Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-27

people at once your debt became COM
paratively less; it became easier of man
agement, because all those who held the
debt knew that their debtors were honest,
and meant to pay. We might have
adopted some of the numerous lodges
proposed before the last election; we might
have lost standing and character, and as
debtors might have increased our own diff
ficulties by subterfuges and dishonesty
But the Republican party held in that, as
in all other things, that honesty was the
best policy. We determined to pay our
debt, and the world understands us as
meaning to pay it.
What then? Then, say, my fellow
| citizens, the Republican party has kept all
its pledges to- the people of this country.
| We told them we would put down tile re-
bellion, and we have done so; we prom
Used to overthrow slavery when we
| thought it was necessary, and we have
done so; we promished to establish equal
| ity and justice throughout the land, and
| we have done so; we promised to restore
| these States to republican government
and it has been done we promised to pay
| the public debt, and it is in rapid process
of extinguishment. I'VE have the strong
est claim upon the confidence of the Amer
lean people.
Those that oppose us, what is their COM
| mission? / need not ask what they will
promise, but i ask what they have. not
| promised, and I also respectfully ask what
promise have they kept? [Cheers.l Look
over the history of those that oppose us.
What have they done? They have prom
Used everything they have done nothing
and they will promise in future quite as
much, and they will accomplish in future
| just as much as before. Laughter and
cheers. But with all these claims of the
| Republican party upon the confidence of
| the country, you must remember that
party like this, including within its bounds
millions of intelligent men, cannot live
upon the memories of the past, For |
| may state to you that the people of this.
country will sustain no party on account
of its past deeds alone The people Of
this country regard the Republican party
with affection; they regard it's services as
part of the inheritance of the nation. and
will always treasure them; but if the Re
publican party is to live, it must live be-
cause 1t labors for the welfare of the
country. AS much as we esteem our
party, our party is infinitely less than the
country, our party is but an agency for the
public good, and unless that agency is not
thus employed, it will perish as all parties
have in the past.
* 81
Perhaps may just as well say here that
one of the great crimes of the Democracy
that crime for which, next to secession
itself, they are to be most distinctly ar
raigned-is the fact that in perverting the
old doctrine of State rights, which is but
the doctrine of State duties, into the pur
pose OF secession and disruption they have
actually degraded the States until the peo-
pie now regard with distrust every allu-
sion from every quarter to duties that per
tain to the States themselves. $500
Our system, so admirably arranged, so
tremendously adjusted, consists of the Ma
tional and of the State Governments. It
is essential to the welfare of the people of
the country that each part of this
system moves in its true orbit
that to the States be left their duties
under the Constitution, and that the
General Government discharge it's duties.
The Republican party have never enter
tanned those feelings of bitterness against
the National Government that character
lze the Democratic party. The Republi- |
can party have never been jealous of the
Federal system; they have simply regard |
eel them as coordinate parts of the same
system of administration, and have SIM
posed that our government was as nearly
perfect as human government NAV he. |
and that the rights of the people are best
subserved by the faithful execution of each
department OF the system of it's own prop |
er duties. But the Democracy, in engraft- |
ing the heresy OF secession upon the old
docrlne entertained by such as John Mar
shall and Thomas Jefferson, the doctrine
OF the right of States to control their own
internal affairs, have rendered State rights
odlous, and have really robbed the States
OF all power and Of all responsibility. It
is one OF. the functions of the Republican
party to restore those different systems to
harmonious action, and acting through the
state governments, secure the rights ofthe
people that have been entrusted to the
keeping OF the State, and to see that from
the highest to the lowest of the men en-
trusted with the administration of the
State government, there shall be the most
rigid responsibility. X K
Our Democratic friends, l think, will
soon disband their organization. Did I |
say dlsband their organization? 1t is dis |
banded now. They will soon cease to at
tempt to reorganize, because that party
needs reconstruction worse than Texas a
good deal cheers with this difference,
mat Texas may hope for resurrection, but
tnere is no resurrection for the Democracy.
they are now busy seeking for candidates
Tor Republicans that will consent to
serve as their candidates in the States, and
they are now seeking for some Republican
who may be their candidate for the Presi-
dency. Democratic eyes are turned to-
ward eminent Republicans, some of them
occupying distinguished situations, and it
Is SAID that the best and wisestg of the
democracy think their great mistake at
the last Presidential election was not to
nave taken that old, double-dyed Adolf
ZIONIST, ChiefJustice Chase, and made him
the Democratic candidate. Laughter
Although am no prophet, let me tell you
today that large number, of Democratic
politicians are employed in putting Chief
Justice Chase on the track for the Presi-
dency. He is the bright star to which all
their eyes are directed, and you old Adolf
tlonlsts tour years hence will be compelled
TO carry certificates in your pockets to
prove that you were Abolitionists at all. /
Inc Peace Democrats and the War Demo
Gratis will vie with each other as to which
VIII best establish their claims, not only to
good Republican record, but they will be
ousy In taking these colored fellow citizens
OF ours round the neck, and assuring them
that they were Originally niger lovers.
tCheers.) The Fifteenth Amendment is
adopted, so far as this State is concerned
probably it may not be adopted before
our present election, but before the election
OF 1870 il will he adOpted and the negroes