Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-02

will do the same and then, gentlemen, L
predict that these States will enter on a
liberal, progressive policy, such as is pur-
sued in the New England and great Cen
trail and Western States of the country.
There is not a Democratic flag floating
from the Potomac to Florida, and they.
dare not raise one. The people of the
South will tell you that the Republicans
never cheated or deceived them. Ihey
were led into the rebellion by words of en-
couragement from the North. But they
will tell you the men who said these words
had to go into the fight, and they met
them on battle-fields. Then the Old lien
ny Clay wings, who are in the ranks OF the
opposition OF that part OF. the country, let
them raise the Democratic flag, and they
fly and carry thousands with them IN lnto inc
ranks of the Republican party. The Old
national men of '33 are doing the same.
OF course the followers of John G. Cal
hOun and his theories of government
would not be expected to do any thing but
to maintain the position and spirit of hos
tility; but they will be defeated, and sink
down one by one to disappear in the end
from the government of the country, as
the Tories of the revolution disappeared.
For myself want no more punishments
than have already been inflicted on these
men. They have suffered, and have been
disappointed more than any body of men
in the history of the world. Seven years
ago these chieflains trod the halls of Con-
gress, proud and defiant. They raised the
banners of revolt They swept out to es-
tablish slaveholding Republic that should
include Mexico and Cuba and command
the commerce of the world. They would
be the great agricultural portion of the
country that should produce cotton, rice,
and sugar They were to be omnipotent.
They went into this great struggle to make
slavery strong, to extend it into the Terri
tories of the United States, and they came
out of the contest without the power to
hold slavery anywhere in the country.
Applause Their ideas, principles and
policies are gone forever. The hope and
aspiration of their souls are lost. They
are batfled, defeated, Inundated, con
quered. For one l have it not in my heart
to pursue the system of contiscation or any
other systems that shall bear harder than
those that have already been adopted to
bring them into the county and make
them a part Of the country. Il don't want
an Ireland or Poland in America. APP
plause But / want free States, whore
every man is the peer Of every other man
where every man, no matter what blood
may course through his veins, no matter
where he may have been born, is man
whom God made and for whom Christ
died, and who shall possess equal rights
with everybody else. We want free States,
free men, and that policy that hGs been in
augurated will be accomplished within
twelve months, and all those States within
year will be brought back into the Union.
They will not have the power to dictate
the policy of the country, but they will be
the radical and progressive portion of it.
We shall see these things, and | say to you
tonight, gentlemen, not merely as a. par
tisan, but as an American citizen, loving my
country and my whole country, that it is
enough to make the heart throb with
gratitude TO Almighty God for what we
have witnessed during the last seven years
of progress. [Cheers The friends of the
country have been misrepresented through
out this contest We were told that we
could not conquer these twelve millions of
people Well, we did it. We were told
we had no constitutional right to co it,
We exercised the powers of the Constitu-
ton to save the Constitution and the
country, and we have done it. Now they
tell us we have no constitutional power
W pass GlIC letWO lUl ICCOICbl Uu0
we find the powers, and we passed the
laws, and the laws will do the work. The
President of the United States may do
what he pleases; the place that knows
him will not know him a great while.
daughter and appliance The Fourth of
March, 1859, at any rate, will come some
time. A voice What about the impeach-
ment p He may stay in till that time, and
he may not. Cheers. 1t will DEPEND a
great deal on his future conduct. If I'M
dertakes to violate the laws of the country
and arrest the conduct of the government,
he will have but short time to stay where
he u.s. Applause But l tell you, gentle
men, he may do just what he pleases, he
cannot prevent anything. ["Good" " Our
friends in the South, WHO believe in recon
stIuction, in q united country, and in free /
dom, three fourtbs- OF. million of them
will bring those States back in spite of
anything Andrew johnson OF anybody
else can do look upon Mr.. Johnson just
as I look upon Bull Run Laughter
Bull Run during the war brought sense
of shame on the cheek of the country, but
after all it was a great lesson to the coun-
try. Andrew johnson seems to be sort
of being brought into existence for pur
pose. He stands right there, and every
time he undertakes to do anything against
the cause of liberty and justice, the coun
try rallies, and goes further than it ever
would have gone before. Laughter and
applause. He got the opinion OF the At
torpey General the other day, and all over
the South the rebels reared their heads and
began TO hope again; but in q day or two
the news went on hebreezes that Congress
would assemble, and the rebels closed their
lips. Congress assembled and made an
additional and stronger measure than ever
before. He may undertake to set it aside
if he pleases, or do what he pleases;i our
friends in the South will take care of the
cause of the country And let me tell you
that Grant is fornegro suffrage, not only
in the South, but in the North! lCheers.
So is Thonlas-that great General whom
his soldiers nicknamed e Old Reliable %
SO is Phil Sheridan, and nearly every
General of the country who has made,a
page of the history OF this war, | find q
very large share of the men who have
opposed Us individually say it is right, but
they say they have got O. gTeat,p prejudice to
vote behind them, and they must pander
to that [ think it becomes q statesman to
of the people and maintain what is right
and Che people will follow them. There
is no portion of our countrymen so ignor
ant or preiudiced who will not do the right
when they see il clearly. Such is the
present condition of the country. Think
it is a hopeful one, and it will be better
next year than it is now. The men who
emancinated fnur millions of slaves and