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


written upon the brightest pages of our
nations history. Amid every possible
embarrassment and stumbling block, it
has gone on in its noble work Of liberty
and humanity, of justice and reform, of
advancing progress and national develop.
ment. Three years Of the ten since it won
its first national victory, recreant Pres
ident go shamefully welded the Execu-
tive power, that mistaken confidence and
q sad assassination had given him, against
the party which had honored him by its
bestowal, as to win 60 votes for renomina-
ton, and an endorsing resolution, from
the National Convention CT the Demo-
cratic party that four years before had 90
bitterly opposed his election. War, for
which it was not responsible, had filled
the land with graves, loaded it with debt,
rendered unpopular taxation necessity,
and checked the national growth and its
stately steppings towards its magnificent
future. But, in spite of all these draw.
backs, what has it done for the republic |?
Look at the contrast Ten years ago
| men were mobbed and hung for saying
| they preferred freedom to slavery. To
| day, liberty enthroned in our land. Ten
years ago, the overseer, the lash, the cof-
| fin, and the auction block, To-day, a race
| lifte from bondage into self-reliant man.
h j and womanhood. Ten years ago,
an arrogant oligarchy breathing threaten
| ings against all who resisted their pur-
poses. TO day, none so poor as to do
them reverence. Ten years ago, a nation
divided by conspiracy and treason, and a
hostile government inaugurated upon our
soil. To-day, nation united, and more
powerful because more free. Ten years
ago, a constitution recognizing property in
man. To-day, a regenerated constitution
guaranteeing equal rights and national
protection to the poorest.
Look, too, at the position our land &C.
cupies among the nations of the earth.
With all the croakings of our enemies as
to the burdens of taxation, the legacy of
the rebellion in which our last National
Democratic administration ended-with
all the false charges that the poor are un.
justly oppressed-there is no nation in all
the world to which the hearts and hopes
of the poor in every country turn, as they
do toward our Republic. Go to the banks
of the Shannon or the Rhine, to the Bal
tic or the Adriatic, upon the Alps or the
Apprentices, and to what land does the
poor man look, with longing in his heart,
hoping that he may there make for him.
self, and the family that God has given
him, home, and enjoy civil and religious
liberty? All around the world, from ma
ton to nation, and continent to continent,
you may ask this question, and the eager,
earnest answer is always "America."
Whenever the poor or the oppressed seek
to better their condition, their thoughts,
their hopes, their eyes, their hearts are ali
turned toward this republic of ours. Who
can dispute or misunderstood this testi-
mony of the toiling millions Of every na-
ton and language and creed? And is it
not an irrefutable answer to every charge
that the republic has been injured under
the government of the Republican party?
And for all who come with their
household goods, to become of us and with
us, to share our destiny, to endure our
trials, or to participate in our prosperity,
to secure by their toll home, to live and
rear their children in the true spirit Of de.
votion to cur free institutions, therei room
and to spare. Our mountains welcome
them to their mineral wealth, without fee
or reward. Our Western plains beckon
them to the free farms and free homes Re-
publican legislation proffers to all who
will come and possess and cultivate the
land. Or, if they prefer to live in the
older States, in the workshop and factory
they will find faithful labor remunerated
far beyond the rates il commands in the
Old World.
The future history of the Republican
party can be judged by its past; and its
pledges and It's acts show what that future
will be:
l. tt will surely and resolutely maintain
its work of acknowledgements, of recon
structiop, of making all citizens equal un-
der the protection of our supreme law,
against all hostile attemptsso that, by
the final settlement of these questions, 80
happily ended and so faithfully to be
maintained, the nation shall have stability
and peace, and this once exciting issue be
regarded az decided for all time.
2. The work of retrenchment of our
national expenses--of the abolition of all
needless offices-of the elevation and inn
provement of the civil service-and of
the saving of every possible amount to
the people-will go on ss faithfully as du-
ring the past eighteen months.
B. The pledge of the last National Re-
publican platform that taxation shall be
equalized and reduced as rapidly as the
fully carried out, as already inaugurated
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recent Congress and, as the national OBJ
legations diminish, the burdens of taxa
ton, increased as they were during the
war expressly to meet these obligations,
will be justly reduced.
4. The debt will be funded at o lower
rate of interest, and "having been con
tracted for the preservation of the Union
for all time to come, will be extended over
q fair period for redemption" lessening
largely, without doubt, the present month
same generation shall not be required to
fight the battles of the Union, and also to
pay eff the entire cost of it's preservation,
by bearing heavy and oppressive burdens
needlessly.
merce-tbe development of our vast re-
sources--the completion of the work of
amnesty to the fullest limits of the liberal
proffer of the National Republican plat
form-are all subjects worthy of, and that
VIII doubtless receive, the fullest con-
slderation and the wisest Liquidation.
Thus acting-faithful to the country
and all its interests faithful to the Union
and It's integrity-faithful to the people
whose confidence and support has sus-
tanned it in all its trials faithful to it's
prllllant record for the right-and faith
iul to every pledge on which it obtained
power, q Republican administration and
republican Congress will go forward in
the work entrusted to them, and the nation,
under their legislation, will go on, pros
pering and to prosper.
Disclosures OF the New York Census.
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