Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-02-28

SOUTHERN NEwsPAPF Rs.-ft is refresh
ing to get hold of them occasi onally and note the
chaste eloquence, the pointed Wit, the delicate
satire, and Gignifed ebuke (of rads) with which
their pages TEEN and sparkle. Here is choice
extract furnished by one of General Prices late
bushwhackers, now Missouri editor:
GAS a receptacle for raving, hopeless, shrieking
madmen, out law grin ding museum at Jefferson
City is second only to Bedlam. Every blatant.
bIathering, one-ideaed crack brain in the State
meets his brother there. Every yepiDg, whining,
fanatica, hypocritical cur in the State meets @
scoundrel, trothng maniac, and driVeliDg, gibber-
ing idiot in the Stale, who is not IN the insane
asylum or penitentiary, gathers with his fellow
rifraffs in that grand caravanssry OF poilflcal
scape -gallowses known as the State Assembly Of
Missouri"
This is rough on Missouri, but turning to Vir
ginia, we find things getting no better fast in
that State The convention which recently net
there comes in for it's share of abuse, and is thus
characterized by Southern editor:
"Very little space in these columns has been or
win be devoted to the doings of the assembage
ticks chlgoes, bed bugs, cockroaches dog ticks,
rcardicks, grub-worms, yaller-jac black
gnats. t0baccOworms, wood-ice, back-snappers,
fy-blows, maggot-skippers, bung- beetles, and
pismires, which now defe our ancient capital
The above writer has rare genius for origina-
ting and piling up epi,hets.
Going Georgia-wards we fnd in scabby look
ing sheet published at Gallatln, called the ETGnl-
iagr, some more healthy disgorgements OF bile:
sit is time for the patriot to turn from the dis
gushing spectacle of Congressional usurpation.
the filthy and degrading view of a herd of swine
nuzzlIng in the troughs of stolen power, and fat
tenne on the peoples money, while they reek on
backsdes, and dirty muzzle with the polutioDs of
the Federal Capital-It is time to turn from this
TO the pure atmosphere Of the people.
If there is NO health, no purity, no confidence
among those who used the trust con1lded to them
to betray their constituents, there Is the sweet
ness and vigorous vitality of glorious life among
the people. If the heastly, wicked, drunken. de-
graded Congressman and his pet candidate rightly
esteem the barbarous uniformed, ignorant negro
his equal, the free, intelligent white men of the
country know the limits and divisions made by
nature, and will enforce Gods decree to the Afri
can Thus far shalt thou go, and no further.
"Stin harping On my daughter" says Polonius,
and the unreconstructed rebels are still harping
on the good old times wher "niggers =" were Kept
under by the lash, and there was no danger or
their becoming superior in intelligence and attain
ments to the ''white trash. as there 10 now.
What an awful thing it is TO be sure, for Congress
to allow the negro the least possible chance as
freedman to excel his late master In all that
makes loyalty, industry. and true manhood wor-
thy of respect and confidence The above extracts
aply illustrate the decency and fertility OF thought
that pcrvades the Southern style OF newspaper
literature, and the Southern mind generally
Western hdilrood Caste.