Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-08-12

allowed to hunt the animal, which had
been taught to enter the premises his
master had designated. While the search
was going on, the boy would pack up such
valuables as he could lay his hands on
and escape with them unseen. The boy
in his last attempt had packed up
market basket with clothing, and was
making off through the back yard, when
he was arrested and, after a vigorous
struggle, held fast to by young girl, and
handed over to the police. 22sA
The Work Of the Republican Party.
THE work accomplished by the Repub-
ican party during the war has been re-
peatedly sanctioned by the nation as emil
nently patriotic and successful. Not less
qualified has it shown itself for the work
of peace-not less successful has it prov
ed in dealing with the legacies left by
revolutionary epoch. The one tested its
capacity to meet the highest strain; the
other has subjected it to the no less trying
ordeal of sustaining, with just measures,
the rclaxations of peace. 1t has shown
equal readiness for both. The latter test
five years. During all this time Congress
picking problems. Doubtless there have
essary scope for its exercise. But, review
ing the work as whole, no party has ever
presented o grander record of admins
trative capacity or brilliant success.
The close of the war left the Union
preserved and race emancipated from
slavery. But the freedmen were still in
precarious situation. They we're in the
midst of an unfriendly people, whose pas
sions had been aroused by war, and
whose hearts had been envenomed by
the failure of all their designs. Two dan
gers threatened them. The first was
the apparently implacable resentment of
the whites, manifesting itself in constant
persecution and repeated outrages. The
second was the want of preparations upon
the part of the blacks themselves for their
new sphere. In the eyes of the Demo
cratic party, the latter especially was
fraught with the gravest perils. The
blacks, according to their statements,
were lazy, indisposed to work, revenge
full, full OF luminosity toward their masters,
incapable of fulfilling the requirements OF
freedom, equally certain to be in perpetual
trouble with the whites, and to be an
unceasing embarrassment to the Govern
ment. These difficulties the Republican
party had to confront. 1t had to protect
the freedmen from outrage and develop
them into fitness for citizenship. How
well both of these tasks have been full
filled, the country now thoroughly un-
derstands The threatened war of races
has not occurred. Under judicious treat
ment, the antagonism has passed away.
All the alarming cries which the Demo
cratic party SO sedulously and DANGEROUSLY
raised five years ago have been falsiied,
and the great problem of black citizen
| ship has been successfully solved.
| So with the restoration OF the rebellious
States. The war left them suffering under
political as well as material desolatiOn.,
They had no loyal or legitimate govern
ments. The majority of the whites were
adverse to the Union. The practical re-
lations with the government had been
severed. 1t devolved upon the Republi-
can party to evolve order out of this chaos
and restore those disorganized and en-
Filtered communities to their places in the
sisterhood of States. Under some circum-
stances this mightnot have been an embar-
RAISING work. But with perfidious Presi-s
dent reViving the rebel spirit within the
breasts OF the defeated section, with the re-
| suits of The war not acquiescedi in, with com
munities split into distressing races instead
| OF being homogeneous people, it was a
work of great difficulty and delicacy.
Thanks, however, to the persistent cour-
| age and fidelity of the Republican party,
it has been successfully accomplished.
The States are again restored to their full
political position. They are again bloom
ing under rich material prosperity. The
waste of war is being rapidly repaired
The South is entering upon new career
| of industrial success, and her prospects
were never as brilliant and promising as
they are to-day.
Still more perplexipg, perhaps, were
the financial problems bequeathed to us
| by the war. We were told that the debt
could never be paid. We were told
taat the burden of taxation would
weigh us down. We were told that
the only way to endure these difficulties
was the issue of an unlimited quantity of
| greenbacks-a course which would have
entailed immediate and irretIievable ruin.
The Republican party met these questions
as boldly and intelligently as the others.
1t has already paid nine hundred millions
of the debt since the close of the war; 1t
found an annual taxation of four hundred
and fifty millions of dollars, and it has re-
| duced it a third. No one now questions
the possibility Of easily paying the debt
No one doubts the ability of the country
to sustain without difficulty all the taxa
tion essential to the legitimate demands
of the Government. The elements of the
financial problem which were regarded
with alarm five years ago, no longer af-
ford scope for any apprehension, unless
the Government is put into the hands Of
the party of reputation.
Thus in every particular the croaking
notes of the Democratic party have proved
false Instead ola country weighed down
with uncomfortable debt and taxation, dark
ened by war of races, imperiled by a
separate people no longer under restraint,
! and at the same time unfit for the respon-
sibilities of freedom, with section over
whelmed by the waste of war and the
worse Impeachment of an unfruitful
peace-instead of all this, we witness re-
| viving prosperity, burdens removed, for
| mer master and slave working side by
side for mutual benefit, the blacks ripen-
| ing into intelligent citizenship, and the
whole country, North and South, enter
ing upon new and brighter career. This
Is the work of the Republican party, and
we may confidently challenge in the his
tory OF any other party, in this country or
elsewhere, the production of so great and
successful work accomplished in SO
short time and amid so many embarrass-
ments.-Albany EoenSng Journal, July 26.
A Voru-Tha Ant and fha Graasbnn.