The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-11
sPEECH OF nov. JOHN Law.

king buncombe for the nomination to Con
in Washington City two weeks otter the
adjournment of Congress, in attending to
the claims of widows and orphans for the
bounty money and arrears of pay Of dead
husbands and fathers. That he had walked |
backward and forward from his hotel to
the war Office, day after day, to do this thing
and that without fee or reward, or the hope
thereof--all from pure love, and sense of
duty. (For further particulars enquire at
the soldiers claim Office of Law & Anthes--
claims procured as low as at any other Office
in the city, The Judge then commenced
abusing the last congress for being al abolI-
ton concern. He said that at the extra
session of Congress they had had no trouble
-everything went on smoothly. They
were not ready to spring their abolition doc
trines. But we were hardly warm in our
seats at the regular session, when the mat
tiers which were the cause of all our troubles
were brought up,-l mean the negro ques-
ton. Ii is said that Slavery was the cause
of this war. deny it in toto. Why Sla-
very has been here for upwards of 20 years,
and never caused war before. Why Be-
| cause the compromises of the Constitution
| had been observed. Nobody disturbed them.
If we had let Slavery alone, we would have
| been one country. But they brought forward
these propositions interfering with Slavery.
We democrats were in the minority and
could not stop them.
This thing of abolitionism has been on
! ho for lon NH MI ndv ho-
lieved in Andy Robinson when he ran TOR
Lieut.. Gov. in ls4s, but the thing has gone
on increasing until it has brought on this
war-this fratricdal war-brother against
brother. The Judge then told some won-
derful stories illustrating the horrors of the
war, and exclaimed think of it fellow cit
liens, think if this thing could be settled or
avoided" But it is impossible to stop
now, unless some arrangement could be
made, which | see no possibility of doing.
We have only to carry it on, get as many
men as we can, until it is ended. Cost
what it may it must be finished. The Judge
then portrayed the horrors of The Washing
ton City Hospitals. would give every man
aud every dollar to finish it if il can be done.
These men say we can't do it unless we arm
the negroes Great God This Nould be
the most awful Of all things. If we arm
them here won't the rebels do it'll Would
TO God the people of Gibson county could
see them as | did, coming into Washington
how? guarded guarded by our soldiers,
to be ted and clothed by the Government at
our expense. How is it with the widows
aud orphans of our soldiers They have
J to wait and wait. | ask you, my friends,
if those people should be supported at the
expense of our people What obligation
we under TO do it2 Do you want to
have the negroes working by your side
This wi ii be the result OF the thing.
Let me ask the blacklist Republican in
my audience, what you will do with all the
negroes South when you emancipate them
Those men who are strongest for the liberia
ton of the negroes, are the grandsons OF
those who sold them to the South. Look at
Virginia She gas gore otf-she did wong
to leave the Union, but What State has done
more for the Union than Virginia. She
gave us an Empire. The very court house
we are in belonged to Virginia. 1t was not
the South who introduced slavery-it was
the New England States. Let me ask
! The old settlers-who came here TO protect
you when your cabins were burning, and
the Indians were scalpng your men and
women, and dashing the brains of your
children out against the door llntles? II
was these men on the other side of the river
They came over here and split their blood
for US. Is it right to take their slaves from
these men?
How stood We upon this thing at one
time. "G0 to the graves of your fathers
and let them bust the cerements of theiI
tombs and ask them we once held slaves
Should we break the solemn compacts o
the Constitutions. mol let them alone.
What has been the entering wedge il
this matter o. emancipation? The abolish
ing of slavery in the District of Columbia
n | think it was wrong aud Abraham LincolI
: once though. it as wrong as | do. Their
!. was no petition for it. They were takel
n away from their owners against their con
sent by the force of law. Mr.. Lincoln sign
e ed the bill against his convictions an
n against his word. And what compensation
e did they get. The highest only $500, an
= as low as So 90 for the ''pickinninny." Tn
strongest Abolitionists, like Mr.. Andy Rob
inson, say that it is e sin to buy huma
m flesh. Why, your government is dom
re- it like any slave dealer. What is th
/ next thing he does? He issues his proc
p clamation to the border States Suppos
they dJn't accept it Why, be will eman
SiPo1O tbCu dby uON. lucy Will tdAc III
IN slaves any how, against the consent of thei
8. owners. What is to be the consequence
q They are to be free any how. W hat is t
# be the effect They are to emancipat
J. them, and they have got to go somewhere
in and we are to pay for them. The Judg
i. here went into an elaborate and painful. de
i'll scription of the negro quarters in Washing
" ton, and demonstrated that the Govern
IA ment was robbing the people to supper
ill them. He then said that no honest ma
ee hns but one object in this war-the Unto
Id as it was. Let us carry on this war for ii
l. Constitution as it is, and the Union as
i. was. As for any other purpose, it WI
he never contemplated. Let it be carried OIL
Ok then, for that purpose. ! would give q
" Pve got for that purpose. But don't wal
to see us divided people. We must NJ
drive the Southern people away by emar
cipation, confscation, and al that. Didn
&c Lincoln say that the object of this WI
ISL was for the Union? And yet, how
IS it? My loyalty has never been doub
~ ed, (oh y and yet when hear the
at talk 1t seems to me every democrat is a S
,st cessionist. Out of the 5000 men who ha-
" gone to the war from the Isl Copgression
", District, $500 of them voted the Democra