Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-13
POLITICAL.

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- An enthusiastic mass meeting was
recently held at New York, favoring the
nomination of General Grant for Presi.
dent. ----------------
w A Republican evening paper is to
be started in st. Paul by Frank Doggett,
weight, TAO pounds) late of the Wabashaw
Herald, and Lutte Taylor, two of the most
malicious wags in the Northwest.
~ The notorious section of New York
known as " Five Points" is located in the
Sixth Ward. The following shows the
party vote of five districts therein at the
recent city election: Republican, %;
Democrat, 2,24S. NykEo
a@- An excited meeting Of Democrats
and ex-rebels was held at Montgomery,
Alabama, on the 9Th, to protest against
the new Constitution. The negroes were
warned that if they attempted to vote they
would be held as public enemies. ,sl1D
eB TheAlbany Evening Journal, which
deems the nomination Of General Grant
as the Republican candidate for President
foregone conclusion" is out in long
editorial in favor of the nomination Of
Governor. Fenton, of that State, fer Vice
President. =
w At a meeting Of Democratic politi-
clans at Washington, on the 9th, General
Hancock, who now commands the Military
District of Louisiana and Texas, and is
carrying out Johnson's policy" by un-
doing the loyal work that was done by his
predecessors, was agreed upon as the man
Of their.choice for the Presidency. -
M The Phu,say Phelgoo for January
contains an illustration representing Our
Commander in Chief Doing Honor to the
Hero Of Gettysburg" General. Dan.
Sickles stands on his clutches, grimly
looking over his right shoulder at johnson,
who, booted and spurred, with a large saber
| in his belt, is eagerly and scowlingly rip
ping the stars from. Sickles' shoulder.
cg- The following letter, ysr5at6ns ct
ssteratins, as printed, was sent to the. office
of Leavenworth paper, and speaks for
ITSELF" - as
| KIKAPoo, nov. the "a, 1857.
| DEERE ZURs: Will you pleze inform
me weather niggur SUFFRAGE Was carried
at TIE late lection. If SIGH ignrant pee
pul is to voat I want to leav this God
fursaking State, and Go back to Southern
| illinois, Yoors Trooly.
/ cW AColumbus (Ohio) correspondent,
who processes to know the condition of
Copperhead affairs in that CITY, has 1t from
high Copperhead authority that Vallan-
digham and his friends claim over forty
members out of the seventy-fve who will
compose the Democratic side Of the Gen
eral Assembly. sOn the other hand, Judge
Thurman's friends confidently assert that
o very handsome majority of the Demo
cratic members have declared In his favor,
and that he will undoubtedly be nominated
on the first ballot. And then, there is an
other class Of Democrats who claim that
many of the Democratic members are yet
uncommitted on Senator. seaa7
| VY- The following significant testimony
was given before the Impeachment Com
mittee, on July 1, 1857, by Col. Stanley
Matthews, who commanded an Ohio regi-
ment In the army of the Cumberland:
State whether you saw Andrew johnson
at Cincinnati in February, 1866. Answer
II had an interview with Mr. johnson In
February, 1865, at the Burnet House, in
Cincinnati, Ohio During our converse
ton, and wbile sitting together on sofa,
he Mr.. Johnson) remarked: You and
were old Democrats" I said yes Mr..
johnson said, 81 will tell you what it is,
if the country is ever to be saved 1t is to
be done through the old Democratic
party" Immediately afterward l took my
leave. a5lH e2N
eB Mr.. johnson has lost the respect Of
even his London eulogist and admirer
The Times will have no more OF MIN.
Commenting upon the message, which APP
pears to have interested English people SO
much that for wonder thu cable was ex-
tensiyely used by the British press-unless
perchance they received advance copies
the Times declares that Mr.. johnson has
learned nothing. Not SO apt to learn as
the wiley Thunderer, the President Is re-
preached with doggedly persisting IN a
lost cause, and his obstinate stupidity Is
only equalled by his impotence. The
parsonage to whom the Times Is accus-
toned to address the epithet of the I'M
taught and the unteachasle Is Franz
Joseph of Austria Of the Emperor, how
| ever, the Times has much hope, but for
Andrew Johnson, for the President who
regards his Office as absolute sovereigns
do their prerogatives," there Is no hope.
Lost to all self-respect, he has forfeited
every claim to respect from others.
~ The manner in which injustice under
the forms CT law affects Union men in the
South is exemplifed by murder trial re-
Gently conducted at Somerville, Tenn.
Newton Clark, rebel soliier, in company
with confederate, In October, 1863, visited
! the house of a staunch loyalist named Da-
vid D. Jones, and forcibly took therefrom
some calico, the owner refusing payment
:, in rebel currency. According to the testi-
mony of the defense, the strongest provo
cation offered was the calling of Clark
",hief and guerrilla" three times repeated,
for which language he deliberately shot
Jones down, taking rest with his pistol
after a protracted and excited trial, in
which the defense failed to show any
stronger Indictment to the commission OF
the crime than the words above quoted,
the Jury brought in the following extra
ordinary verdict 1--WE, the jury, find the