Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-17

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Democratic Princfples-A Dia-
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We continue the publication of the dia-
logue between an inquisitive foreigner and
an American Democrat, the object of
which is to ascertain what are the princl-
pies of the Democratic party:g fAvz"
Democrat The ballot may be a good
thing for the protection of the negro. In
deed, It's worst feature is that no sooner is
itwell assured than the politicians of both
parties will practically get down on their
knees to the negroes just as they have to
the Dutch and Irish in the Northern
States, and the only question asked viii
be, what does this dear, oppressed, o1eagin-
Gus, fragrant, blooming African fellow. cit
izen want? Isit schools? Is it land? lis
it the right of intermarriage with whites,
and of indiscrininate and universal misce-
genation? Think of the peril to society
and to the State from such a state of
things 'ess.AA . 2a - sM
!. Foreigner, But all this was urged equal
~ against emancipation, and yet somehow
the gloomy predictions which were made
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mlscegenatlon which was to follow eman-
cipation, have hadno fllhlment what
ever acga 4 n, s.f4 ,tsf-4s1 ~ .,.,,s-@.
Dem. That is true. [ did predict that
the emancipation would be Followed by
wholesale miscegenation, and a war OF
races. - -
For. It seems also that your predictions
were slightly at war with each other. Two
races who loved each other well enough
to rush into promiscuous intermarriage
could not at the same time hate each other
violently enough to- attempt mutual ex-
termination. ~. k-.sss 80 49,
Dem. l must admit that those cid fears
have not been fulfilled In fact the vast
amount of miscegenation which was the
natural result of subjecting the will of all
black women in slavery to the control of
every white Shareholder, has disappeared.
Emancipation has rendered the two races
more chaSte towards each other. - -
For. That was the natural result OF
rendering the black race more free and in
dependent of the white. Now willnOt the
right OF suffrage as it perfects that freedom
and Independence equally promote and in
crease the chastity OF both races? Esssss
Dem. Perhapsso. But surely the intro
auction OF SO many ignorant semi-barbar-
GUS voters. to exercise their influence over
the making of our laws can only tend, by
degrading the constituency, to lower the
standard of legislation. The ignorance Of
a country cannot be permitted tosrule it.
For That is just the reason they give
in England why. one-seventh of the people
should monopolize the ballot to the exclu-
sion OF the other six-seyenths.f But you
in the United States have not found that it
endangered the state or injured the country
to allow ignorant white men to vote.
Dem. No; on the contrary, the humber
and less sophisticated class of voters have
always shown their superior fitness for the
exercise of the right of suffrage by voting
the straight Democratic ticket, without
scratching. o4H X&UE
For Why! that is exactly what you
complain of the negroes down South for
doing. ~ .esrgg 8, q
Dem. No they vote the Black Republi-
can ticket every time. he Xxx,
For. But as the foreigners were won to
the Democratic ticket by the fact that the
Democratic party gave them the right to
vote and hold Office, so the Southern ne
groes are unanimous for the Radical ticket,
because that party gives them the same
rights. Donot their votes result from the
same motives and show the same judgment
as were displayed by the foreign voters in
voting the Democratic ticket? 81"
Dem. Very nearly / always despised
the foreign vote, and regarded it as the
heaviest load the Democratic pa y and the
country had to carry. a
e For. But would not the foreign element
have made hundred fold more trouble if
they had been excluded from voting, than
they have made by votings Think with
what rebellions and revolutions our coun-
try would have been torn, if six millions
of turbulent foreigners, fleeing from op-
preston in the Old World, had been de-
MED all political rights in the New ees
Deno Of course. The ballot has
operated as the safety-valve through which
they have let off their surplus explosive
tendencies. W. 81 NJ AS1 - IN
For. Or rather as the piston through
which they have brought to bear, to propel
the machinery of the ship of State, those
same pent-up powers and passions which
found vent in revolution and rebellion in
Europe. i..s s,es,ist,
Dem. / perceive that your argument is
that the result will be the same in the case
of the negro atfF - s9 maNfs&
For. Why not? Moreover, has it ever
occurred to you that voting rightly is
very simple affair II does not need that
every voter should understand all political
questions. Ii il did, no republic could out
live its first election. i. eFs sa9ste4
Dem. True! In voting, as in business,
If each man sees what is for his own inter-
est, and votes according to that only, the
votes of all will as exactly express the in
terests of all as if each man saw not only
whist his own interests required, but what
those of every other person in the State
demanded. selaa asessl aesassss77
= For. Exactly Now, voters do not vote
for measures nor select candidates, The
candidates are selected and measures or
principles proposed by two conventions,
one of each political party, according to
what those conventions, which consist OF
skilled politicians, conceive that the ma
jority of voters will vote for. Thus two
political platforms and sets of candidates
are presented, and the voters choice iscon--
fined to simply taking one or The other OF
these two.
Dem That is SO but hemay take the
wrong one ~ ma
q For If the decision Of the majority
were conclusive as to which ticket is right
or wrong, it becomes you to be modest In
Directing to the exercise OF the right OF
suffrage by others, since you have your
self voted On the wrong side at every cleo
ton for the past eight years. asassea
Dem You consider it Indifferent, then,
whether the race, whom You would admit