The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-18


party, have not yet forgotten the tramp of thu
armed legions Of the Union who bore upor
their banners into the heart of it's strongholds
| the death warrant OF slavery, nor the old in
spring notes of GLORY Hallelujah! rung out
by those legions, as they swept by the gallows
OF John Brown, carrying the day-star Of the
morning of liberty to those who sat in the night
of bondage. The appeal is now taken to the
hallot-box, which itself is made the brunt OF
the assault of the Democratic party. because
through its position alone lies its only hope OF
success. / make no apology for putting the
perious national issue now joined above all
State issues. The Republican party be-
lieves, first of all things, in the abso-
lutte supremacy of the constitution and
the laws of the nation. We are thus
early, by the action of the Demo cratic party at
the last session of Congress, forced upon the
| first line Of the Presidential canvass of next
year. The reb,lke Of that revolutionary action
by a majority of the people of this State,
speaking through their balot-boxes in Novem-
| Der next, will be the assurance of the complete
| overthrow of this new attempt to subvert the
constitution. The Democratic party lacks now
only the executive department to control the
Government The Congress has already passed to
the absolute rule of that over-mastering South
ern section of the party which, by more than
two-thirds majority, chosen always for its con-
! splcuous fidelity to the Rebellion dictates the
Democratic party / am speaking to-day, which,
| despite all debate upon the question OF North
| ern or Southern responsibility for the initia-
ton of any given measure OF Govern
mental policy, can alone control and
does fix the final impress and give it
effect. This ascendency in the House of Rep
resentatives has been gained by clutching the
| increase. of representation given by the Four
teenth article of amendment to the constitu-
| tion meanwhile exhausting the catalogue of
crimes to defraud the class who form the basis
of that increase of the benefit which should &C
crue to them, and, BY thus arrogating to them
selves ,.unble the legislative power to which
they are entitled, curtailing the just influence
of other States in the making of laws and the
administration of the Government. In the in
science of power thus gained the Democratic
party becomes defiant in it's denial of the right
of the Government to defend itself byregulating
the national elections Or by enforcing It's
statutes for the protection of it's citizens, Ell
ther by the military or even the civil authority.
1t denies the Government any participation in
the control of proceedings which affect the
common defense" and the general welfare :"
Anarchy may reign supreme on the day Of an
election involving the interests of the whole
people, but the Government has no power to sub
due it. DENYING with deadly determination, as
just now at Yazoo, even the right of candidacy
to one differing from the dominant ma iority,
this solid South asserts its right in carnival of
rifles, shotguns, masks, red shirts, and tissue
ballots to elect its OWL Congress, which shall
enact the laws-revenue, commercial, financial,
and others-affecting and binding the persons
and property of the whole country. Such is
the party which, intrenched in Congress and
solid South, proclaims it's purpose to turn back
the finger on the dial and to reverse the legisla-
ton OF the nation for the last eighteen years.
THE DIsHoNoRED SOUTH.
Who va tboco Goypo rdi,er +bo+ +ba1r o+o+ao
manship and patriotism shall shape and con-
troll the destinies of this nation? In the knowl-
edge of every man of ordinary intelligence in
the land, they are a minority of the legal voters
of the United States, making up in force what
they lack in numbers; suppressing by fraud
and oppression the vote of the enlancipated
citizens of the South: standing always across
the pathway of the progress OF the masses;
despising the rule Of the majority; educated to
despotism and violence, and impelled by one
controlling purpose born of their barbaric in
stitution-tO rule their section in their own way.
They are party led and dominated by those
whose violated constitutional oaths and for
sworn allegiance to the Government are the
only testimonials of their fidelity to the Union,
and whose contempt for the Government and
law defying spirit are shown by their neglect,
in their entire domains, to bring to Justice even
one OF the numerous foul assassins of United
States officers, guilty only of attempting to
DISCHARGE their duty In executing the laws
of the United States-a party whose leaders
launched the spurious Confederacy, with ne
gro slavery as its cornerstone. and which was
buried in the abyssmal depths of that out
groWthsof treason, but which, resurrected by
the beneficence of the Government rewarded
it's clemency by resisting at every step the work
of reconstruction, the amendments to the con-
stitutioa, and the legislation necessary to give
them effect. Who are those who demand to be
made the sole custodians of the national faith?
A party which, On it's dismissal from power in
1861, left the credit of the Government dishon-
ored; which, during the war, flooded the South
with it's Confederate promises, until they be-
came as plenty as the drifting leaves of autumn,
and as worthless as the waste parchment
signed at Montgomery; which, since the war,
has been engaged in the South in the open work
of scaling down and repudiating its State and
municipal obligations by the whole
sale; which has waged unceasing war
upon the obligations of the nation; which,
in National Convention and Congress,
has resisted to the last the great measure of re-
sumption-the browning achievement OF the
| Republican party, and the first instance in the
worlds history in which nation has redeemed
its forced loans on demand, without discount
and in the money OF the world, and under the
| influence of which every PROSTATE industry in
the land is throbbing with new life, and the
whole country entering upon q career of un-
preceQenUeQ prosperity. InlS SOHO SOutn, TO
whom our obligations are the irritating token
of their subjugation to the national author
ity, now demands that it shall be invested
with the sole power of regulating, collecting
and disbursing the revenues of the country,
upon which it's faith rests, through which
we saved the Government, and which,
! perverted or abused, would cripple and
destroy its ability to maintain resumption
or even its own existence. Who are these
who, to infame the partisan ignorant, conjure
! up the use Of the army as an instrument to
! o7erawe State authority. and shout themselves
hoarse oversthe phantom? 1t is the party IF
Jefferson Davis, under whose order, as Secre-
tary of War, in 1856, United States dragons
rode down and dispersed the free-State Lasis-
lature of Kansas. Who are those who pirate of
the freedom of elections and the sanctity of the
ballot? Il is the party which, by the denial of
free discussion, by lawlessness, violence and
assassination, ballot-b box stufing and the in
vasion of meetings and polling places by bands
of armed ruffians, has Knocked the sanctity of
the ballot, and has made in the South, the re-
publican form of Government guaranteed by
the constitution by-word and farce.
REPUBLICAN RIGHTS AND DEMANDS.
To these deroands the ReDuhicans of Nau