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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-03
First Ripe Fruit OF Reconstruction.


THE last link in the restoration of Ar
kansas has been completed by the admis-
sion of Senators and Representatives to
seats in Congress. For more than thirty
years this State was dominated by slavery
for more than one-third of century it
was controlled by the idea of monopoly
of rights for the whites. These conditions
are now altered. The new Constitution
accords civil and political equity to all.
The poor school system, imperative and
disgraceful, has been transformed into.the
free school system, open to all, as in Chi
cago. Before this change, Ignorance was
the badge of negroes and "wfite trash"
Hereafter it will be the insignia Of only
those who refuse to accept deliyerance
from mental degradation. A concession
has been made, however, to the prejudice
of the time, in providing that the schools
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-03

What is the news from the loved ones at home {?
And how do my darlings fare?
Are they well and happy as when left?
Has no sorrow entered there?
These are the questions my home-sick heart
Asked at the post-mans gate,
AS | stood like trembling suppliant
At the solemn door of fate.
And I opened the coveted letter,
There were words of love and of cheer,
There were also-ah whence was this magic?
The faces of three the most dear.
With beauty and love they were glowing,
Like those of the Trune divine,
And, oh! with what pleasure / view them,
For know that those treasures are mine.
Those mute--oh, MOI they are speaking
One telleth how fondly and true
The heart of the mother is beating, -
My absent companion, for YOU III 2
And one with her soft eyes of azure,
Which Heaven in sweetness speaks through
And one where the soul of affection
Shines smilingly out to our view.
And now, as Isit in the twilight,
And think of my home far away,
| wonder if those little cherubs
Are out in the garden to play;
/ wonder il all in the cottage,
From sickness and sadness are free,
And wonder it, this very moment,
Those loved ones are thinking of me.
And sometimes the visions of sorrow,
Adown the bright vista will sweep,
And, back through the garden pathway,
cross DER the threshold to weep.
For one, as if weary of waiting
My coming mt morn and at even,
Had flown with her angel companions,
To see her Dear Father" in Heaven.
o, grant me, great God, in Thy goodness,
The strength and the wisdom to guide
These two fragile voyagers immortal,
gt Safe over life's treacherous tide.
May the hcme that is here, and hereafter,
Engross all my labor and care
For what would be riches and glory,
If meet not the Sherished ones there!
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-03
Democratic Self Contradiction.


TIE New York World, the Chicago
Times, and other journals OF like pro-
clivities, have been employing all their
and ability as a General. But this dis
position was shown by few in 1868, when
the existence of the nation was imperiled.
At the first meeting of the Thirty Eighth
Congress, before the organization was
completed by the election of a. chaplain,
Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, by unanimous
assent, introduced joint resolution of
thanks to Major General Ulysses S. Grant,
and the soldiers under his command during
the rebellion, and providing that the
President of the United States shall
cause q medal to be struck, to be pre-
sented in the name of the people.
This resolution passed unanimously.
Not one negative vote was recorded
against it. Seventy-five undoubted
Democrats, besides nine members who
affiliated with them, classed as Border
men, were in that Congress. If Grant is
such ninny as they would make out,
why did they not raise their voice against
the resolution? 1t ranks number one in
legislation, and shows the alacrity with
which all were ready to attest their gratl-
tude for Grants eminent executive abili-
ties. The Senate passed the joint resolu-
ton with equal earnestness and alacrity.
That body contained fourteen persons re-
cognized as Democrats. Why did they
not raise their voices against Grants in
competency? The fact is, the great leader
has fallen in their estimation only since
he has seated himself upon the Chicago
platform. Had he waited, hat in hand,
upon the New York Convention, there can
be no doubt that he would have met with
joyful welcome, and the Democratic
presses would have been engaged in
sounding his loud praises, instead oftrying
to show that he was miserable substitute
for military capacity. Thus We see thaGit
makes great difference which leg the boot
is on.-ChGcdg0 Republican.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-03

others. There is in him nought of that
vacillation or oscillation which is fatal to
all earnest decision; but he makes up his
mind yapidly, and forthwith bends every
energy to the execution Of its irreversible
behests This combination of endowments,
accomplishments, experience, have invest
ed him with rare force and volume of
power which conquers and commands sue
cess. He has strength of conviction, com;
bined with Difference for the popular will,
and none of that in1exible self-sufficiency
which discards the advice and scorns the
opinions of others. Justice with him is
a predominating attribute. He is devoted
to the right, without protesting any super
ciious contempt for the expedient. lis
faithful in his friendships; sincere in his
professions superior to all envy; gener-
Gus in his appreciation and condemnation
of others; truthful, honorable, upright in
all his dealings and converse with his fell
low men; and ardent and tender in his
domestic affections. - Den1ing'S Life Of
Grant tttti s''t-,t
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-03
A Healthy Climate.

Dan Marble was once strolling along
the wharves in Boston, when he met a
tall, gaunt looking figure, a digger from
California, and got into conversation with
him. 8utt
"Healthy climate, suppose ?" .,u
"Healthy it amt anything else, Why,
stranger, there you can choose any eli
mate you like, hot or cold, that too with
out travelin' more than fifteen minutes;
Jest think O. that the next cold mornin'
when YOU get out o bed. There's a
mountain there, the Sary Navady they
call it, with a valley on each side oft, one
hot and one cold Well, get on the top of
that mountain with double -barreled gun,
and you can, without movin', kill either
summer or winter game, jest as you
wish I" aT
"Whati have you tried it? - m
"Tried it often and should have done
pretty well, but for one thiDg?"
"Well, what was that?"
81 wanted dog that would stand both
climates. The last dog / had froze his tail
off while pintin' on the summer side. He
didn't get entirely out of the winter side,
you see-true as you live"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-03

A LONDON letter says: Formerly,
whenever a clergyman preached in the
presence of any member of the royal fam
ily, it was the etiquette for him to write
out his text, which was placed in the royal
pew for the benefit of the august occu-
pants, whose ears were supposed to be
exempt from the tax of needing the
preacher at the moment of delivering the
extract, like those Of commoner persons"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-03
2netry.
TIE TRIO PICTURE.

By w. G. BAKER.
The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-15
IRISH NEWS,
Irish Correspondence.
DUBLIN, January 25, 1868.

18TH Dr. Waters was taken into and lodged
IN hlmanham to await his trial at the Commission with
ones VINO took part some time the funeral procession
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The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-15

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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-03
The Greenback Issue-Thc Gold
SyVindlc

The Chicago Tribune, bondholding
organ, puts the following questions, which
will be answdred in their order
"1. What greenbacks does it propose
shall bo used to pay the 6vc-twenty bonds
those now issued, or a new batch to be
manufactured for that purpose!"
They can be paid with the greenbacks
now in use, and by the retiring of the
national bank circulation-supplying its
place with greenbacks, without adding a
dollar to its circulation. This has been
shown by Mr.. Pendleton in his Milwaukee
speech. He said:
CHOW, gentlemen, maintain that the
$40 bonds should be paid as far as it is
possible to do SO, without initiating the cur
rency beyond safe and just point. And
it is my business now to show you how
rapidly that can be done. The unliquida-
ted debt of the United States consists of
greenbacks and claims which have not
been adjusted, and amounts to $500, ,000,-
600. 1t pays no interest.
"Three hundred and thirty-eight mil
lions of these bonds are, by the report OF
the secretary of the treasury, deposited to-
day as security in the vaults of the treas
ury. Three hundred millions of bank
paper is issued on the strength of these
bonds. Now, gentlemen, | maintain tha,
this circulation ought to be called in thai
these bonds ought to be redeemed with le
gal tenders, which will take tho place oi
that bank circ ulation. [Applause.
"What would be the effect Of this
The $1,700, 900, 900 Of interest bearing
honds would be redpced tn 21 100. G00 000
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-03
Plymouth Democrat.
THURSDAY, SEP. 3, 1868.
A FEW OF WESTER VELT'S LIE

A FEW OF WESTER VELT'S LIES
John L. Westervelt has numerous bare
faced lies that lie is telling to those who
90 out to hear him at his school ho1se ap-
pointments, q few Of which are as follows !:
LIE No. 1. He says that the expenses
OF this county amount to eleven thousand
dollars more than those of st. Joseph
county.
LIE No. 2. He says that the thirty
two thousand dollars reported as the
amount Of county revenue in this county,
does lot include the building fund tax,
while the truth is that over seven thous-
and dollars of that amount belongs to said
building fund, and the actual expenses of
the county for the year ending June first
was s22, ,5S3 6s, including 81 ,433 32 paid
for an addition built to the poor house of
the county including also S670 10 paid
for bridges including also $500 90 paid
on an old order given many years ago to
keep up the county library all of which
are extra expenses, and amount in the ag
gregate to s2,7O2 AZ, which taken from
the common or ordinary county expenses
reduces them to Sl9,SS1 26. But to say
nothing of these unusual though necessary
expenses, he lies to the tune of about s1O,- :
900 90. Let US pray"
LIE No. 3. He says that the people of
this county pay more taxes than they do
in St. Joseph county. The tax of st. 10.
county last year amounted to over s96,-
600 %, and the duplicate Of Marshall for
the same year amounted to little over
$4,000 90.
LIE No. 4. lie says that the treasurer
of this county gets more for collecting the
taxes On our duplicate that the treasurer
of st. 10. does for like service in that
county. While he ought to know that
the treasurer's fees are regulated by law
and he receives his per centage on what he
collects. and no more.
LIE No. 8. He says the building fund
money cannot be accounted for, when the
truth is it can every cent be accounted
for, and is more safely secured than any
note or mortgage he holds against any of
his debtors.
But We are tired of enumerating his
falsehoods, and will simply say that we
have not yet heard of one truthful state
ment that he has made in his speeches.
He is, in plain language, an old falsifer.
slanderer, religious hypocrite, political
demagogue, and constitutionaly a hog,
and all his statements want to be received
as coming from just that kind of man.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-03
GOING TO VOTE NEGROESEAR.
LY AND LITE.

The Hon. Mr.. Tyner, at Argos the 9TH
sr day, during his haranguc to the negro
ties of that vicinity said that they were
going to vote the negroes early, late, and
of'en, SO we are credibly Informed. A
few years ago he would have denounced
any democrat for accusing him
of being in favor of negro suf-
frage, as vile slanderer, liar and scoun-
drel, like Schuyler Colfax did during
recent canvass. lie denied in the most
positive terms that he was in favor Of nc.
gro suffrage. He denied it with quiverng
lips and trembling voice and upraised
hand, In the seminary grove at this place,
and almost the first important measure he
gave his support to on his return to con-
gress, was the bill giving the negroes the
privilege of voting and being voted for in
the District of Columbia. Since then he
has done everything in his power as speak
or OF the house to extend those privileges
to the negroes of all the southern states,
and also stumped the state of Ohio to give
them the same privilege there, and would
to-day force these same damnable and de-
grading dogmas upon the people of the
state of Indiana and every other state in
the union, if he had the power, and he is
now asking for more power that he may
give the negro more effective service.
He votes and does all he can to give me-
groes the privilege of voting and holding
Office, but he has sworn to 10 all he can
in whatever position he may be placed, tc
keep down the foreigners and Catholics of
this country. He is in favor of support
ing lazy, worthless negroes at the expens,
of the laboring white taxpayers of the
country. He is in favor of taxing tn,
POOR and letting the rich tondholder q
free. lie thinks greenbacks good enough
for widows, orphans, crippled soldiers ant
common people, and gold lad enoagh fol
bond holders.
How can any sensible white laborin,
man, and especially foreigner or Catho
lie vote for such candida te?
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-03

The lady of prominent citizen of
Albany, who has often been upon the
Hudson above the state dam, rowing her
own canoe, has ordered splendid paper
shell boat Of the manufactures at Troy.
She is fine earswoman, and means to
preserve health and strength by the aov(
exercise.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-03

The Republican of last Thursday whim-
peringly admonishes Us that kind words
never die" and, consequently, that harsh
onss may not, and for US to beware of rash
ness. This is all very nice in Sunday
school point of view, but if We are to be
leetured on the use of harsh language, we
would prefer that the lecturer be free
from the faults he condemns in us. In
the same number Of the n 6lican in
which tho above lecture appes we find
the expression. -" God-forsaken, hell
deserving democrats. 1t is pity that
democrats will persist in applying harsh
terms to the republicans, as they are very
tender, sensitive cusses, on whose delicate
ears crate harsh,y the upkind word $ tlru..
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-03

Robert W. johnson. formerly United
States senator from Arkansas, and Gen.
Albert Pike, the poet, lawyer and jour
nalist, have associated together at Wash
ington in the practice of law and the pros
ecution OF claims against the government.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-03

Providence has colored boy aged
thirteen years, who for few cents will
take mouthful Of glass, chew it .pwed !
and swallow it. lie says he ksSsrs old s.
the business since he was n<-
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-03
AUDITOR OF STATE rs. TREA s.
-a .r 81 URER. or STATE. -E.tfe

General Nathan Kimball, treasurer of
state, and candidate on the abolition tick
ct for reelection, stated in his speech here
on the 22d ultimo, that the state debt had
been reduced to about three millions of
dollars.
T. b. McCarty, auditor of state, in his
report to Gov. Baker, gives the following
as the indebtedness of the state:
Five per cent certificates of stock S. 75i 236 81
Six per cent. war loan bonds ......., 237, 900 90
Vncennes University bonds. 65.5S5 90
School fund bonds ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ,36I 0S2 Is
Old internal improvement bonds ........ S5SOOO 90
Total debt. 81, TIC 903 4S
Here is avery large prevarication out
between these republican Office holders.
1t is no quarrel Of ours, but we are inclined
to believe the statement Of McCarty, from
the fact that it is most reasonable, and
then it is made officially. We would not
like to say that General Kimball had falsi-
fed about four millions seven hundred and
seventy-six thousand nine hundred and
three dollars and ffty-eight cents worth,
but it looks that way.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-03

The Hon. Sat. Clark. of Wisconsin
has been visiting Council Bluffs, aud has
bought several lots in that city.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-10

with general bull dance and ribald sonos.
III which the negroes and the whites indis-
crlminately icipated. The Convention
OF noble patriots of 1885, who touched but
lightly the old Constitution, under which
we have lived for nearly century, finally
closed their labors thus
Before the motion to adjourn sine die
was put, the Rev. DR.. McPheters offered
up the following impressive prayer:
And now. 0 Lord, as the business of
this convention is drawing near to a close,
follow with thy blessing whatever has been
done In accordance with thy will, and Rra-
ciously direct this day, in all that remains
to be done.
" We thank thee for thy Providential
care over all the members of this body and
1or the high degree of order and harmony
Wnlch has characterized the whole occa.
sion.
Give to the people Of this State, be.
fore whom its amended Constitution will
soon pass in review, wisdom, that thew
may be directed in their final action there.
upon.
"Deliver them from passion, prejudice
ana all unreasonable prepossesions Nav
they approach the question before them
with honest, liberal and enlightened views
and decide thereon calmly, conscientiously
and in the fear of God
Forgive, o Lord, all that has been said
or done amiss during this occasion and gra-
clously prosper every measure calculated to
advance the civil, social and religious in
terests OF the community in which thou
hast cast our lot
land when this body, now in session.
snail have adjourned, conduct them all in
safety to their respective places of abode,
there again to meet, in circumstances of
comfort their families, their friends and
their constituencies.
And, as they will never again all meet
together on earth, prepareithem, Gracious
God, for meeting in the Grand Conventio,,
OF that approaching day, when the assem-
pied Universe will stand before God and be
Judged according to their works.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-10

officers. The General Assembly will like
wise.
SMITH.-Enough. friend Jones [ am
satisfied. What does it all sum up? What
will be our taxes ?
JoNEs.-Add all these additional expen-
ses together, and also the interest on the
State debt, and We have over So 600, 900
annually The county taxes before zoe
war were about 5000, 900. They viii pro-
badly hereafter be more. The land of the
tate was valued in 1860 at about S120, 900, :
600. The valuation of 1868 will be about
S60,O0O,OO The State and county taxes
will be five per cent. of the entire land in
the State. No people can pay this and
sold for taxes What property have we but
land ?
SMITH. Well, will have one resource
left. After all my land outside of my home
stead is sold will go to my homestead
and die in peace.
JoNEs.-Soft you-a word or two before
you go. That miserable consolation is de-
MED you. Look at Article X. You will
find your homestead can be sold for taxes.
How can you pay five per cent. of the value
every year when we can hardly make both
ends meet? There can be no homestead un-
der this Constitution.
SM1TH--Well, Jones, am glad we met.
Some of my neighbors are on the fence. I
was until met you. Let me have that
Constitution, and I'll promise you there
won't be a white vote for it in my District !;
dog me if I'll call ita "Township." Come,
here is bottle of old Nash brandy (none
of your "blockade stuff my wife keeps
for medicine. Before we eat our humble
dinner of meat and green's let us take a
drink and the toast shall he
DOWN WITH THE CONSTITUTION.