Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-10
POLITICAL.


gy- A Grant Club has been formed at
Atlanta, Georgia.
cg" II is stated that Jerry Black wrote
President Johnson's message in praise OF
General Hancock. fa
eY A Republican Convention, to nomi-
nate candidate for Congress, will meet
at Little Rock, Arkansas, on the 18th inst.
EY Out of two hundred white voters
registered in one Of the counties of Vir-
ginia, only four could write their names.
In one Of the wards in Richmond only
half the white voters could sign their
names. 10
Us A Committee of forty one we'll
known citizens has been appointed to make
arrangements and procure place of meet
ing for the Republican National Conven-
ton, which is to be held in Chicago on the
goth of May q - | '''' g "
gB Twenty-Five of the Republican
journals published in the northern and
northwestern portions of Pennsylvania
have expressed a preference for Mr..
Galusha A. Grow, as the candidate for
Vice President, .r...
.zg The. election in Nashville, Tenn,
on the 4th, passed off quietly, and resulted
in the success Of the whole Radical ticket
by large majorities. Hon. Horace H. Har-
rison was elected Chancellor; John Hugh
Smith, Criminal Judge, and Eugene Cory,
Circuit Judge Sos aaa an''is sds .s7sara
W General Grant has approved the
plans of General Howard to supply pro-
visions from the fund of the Freedmen's
Bureau to persons actually suffering in the
South, on the, security of q lien on the
crops, and instructions. to carry it into
effect arc expected to be given to the Assis-
tant Commissioners within week.
Us A Washington telegram of the 9th
says: "The Conservative Army and Navy
Union has issued an address to honorably
discharged soldiers and sailors of the late
war for the Union, warning them against
the alleged designs of opposite parties
who have issued calls throughout the
States, and from this city, for q Soldiers
and Sailors Convention for the nomination
of candidates for President and Vice Pres.
ident Of the United States ri 10 III
ey The Indianapolis Journal says That
the unenviable position held by soldiers
who train with the Copperheads was pain
fully illustrated in the County Convention
recently held at Charlottesville, Montgome-
ry county. General Manson was figuring
largely in the meeting, acting, indeed, as
though he supposed a soldier was at least
as good as a Son Of Liberty but he was
brought up standing by resolution in
troduced by former occupant Of a +" Lin
coin bastiie," that no soldier ought to be
nominated for any civil Office by Demo
cratic Convention.
9sg The physiological effort of Hon.
James Brooks, on the negro, in Congress,
says the Chicago Tribune, which the Globe
has not seen fit to publish until now, and
which, as he says of the history Of the
negro, is call blank, blank, blank, sir"
has the following very frank avowal of
the policy of the D emocratic party. If it
means anything, it means that if the party
had the power the negro would be again
enslaved:
MY theory, my principle, and believe the
principle of the Democratic party, is one before
which all other issues-tariffs. currency, taxes,
armies, navtes, all mere questions of the hour
dwin n Into comparative ins d ,l They
die 20 morrow. The only real living issue towers
above these-and that is, Is this, or is it not,
white mans government .t-e: e...t..-
40 1t is said that General Grant, in his
fondness for horses, resembles General
Washington. Gilmore Stuart, when paint.
ing portrait of the Pater Patri@, found
him very dull, and, after introducing a va
riety of topics, began to talk about horses.
This, we are told, reused up the sitter,
and the artist obtained the desired ex-
preston. At the Vice,Regal Court of
Lord Batescourt, at Williamsburg, in the
Old Dominion of Virginia, there was
great rivalry between Colonel Byrd, who
drove grays, and Colonel Washington, who
had bay team. When Washington be-
came President, his stable at Philadelphia
was one of the lions at the place, and his
horses-ten bay carriage horses, two white
chargers carefully looked after by
him. ~ af; !. l-- ee-ea a.es a,s
GB General rant, in the days when he
was acquainted with poverty and unknown
to fame, used to furnish wood to the fami.
ly of Congressman Il. T. Blow, of st.
Louis, hauling it himself. On recent
occasion Mrs. Blow attended one of the
Generals receptions, and he greeted her
as follows: Mrs. Blow, remember you
well What great changes have taken
place since last we meti'' " Yes, General"
remarked Mrs B., !" the war is over" II
did not mean that" he replied 81 mean
with myself Do you not recollect when
l used to supply your husband with wood
and pile it myself, and measure it, too, and
go to his Office for my pay s"a Oh, yes,
General, your face was familiar In those
days." Mrs. Blow, those were happy
days; for was doing the best / could to
support my family ,eIs... ....--
~ Democracy has found another griev-
ance. 1t is the standing army, and they
condole muchly with the dear people on
the great cost of the same to the country.
1t is not likely, in the light of past expert
ence, that the nation will agree with the
Democracy on this point. Past lessons are
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