Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-13


cultural localities, geographically distinct
-'. from the free labor localities, and less than
rs 500 -one-fnird of the whole with African slaves.
Itheld 100000 of human beings as cnag-
ties, yet made them the basis OF unjust
power for themselves in Federal ana otaCe
Governments. To maintain slavery u e1-
cluded free white labor from the rlchest
Agricultural lands of the world, forced them
to remain inactive and unfrultful III the
mineral lands and lumber localities, en-
bracing two-thrds Of the South in square
miles and real undeveloped wealth. simply
because the localities were agriculturally
ton moor for slave labor, and condemned TO
agriculture, on this unagricultural locality,
and consigned them to UNIV Hing ignorance
and poverty by denying capital and strang-
ling enterprise. 1t repealed the capital,
energy, and will Of the free states from
labor localities, by unmitigated tolerance
and prescription, thus guarding the ap-
proaches to their slave domain against de-
mocracy. Statute-books grcaned under
despotic laws against unlawful and insur-
rectionary assemblies 1t aimed at the con-
stitutional guarantees to the right to peace
u, ably assemble and petition for the redress
of grievances 1t prescribed democratic
literature as incendiary. 1t nullifed con-
i stitutional guarantees OF freedom, and free
q speech, and free press. 1t deprived cltl-
zens Of the other states Of their privileges
300 usurpation alike unjust to Northern citizens,
and destructive Of the best interests of the
states themselves. Alarmed at the progress
Of democracy in the face If every discour
i agement, at last it sought INN unity by Sc
cession and war. The heart sickens with
a contemplation of the four years that fol-
lowed. Forced loans, impressments, con-
scriptions, with bloody hands and bayonets;
the number of aged men, who had long laid
aside the implements of labor, who had
been summoned to the field, the conacription
of their sons; to support their children and
grandchildren reduced to the verge of STAR
walton; of the slaughter of noble youth
types of physical manhood, forced into
war against those with whom they were
identified by every interest; long months of
incarceration in rebel B1stiles; banished
from home and Notwithstanding but part
of the long catalogue Of horrors.
But Democrats, North and South COM
bined, defeated them. They lost What
did they lose The cause of oligarchy
They lost African slavery by name only.
AS soon as the tocsin Of war ceased, as soon
as the clang Of arms was hushed, they raise
the cry Of immediate admission, and with
that watchword commence to organize,
under new forms, system TO continue their
unbrided sway They rehabiliate with
them seeking control of all local and state
organizations
The Federal Executive, readily seduced,
easily yields to these monsters Aided by
his INSCRIPTIONS disrega, d of the Constitu
tion and laws, by his merciless prescription
E of true democratic opinions, and by all his
appliances Of despotic power they now de-
family enter the lists in the loyal North,
and seek tc wiring from freemen an endorse
ment of their wicked designs. Every foul
agency is at work to accomplish this result.
Falsely protesting to assent to the abolition
Of clio fuxfr to- ina La,d d.
tested power by acts against pretended va
grants. They know that any form of serv-
itude will answer their unholy purpose.
They pronounce the four years war brill
liant sword scene in the great revolutionary
drama. Proscriptive public sentiment holds
high carnival, and profiting by the example
Of the Presidential platform breathes out
the continuing of slaughter against loyal
lists, and denounces all legal restraint, and
assails with tongue Of malignant SANDER
the constltutionaly chosen representatives
of the people. To still the voice Of liberty,
dangerous alone to tyrants, midnight con
hagrations and assassinations are called to
aid reign of terror through all these ten
States, making loyalty stand silent in the
presence of treason, or whisper in bated
breath. Strong men openly hesitate to speak
for liberty, and decline 10 attend a conven-
ton at Philadelphia for fear of destruction.
But all Southern men are not yet awed into
Subpls sion to treason, and we have
sembled from all these States, determined
that liberty, when endangered shall find q
mouth-piece, and that the government 0f
the people, by the people, for the people
shall moi perish from the earth. We are
here to consult together how best to provide
for Union of truly republican States; to
seek to resume the thirty stars on the
cid flag. We are here to see that ten Of
these stars, Opaque bodies, paling their in
off 6rac II clo 4
ness of oligarchial tyranny and oppression
-et are made to be brilliant stars, emblems of
constitutional liberty glittering orbs,
sparkling with the life-giving principles of
the model Republic, fitting ornaments of
{ the glorious bonner of freedom. Our past
and only hope is in the unity and fortitude
of the loyal people of America in the sup
80 port and vindication of the 39ths Congress,
and the election of controlling Union ma
jority in the succeeding or 10th Congress-
While the new article amending the Consti-
tutlcn offers the most liberal conditions to
the authors of the rebellion, and does not
come up to our expectation, we believe its
ratification would be the commencement of
complete and lasting protection to all cur
people; and therefore we accept it as the
best present remedy, and appeal to our
.-a brothers and friends in the North and West
to make it their watchword in the coming
election.
The tokens are suspicious of overwhelm-
ing success However little the verdict of
the ballot-box may affect the reckless man
in the Presidential chair, we cannot doubt
that traitors and their sympathizers will re-
cognize that verdict the surest indication
that the mighty power which crushed the
rebellion is still titanic, and that those who
attempt to oppose or defy it will do so at
the risk of their own destruction
Our confidence il the overruling provi-
dence of God prompts the prediction and
lntensities the belief that when this warn
ing is sufficiently taught to these misguided
and reckless men, the liberated millions of
the South viii be proffered those rights and
franchises which may be necessary to adjust
and settle this mighty controversy in the
spirit of the most enlarged and Christian
philanthrophy.
GEo. w. PASCAL,
Chairman.
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