Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-10-16

the noble martyrs to liberty, justice and
humanity, and in the recollection of the
dark browed race he lifted from slavery
to the full stature of manhood. 1t is with
pride that we look back now upon the
fact that we stood by him when the storm
of war ragged around him. We feel proud
that we stood firm in the cause of justice
and manhood against every wrong and
oppression. [s eli.
To-day we feel proud that we have
saved nation and emancipated a race,
and to-day we follow our great standard
| bearer-the hero of the century-U. s.
Grant. Brave in battle, generous in vic
tory, reticent in speech, yet firm as the
eternal granite in principle, and upon
whose banner those magic words are in
scribed: "Let us have peace" They are
four words, only, but a volume is con-
tanned in them. If there is a country in
the world that wants peace, it is this
American Republic. We have passed
through severe struggle for national ex-
istence. No land was ever required to
make such sacrifices as our. We had to
heap up golden and living treasures upon
our country's altar; the noblest and best
went forth to prove their devotion to the
flag of our fathers. Now, in the language
| of our leader, Let us have peace. we
want no more taxes no more drafts; no
more carnage and bloodshed, and desola-
ton. No, no. When we reflect that this
rebellion is only to be remembered in
broken hearts, numberless graves and
enormous debt, we can all say we want
no more war, but we want loyalty to be
triumphant, and we want peace through
justice, liberty, nationality and security to
all [Great applause Are we going to
have them? eyes; when we elect Grant
and Colfax."] Yes; thereis one man who
commanded peace, who struck down and
drove those who waged war into the last
ditch, and sent them home as paroled
prisoners of war. When he becomes
President, whenever treason dares TO raise
it's head he will strike it down. Every
man who dares to raise his hand against
his fellow-man will be met with the stern
power of the Government. Grant will
give protection to all, through the nations
strength. This is what Grant intends to
do, and what he believes the duty of the
Executive, as / know from his own de-
clarations. [Great applause.]
These Ku-Klux outrages must cease.
You remember in 1860, eight years ago,
there were threatenings in the South.
They said they were going to rebel; you
did not believe it then, but it was stern
reality. Do you know that they are
better prepared to-day than they were
then? They didn't then have this organ
lied Ku-Klux Khan, the existence of
which has been denied; but no man can
deny it now. No man now rises
up to deny what Forrest has acknowl
edged, that this is powerful and armed
organization, ready to do its work. In
1860, you know, men dared to stand up in
the South and denounce secession, and
declare their devotion to the Union; now
no man can do sowithout being in danger
Of his life. Speakers in the South teach
the people to ostraciZe those who speak in
defense of the Union This you know is
the case now, and that it was not eight
years ago, before the rebellion was organ
lied. These outrages are encouraged by
the men who then controlled these States,
and thereby organized the Confederacy
and raised the armies of the rebellion to
crush the Union. There is only one party
to day that stands up against this wicked,
proscriptive and murderous sentiment in
the South, and that is the glorious Re-
publican party of the country. We have
said the power shall not be put back into
the hands of those men, the executive,
legislative and judicial power of these
States, touse as they used that same power
eight years ago, in raising armies to des-
troy the nation.
The Republican party is the only bull
wark against this state of things being
repeated. When you see, in the South,
the newspapers, which express public
opinion, speak of Union men, who have
| lived there all their lives, as scalawags,
and when they speak of the brave soldiers
and others from the North who have gone
down there and settled, as they had the
right to do, and call them carpet baggers;
and when you have seen their threats, in
the form of a wood-cut representing gal
lows on which to hang, after next March,
those they call carpet baggers and native
scalawags when you see the attempt to
put these States back again under the
power and control of rebels, if you consent
to it, then / say you are not worthy of the
blood of the brave soldiers that died to
destroy that power and enthrone loyalty
in its stead A voice, "They will never
get it, No; never, while God reigns in
heaven. He sustained us and our country
in the darkest hours. He never saved our
flag that it might be surrendered back into
the hands of those who sought, though in
efectually, to destroy it. He has prosper
ed us, as nation, as no other land was
ever prospered He has saved as from
perils such as epcompassed no other nation
beneath the circuit Of the cum. He gave
victory to loyalty on the battlefield, and
he will give victory to loyalty at the bal
lot-boX. If we deserve it we shall have
peace; we shall have protection to every
American citizen, South and North, at
home and abroad and with this we shall
have stability, progress and power, and
the grandest march Of any nation in
ancient or modern history, We shall
recognize the immortal principles of the
| Declaration of Independence-the bap-
tismal VOW of our fathers-when this Re-
public was born into the family of nations,
guaranteeing equality in life, liberty, prop
erty and protection to all whom God Gre
ated. To secure this we have only to
plant ourselves on the eternal rock of
right, as we did when we arrayed our
selves against the wrongs of slavery.
He converted what was intended as a
crusade for slavery into an onward march
for liberty, and you heard, ringing all
over the Republic, proclaim liberty
throughout the land, to all the inhabitants
thereof" We shall triumph because we
are striking for the right. We shall tri-
umph because we are inspired by the
noblest principles that ever animated a
party. We shall triumph because we are
faithful to the honored dead, over whose
graves unrepentant traitors have dared to
repeat their treason. They did not give
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