Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-01

lies it. it is demonstrably impracticable
to withhold suffrage from the Southern
negroes, now that they have exercised it,
without involving consequences which
would destroy all security for life and
property in that section for generations to
come. Negro suffrage being then of ne
cessity conceded as one of the essentials
of reconstruction, the only remaining
source of discomfort is the exclusion of a
small minority of white men from the
polls by reason of disloyalty. And here
the evil lies in the disloyalty and not in
the exclusion; and know / am safe in
saying that the exclusion will be removed
quite as rapidly as the disloyalty disap-
pears. And the disloyal white men of the
South should be quite contented if they
acquire suffrage as rapidly as the loyal
colored men of the whole country. May
we not hope, that the patriotic conduct of
the one class, and the softening of un-
reasonable prejudice toward the other,
will enable the American people to hold
the centennial celebration of our indie
pendence with no citizen of the Republic
dsfranchised, and with the sublime de-
claration that "all men are created equal
accepted and realized on the hundredth
anniversary of its majestic utterance.
Third. The election of Gen. Grant has
settled the financial question: I do not
mean that it has adjusted the details or
even foreshadowed the particular meas
ures by which the public debt is to
be provided for and it's prompt payment
assured. / only mean that the Ameri-
can people have deliberately, SOL
EMMY, and emphatically recorded their
decision in favor of an honest discharge
of their public obligations, and against
all the forms of evasion and delusiorl~ SO
temptingly set forth in Democratic plat
forms. They have declared against the
policy of wildly initiating, depreciating
and running their currency in order to pre-
maturely pay off any portion of the Gov
eminent bonds, and they have declared
with equal emphasis in favor of tighten
ing the public burdens by reducing the in
terests on the national debt as promptly
and rapidly as it may be done with honor.
They have decided against all forms OF
reputation, "open or covert, threatened
or suspected" and in favor of unfolding
the public faith and maintaining the pub
lie honor stainless. Nay, they have gone
one step further; the question of paying
the public debt "In the utmost good faith,
according to the letter and spirit of the
contract" is no longer to be made sub
ject of controversy or OF doubt In the
American Congress. Henceforth we may
do we'll to remember that proud example
furnished us in the Parliamentary history
of Great Britain, where, just preceding
the eventful battle of Blenheim, the prob
ability of England's defeat being angrily
suggested by one Of the Commons, he was
answered by the most brilliant man of that
day in these eloquent and ever memorable
words: I'll tn
''The question of England g ability to maintain
her position shonld not be discussed in her own
Parliament. Discussion implies doubt, and doubt
breeds disaster. Our business is to provide the
means for the national defense, and let us to our
task" ~
Fourth. With the election of General
Grant comes higher standard of Aneri-
can citizenship, with more dignity and
character to the name abroad and more
assured liberty and security attaching to
it at home. Our diplomacy will be rescued
from the subservient tone by which we
have so often been Inundated in our own
eyes and in the eyes of Europe, and the
true position of the first nation of the
earth in rank and prestige will be assert
ed; not in the spirit of bravado or with
the mere arrogance of strength, but with
the conscious dignity which belongs to
power and with the moderation which is
the true ornament of justice. And with
this vindication of the rights and the rank
of our citizenship abroad will come also
its protection under the panoply at home.
That provision of the Federal Constitu-
ton which solemnly guarantees that "the
citizens of each State shall be entitled to
all of the privileges and immunities of
citizens in the several States will not be
a dead letter under the administration of
General Grant, as it in fact has been from
the foundation of the Federal Govern
ment down to this hour. Henceforward
it is to be practically enforced throughout
all our borders, and every citizen Of the
Republic, himself observant of the law
and of the rights of Others, shall.
go where it may please him and
speak as he may see fit, unawed by
mobs, unframed by murderers, unmenaced.
in life, limb or estate. With these four
cardinal points settled by the people, Gen.
Grants administration will have high
vantage ground from the day of its inau-
guration. It's responsibility will, indeed,
be great, its power. will be large, its OPP
portunity will be splendid, and to meet
them all we have a true and tried man,
WIZ oouc w lAS Otuol SIcdt clcul6utS VI
strength that of perfect trust and conf
dence on the part of the people. And to
reassure ourselves of his executive char
acter, if reinsurance were necessary, let
us remember that great military leaders
have uniformly proved the wisest, firmest
and best of civil rulers. Cromwell, Will
liam Ill, Charles XII, Frederick OF Prus-
STA, are not more conspicuous instances of
monarchical governments than Washing
ton, Jackson and Taylor have proved in
our own. Whatever, therefore, may be
before us in the untrodden and often be-
clouded path of the future. whether it be
financial embarrassments, or domestic
trouble of another and more serious type,
or misunderstanding with foreign ma.
tions, or the extension of our flag and our
sovereignty over insular or continental
possessions, North or South, that fate or
fortune may peacefully offer to our ambi-
ton, let us believe with all confidence
that Gen. Grants administration will meet
every exigency with the courage, the abil-
ity, and the conscience which American
nationality and Christian civilization de-
mand. ii. -..--.--...
AndrOO's Arithmetic. enLL
Mr.. Johnson's head is about as well
balanced on the figures of arithmetic as
on the figures of speech. The lucidity of