Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-11

nized as human being; they ought to
enjoy the blessings of life. There ought
to be opened up to them the same high
way that's opened up to us, and we ought
to cheer them on as we move forward in
the defense of humanity. Applause
The, Democrats didn't like that, They did
not like the emancipation act / recollect
on the day Lincoln's Emancipation Proc
lamatIon was issued, meeting on the street
in Columbus an old Democrat, and he is
alive yet, laughter The don't deserve to
live but, thanks to the great Union
party, by their kindness he still lives, who
said to me: p" 1t is all over. The South
will corquerus. Emancipation has been
proclaimed by the President. / tell you
we are going to have dark day. They
of a brighter day, as we all know. We
saw the sun of liberty rising above the
horizon, and he rose on, rose on, until be
eliminated in mid-heayen, shedding his
| glad blessing all over the continent. They
didn't like that; and yet they will go
around the, country and say they rejoice
| that slavery was abolished. They didn't
do it. And if we had waited until the
Democratic party had done it, it never
would, have been done, never; but zee dld
it. And, as | said before, it is one Of the
brightest triumphs of the Union party,
We hold it up, and to-day the eyes OF the
world are upon this great people that shed
such lustre upon their name and glory
upon their race by that act Of emancipa-r
tiony [Applause.] t.
I The Democrats did not like confscation
either. They thought it would never do
that these poor traitors should be deprived
/ of their property. All they did was to
try to break down the Government!
There was nothing the matter with them
! except being traitors Is that not the
highest crime known to the law? But
this Democratic party could not bear to
see the property of their brothers at the
South taken away from them; they didn't
like that. Didn't like the Confiscation
act All ha that was what tried mems
souls and pockets. They didn't like that,
none of us like it much but the Demo-
cratic party didn't like it at all. In Ohio,
in 1868, for the first time they began to
show signs of fight They said they
would not stand it ; they would die in the
last ditch before they would serve in the
armies of the Union, if they were drafted.
| They held meeting at Dublin, in our
county. General Osborne knows it WELL
and George Hewes was the orator of the
/ day, and he is orator yet. He has not
changed one mite, and at that meeting
they passed tive fesolutions-the first was
| that the draft was unconstitutional, and
the ec3nd was that they never would sub
nit to it. No, they would die at their
! doorstepsa in defense of their wives and
children, rather than submit to the draft.
I 1t was so all over the State of Ohio In
Holmes county they formed a regiment to-
resist the draft bad their companies and
their officers; and their drum and fife;
hadtheir oldmuskets, and arrayeed them
selves to resist the draft David, Tod was
Governor Of the State. at that time-a
Democratic Governor. He sent out to
Camp Chase and ordered company of
,seventy4fiye men to &C. to Holmes county
to meet these Democrats that had assem-
4 bled there to overthrowLnot the rebellion,
but the draft They went there and en-
tered the valley where these men were as
sembled-and here let me tell you that
/ Holmes county is the banner county of
the Democracy. Oh! it is deep there and
4 dark there are some hollows there where
the sun don't shine more than three hours
day, and the least enlightened the peo-
pie are the most intense the Democratic
sentiment. Some of them like darkness
better ---
None of them could berfound after
wards, except struggling round the coun1,
try Occasionally they would find fell
low who had got an old horse and an old bag
which he had placed onits back, and, with
his constitution in his hands, had mounted
going along the road They would ask
I him if he had had any thing to do with re-
sisting the draft No. He was going to
the mill about seven miles off laughter ),
-didn't know anything aboutit. So, down
in Butler county, Chat is another ban
ner county of the Democracy, they
assembled and resolved that they would
resist these "tyrannical eXactions" of the
country; but didn't do it. They had not
courage enough to do it. And when these
messengers,of death came along that they
were going to kill, they were not there.
Laughter. Their devotion to the coun-
try was such as to cause them to go to
parts unknownz-eould not be found. In,
one of the wards of our city, when they
were drafted, there were not men enough
to respond, and that Democratic ward,
election came off, they had one hundred
and forty majority there. Laughter
These fellows who were going to-die in
defense of their homes didn't die. They
lived to run away, and lived to fight some
other day; and I tell you there was moth
ing so dear to the Democratic eye in those
days of tribulation as anegro. All how
admirable a negro was in the eye of a
Democrat that had been drafted. You
could see them running all over the coun-
try endeavoring to find some colored'
gentleman who was willing to go to war
They were not willing to spill any blood,
but they were willing to spill the money
out Of their pockets to get somebody that
was ready and willing to go to the front.
recollcct on the day of the draft in one
Of the towns in our State, that leading
Democrat, who had been drafted in the
morning, found colored gentleman who
was ready to go, and he took the colored
gentleman by the arm and walked up to
the ProvosteM arshal'sS office. He couldn't
smella negro then. Laughter There,
was a sweet odor about the colored gentle
| man then ~and there-Was nothing so
pleasant to one of these Democrats-so
odorous--as the tracks that the negroes
had made from Kentucky to Canada, and
there was nothing so beautiful in the
heavens as the North Star. The Demo
Gratis began to study astronomy for the
first time in their livos. They had mover
looked sd high, and have never looked so
high sinceI With the aid of the North
Staaand the scent of the negroes tracks,
thew made their way through the country,
where the Constitution was being tram
Med under foot, to that delightful land of
iiberty-Cansd under the rule Of Queen
Victoria-they that loved their wives and
4Io;r ob;Idran and never would desert