The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-20

may have been his military services, he
is obscured now by the motley host that
is pressing around him. and making an
instrument of him for the accomplish
ment of the darkest plo that have ey-
er blackenetl history Ii it were Gem
eral Hancock alone there would be lit
tie objection To him, but who Will ve,l-
tlfre 10 turn back le dial for twenty
years by electing the Democratic par
ty! There is nn VOTER so young THAI lac
has not seen something Of the llisto.y
of the last twenty years. And Will
those who would not trust an ..x-con-
Wet with their purse turn over this
government. with all it's precious pres
ent and prospective interests. To the
conspirat0rs and assassins who sought
its destructlOni Is it to be feared that
our miraculous recuperatiye energy,
favored by rain and sunshine, has made
us happy, proud, and fOrgetful of the
deadly perils we have so recently
passed, and blinded us to the imminent
fact that thousands of Catalines are
conspiring to seize the Republic.
WASHINGTON. d. c., Aug. 18th, 1880.
1t is said, and with evident truth,
that the North must be solid for self
preservation. Perhaps a large num-
Der of northern people do not rightly
understand the full meaning of this
sentence. But it expresses in few
words volumes of truth and argument
why the Republican party should re-
main in power, and why the Southern
Democracy should be held at arms
length, by all loyal men who have in
terests, commercial or Industrial, at
stake. What interests have the South
to preserve, what sympathy have they
with Northern factories, Northern
railroads, and Northern internal COM
merce? Their hostility to them is
well known. Can this nation of plant
ers at the South, who manufacture
nothing, who own not even the ships
or railroads that transport their cotton
to market, be depended upon to foster.
encourage and protect the new indus
tries, the new sources of wealth, that
have grown up in the North and West
during the reign of the Republican
party? 1t is like calling up the dead
to legislate for the living; step back,
ward in the march of progress.
The South by slavery paralyzed the
nation for 80 years, and the Republl-
can party is the only one that dared
say slavery was a blot upon the re-
cord page of history, and a stain upon
our flag, and that it should not exist
And since the advent of the Republi.
can party to power, in spite of the OPP
pOsite tendencies of the Solid South
the nation has advanced in material
prosperity, in the arts and sciences
with Il speed never before witnessed
in the history of the world. In the
overthrow of the Democratic party
and slavery, a load was removed from
the Nations back, the shackles fel
from the ankles of National progress
and we became a new nation, a nation
of freemen, and the Republican part,
at once became the emblem OF loyalty
and liberty. The North has too mucl
at stake, and must be solid for thu
preservation of her interests.
| The Republican Congressional Com
mittee, which has its headquarters il
this city. has done good thing for tn
cause. 1t has had printed in the sam
pamphlet the National platforms o
the Republican and Democratic par
ties from 1865 to 1880, inclusive. TIL,
pamphlet is being used as a campaign
document, and will doubtless be yer,
effective. The committee can do an
other good thing in having printed
and circulated through the North
some of the Democratic speeches nov
/ being made by Southern Brigadiers
| The people of the North need littl
more light on the subject of Southern
loyalty. Your correspondent last even
| ing at Democratic ratification meet
ing, had the pleasure of hearing al
honest expression from Democrat
speech-maker. He said: "Iincoln wa
| good fellow, but always hated him.
The same speaker applied the endeal
| ing epithet, "Bob-tailed aristocrat,"
General Sheridan. Undying devotion
to the "Lost Cause" is often pledge
| in the same breath with assurances Q
of loyalty. But trace of treason dc
stroys even the semblance Of loyalty
~ SAXON.
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