The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03

of political existence. He seems to have
thought our cause was sinking, and feared
we would submit, which would, of course,
be ruinous to his party. But he advises
strongly against any invasion Of Pennsylva-
mia. for that would unite all parties at the
North, and so strengthen Lincoln's hands
that he would be able 60 crush all opposition,
and trample upon the constitutional rights
of the people"
Now, you know the Hon. E. d. Coe. editor
of the Whitewater Register, and you know the
Hon. Judge Gibbs in Whitewater and for
merry of GAINESVILLE. Mr. Coe writes me as
follows: 81 have seen Judge Gibbs, and he
says that he declines to -naze written
statement about that mat ser, as it may be
the cause OF trouble, and he is too old and
infirm for that. but that ne is willing to
state to anyone who may ask him that he
repeatedly heard Mr.. Winans say at the time
Vallandigham was nominated for Governor
of Ohio, that If he (Winans) were living in
Ohio he
SHOULD VOTE FOR vALLANDIGHAaI.
Who's examining now? [Applause.l Mr. H.
A. johnson OF Darien writes me: Il was at a
meeting during our late war of the rebellion
at Maxonville. Mr. r. Jones was Chair
man OF said meeting John Winans
was one of the speakers. dis
tinctly remember his saying that the
States had right TO withdraw or secede,
and we had no right to coerce them back;
that the war was failure. What makes me
more particularly remember it is that of be-
ing acquainted with Winans. When he got
done speaking there was short intermis-
sion and he came straight to me. We shook
hands and sat down. when I took issue with
him in q friendly way on the above points. !"
Now, then, Mr.. Winans admits that he was
delegate in the Chicago convention. Mr.
Greeley tells us in the second volume of his
american Conflict" that that convention
was postponed from June TO the 29th of
A~-n-.
National cause would not sink and fail In
the meantime ValIandigham had been re-
leased and had returned to his own country,
and, as Mr.. Greeley tells u.s. was the master
spirit in that convention. As Blaine or Gar
field were cheered in successive Repub-
Hcan conventions so saw the hats
aud canes go up every time Vallandighain
walked the aisle, coming in or going out
He was
THE MASTER SPIRIT,
and the platform adopted by the convention
upon which Mr. Winans stood embraced
every point Vallandigham insisted upon
when he was arrested.
One word more as to the spirit and atmos-
phere of that memorable convention. Mr..
Greeley says: Mr.. Seymour's speech was
more polished than the rest, while the wild
est and most incorporate utterances of viz
tual treason-those which would have
caused Lees army, had 1t been present, to
forget it's hunger and rags in an ecstasy OF
approyal-were sure to evoke the Ioudest
and longest Dlaudlts For example,
the ex-Rev G. Chauncey Burr, OF
New Jersey, thus set forth his
sympathy with the insurgents: 1--WE had no
right to burn their wheat-felds, steal their
pianos, spoons. Or jewelry. Mr.. Lincoln had
stolen good many thousand negroes; but
for every negro he had thus stolen he had
stolen 10, 900 spoons. It had been said that
if the South would lay down her arms, she
U111ld no roo 7o6 honl i1fsl e11a0 f1fnT
South could not honorably lay down her
arms, for she was fighting for her honor.
Two millions Of men had been sent down to
the slaughter pens of the South, and
THE ARMY OF LINCOLN
could not again be filed neither by enlist
lnent nor CONSUMPTION. IT he ever uttered q
prayer it was that no one of the States of the
Union should be conquered and sublugated."
Another delegate, the Rev Henry Clay
Dean, of Iowa, said at this same convention:
For over three years Lincoln had been call
ing for men, and they had been, given. But
with all the vast armies placed at his COM
mand he had failed! fdiledW FAILED /! |!
FAILED!!!! Sucn a failure had never been
known Such destruction of human life had
never been since the destruction of SIENNA
cherib by the breath of the Almighty. And
still The monster usurper wanted more men
for his cattle-pens Ever since the usurper,
traitor, and tyrant had occupied the Presi-
dentlal chair the Republican party had
shouted, War to the knife, and the knife
to the hiltp Blood had flowed in torrents,
and yet the thirst of the old monster was
not quenched His cry was for more
blood"
"Such was the spirit of the utterances that
were poured forth on every side throughout
the siJtlngs of that convention. Their sub
stance was aptly though coarsely summed
up IN the remark of Judge Miller, of Ohio,
that there is no real difference between the
h~a,n t01fA
are links of one&sausage made out of the
same dog [Laughter1
None can say how many plans were
not Matched. One clearly defined conspiracy
existed many, IN Chicago being heartily en-
gagged in it. Rebel captives then held in
Camp Douglas were in the secret, as also
very many of the corps of s. 900 men. locally
known as the IllinL That but for the ex-
traordinary vigilance and energy of Colonel
B. j. Sweet then in command over Camp
Douglas, there would have been bloody out
break, is fact which rests on testimony too
positive and derived from too many indie
pendent sources to distrust"
Well! Is there really any issue between
the Republican party and the Democrats
now in Congress? You say no. Mr. Winans
wants a free election and a pure bal
lot, and yet when I try to cite
a few specimen achievements from the
record of two years ago, he swears and says
l am rev1ving remembrance. Will
you let me cite you one or two instances of
the last election in a few of the Southern
States wnen you elected me? Why do do
this? Because the only medium by which
the sovereign power OF this Nation can be
welded is through the ballot-box, and you
can accomplish prohibition or anything else
if you control that and I measure my
words when l say | would sooner live
under a constitutional well-ordered mon
archy than under pretended republic
where the ballot box is in the hands of a
ruff1anly mob
SOUTHERN BAILoT-Box sTUFFISG.
Take the case of Lynch VS. CHAIN ers In
the county of Warren it is charged and ad-
united that 2, O29 votes cast for Lynch and
20 votes cast for Chalmers were rejected
being thrown out by the County Commits
sioners on the ground that the ballots cast
for Mr.. Lynch were in violation of the code
of Mississippi, which declares 'The ballots
shall be without any mark or device by
which one ticket might be known or dis
Ulnguished from another, excepting the
words at the head of the ticket There
was little dash, which experts testified
that printers of taste would either put in or
leave out, according as they wanted to
lengthen or shorten the ticket to suit the
paper or otherwise. In Warren County
Rodney County, 1872; in Issaquena County,
$40; in Adams County, 2S4; In Bolivar
County, 632; in Washington County, 204;
in Coahoma County, 23S; making total of
4, lS9 rejected votes for Lynch.
In Washington Precinct, ChaS ~. Minor
the United States Supervisor, certifies that
Lynch received about 800 votes. and
Chalmers not more than 81. The law of Mis-
sissippi required the count to be made as soon
as the polls were closed. Dir Minor saws that
when this poll was closed at p. m, the in
spectors opened the polls and counted three