Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-29

case thought she should be the Judge,
did not feel that violated my oath when
went with my State. But since that time
when the President of the United States
{ grated me his pardon, he required me &c
I take different oath. was sworn 10 sup
port not only the Constitution OF the
United States, but the Union OF the states
[Applause.] When did that abandoned
the doctrine of secession, for coulu MOI
support the Union of the States ana en-
! courage secession from the Union. he
newed cheers The Virginia and Ken
lucky resolutions advocated that doctrine
fl understand them, it has always been q
part of the platform on which they have
stood. Hence it is that / feel l am nc
longer bound by party allegiance, to stanC
by the Democratic party. [Cheers] Ii
cannot stand by them, where do L natur.
ally fall then? The Hamiltonian and
Websterian doctrine has been established
by the sword My own opinions, and the
action of the Democratic party, naturally
lead me, as I think, into the Republican
party. Applause
81 know that this is very unpopular
doctrine in the South, but l believe 1t is
the true doctrine. But, let me tell you
Mr.. President and gentlemen, that there
are many white men in the South; there
are large number Of original Democrats
in the South there are large numbers Of
original secessionists in the South, who to.
day stand as firmly by the Republican
| party, and will support the great Captain
of the age, General Grant [applausel, as
well as you will. Our Democratic friends
there have appealed to the whole country
against negro suffrage, have showered
anathemas upon them, have denounced ii
as an outrage upon humanity and upon
society, and yet in the late elections there
negro who would vote the Democratic
ticket was really very respectable fellow.
Applause and laughter.] They tell us
that you have established negro supremacy
in the South. Not so. Although they de-
nounce those of us who act with the Re-
publican party as being NO better than
| negroes, l still feel that I belong to the
white race, and that would advocate and
sustain no policy that put any other race
over my race in the South, or made them
| supreme there. We will grant to the col
Ored people there all their rights, civil and
political. Now we do not expect them to
be our masters. Much as you have seen
in the papers on that subject, it is not so.
In the State Of Georgia, for instance, when
those who are included within the Consti-
tutional Amendment, though they have
no right to hold Office under our new Con-
stitution, 60 to the ballot box, there are
10000 majority Of white men there. What
little property is left is all in the hands of
the white men. We have the advantage
in education, we have the advantage in ex-
perience, and we claim that we have SUI
periority of race. Tell me not, then, that
the black people of Georgia can rule
Georgia when they are 10000 in the mi
nority, and we have all these advantages.
Applause 1t is not so, sir, in other
States, even where the blacks are in the
majority. If our white race act properly
in this matter, there will be no difficulty
of this sort.
In conclusion, allow me to say that,
while we have hard fight to make in
Georgia, if you will give us the fruits of
victory, we will carry Georgia for General
Grant"
The Committee on Credentials, through
their Chairman, General Lee, of Louisiana,
then made a report, which was adopted,
including report in favor of allowing
each Of the delegations from the several
Territories, and also the District of Co.
lumbia, right to seats upon the floor,
with the privilege of casting each two
votes, and also admitting the delegates
from the unreconstructed States.
The Committee on Rules then reported,
and report was adopted, after which the
Committee adjourned until ten o'clock
a. NJ, on the 21st.
The Convention was called to order by
the President at ten o'clock on the 21st.
Prayer was offered sby DR.. CULVER.
Mr.. Hassaurek, of Ohio, was loudly
called for, and responded in a stirring
speech.
On motion, General John M. Palmer OF
Illinois, was then invited to address the
Convention. He made a telling and pa
triotic speech, shortly after the conclusion
of which the Committee on Resolutions
made their appearance and submitted
their report, as follows:
The National Union Republican party of the
United States, assembled in National Convention
in the city of Chicago, on the Goth day of May
1868, make the following declaration of prin-
ciples:
success of the reconstruction policy of Congress
as evidenced by the adoption in a major
y of the nnG Of I'll
and regard it as the duty Of the Gov.
eminent to sustain those constitutions and pre-.
mitted to a state of anarchy or military rule
q The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage
to all loyal men in the South was demanded BY
every consideration Of public safety, of gratitude
while the question of suffrage in all the
loyal States properly belongs to the people OF
g. We denounce all forms of reputation as
national crime and national honor
requires the payment Of s. the public indebt
edness IN the nd god a mot TO our
ing the letter, but he spirit, of the laws under
which it was contracted.
4 1t is due TO the labor of the nation that taxa
ton should be equalized and reduced as rapidly
as national faith will permit
5. The national debt, contracted as it has been
for the preservation of the Union for all time to
come, should be extended over fair period for
redemption and it is the duty OF Congress to re-
duce the rate of interest thereon whenever it can
honestly be done.
s. That the best policy to diminish our burden
of debt is to improve credit that capitalists
will seek to lend us money at lower rates of inter
est than we now pay, and must continue to pay
so long as reputation, partial or total, open or
covert, is threatened or expected.
z. The Government of the United States should
be administered with the strictest economy. The
corruptions which have been so shamefully nursed
and fostered by Andrew johnson call loudly for
radical reform.
accession of Andrew johnson to the Presidency
who has acted treacherously to the
people who elected him and the cause he was
pledged to support; has usurped high Legislative
and Judicial functions has refused to execute the
laws has used his high office to induce other Off
GERS to violate the laws has employed his execu-
erty, peace and liberty of the citizens; has
abused the pardoning power; has denounced
the National Legislature as unconstitu-
tional; has persistently and habitually resisted,
by every means in his power, everv proper attempt
at the reconstruction of the States lately in rebel
lion; has perverted the public patronage into an