Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-25

seem to be a single county in which the
copperheads have gained on their vote OF
1866. The full .returns from Adams, Ale
ghany, Bedford, Berks, Chester, Cumber-
land, Franklin, Lebanon, Union and War
rsn (which are fair sample of the whole
State) compare with the vote OF last year
as follows: =
1866. 9 29eda aG &c
1857. 19'ooo oo'o''
Decrease ..s..............s.... 9946 5,914
The Republican vote in those counties
fell off 9,946, whilst the copperhead vote
also fell off 5,9l4. A full Republican vote
in Allegheny, Berks, Chester,--in fact, in
almost any county of the State, would
have elected Williams. Here is lesson
to the Republicans which should not be
forgotten. 100 a1s-e
| EH@ The telegraph states that an effort
is to be made to secure a white jury to try
JEFF. Davis, the jury now selected being
| composed of nine negroes and three whites
Here is cause for Copperhead howl, and
the country will hear it without fail. 1t is
said that one of the most effective weapons
used in Ohio by the Copperhead Demo
| Gratis during the recent canvass against the
negro suffrage amendment was the ques-
rion, "Do you want to be sent to States
prison or the gallows by a black jury?"
| And now the Chief of these Copperhead
| conspirators against the Government is
likely to realize the full force of retribu-
tive Justice at the hands of nine black ju-
rors T. We can imagine the shivering
horror of men conscious of the reason
these black men have for administering
faithfully the justice due to their eppres-
sors and the men who did not hesitate at
treason to the Government as q means OF
perpetuating the power of irresponsible
mastership over the entire black race.
This as retributive Justice Chicago Repub-
WX- In noticing the case of Assistant
Engineer George F. Sawyer, at Ports
mouth Navy Yard, who was recently
court martialed on the charge of using dis
respectful language toward the President
in declaring that he ought to be impeach-
ed, and was sentenced to receive reprl-
mand and be suspended for one year on
half pay, which sentence was approved by
Secretary Welles, the Chicago Republican
says: e,.as.s se s
cat the same time it is asserted that 9TH
er officers, who maze the charges against
Mr.. Sawyer, denounced Congress in the
language of Mr.. johnson, as an unconsti-
tutional body guilty of usurpation and of
enacting unjust and oppressive laws. We
believe that there is q statute in existence
prohibiting, under pain of severe penal
ties, persons in the military service from
speaking in disrespectful terms of either
Congress or the President. If Mr.. Sawyer
violated this act, it is evident that his accu-
sers did the same, and should be subject to
the same penalty. Indeed, the President
has set them the example, and, if the law
were enforced, would already have been
subjected to discipline for his assaults upon
Congress and his attempts TO bring that
body into contempt and disrepute, and un-
dermine the respect due to its authority as
a co ordinate branch of the Government"
g5y Chief Justice Chase rendered an
important decision in the United States
Circuit Court at Baltimore, on the 18th, to
the effect that the apprenticeship system,
as applied to colored people, adopted in
Maryland in 1864, Immediately after the
abolition of slavery in that State, is I'M
constitutional, by reason of its variance
from the white apprentice system in the
following particulars: In the black system
no provision is made for educating the ap-
prentice; while in the white, the appren-
tice must be taught reading, writing and
arithmetic In the colored system, the
master is allowed to assign or transfer the
apprentice at his will to any other master
within the county in the white law no
such power is given. In the black law the
apple ntice is described as property and
interest" of the master; no such descrip-
ton is applied to the authority over the
white apprentice, These arc some of the
features Of the law which arc at variance
with the white apprenticeship law of Ma
ryland In conclusion the Chief Justice
lays down the following propositions list.
BY the thirteenth amendment of the con
sttution, involuntary servitude is positive
ly interdicted, except as punishment for
crime. Cd. The alleged apprenticeship is
involuntary servitude. Sd. The indenture
does not contain the important provisions
for the security and benefit of the appren-
tice, and therefore is in contrayention of
the civil rights bill 4th. The law having
been enacted under the second clause of
the thirteenth amendment, the enforce
"a cnt of the first clause is constitutional
and applies to oil conditions prohibited by
it. 9th, Colored persons are citizens of