The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-06

his contest started here that we intend
sd to fight on this line till q solid South,
made solid in these devious ways, lost its
solidity. We recognize in the fight In
Virginia the entering wedge, and be-
cause we recognize it as the entering
wedge, and for that reason
alone, we have determined to stand by
it, to give it our amen and amen, hoping
that sooner or later the South may rise
up to the dignity of free and lndepend
ent States and yield to every man, white
or black, his rights. Senators from the
South, we shall make that fight forever,
unless victory comes before forever ends.
It is certain, "though the mills of the
gods grind slowly, yet they grind ex-
deciding SMALL"
Sir, the gentlemen may smile at the
expression of the Senator from Pennsyl-
vania (Mr. Cameron) of warning, but
they need not. They should remember
history. It has been written in this
country for our benefit and for the
benefit of men aspiring to freedom the
wide world over, and the man for whom
history is written, who reads it not, and
learns no lesson from it, is fool. There
were, unfortunately, two civilizations in
this land of ours the one the civiliza-
ton of the North, founded upon the
school-book and Bible, the other the
civilization of the South, planted upon
slavery the one pure democracy, the
other an aristocracy sitting down upon
barbarism. They could not live side by
side in the same country. There was an
irrepressible conflict sooner or later to
open up between them, and God was to
give the victory to one or the other.
Both could not live forever in free
country. Batbarism grew, and grew,
oh, so fast, so strong-gfew SO powerful
that she seemed to have had her grasp
upon the whole broad country. Instead
of freedom being the cornerstone, it was
slavery, it was barbaristl. You grew so
strong that you swallowed up the great
parties Of the country, so strong that
you bought great territories to strength
en- yourself still more, SO strong that you
made laws even for free peop'e, so
powerful that you put on the statute
book the most infamous laws that were
ever recorded on the statute books Of
any country, civilized or unciviliz9d, in
the wide world. You grew so strong
that you enacted law and compelled
the freedom of the North to submit to it,
which, in the old Commonwealth OF
Massachusetts,, right in sight of Faneuil
Hall, where liberty was said to have
been born, compelled Massachusetts
men to shoulder the musket, and, 1000
strong, hunt down one poor black man,
to deliver him to his master, ard the bar
barism was so insolent and wicked that
when the poor fellow was brought home
to bondage it built bonfres on every
hill all over the Southern land, and made
the Southern heart rejoice with Joy Elk
ceeding. 1t grew so strong that finally
Il reached ont its poisonous hand t.
seize upon the free Territories, and then
for the first time, seemingly, the civiliz
alton of the North-bUrn of the Bible
and 1.-The school-book-woke up. It started
into power, called halt, and said te
your barbarism, "Thus far, and not one
step further, forever"
The barbarism was so insolent that il
levied war-tried to destroy the country
but civilization. now alive TO its du-
ties, raised armies, built navies, equipped
both, fought you for four years, made
your rivers run red with blood, finally
conquered you-conquered secession
conquered the Infamous doctrine of Sc.
cession-and then the war was over.
Suppose barbarism had triumphed
what would this country have seen
Would not estates have been confis.
Gated? Would not great cities have
been pillaged and burned? Would moi
men have been hung in the North
All, but thank God, civilization-borr
from the Bible as well rs the school
book-prevailed, and not dollar wal
confscated, not man was hung, not {
man was punished, and when the grea
commander said to the Congressman
$50 home in peace, be good citizens
and I will take care of you" the grea
heart of the North said "Amen anc
amen" and you went home.
In the meantime we had made 4, 900,
900 men, women and children free
While you were carrying on the wal
they stayed at home, worked your farms
and took care of your wives and YOU
little children. They were faithful
they were kind, they were tender, the.
never betrayed you. Not one.
The Northern civilization thought tina
with that record for the colored man hi
chivalrous master, the white man of the
South, would give him every right h'
was entitled to, out of gratitude, if fol
no other reason, and it left the coloreC
race in your hands, and then the very
first Legislature you called together
with the spirit of barbarism still hover
ing over you, enacted the infamous
laws reducing the black man to serf
dom worse than slavery, the laws thu
Senator from Massachusetts, (Mr. Hoar
read here in this distinguished presenc'
the other day. When the story of thes'
laws came to us at the North we could
not believe it, but we were forced to be
lieve, and then determined that tn
black man should have his rights, anC
to that end we put the ballot in hi
hands. We made him citizen of tn
United States, your equal in the eyes o
the law, and then you commenced tn
contest, the bitterest, savagesthistory tina
ever was written on the page of any his
tory in the wide world, pagan, barbara
or civilized. The gentlemen may den,
as much as they please, but the countr.
knows that thousands and tens of thou
sands of black voters were killed In col,
blood in your Southern States. Yo1
men know it in Mississippi; the Sena
tor from Louisiana knows it in Louis
lana. All, gentlemen, the pen of his
tory, with its iron point, has written tn
terrible story of those few years in you
bright Southern land, and your childrel
and their children reading it will hil
their faces in their hands and thei
hands in the dust. I have no desire t
recall or recite it. The North detol
mined that it should stop. W
sent our armies down there, and it di
stop. Our armies staid there, scattere
through the South, and. the black ma
exercised his right of suffrage. The
time wore on. Mr.. Hayes was electe
President. You went to him you mad
him brilliant promises, and, allure
by those promises, he withdre'
the soldiers, and from that day t
this you have had solid South. Frol
that day to this you say it has bee
peaceable. About SO is the graveyar
peaceable. From that cay to this 20