Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-11

and from their first love to the Union.
You cannot find in the Democratic pa
pers of 1862 and '63 tribute Of admira-
ton given to the brave boys in blue.
! 1t gives this Democratic party immense
good to get a few stragglers from the
army-as few deserters They are
not particular what kind of men they get,
if they have been once in the army. II
there has ever, been the smell of battle on
their garments they take them and parade
them as an evidence of the fact that the
Democratic party was the friend OF the
soldier, and that the soldiers are the friends
of the Democratic party Yet, L repeat,
that for three years, not single testimony
could be found of single tribute OF ad-
miration given by the Democratic party to-
the brave boys in blue. ~. 6r
What did they do in 1854? Here-be-
fore an assembled multitude in Chicago,
they gave it out in the hearing of all peo-
pie, that the war was a failure; that you
men--you brave boys in blue-made it a
failure, and that you were failure. Yes,
this same Henry Clay Dean-renowned
for his attachment to- the Democratic
party, and not less illustrious for certain
characteristics that belong to the same
party that need not be named in an as
Clay Dean demanded and announced that
the whole. thing was failure and de.
nounced Abraham Lincoln as monster OF
tyranny because he was prosecuting the
war. And now, in 1868, these same men
are welcoming to their ranks and emOrac-
ing with their sympathies and kindness
these same brave boys whom they de-
nounced as mercenaries, tools and tyrants,
ac rpb atad xxyho fhau aocailQH writ
every foul epithet that could be imagined
in the foul brain or the foul heart of
traitor to his country. [Great applause
What spectacle was presented on the
Fourth of July, before the people of this
country. Here were met together Demo
Gratis from Ohio and Illinois, fraternizing
and celebrating with men that were no
torious. rebels during the whole war,
There We're Forrest, the hero of Fort Pill
tlow, the man guiltylof a massacre unpar-
ralleled in its barbarity in the annals of
deprayity Wade Hampton one of the,
leaders of the rebellion General Preston,
of Kentucky. They all met together in
the same convention, ready to sing 49,,
" Blessed be the tie that binds f. IS AZ,
Our hearts in rebel love-" ,,a
They were altogether. There was no dis
I tinetion. There was no regret. There
were no expressions ofrepentance. They
were ready to meet, their brethren they
had been separated by little illfeeling
laughterl, but it had never altered the
feeling of the Democrats toward their
loving brethren. There they met in con
yention, in New, York, in presence of the
survivors of the brave boys that fought
and fell upon the battlefield. Yes, they
met the men that had authorized and
connived at these barbarities perpetrated
in the prison hells of the South, and the
men that coldly looked on when our brave
boys were butchered. Here the Demo
Gratis met and welcomed the men that or
dered the black flag to be hoisted as the
/ flag to govern the conduct of the rebels
during the war. All of these met as
neighbours T. e 81
My fellow citizens, is it not enough to
excite the indignation of any man that has
a remnant of patriotism in his bosom that
| the men whose hands are dyed in blood ;
men who are guilty of such barbarity !;
men who are guilty of. the highest crime
known to the law men who are guilty of
sacrificing the lives of hundreds of thou
sands of the bravest and best men that
ever lived, shall come up to a loyal State,
unwashed and unrepentant, and sit down
and ask the privilege of selecting man
! that shall rule the destinies of this coun-
| try? Fellow-citizens, is it possible that
7 the freemen of this country will permit
such men to govern the interests of this
country? Why, if these men, these trail
tors, can come into Democratic associa-
ton, will you not open all your prisons
and penitentiaries and let every scoundrel
into Democratic Convention APP
IplauseI and laughter Is the man that
stole your horse worse than he that killed
your son? Is theft worse than murder
Yet you send men to the penitentiary be-
cause they steal horses, and yet some of
them had good reason for it-they had no
other way to travel it was the necessity
that made them do it; they did not mean to
commit larceny, or, perhaps, one wanted
to relieve the Affections Of nature when
he got your watch; yet these men are
sent to the penitentiary and cannot sit in
a deliberative assembly. They say these
smen have laid down their arms that they
Surrendered. They remind one of the
sDutchman in Ohio whose wife was very
sick. Thepreacher called at the gate and
asked how she was. ooh" said the Dutch.
man, "oh, she is very bad" els she like
to die 2" said the preacher. eyes, think
she is going to die" els she resigned ?"
asked the preacher Said he, "Vat ish
dat?" The preacher explained, ais she
willing to die? Willing,n answered the
Dutchman, guess she is; she has got to
die any way" Laughter.] SO with
these men. They were resigned. And so
every horse-thief is resigned when the
officer of the law arrests him. When the
officer takes him he gives up. [Applause.
Yet these men say Why we ought to
receive them into the old family because
they have surrendered they have given
Eup. They couldn't fight, and they wouldn't
fight any longer because they couldn't
Yet, is there any one of these rebels that
has repented of his folly and wickedness?
Did Wade Hampton come into the con-
vention and tell his associates that he re-
GREETED what he had done? Did any one
of them regret his participation in the re-
bellion? Not one of them. There was
nota single word of repentance issuedfrom
the lips of any single one Of those men,
and if they are fit to be received into a
Democratic Convention, there is not a.
seeundrel in any penitentiary in the land
that is not just.as fit Applause.l
What would my friend Osborne think
of me-he knows me pretty well-if he
was TO see me walking the streets of Col
umbus arm and arm with the man that
burned his neighbours house down
Surely from seeing me take him to my
house, and give him the Inequalities of
my home, what would be his conclusion ?
Why that I was not any better than the
horse-thief, and that sympathized with
the horse-t thief That is the conclusion
which we come to in regard to men who