Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-10-30

You would not allow man equal ius
tice before the law, because seryile blood
flowed in his veins.
You would not permit a man to control
his own labor who had once been a slave
or was the child of slave.
You would not allow man to dispose
OF his own property on equal terms with
his neighbor, because his color differed.
You would sell the labor of colored
man on the auction block, as punishment
for not working when you would not give
him employment
You "fired the Southern heart" anew
against the loyal North.
You confer the highest honors on the
fiercest and most brutal rebel Generals.
You falsely assail the hero to whose en-.
ergy, sagacity, bravery and skill we owe
the existence of our country, as a brutal
butcher" miserable drunkard," " con.
temptible liar" "miscegenationist" and
q scoundrel. :, ---------z---
The man most warmly welcomed by
you, in National Convention
Butcher" Forrest-dishonored flag of
truce, and shot down his begging victims
in cold blood
The pavements of New Orleans are
stained with the blood of the white and
black victims of your hellish malignity.
You have rejected every principle the
Democratic party formerly cherished.
You propose 10 trample in the dust, by
revolutionary means, the laws of Con-
gress tqa
Riot, rapine and revolution are the
weapons with which you propose to over
throw all opposition to your will.
You trampled on the ballot. box in 1860,
and for five years thereafter, and you
threaten to do it again.
The war was your war, begun by you,
conducted by you, prolonged by you.
Thousands OF homes in our land were des-
olated by you. Hundreds of thousands of
graves were dug by you. Aff1iction, DESC
lation and death followed in your train.
Debt and taxation are the fruits of your
treason. Ee d
You boast that your triumph would be
the triumph of the Lost Cause"
You avow policy of reputation.
Yon propose an irredeemable paper
currency. al t@o5
You propose to refuse to pay interest on
the public debt.
You propose to tax "every species of
property" the poor man owns.
You turn out Inspectors of Election,
lOlSC AdtuidllZdtlOu papers, anu J5SuG
them criminally, and by violence seek to
pervert the voice of the people.
The fact that q Republican meeting is
to be held, in many Of the States of the
Union, is deemed by you of sufficient rea-
son for shooting down those who attend.
Southern Republican editors are none
too good for merciless castigation at your
hand, and an excited people are murdered
in their fear
Fort Pillow, New Orleans, Camilla,
Opelousas-these are your victories.
You court or crush the colored man,
just as he accepts or declines your offered
political alliance.
You turn into the streets, to starve and
die, every colored man who will not vote
a rebel ticket.
Reconstruction has been delayed by
you You would have no reorganization
that did not place the old lash in your
hands, and enable the masters to wreak
vengeance on their late slaves.
The future you would give us is future
of terror. Civil war, business prostration
and oppressive taxation are all you
offer us.
The past warns us of you. The grave
holds up it's hands against you. The fu-
ture implores to be saved from you.
The people heed the supplication, and
hence you are ejected.-AJb0q,y Journal.