The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-03-13
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

MIR. .EDFrOR:-Ine FOrty-flfth Con-
gress came to its close on the 4th inst,
atsnoon. In consequence of the action
.of the Democrats in the House of Rep
resentatives in refusing to make the
appropriations necessary for carrying
on the government, unless the Repub-
lican Senate would consent to loading
The appropriation bills with vicious
which has no business in
bills providing the means for defray-
ing the expenses Of the nation, an ex-
ira session of Congress is necessary to
provide for the expenses of the Execu-
tive and Legislative Departments Of
the government, and also to defray the
expenses of the army.
President Hayes promptly issued his
proclamation, calling Congress togeth-
er on the 18th of this month.
Let it not be forgotten that the
| Southern Democrats demand as con-
sideration for voting money for the
expenses of the government, that the
| United States shall withdraw all pro-
lection from it's citizens in the South
ern States as provided in the amend
ments to the Constitution, and give up
the freedmen to be treated by their
former masters as they shall deem best
for the interests of the master; as, in
the opinion of an honest upholder of
slavery, the colored man has no rights
that a white man is bonnd TO respect.
Let every lover of his country con-
slider and ponder well the fact that
there is not one Southern Democratic
Member of Congress but what believes
that the South was right in the late re-
}; bellion, and the South loves to honor
those who glory in their efforts to de-
stroy the nation; and what is the ten
dency of such men asserting that I'M
less President Hayes will accept the
heresy which brought on the rebellion,
viz. state-rights, they Will not give him
one dollar to run the government.
Senator Hill once remarked that the
South had come back to stay: n geII-
tleman who has travelled extensively
in the South, said to me to-day, You
hear that throughout the South, and
when asked to explain whatthey mean
the reply was, we will get control OF
the government, and if it is not admin
|iStered as we desire we will not fur
nish any means to carry on the govern
ment with, and by that course we will
drive off the North. " The South will
control the army and the purse Of the
nation, and will make the North the
rebels in the next contest. There is
no Disgusting the fact that we are ap
preaching perilous times, and it bt
hooves every loyal citizen to pause an(
reflect: where is the country, under
Southern Democratic dictation, drift
ing.
1t should be kept before the people
that Southern Democrat sWore before
the Teller Committee that !" the United
States flag aggravated the Southern
+ people," and that it was seldom seer
unless carried by Republicans, which
were mostly negroes, and that this was
one cause Of the attack upon them.
We boast that the United States fas
will protect it's citizens in all parts Of
the civilized world, when the carrying
Of it in the South is made an excuse
/. for numbering those who carry it tt
show their love and respect for Thu
h government which fails to protec
them.
The Okalona Southern States, Miss
: issipe Democratic paper, gives the loya
North the following warning:
Yankeedom is beginning to under
stand that oar people are still sa1s,tb
r dued-that we are in favor of states
: rights, and the rule of white men. TIL,
!, South has recovered the right of HON,
! rule, and she proposes to keep it for
| ever Grant or no Grant-and the soon
!. er the hell-beasts of Puritania learl
this little lesson by heart, the better i
0 will be for their temporary welfare
! The South was helpless and hopeless
. at the close Of our magnificent strug
gle for liberty, and the Heayen-ordain
ed system Of human labor, but the hou.
: of our prostration is past.
Secession is gloried in as being ;
q struggle for liberty and the establish