Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20
Tne New Hampshire Victory.


ton is a sad, bitter disappointment to the
whole Copper-rebel party, South as well
as North, and on none does the blow fall
more severely than on the apostate who
stands indicted before the bar of the Sen
ate for "high crimes and misdemeanors. y
The people of the West little know of the
efforts made by the Copperheads to wrest
that State out of the hands of the Repub-
licans. Federal patronage was employed
to the utmost. Every. office holder was
obliged to work for the election of the
Copperhead ticket with all his might, or
submit to dismissal. Secretaries McCul-
loch and Welles, and Postmaster Randall,
used their whole official influence against
u.s. At the Portsmouth Navy Yard every
workman was compelled to support the
Copperhead nominees on pain of discharge;
every alien was hunted up and naturalized,
and many imported for that purpose. Ali
sorts of appeals were made to the liquor
interest, and whatever party capital
could be grubbed out of the humbug OF
paying off the national debt in greenbacks
was derived from that source. But this
was not ALL A black mail assessment was
levied on every Office holder in the
Atlantic States, from Washington to
Bangor, to raise money, and tens
of thousands of dollars were thus pro-
cured. The rich men of the party in
New York bled profusely, and the mu-
nicipal Office holders of that corrupt and
disloyal city disgorged immense sums.
John Morrissey is said to have given his
check for $4,000, and Belmont his for
twice that sum, and other magnates In
proportion to their means. The money
was used to perfect the organization of
their party; bring to the polls the last
vote possible; buy back those who had
left them, and to purchase any venal Re-
publicans who were in the market at
whatever price they might demand. Any
Republican could get from one to two
hundred dollars for his vote it was a
standing offer.
The excitement ran high meetings were
nightly harangued in every village and
school district; scores of stumpers were
imported from abroad, and documents,
handbills, and roorbacks were scattered
over the State, thicker than fallen leaves
in October. 1t was deemed absolutely es-
sential to the future prospects of the Cop
perhead party elsewhere that New Hamp-
shire should be carried at all hazards and
at whatever cost. 1t was the opening gun
of the campaign. If the State was won, it
would be justly claimed as popular con-
demnation of impeachment and Of the Re-
publican plan of reconstruction. Hence
the necessity of success. What then must
have been the chagrin and disappointment
Of the Copperhead leaders, when the
crushing news came to them on Tuesday
night that they were routed horse, foot and
dragons, and that too by as large MAORI
ty as they were beaten last year when they
did not half try to win? So ssfas ss =,
At the Presidential election of 1864,
when the political current ran strongly on
the Republican side, the majority for Lin
coin on the home vote was only 2,182;
and with the soldiers vote added it was but
$500. At this preliminary battle fought
on Tuesday, the Republican majority is
but few hundred short of that given in
1854 for Lincoln, inclusive of the vote re-
turned from the field by the soldiers. I'm,
parchment and reconstruction are thus
triumphantly sustained and endorsed in
the old Jacksonian Democratic State of
New Hampshire. .5sal-f $50 8 re- 3 Is
This magnificent victory, won against
such fearful odds and adverse circum-
stances, determines the result next fall, and
ensures the State to General Grant by
more than double the present majority.
The thanks of the Republican party of the
Union are due to the noble, unpurchasable,
steadfast freemen of the Granite State
Chicago Tribune, 18th