Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-11
-.THE LEeAL-TENDER DECISION.


greatly simplify the financial situation,
and to remove the vast piles of rubbish
with which the Democratic party were en-
deavoring to obstruct the vision or the
people AS it was made by the Democratic
members of that tribunal which the
Democracy hold in such supreme regard,
they can not complain that it is RepuDll.
can outrage committed for the benefit OF
bloated bondholders.
The decision of the Supreme Court, II
not hereafter overruled, has substantially
settled the question of the emission of any
more legal tender notes, and the financial
question in the future will be between
the National Banking system and the
possible revival of the system OF State
banks, The latter seems to be popular
with the Democracy, as "reminiscences OF
the doctrine of State Rights, and their
aversion of everything that grew out OF
the war.
DEMOCRACY AND THE CoLoRED VOTERS.
For many years the Democratic party
lived upon prejudice against the colored
race. This prejudice was stimulated by
every means in their power, by heaping
upon the colored man the foulest abuses
and ridicule; by denying his humanity
and manhood by describing him as a
semi baboon, and as a cross between the
ape and the human, and by denying to
him every right that can make life sweet
and attractive. Year after year, canvass
after canvass, this disgusting drama was
repeated, and the lowest passions OF the
white race appealed to by the meanest mo-
tives that can move mankind. My late
colleague, NJ Hendricks. few days
since made q speech in New Orleans
to Democratic meeting, composed
of ex-Confederates. The burden of it was
devoted to telling them they should con-
ciliate the colored vote, and how to do it.
They should tell the colored men that the
Democracy had always been their best
friends, and were in favor of just and
equal laws, and would protect them in
the enjoyment of civil and political rights;
that the Republicans were their enemies
and would betray them, and that the men
who had gone to the South from the
North were,aliens and foreigners 10 their
interest, upon whom they should turn
their backs in behalf of their former
owners. He also reminded them how
nobly and periodically the colored men of
the South had stood by them during the
| rebellion; and this fact seems to have ex-
cited the gratitude of Mr.. Hendricks. l
QuObc HIS OW IL lduS udS0.
"You have no cause to entertain against
the colored people q feeling of prejudice
| When your young men were far OFT in
the field, and even your aged men-many
of them were absent during the four years
of the war-you left these colored men at
your homes, where they stood sentinels at
| the doors, where your wives and children
| were safe under their protection. They
q M
raised the products which supported the
armies in the field and now is it possible
| the foreigner-I speak not Of the foreigner
as man from another country, but men
| foreign to your interests, men of other
sections of the country-is it possible that
| they shall come in and make these colored
men to hate you and destroy you? Your
! interests are the interests of the colored
men,"
| He forgot to tell them that last spring
he advocated the breaking up of the Leg
islature of Indiana, to prevent the ratlt1-
cation of the Fifteenth Amendment, and
that his whole political life had been de-
! voted to warfare in behalf of slavery,
and to excite against the colored people
the bitterest prejudice and hatred of the
white race.
He also told them that political equality
did not mean social equality, and would
not lead to it, and that the colored man
had no desire or purpose of that kind ;
and this, after he had proclaimed from
every rostrum in Indiana that political
equality would inevitably lead to social
equality, and that this was the great thing
the Republican party had in view.
Where now are the Democratic notices,
/ !" White husbands or none" and, "Fathers,
this is white mans Government? ?"
Where are the white Boys in Blue ?"
These war-cries of the Democratic
party are suddenly hushed forever by the
Fifteenth Amendment, and in place are
now issued, on perfumed paper, polite in
vitations to eat and sleep at the house of
Democratic editorsi What wondrous
change has been wrought by the Fifteenth
Amendment. The colored man has his
revenge. 1t has been long coming, but
has come at last. What luxury it must
be to him to now despise the fawning
demagogue who now crawls at his feet
and begs to kiss his hands for his vote
But now that the colored man is no
longer the "daily bread" of the Demo
cratic. party, and is himself invited to sit
down at the feast, they have cast about
for substitute, and have fixed upon the
money to the Government to carry on the
war. This man is now presented in their
speeches and platforms as the embodi-
ment of all villainy, as the usurer and ex-
tortioner, the plunderer of his Govern
ment in the hour of its extremity, and is
now fattening on the sweat and blood of
his people. But they were not always his
enemies, for during the rebellion, when
the Government appealed to the people
for money to pay the army and carry on
the war, these Democratic politicians adj
vised them not to lend their money, and
warned them that they would lose it
telling them that the bond would be worth
less, and that the greenbacks would perish
in their hands. Then they exagger
ated the risk, assured them that the
rebellion could not be put down, and
in the expressive language of one, that
they might as well throw their,money
into the river as to loan it to the Govern
ment." Their raven cries were not heed
ed then; and because they were not, the
men who had faith in the Government
and were willing to risk their money or
existence are now illuminated as the en-
emies of their country But if they hate
the men who loaned the money to carry
on the war, they hate the soldiers who
fought our battles still more, and
would characterize them in fouler
phrases if they dared. But the
soldiers are very numerous
body, who cannot be insulted with impu-
nifty, and it is therefore considered safer
to attempt to excite their prejudices
against the men who furnished the means