Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-01-01
Democratic Home Rule,o

made to influence Northern sentiment
against them. The fact was that It
was wanton and murderous assault
upon them. There has just been a
similar slaughter in Ficksburg, which
was carefully autographed as an attack
upon that city by the negroes, although
the report admitted that the result
was the massacre Of sixty or hum
dred negroes and no white men. The
simple fact is that a white mob at
tempted to compel the resignation OF
certain colored officers, among whom
was the sheriff, Crosby. All the officers
fed except Crosby, and he signed
resignation. "No one" says the Gin
cinnati Commercial, which is an indie
pendent and lot Republican journal,
'sconcealed what his fate would be if
he had not done so. He would have
been hung on the spot" Crosby
escaped and saw the Governor, who
ordered him to return and take pos
session of his Office, and summon the
people to sustain him. He did so,and
the Cincinnati Commercial, which sent
correspondent to the scene to inves-
tigate, tells the sequel:
"He sent news to the country for the
negroes to come in Monday and report to
the Courthouse. They came, were met
at the city limits. and slaughtered---simp
slaughtered and butchered. They were
chased through tire woods and fields and
shot down like dogs Many we're shot
after they gave up, and some were shot
or their knees begging for mercy. The
spirit of demons was in the people. 1t
was not safe for any one not In full accord
with them to be on the street. One poo,
Old negro by the name of Ambrose Brown
was ordered off the street by Captain
Cowan,a former rebel battery commander,
and being tardy in going, Cowan deliber-
ately shot him. Many prisoners were
taken and kept in the Courthouse, and
taken out in the morning. With winks
and mods, and laughter and jest, it was re-
ported that three ofthe most obnoxious made
their escape, which means they have sim
ply been murdered while prisoners. This
is unquestionably the truth of the massa
ere, and the people of the nation should
| fully recognize all its enormities. The
| worst of it is that the persons who have
been guilty Of this Wholesale murder fully
| justify themselves upon the statement OF
facts that We have given, and, we are
| bound to add, they are animated by tht
conviction that there has been q politica
revolution in the North, and that thei,
time has come
The last words of this extract are
very significant Nine years ago, When
it was thought that Andrew johnson
would favor the Democratic party, the
negroes were slaughtered at New
Orleans; and now when the result OF
the autumn elections seems to show a
general reaction and Democr attic res
toration, the negroes are slaughtered
at Vicksburg. We presume that nc
we'll informed person supposes thai
this Vicksburg massacre would have
occurred had the Democrati,
party been as generally defeated as il
was successful in the elections. The
m oral needs no enforcement, The
facts show us what is to be expected
under Democratic "home rule"
All that is wanted in the national
policy towards the Southern States is
that practical common-sense which is
the characteristic Of the American and
English political genius. 1t is not an
inhexible Indifference nor a scorn OF
facts. 1t is policy of administration
that is wanted; but the administra ion
of friends, not of foes. There
is SON ething, comical in the all
with which the Democrats propose
what they call "home rule" phrase
borrowed from the Irish friends of a
separate Parliament, the impractical
bility of which Mr.. Freeman has con-
clusively exposed. The Democrats
mean by"home rule"State sovereignty,
and they say with truth there would
have been no Southern question had
they been in power, There would
have been no Southern question, just
as order reigned in Warsaw. "Home
rule" we are now informed, requires
that the States should have reconstruc-
ted themselves. And what that was
the country saw. 1t was the practical
restoration of all of slavery but the
name. 1t was vagrant laws, black
codes, non-ownership of the land by
negroes, their exclusion from all civil
rights, and in general the same legis-
lation which madeleine alTerry say in
Virginia that the condition Of the freed
men was worse than that Of the slaves.
Should the Democrats return to power
in the national government, their pol
icy would be what it would have been
had they controlled the government at
the end of the war. They already an
nounce that "home rule" is the remedy
for all Southern ills, meaning by
'home rule" the supremacy of the
spirit whose manifestati ons made the
amendments necessary. They will re-
peal the laws enforcing them, and
leave the amendments to shift for them
selves.
No reasonable man could complain
of this if it promised to give the
negroes fair play or an equal chance
with other citizens. 'sLet him be
treated like the rest Of US, and don't
cocker HIM and hold him up. If he can't
stand, let him fall" Certainly; so say we
all. Let him be treated like the rest
of US, But don't knock him down and
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