecting its dissolution Tt has been
tried and has failed under circumstan-
ces more favorable than can occur
again. The vast power of the General
Government can without doubt secure
the safe casting of the vote were all
that is charged wholly true; but unless
the irritating influences which have
often attended the elections also be
withdrawn, the frequent exercise of
| that power must impose military
| despotism on the South, under the pres
ure Of which the spirit, if not the form,
of our free institutions must perish.
Happily it is no longer necessary, what
ever may have been it's need in the past
Better methods will surely bring more
satisfactory results.
Nor can I believe that the founda-
lion of
A "SOLID NORTH
| in the Republican interests, as COM
lpactly united as the South is for the
Democracy, were this possible, could
bring anything but damage to our best
national interests. 1t is the sectional
form that our public questions have
/ been made to assume during the last
flew years which has hindered that
natural division of parties and of races
which is essential TO the healthful con-
dltion Of Southern politics. This has
often caused also unnecessary alarm
among our Northern people, and has
arrested that influx of capital and i'm
migration which is a necessary condi-
ton of the revival of Southern pros
lperity,-a condition more important
perhaps to the negro than the white.
i No lover Of our country, and no
true friend Of the negro, can safely aid
lin the continuance of this sectional
conflict. No one can understand with
out a residence in the South how much
/ the i1npoverishInent which the war has
lcaused has to do with the bitterness of
it's political conflicts. It should be the
aim of all true patriots to aid in relieV-
ing this as rapidly as possible. Were
the Government able, without increas-
ling it's financial difficulties, to aid the
South in it's educational work or in its
needed public improvements, it would
be a wise expenditure of national funds.
70 me it seems that it would be an act
us patriotic and useful, as graceful in a
! great and magnanim0us party, com.
PEELED by unfortunate circumstances
while in the control of the Government
to lay it's heavy hand upon the South
to accept every opportunity, consistent
with wise financial economy, for gen
erous aid in the work of restoration
In all just measures having for their
object the real acification and restOra-
: Etion of the Southern States, the good
will Of the Government will be found
stronger and less expensive than its
IImieS.
The difficulty Of arriving at har-
Im0nious agreement in regard to the
: present policy and the Southern ques-
= lions arises no doubt from imperfect
Information in regard to the real stu
ation. Tt has happened, unfortunately,
Ito0, that what must seem to all who
understand this as obviously best for
the interests Of the country and Of all
{classes of it's citizens, does not seem
Ibest for the interests of party. And
yet am not as hopeless in this regard
] as many Of my friends. Temporarily,
we have lost our Republican majority
lin most, if not all, Of the Southern
Estates. 1t was lost before the present
Administration began. It was lost by
measures which the majority of the
Iparty approved of, and thought duty
to the freedmen which they could not
Ihonorably decline, but of which the
present situation Of parties is the logi-
cal result. 1t cannot be Immediately
recovered. Yet in thab transition state
of parties through which we are now
Ipassing, in the changes and new party
alliances which new issues are sure to
bring lis within the next four years, if
our Republican principles are what for
NEARLY thirty years we have believed
them to be, we have little fear that
they will not continue to receive the
adhesion and confidence " hich they are
rightly entitled to of the majority Of
1.-THE American people. Certainly moth
ling but tile mistake of arousing again
sectional feelings by the persistent adj
v0cacy of sectional issues can defeat it.
ANTHONY VAN WICK.
----a O. g.