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


to become the living, controlling forces
Of this country? The spirit which de-
fed the authority, and sought to de-
stroy the unity of the Republic has
again taken living form in a solid
South, supported by the whole power
of the party North which, in 1861, de-
clared that the Constitution had left
the Government powerless in the face
of an armed enemy; which, with val
orous spirit out fainting flesh, pledged
itself to resist coercion unto blood :;
and which, when our victorious legions
had prepared the winding sheet of the
rebellion, in it's National Conven ton
assembled, resolved the war a failure.
Stripped of all guise, the two great
parties are again ranged on either side
of the line of demarcation of the pow
ers Of the National Government and
the States. Where now differs the is
sue from that made up in 1861? Then,
the Democratic party demanded of
President Lincoln that he should
perjure himself in his official oath. or
they would overthrow the Government
by armed force. Lincoln answered in
his inaugural: You have no oath reg
| istered in heaven to destroy the Gov
ernment, while I shall have the most
solemn one to preserve, protect and de-
fend it"
This demand was referred to the
last dread court Of entertainments,
where for four years, in the white
heat of fearful war, the great argu-
ment proceeded, until at last at Apo
mattox the verdict was delivered TO
that matchless soldier whose marshal
ing Of the Union forces had brought
rebel traitors to submission, and
avenged an outraged Nation. That
verdict was that the Constitution of
the United States was not q compact,
entered into by the States, but was or
dained and established by the people of
the United States for themselves and
their posterity; that no State or com
bination of States can nulljfy the Con.
stitution; that the Union is a family
of States, independent of each other
for local concerns, but united under
one Government for the management
Of common interests, and the preserva-
ton Of the general peace-a plan, to
borrow the language of another, ':most
hopeful for combining the home-bred
blessings Of a small State with the sta
bility and power of a great Empire. "
In short, that verdict was, that The
Nationality proclaimed by our fathers
shall stand, until justice, domestic
tranquility, the common defense gen
eral welfare and the blessings of lib
erty shall, in Gods own good time, I'M
der the stars and stripes, he the lasting
heritage of all who may be jewellers
upon the face of this entire continent.
And the Republican party of the EN-
plre State remembering that the great
charter of our Nat, onality was enacted
upon her soil, and recalling the heroic
deeds, the sacrifice and the fidelity of
the almost half million of her sons
who participated in that bloody assize,
pledges here anew to stand by the yer.
dict.
In this year of grace, this same Dem
ocratic party which sought to coerce
President Lincoln from his official du-
ty las demanded of President Hayes
that he should perjure himself in his
official oath; that he should surrender
a prerogative given him by the Consti-
tuition, so that Congress alone, might
become the law-making power, and
that that party might by Congression-
al enactment, strip the Government of
the poWerto Protect It's citizens, to en-
force its laws for the preservation of
the peace, and for the security Of the
ballot box, to the end that this palla-
dunn of our liberties might be left a
prey to fraud and violence in the South
and swindling repeaters in the North.
This revolutionary demand was accom-
panied by the menace that, the Presi-
dent refusing, the whole machinery of
the Government should be brought to
a standstill by Withholding the sup
Plies which constitute it's very life
currents. This new assault upon the