The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-06-23

JUN E 23. 1869 @
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tions which were under discussion at II
! sM Of January Convention. (Cheers ant
laughter 5
| refer to recent example in point II
the Mexican war the Whig party didn'
intend to be an anlI " ar party. BnI Polk
ministration had to be opposed. They
went on, and however tenderIy they ar
Tayed themselves, and however slowly they
changed, they placed themselves, at last, il
direct opposition TO the war. | opposed
them. 1 denounced Corwin as a mora
traitor. | think SO yet. AS the Fedora.
party died OF opposition to the war of 1912
SO did the Wing party die of opposition tc
the Mexican war. II made an attempt tc
change its prsttion by identifying itseli
with the fame and name of Gen. fay lor,
and succeeded f2- a Tine. But when be
died it died. No party can array itseli
against tue Government in time of war
without writing its o@u death warrant at
the haud= of he people.
Political parties always bee me anti war
parties, if party organ.zstlon is kept up in
time of war. Even if the 9th of January
Convention had nominated perfectly upex-
cepiioaabie men, | would still oppose them,
for ! viii not consent 10 place myself in
opposition to my Government in time of
war. t saT
said that some of my fellow Democrats
were IlIogical in heir opposition to the Ad-
ministration. | fer from them in tGeir
premises they assume that the Admins
trali0u is attempting to sub.ert by the war
the Government of our fathers. And they
tell Us comp acently that they are in favor
of furnishing mouey IOr the war 1t this
was the case would organize an armed o2
position To The Government. | would not
submit to any organ zed treason here.
would as soon support The treason of jeff
Davis as the treason Of any other traitor.
| bavs some respect for the traitors who
fight openly against the Govern ment--none
for submissioHists who undertake to direct
the war by opposition to the Government.
| viewed with dIsmay the progress of this
matter. | knew that oceans of blood must
be shed before the Union could be broken
up expected to see the battle field here,
and the last hamlet in Indiana in fl h4mes.-
But this did not take place, because the
people Cf Indiana oyeraWed the traitors
among them fe
The men to whom | refer were the origi-
nal BTeckinr dge men. The first blow of
the traitors vas the attempt-Io break up
the Democra ic party. Those who broke
up the Charleston ConSention aud follow
ed Yancet, did it to break up the party
as n threat of disunion. | regarded the
domination of Breckinridge as a disunion
movement. For the BreckinIidge men who
have repented and are now loyal, have no
word of reproach. l have nothing TO say
OF Judge Hughes but the highest com
mendation. But / have no respect for the
n,analaa i.n ba~ k,alH I
lion. At the time Hughes left the Breek-
inFidge party VOORHEES, went in. | knew
Voorhees, as a Wing. have no personal
issues 10 make with him. But his political
principles ] deal with as would any other
public property. A voice-ss Would you
coniscate them p Yes, by the Lord, /
would coniscate ihem if | could. TLoud
Breckinridge as a traitor long before he
was nominated. He returned 10 the Senate
after it was known that treason was achieV-
ed. He arraigned the President because be
The Capital OF the nation, on the |
ground that be bad no legal power to call
cut men for its defense. Many of the DEM
octa's of Indiana called out, amen Shame |
on such men. defended jackson for cali |
ing out the mounted men of Tennessee
against the orders of the Secretary Of War, |
and the Governor of Tennessee. Can turn |
back on tn It record, and refuse to defend |
Mr.. Lincoln ? If jackson had been in Bal |
timore, that bridge-burner Merryman would |
have had NO chance for writ of habeas /
corpus He would have hung him as high |
as liaman at once. My doctrine is, War
to the knife, aud the knife 10 the hilt."
But these old Democrats are alarmed at
martial law, as if it never was declared be-
fore in this country. The Democratic |
Address" signed by some men who never
were Democrats, and not signed by those
wh1 never were anything else, falsihes fncts
" hen it states that martial law has never
suspended the bebeas corpus before in this
Ii was suspended at New Or
leans in 1915, at Sackett's Harbor, and at
other places. | have said those W ho had
not been Democrats long signed this ad-
dress. No wonder they made such mis-
lakes. - ssH
Mr.. Secrest continued for some minutes
onger with great effect, but we have net
pace to give anything like fair and ade-
Iuate report of his speech. We wish we
1ad, but our columns are not big enough
or all the good things that came out at the