Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
GRANT AND COLFAX.
Grand Ratification Meeting in Chicago.

A GRAND Republican rally was held in
Chicago on the evening of the 18th, at
which 10000 to 10000 of the. loyal and
liberty loving masses assembled. Stirring
and patriotic speeches were made by Gov
ernor Oglesby, Hon. Matt. Carpenter,
Hon. N. B. Judd, General Davis, and
others. Hon. J. Y. Scammon presided.
He spoke as follows:
Gentgemen: In this great crisis believe
there are but two parties, as there were
but two parties in the war-one that adj
dressed rebels and rebel sympathisers as
"my friends" and one that fought to put
down the rebellion. Certainly we did not,
nor did any man that foughtthe rebels,
address the rebels or rebel sympathisers
as "my friends" If there is any candi-
date before the American people now for
the highest office in the United States who
addressed rebels or rebel sympthisers as
"my friends" he certainly is not the can
didate of the Republican party nor of the
country. Applause He voted in the
Convention which was held, and over
which he presided, here in 1854, and in
which that courageous man who fought
| not to win, was nominated for the Presi-
dency, wherein it was declared that the
war was failure, and it must cease He
aided to bring about that secession by his
talk, and by his encouragement to his
rebel friends in New York. e.
Our candidate, on the contrary, fought
as we voted. He fought it out on this
line; he pushed on toward Richmond.
He broke the egg-shell of treason and re-
bellion, and brought peace and victory to
the country. 1t is for you to see, my
friends; it is for all of us to see that the
promises which we made in the time OF
the war, that those who fought for us
should be sustained by our votes, are car
ried out in this election.
Those of you who are old enough to re-
member the war of 1912, know that there
| was party at that time that did not SYM
pathize with the country, but who sympa-
thized with its opponents. We know That
there was an old party then who under
took to put down Madison, the war Presl-
dent of the country. We know that they
organized, that they brought forth their
candidate, but after the next election they
party. So it is with the Democratic party.
So long as it was the party of freedom, so
| long as it was the party OF human pro-
gress, so long as it sympathized with the
doWntrodden, it was invincible. But
WuGu III nIIlNCU OtOtdSOt WASh ~ AAS9A
tated and trembled, and went over to
slavery, then it read on the broad sky,
Meme, meme, tekeg Wptarsia." Thou art
weighed in the balance and found want
ing. TApplause1 The American people,
at the election of 1854, pronounced the SEN
tence of death against that party, and it
will be our fault if we do not execute it at
this election Applause.] Not to detain
you longer, allow me to introduce to you
the most eloquent man in the West, the
man who was q Democrat, so long as the
Democratic party sympathized with free
dom and human rights; but the moment
that party became recreant, passed over
to the loving soulof the Republican party,
which has arrayed itself in favor of lib
erty and the country. He has been with
us since he has been with us all the time |;
he did good service for us in 1864, and
though he lives ina State with man, who,
so far as his acts for the country are con
cerned, is properly named-Doollttle-h
always does much. a'ra5
Mr.. Carpenter then delivered an elo-
quent and forcible speech, from which we
quote portion relating to the question OF
reconstruction
Now there are two theories, one or the
other of which must be true. The South
ern theory ofthe situation is that the edict
of secession passed by Georgia, took her
out of the Union and out of the limits OF
our Federal dominiens Upon this theory,
when we conquered that State, her soil
and her people were as subject to The ab-
solute will of the conqueror, as would be
the soil and people on conquered Mexico
or any other foreign power subdued by our
army If this was their condition, then it
was not for them to say whether they
would have State Government or not; /;
it was not for them to say whether they
would ever belong to the Union or not, as
an independent State. 1t was for us to
say. 1t was for the conqueror to dictate
terms to the conquered-not for the con-
quered to dictate terms to the conqueror.
I"You are right"] Then, upon their
theory, Georgia had no more right to es-
tablish State Government, to come back
into the Union, than the people of Mexico
had right to demand admission into the
Union when Scott planted his standard on
the halls of the Montezuma.
Again, the other theory is-the North
ern theory is-the constitutional theory is
that the ordinance Of secession was
nullity; that it was no protection to the
rebels of the South; and, although we
CHOSE, DIS We udtl u IlSlt w W. W OAOASloS
as against them belligerent rights-the
rights and power of 8 sovereign over his
rebel citizens yet they acquired by the
ordinance of secession no privilege and no
protection.
What is the result of that doctrine?
The result of that doctrine is that when
the war ended they were so many subdued
and conquered traitors, taken in the
| crime, taken with the blood upon their
garments. Sensation. They have for
| feited life, liberty, property, civil govern
ment, and everything that belongs to man.
| TGreat applause; cries, "Thats so
"That's so r' "You have got itt''1
Upon this theory, very clearly, the
people of Georgia had no right to form a
| Government and say it had a right to
come back into the Union. Now, l don't
care which theory the Democrats take for
the purposes of this argument, because
either one cuts their throat from ear to
ear. Great applause and laughter
There is, then, an end to this pretext
that Georgia could settle this question.
Rebels may say when war shall begin,
where it shall begin, how it shall begin,
how it shall be managed, but the Govern
ment shall say how it shall end [cheersl
and what shall be the condition OF the
| conquered. L"Thats. the idea" Ap-
plause.] 1t is about time, after hundreds
! and thousands of lives have been sacri'
ficed-after we have baptized and fertil-
lied that rebel soil with the best blood OF
the land-it is about time that some man
had the courage, and the nerve, and the
good sense, to stand up and talk the truth
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