Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-04-28
The Battle of the Giants---Our Po-
litical Revolutions.

Stocks attract their usual share Of at
tention, and run up or down, to the
amazement or despair of intensely in
terested thousands in every Northern
city. Secretary Chase's greenbacked
promises to pay are discussed in turn
as if there were no other subject for
possible discussion, and our whole popu-
lation runs wild over its chosen charity
of sanitary fairs; and, while the people
are thus amused and interested with
their various trivialities, the earnest con-
sideration of the war seems to have
passed out of the popular thought,
though the war was never so imminent
ly near as it is at the present time to a
crisis that should overshadow in the
mind of every citizen every other topic,
great or small. We stand at great
turning point, not only in our own his
tory, but in the history of the human
race. Our own institutions, the integ-
| rity Of The "great republic" whose re-
QUEEN has been already chanted in mon
a>Cnial Europe, and even the question
Iof the ability Of an intelligent people
: to govern themselves are at stake on the
great battle that is soon to be fought in
Virginia. And that battle will be wor-
thy Of these great issues. It will be a
true Titanic struggle-the greatest bat
tie Of any civil war-and comparable to
the greatest struggles that have been
waged between rival nations. In the
numbers engaged it will be a parallel to
Leipsic, and in its desperately decisive
character it will in all probability equal
Waterloo.
Our growth in this war has been rap
id. Before it the great battles of our
history were the battles Of very small
armies, and>at it's commencement seven
ty-five thousand men were regarded as
large number to enforce the laws and
repossess all the places from which the
forces Of the government had been driv-
en-. But now military preparations on
the most stupendous scale are regarded
with apathy-excite no surprise. We
have grown, and that growth has great
ly changed US. In addition to the great
social revolution that the war has made,
it has made such changes in the midst
of the people, and has SO changed the
practical working Of the government, as
to have substantially volutionized both
government and people. We are a
greater, larger thoughted and utterly
different people now from what we were
when this war began and the changes
that have taken place in the people
must necessarily be impressed upon that
utterance Of the people, the govern
ment The government that suited us
in the future, All the practical changes
in the administration Of the government
that took place between the Presidency
Of Washington and the present Presi-
dent and they were, many-will be
dwarfed by the changes that are to take
place in the Immediate future. Consti-
buttons are impossible, and assume al
most any shape, and within the limits
of the constitution great changes may
take place in the people and in the gov
eminent; and we are to change, to the
extent Of that limit.
| Without any noisy overthrow of dy
nasty, without ostensible change in the
forms Of our political life, we have gone
and are going naturally through chan
ges as great and distinct as Great Brit
4 ain went through in the "great rebel
), lion Of 164o, or as France wentthrougl
in 1898. Under the influences of these
changes our government will in the fu
ture be greater and stronger than ever
and our people, if possible, more secure
in their persons and their rights.-N
i T. Herald. sa.s