Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-15
The Unterrified Democracy.

THE Old Guard for April presents the
following choice sugar-plums for Demo
cratic babes:
"A Northern Democrat warns the
people of the South that they "must not
believe for one moment that the sentiments
proclaimed by the New York D0y Book
or the Lacrosse Democrat, are the senti-
ments of the united Democratic party of
the North" The two papers here named
equal in circulation nearly all the other
Democratic papers in the United States
And it is, furthermore, within bounds to
say that seven-tenths of the Democratic
papers of the North abjure such Democ
racy as is sent forth by few such papers
as the New York World. We have no
doubt that the MGSsSss5ppGdns correspond
ent was in Lincoln's war, either as a con-
tractor or an officer He has upon him
the stains of the blood of men who fought
for liberty, and he wants to see the Demo
cratic party planted upon the basis of the
Abolition war; but that he will never see
The rank and file Of the old Democratic
party hate that war as they do the devil,
and no Democratic victory shall ever be
won on platform recognizing the justice
of either the principles OF the results of
such war. x = \ The Democratic party
Is DdIdlyZcu dllSl ny lto lOiiS
cringing before usurpation and despotism.
The back volumes of the Old Guard will
attest that we foretold that such would be
the effect of the inglorious submission to
the Lincoln usurpations. A hundred men
of the pluck and patriotism of Wilkes
Booth, at the start of these terrible despot-
isms, would have saved our country from
all it has suffered and is suffering-would,
indeed, have preserved constitutional lib
erty, and saved the Government from de-
struction. But, alas even now the Dem
ocratic press seems stupefied by the din of
barbarous revolution. Instead of blowing
the loud bugle-blast of resistance, of quick
and fierce resistance to tyranny, they
seem to be studying how they shall
most gracefully shrink away from the
manly struggle to preserve our liberty.
They proclaim, loud enough, that our lib
critics are perishing; but, with the next
breath, they whisper that we must take
care that nothing rash or violent is done
that is, the rashness which is destroying
| liberty must be met with nothing stronger
than whispers and inglorious submission
| If they were asses, they could not bow
their necks to the yoke of their master
with more admirable. docility. A people
who will submit to despotisln for day
nay, for minute-have given up the prin-
ciple of freedom. The moment any man
| begins to play the dospot he forfeits his
right to life. This has been sacred max
| i'm among all free people. If the Demo
cratic press were hired by the Mongrel
Rump to counsel the people to keep still,
and let the work of usurpation and ruin go
peacefully on, it could not more faithfully
serve the purposes of the Mongrel party.
'1But we are going to vote them DOWN.
Behold, o, dolt in one-half your country
no voting can be done, except at the com
mand of the military acting as tool OF
the Rump, and in the other half it must
be done under the pressure Of bribery, in
timidation and fraud, Freedmen donot