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

on the 10th of August, from winch we tssfAe
the following extra cts: - - - - .
But a few years ago, many of you will
remember that the Wing party, to which
some of YOU were attached, persisted, and
the Democratic party, to which others OF
us adhered passed under the control of
secessionists and traitors. There was no
party in this country organized to meet the
dangers that threatened the very life of
the Republic. Then the people of the
country-not the politicians, but the peo-
pie of the country-rushed together to or
ganize this Republican party. Not only
did they organize the party, but they
created a leader for the occasion. The great
men, and experienced statesmen OF the
country, were rejected; and they took an
obscure man, in this obscure town, in this
State-almost the most remote from the
theater of national politics-and made him
the leader of this new party of the people.
This party, under that leader, accomplished
more for the well-being of the country
and for the permanent welfare of mankind
than has been accomplished by any other
party in our national history. [Cheersl.
L have adverted to the danger which
threatened this country; what was it
The Wing party had ceased to exist; the
DSihONlo1lC pIlIy jIdt DdsoCu O1lt
control of the men | have described. They
threatened either the subyersion of liber
ty or the overthrow of the Government
indeed both, because each depended upor
the other. The Republican organization
when it sprung into life, pledged itself tc
the country that it should be saved and
has it not kept that as well as every pledge
made then in it's name? AT the election
of $780, after severe and stern struggle,
we elected Mr.. Lincoln President, and on
the 4th day of March he was inaugurated
in Washington. The powers of the Gov
eminent, the army and navy, were in the
hands of men who have since been demon
strated to be either the tools or allies OF
secession and treason Speaking through
Mr.. Lincoln, the Republican party i'm
plored our Southern brethren, who were
then organized, to withhold the blow, and
it assured them that their rights under the
Constitution were safe; and they were
warned at the same time of the miserles
that would followTa civil war. They
were told that the American people
would not surrender the Government,
which had been handed down to them from
their fathers, without struggle. Mr.
Lincoln, the Republican President, called
for $4,000 men to enforce the authority OF
Ilp laws. l. lldb Cdll, w Hull Wuo liVOhNtSu
as a mere indication of the purpose of the
Government, was received by the assem-
bled traitors at Montgomery with shouts of
derision and laughter Mr.. Lincoln called
for 300, 900 men, and the Republican party
speaking through the President, frankly
told the American people that the pres
ervation of the Union would cost a long,
bloody and expensive war. Armies were
organized and went to the field. There
was no disguise, no attempt to mislead the
people of the country; but they were told
too that the money required to support
these armies would make onerous and
burdensome taxes necessary. They were
told measures of the most stringent char
acter would be required to maintain the
Government through this struggle. At
every step the Republican party dealt
frankly, sincerely and honestly with the
people of this country. There was no at
tempt made to conceal the magnitude of
the contest. No attempt was made to dis
guise the vast expenditure of blood and
treasure that the preservation of the Gov
ernment would probably require We in
scribed upon our flag the simple words,
Liberty and Union "-one and insepara-
BILE, now and forever-we voted, we rea-
soned, as long as was prudent; we fought
and we conquered under that banner in
scribed with these simple words [Cheers.
And the rebellion was overthrown
Cheers. Our purposes were simple, dis
tlnct, well-defined, honestly avowed, and
boldly maintained. The war was over; the
Republic was saved; and new duties de-
volved upon the Republican party. We
said to our Southern brethren, "We have
waged this war for you as we'll as for our
selves; we said in the beginning of the
war we had no purpose of conquest our
purpose was to maintain a free government
foryou and for all we had observed during
the course of the war that your institution
OF slavery stood in the pathway of the
republic; we smOte slavery, not to
IInIjure you, but that the Republic might
i've" We said to them, then, "Re-estab-
nsh the governments that you yourselves
nave oyerthrown; let the true men, the
men VINO love their country, reorganize
tnese States and come in upon the princi-
PIE OF equality with us, retal1e the rights
tnat you have thrown away or disregarded.
ana come in and share the glores of a
restored government with u.s." They re-
lused the men who during the war had
SAID, All your efforts must fail" wbis-
pered again to them to stand out. We
passed reconstruction acts, we passed the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
tlon, which declared that all men in the
United States were citizens I'VE passed the
hiteenth article, which gave to every man
the right to defend himself by his vote
and we carried on the contest until now ;.
and to-day the Democrats of the Southern
states, and the rebels of the Southern
states have admitted the correctness of tbe
Republican doctrines, and TODAY it is the
democratic boast thatIthey have triumnbed
py an election conducted, as they saw. to
give elect to Republican IDEAS
L ask the question again: .Why. then
snail SLG, not the Republican ticket Succeed J
What can be promised by any other noliti.
cal party? When the war was over nc T
nave SAID, other duties devolved unon ne
wv we Puonc debt was pressing upon us.
we lelt the taxes that we had imposed
our ,: democratic friends say that the Re.
Ruollcan party have imposed taxes upon
.ne country. 1t is true we imposed those
taAes upon ourselves that we might save
tne country. We would have imposed
c.;nos uooole IN amount we would have
gwen twice the number of precious lives
anu Cwlce the amount of treasure, to save
sne hepupIc; we take the responsibility
plausel S'o 1SSS Ap-
Wen, the country was free, and the
qces'lon came To- be, what should lie done
Nun lhe puolic debt? Our Democratic
lllGnuS inquired with injurious schemes.
seeking some mode by which they comb
escape the responsibility of their position.
anu were illilng the country with fruitful
tpe SESSIONS as to the mode of discharginr
sne Poohc debt, without adopting the
simple, rational Panrbl;ao VIC