Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-30
Party Recores,

the results of this administration, and re-
piled without word Of bitterness to the
charges of its enemies. Why, let me ask,
in conclusion, should the administration
be rebuked, or the Republican Congress
be driven from power? What do you de-
sire above all things from your govern
ment? Is it not the faithful execution Of
the laws, the maintenance of peace, econ.
omy in administration, honesty in officials
the preservation of the national honor, and
all possible relief from public burdensi
And have not shown that, ever since the
Executive and Legislative Departments
were brought into harmony and political
accord by the inauguration Of President
Grant, these essentials of good Govern
ment have been realized? The scandals
which previously dishonered the admins.
tration have ceased. The taxes have beer
faithfully collected. The debt has been
steadily reduced. The National expenses
have been retrenched. The National
credit has improved. The burdens Of the
people have been largely reduced. AND
those priceless words, HONESTY and
ECONOMY, are written on the portals o.
the White House.
But have noticed recently, as a last
card of our opponents, the preparation
by their National Democratic Committed
of sample cards Of goods, with the amount
of their cost in gold in European nations
under their cheap wages of labor and
their price here in currency, under our
American wages of labor. It is hard to
see what they expect to gain by this. II
they mean that this disparity could be
remedied by cheaper wages for labor here,
it might explain why, when Senator
Stewart, Of Nevada, and other distinguish
ed Republicans, sought to pass bill at
the last session prohibiting the importa-
ton, under contract, of seryile labor, and
strengthening the law passed by the Re-
publican Congress of 1862 which was in.
tended to prevent the coolie system of
slavery in this country, prominent Demo
cratic Senators talked against time day
after day, condemning its details, and find
ing fault with its provisions, as not salts
factory to them, until at last the great
pressure of the annual appropriation bills
caused it to be postponed till the next
session. / will not assume that their OBJ
iect YVES to seek to manufacture political
capital for the canvass out of it; but do
say thSt their unWillingness to cooperate
in reasonable bill that could have been
passed, and their prolonged and antago-
nizing speeches, when time was SO valu-
able, and in body where no previous
question existed to stop an interminable
debate, caused the postponement for the
session OF the bill | have referred to. AS
to the value to the country Of adequately
remunerated labor have already spoken,
and need not repeat the argument.
Whatever the object of this election de.
vice may be, have one comprehensive
answer to make to it. THAT for every
dollar the nation has to p9y for interest
on the public debt, for every dollar Of
taxation, internal and external, over the
ordinary and economical expenses of the
government, a Democratic rebellion is re-
sponsible. I do not deny that there are,
and were, many patriotic men inside of
the Democratic party. 1t isnot my habit
to arraign them, sweepingly and e,1masse,
as their last National Democratic Plat
form arranged al of us as guilty of "cor-
ruptlon and extravaganza exceeding any
thing known in history" and "unparallel.
ed oppression and tyranny" and that if
we won in that national contest, they
would have TO "meet subjugated and
conquered people, amid the ruins of lib.
erty and the scattered fragments of the
constitutional" But no matter what good
men may still remain in its ranks, speak
OF the Democratic party, ita organization,
its inspiration, its leadership, and its his.
tory. That is known Of all men and can
not be denied. Three points in illustra-
ton of its responsibility, as party, for
the rebellion, and the prolonged conflict
to suppress it, can never be argued away:
1. Every State which rebelled had
Democratic Governor. Every Executive
officer Of the Confederacy was a Demo.
crat--its President, Vice. President, Sec
rotary of State, Secretary Of the Treasury,
Secretary OF the Navy and Postmaster
General, without an exception. Every
leading commander of its armies was q
Democrat. Lee, Beauregard, Wade
Hampton, Stonewall Jackson, Pemberton,
Ex-Democratic Vice. President Breckin-
ridge. Hood, Sidney Johnston, and all.
or only the Republican party can it be
said, that not single one ever signed an
ordnance OF secession, or fired on our
flag, or shot down its defenders.
2. The administration in power, which
could have crushed it in its Inception, but
did not, was Democratic. It's President,
Buchanan, gave it aid and comfort by pro-
claiming in his message of December.
1860, that ''the Constitution has not dele,
gated to Congress, or any other depart
ment OF the government, the poWer to
coerce q State into submission, which is
attempting to Withdraw or has actually
withdrawn from the C0nfedsracu," as he
called the United States: and that sthe
sword was not placed in their hands to
preserve it (the Union( by force" It was
Democratic Secretary of War who
emptied the Northern arsenak of guns
and filled Southern arsenaIs with them.
mus arming the South, and also disarn-
ing the North. It was Democratic Sec
rotary OF the Navy who scattered our
navy to the ends Of the earth. It was 3
democratic Secretary Of the Treasury
VINO stabbed our national credit in that
dark hour, as he hoped to its death.
8. Every man who in the North shout.
ed mo coercion" every one who nre-
dicted that the rebellion could NOT he
suppressed, every one who denounced alI
measures devised for It's overthrow. every
one who stigmatized the brave soldiers as
Lincoln hirelings, every one who de-
manded at the very crisis of the war an
immediate cessation Of hestilities and in
sisted that the war was failure, as re-
solved on in the National Democratic
Platform of 1864, every one who branded
the faithful Lincoln IS Nero or Caligu-
La, was Democrat in good and rl,-lar
standing with his party.
Nor can it be forgotten that when jeff
Davis denounced Congressional confsca-
ton, while the Confederacy were confs-
eating Union mems property, they were
Democrats who echoed that denunciation:
when Jef. Davis INDUCED his wrathful
expietlves at the employment of colored
soldiers to help put down his treason, they