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


the Democratic policy would have it do,
may not I Justly say that I will issue "a
note bearing mo interest, in place of paying
nv debt? Is not that repudiation? IF
saw will only pay you so much Of the
debt, is not that repudistion? And shall
the Government of the United States thus
| forever blacken it's escutcheon, and dis
honor its flag by instituting national repu-
diation Never, no, never! Applause. I
The Democratic party, which has always
| been for gold, for hard metal currency,
| for "Tom Benton mint drops" and which
opposed the issuing of greenbacks when
| it was necessary to carry on the war
| against the rebellion, that same Demo
cratic party all at once are in favor of a
greenback currency. [Cries of "gray-
| backs."l Yes, of grayback currency.
Laughter and applause. They said once
| that when greenbacks should be issued
they would not be worth fifty cents a
| bushel; suppose, now, they should issue
| three times the amount, how much will
that currency be worth to the people of the
| United States? To the farmers and me-
| chanics?
But I have said. fellow citizens, that the
triumph of the Democratic party would
| be the triumph of the rebellion. Do you
suppose that after the Northern Democra-
| cy have called upon the Southern Democ-
| racy to unite with them to carry this cleo
ton, when they have got into power they
will stand up to the payment of your Ma
| tional debt to the neglect of their Confed-
crate debt? Has that been the history of
that party. Do you suppose they will
| stand idly by and see your widows and
| orphans paid their pensions, while their
| widows and orphans are not to have their
pensions?
Fellow citizens, I repeat tiff you elect
| Seymour and Blair to the Presidency and
| Vice Presidency of the United States,
| then have you opened afresh the wounds
which have so long been bleeding and
dividing our distracted country.
You all remember well-I refer to it be-
cause was at that time member of the
Legislature-whent the State of Illinois be-
came involved in debt to the amount of
| $20,000,000, incurred from the mammoth
| system of internal improvements" Mis-
sissippi, under the lead of jeff Davis, re-
| pudiated her debt and the Northern De-
mocracy, the Democracy of Illinois, were
also in favor of repudiating the debt of
| Illinois and I am sorry to say, also, that
| many of our Whig friends believed this
debt could never be paid. We remember
| that it was at time of financial embar
| rassment; that there was no immigration
| into the State; all were borne down
| heavily with taxes, and it seemed that the
payment of this debt was an impossible
| thing. But, Notwithstanding this, as mem
| bers of the Legislature we came forward
and levied the two mill tax, and from that
very moment the State of Illinois began
| to prosper as it never had prOspered be-
| FORE The people honestly and faithfully
| stood by their contract; emigration began
| to come into the State, and the cOnse-
quence now is that Illinois is one of the
most prosperous States in the Union, with
| nearly 100000 of inhabitants; her credit
is high in every part of the world-upOn
the banks of the Rhine, in England, and
everywhere, the bonds of the State of
Illinois, and it's honest people, are high,
and the people have fourished by tbo
blessing of God, because they stood faith
| fully and honestly by their. contracts. God
bless our beautiful and glorious Illinois.
[Applause. The State that stands by her
faith, the State that keeps her word, the
State that has elected the President the
two last terms, and the State that will elect
the next President from her borders.
LGreat applause. "'s
Consider for moment who are the
| candidates for your votes at the approach
ing election. On the one hand is Sey
mour, an anti-War Democrat, a man who
never uttered one solitary sentiment in
favor of the vigorous prosecution of the
war; On the fourth day of July, 1853,
while he was making speech to rebel
crowd in the city of New York and in
quiring satirically ,.reproachfully, where
are your Republican victories which you
promised us ?0@ On that very day, and
at that very hour, on the fourth day of
july 1868, Gen. Grant, to the tune of
Hail Columbia, was marching to plant
our glorious flag on the towers of Vicks-
burg. [Great applause. At the time
when Sherman was struggling from Dallas.
and Mission Heights and Lookout Noun
tain, and to Atlanta, amid the roar and
thunder, the shot and shell of battles
through rivers of bloOd-at the very time
when the gallant Phil. Sheridan was
sweeping with his invincible cavalry
through the valley of the Shenandoah-at
the very time when Grant was struggling
in the Wilderness, when unseen foes met
him on every hand, and batteries frowned
on his onward march, and our brave boys
fell in uncounted thousands-at the very
time when the South expected interven-
ton from England to aid her in the tri-
umph of the rebellion at that very time
when Old Abe, through the long watches
of the weary night, in his Executive cham
Der at the capitol of the nation, with long
strides paced the halls Of the White House
anxiously awaiting dispatches from the
army-at that very time, on the 4th OF
July, 1864, the Democratic party, repre-
senting svery State and Territory in the
Union, were assembled in Chicago, and
were presided over by this Horatio Sey-
mour, and they made heaven-rending yells;
they sent words of cheer to the enemy,
and words of Encouragement to the hearts
of our brave boys in blue, and in all the
forms of parliamentary proceeding they
passed that resolution, written imperisha-
bly, in the black ink of treason, declaring
that the war was a failure, and demand
ing the cessation of hostilities. This is
she candidate-the anti-war candidate that
is presented for your suffrages at the ap
preaching election. In that very speech
made by Seymour, on the 4th day Of July,
he argued the unconstitutionality of the
draft, and it was there that he melted the
riot that took place eight days after, when
poor children were burned to death by
Copperheads in their asylums-when the
streets of New York ran with the blood of
men, women and children.
| What then, did your Democratic candi-
date for the Presidency do? He went to
| that mob and he said, my friends
Laughter, hold still. Go to your homes /;
4 you can assemble again whenever you
i choose. | have telegraphed to the Presl
/ dent of the United States to postpone the