Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-08-06
NO Al

the government? Peace with the assas-
sins Of your countrymen? Peace with
vast butternut ragbag, Qaughter) alive
with traitors and bristling with arms, as
other ragbags swarm with vermin and
are prickly with their stings? Man of
peace, you are encouraging, aiding and
abetting this war. Each cry for peace
at the North is worth to the rebels a
victory on the battlefield. (''Thats so,
and applause) Man of peace, the con-
tinuance Of this war is your work. This
blood is shed by you, Your hands are
red-wet with the gore of your country
men. Those groans from desolated
I hearths and broken homes, are the ech-
oes of your stump speeches, your curb
stones harangues, your newspaper arti-
cles. Q, father, in thy gray haired an
guish, mourning thy first born-thou
second Abraham, who consigned thy son
to the sacrifice, and no Angel of the
Lord withheld thy hand-lift thy sunk
en- eyes and ask some bolt red with un-
common wrath, to strike this man of
peace dead Mother, the staff of thy
widowed age is no more. This man of
peace is guilty Of his blood. In the
pangs of thy mortal grief, cans't thou
not ask the widows God for vengeance
on his murderer? (Sensation.) And
thou, fair haired young bride, whose
bridal wreaths are turned to widows
weeds, this man of peace did kill thy
husband. O. raise those lily hands, and
that streaming face to Heaven, and i'm
precate some chosen and fated curse on
thy country's foe and thine. prolonged
applause.)
FALSE PRETENcEs.
But these men don't want peace till
after the election. They want the war
to continue so that they can oppose it.
Laughter) The peace talk is poll
tician's talk, They want something to
find fault with They are like the boy
that came into The house crying; "Son-
ny, said his mother, "what do you want,
do you want piece Of bread and but
ter ~ "No," was tie reply, ''I don't
want any bread and butter, I've got the
belly ache, and that's 4chat I acant."
Great laughter) | tell you, these men
want it. Why, make peace, and you
destroy their capital. Cure the pain
caused by the abnormal irritation of the
mucus membrane of the viscera, and
you rob them Of their stock in trade.
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TERMINATION OF THE REBELS.
Noman talks Of peace, believing peace
to be possible, while there is a rebel in
arms against the Government. To end,
and to end forever rebellion to the Gov
ernment is the subject of this war.
"Iike the Pontic sea
Whose icy current and compulsiye course
Ne'er knows retiring cbb;'
it cannot stay nor halt till that end is
accomplished And to accomdlish it, if
necessary, the war must be one of ex-
termination. Where there is a rebel
who will not submit, he must be killed.
if it includes them ALL IF necessary,
their cities must be depopulated, and
their land laid waste. Let no mans
child live to become rebel Let the
rebel father die, and let the rebel moth
er's quickening womb be paralyzed, that
the seed Of traitors may be exterminated
from the earth. When, and only when,
thre are no rebels left; when the race
is extinguished, and their principles for
gotten, may we have peace, substantial
peace, permanentpeace, honorable peace.
Then will this red deluge of war be to-
us the fructifyer of more abounding
harvest of good, in established order,
in regulated liberty, in enlightened law,
and in all the blessings Of free govern
ment; and to this viii we emerge from
our terrible baptism of blood. (Pro.
longed cheers and applause)