Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-04

that party that derived its principles from
the Revelations of God Himself-from the
golden rule "Do unto others as you would
be done by !" and "Love thy neighbor as
thyself" am glad that I belong to the
party that has lifted up Gods down-trod-
den and long oppressed poor-that has
lifted them up to humanity and to Amer
ican citizenship, to life and to liberty. I
am not sorry. fellow citizens, that when
the President Oft the United States thrust
himself between the Congress of the
United States and the pacifcation of our
difficulties, and opposed the measures by
which we aimed to relieve the country,
the Freedmen's Bureau bill, the Civil
Rights bill, and other measures of recon
struction by Congress-I am not sorry,
fellow citizens, that, as your Senator, I
voted for the Impeachment of Andrew
Johnson. ~[Tremendous applause.
And as now conclude what have to
say, it will be in the language of Gen.
Grant, Let us have peace" BY the tri-
umphant election of Gen. Grant we shall
have peace. IF Seymour is elected he tells
you in his platform; Frank Blair's letter
tells you; Wade Hampton tells YOU that
the Government and authority that law
has established shall be set aside What is
bulO DuU Wul bbdlI tICSC lCOCio dSolh
raise the hand of rebellion9 They threaten
that they will overthrow the Government
that has been established by the authority
of law and made by the Congress of the
United States. Fellow citizens, I am not
in the habit of threatening, but will not
be threatened either great applause, and
[ will say now that if Illinois sent 258, 900
men to put down the old rebellion, and if
Seymour and Frank Blair, and jeff Davis
and Breckenridge, and Toombs and the
murderer Forrest,-if they choose to get
up another war to overthrow the recon
structed government which Congress has
made, then Illinois will send 100000 loyal
men to vindicate again the Government of
the United States, and that war shall not
cease until treason shall be abolished from
the face of the earth for ever and ever.
Immense applause. is
/ say, elect Gen. Grant, and we will have
peace. / am not for a military chieftain,
simply because lie IS military chieftain.
But, fellow citizens, we are in the midst
of warlike times the spirit of war is in
the land We want man at the
head who has been tried and never
found wanting; who has fought upon
thousand battle-fields; who understands
all localities who has been all over the
pOu0u WuO Has pIOfSu ulIuSGll WOIbuy
a man OF strong common sense, in whom
the people have confidence. Elect Gen.
Grant President Of the United States, and
I tell you the last rebel will seek his hole;
and then, fellow citizens we shall have
peace. We will have the grandest country
that God ever gave-a country stretching
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, inter-
spersed by railroads, with sweeping rivers,
with deep, blue lakes, a soil of boundless
fertility, country destined to have
,000,000,000 of human souls within very
short period of time; the grandest empire
on the globe "Time's noblest empire is
the last"
Fellow citizens, pray you in the name
of justice and humanity and of liberty;
in the name of that common country so
much loved, and for which you have sent
the flower of your population to die; in
the name of Washington in the name of
Abraham Lincoln-God blesshis immortal
memory--[applause] land against those
traitors who melted his murder
"Bloodiest picture in the book of time p
that traitorous deed of assassination which
sent to death the most loved and honored
of our land; the man before whose name
let every american bow in reverence, the
name before which all the heads of civil
lied powers bow in homage and respect;
against those murderous traitors / say,
that took from us our noblest, our purest
Lincoln, let us again rally round the
flag" and save our country from the
spOiler who would overthrow it. I'M
mense applause