Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-10-20
A Rousing Appeal.

line NatlOnal CDlOn COm1nlllee, COih-
posed of one person from each of the loyal
States, have issued rousing and eloquent
appeal to all unconditional Union men, set.
ting forth the importance of the political
struggle now agitating the minds of the
northern people, and calling upon all good
men to lend helping hand to crush the
vile traitors to our once happy country
After reviewing the action of the Chicago
Convention, proving clearly that the leaders
of that body were in league with the south
ern rebels, and that they in the north were
working for the some object, by plotting
and schemfng, that their friends in the
south were, by fighting, namely the over
throw and utter humiliation of the govern
ment of the United States-only in far
more cowardly manner. And that whoever
votes the so-called Democratic Ticket, votes
either knowingly or ignorantly for the over
throw of our government, by the admission
that we have for four years waged useless
war against the rebels, and that we are whip
ped We are sorry that our space forbids
the insertion of the whole of the appeal for
it is all worthy an insertion in every loyal
paper, and should be read by every lover
of his country. We copy the latter part of
the appeal, which is call for all uncon-
ditional men to rouse and rally for Lincoln,
Liberty and the Union: a'93
"Wecall upon the people to crush all these
schemes, and to brand their authors and
allies with their just and lasting contempt
We call upon them to support the govern
ment, to quell the rebellion, to defend and
preserve the Union. We call upon them
to stand by the President, who, under cir
cumstances of unparalleled difficulty, has
weielded the power of the nation with un-
faltering fidelity, with integrity, which even
calumny has not dared to impeach, and
with wisdom and prudence, upon which
success is even now stamping the surest
and the final SEAL His election will prove
to the world the unalterable determination
of the American people to quell the rebellion
and save the Union. It will strike down
forever the false hopes and expectations of
the rebel government, and proclaim to the
people Of those States that their only hope
of peace lies in abandonding their hostility
to the government, and resuming their ale
glance to the Constitution and laws of the
United States.
We call upon the. Union Committees and
Union Leagues, and upon all loyal associa-
tons in every State, county, and town, to
perfect their organizations; to infuse fresh
vigor and activity into their operations to
canvass carefully and promptly their
respective districts to circulate documents
and newspapers containing jast and forcible
expositions of the merits of our cause to
combat by assemblages of the people in
public meetings, By public speeches, by
conversation, by letter and personal appeals,
and in all just and proper modes, the decep
tive and perilous sophistries Of the agents
and political allies of the rebellion. Let
them be ON their guard against the arts of
corruption and of intrigue which will be
brought with INSCRIPTIONS desperation to
bear upon them.
The rebel Government and foreign Pow
ers most deeply interested in our destruc-
ton, could well afford to expend millions in
overthrowing this Administration, and
placing in power the nominees and repre-
sentatives Of the Chicago Convention.
A Union victory in November will end
the long and laboricus strife. It will
paralyze the arm of the rebellion. 1t will
dispense its armies, destroy the hope by
which the despo Gsm at Richmond now holds
its subjects in bondage, release the people of
the Southern States from their enforced dis
loyalty, and give them again the blessing
of selfgovernment within the Union and
under the protecting Constitution and flag
of the United States. 1t will enable our
own Government to exchange the weapons
of war for the counsels of peace, to relax the
stern control Of over public action and pub
lie speech which state of war rendered
unavoidable, to restore our financial system
to dissolve all military courts, and hand over
to the civil tribunals of justice and punish
ment of crime and preservation Of public
order, and to restore to their firsides and to
be held in everlating remembrance, that
great army of our citizen soldiers who have
barred their breasts against armed rebellion
and won the imperishabie renown Of saving
the glorious Union for which their fathers
and brothers died.
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