Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-05
A Voice from Mississippi.

IF the late lamonted John G. Calhoun
could return and read the platform of the
Republican party in Mississippi, especially
the first four resolutions, he would either
groan that his country had so degenerated,
or, Illuminated by celestial experience, he
would join the party and proclaim its glad
tldings more Zealously than ever he
preached Southern rights" against the
rights of human nature. In the report of
the platform, the resolutions of which we
speak go off, as it were, like volley of
triumph.
First The Union first last, and forever.
Second. Freedom of speech and of the
press.
Third. Universal suffrage and universal
amnesty.
Fourth. Free schools-their benefits to
be extended to every child in the State.
The resolutions go on to declare for all
the constitutional amendments for the i'm
mediate removal of disabilities; and for
the new State Constitution, without dis
reimbursement or prescription. How many
of the noblest victims of the war, if they
could have known that within less than
ten years of their death party with every
prospect of success would proclaim such
principles in Mississippi, and be cordially
supported by the Administration, would
not have felt, indeed, that they did not
give their lives in vain No great sacri-
flee ever produced more immediate and
vaster results. In the four Mississippi
resolutions lie the charms which are to
redeem that State, and every other that
went into rebellion--the policy which
would have saved them all their sorrow
had it been that of those States for the last
generation. q
These principles, and the measures
that spring from them, and the spirit
which accompanies them, are those
of the Republican party of the United
States everywhere. If the observer
turn his admiring eye to the great
Northwest, the marvel of progress and
prosperity, he is not surprised to learn
that those great States have been always
faithful to these principles, and are stead
lily Republican. If he look at New Eng
land, which is not ashamed of her histO-
ry, he finds that the Mississippi resolutions
have no heartier echo than from Bunker
Hill and the. Green Mountains; and he is
not surprised that to leave New England
out in the cold was the angry wish of the
naughty chiefs who were not for the Union
first, last, and forever; and not for freedom
of speech and of the press; and not for
universal suffrage and not for free schools.
Those chiefs ruled the country by the
Democratic party. Let the same observer
look at any State or section which is in
disputably Democratic, and consider
whether it is equally grateful to him with
these as an American or as man.
The great service of the Republican
party in this country is that it has made
truly popular republic possible. Under
Democratic supremacy, the fundamental
principles of such government were
despised. Our system had become a
vast propagandism of Slavery That
has been overthrown, but IFS spirit and its
traditions still linger in the party through
which it worked. Nowhere does that
party lead the van of the Union first, last,
and forever, nor for freedom of speech
and OF the press; nor for universal suf-
trage, nor for free schools for all children.
It chung to slavery while slavery lasted.
1t would have supported the Southern
black laws if Congress had not made them
impossible 1t would still maintain all of
slavery that it can, denying the suffrage
10 intelligent and industrious men. and
every where promoting that exclusive
spirit OF caste and race which will anpn;lv
agltate the country until it is laid.
BY their works let the two great parties
OF this country be judged. And BY them.
because the genera! principles and policy