The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-09-07
EVANSVILLE, IND, MONDAY MORNING,

by the time the Federal troops have ta-
ken possession of your State again, they
will wipe You up so clean that there will
be nothing left of yon but the tip end Of
your tails. Stop your folly, and come
back and join US. The United States is
able and determined to put down the re-
bellion. 1t must, shall, and win be put
down. Applause. l talk to the reb-
els.
| Who inaugurated this rebellion2 South
Carolina had been plotting it for thirty
years, and if the letter and spirit of the
Federal Constitution had been carried
out, she never could have been member
of the Union, for she never had repub-
hcan government which is guaranteed to
all the States. A man must own'teG ne
groes before he can be elected to the
Legislature. She ought to be let out on
contract to a Yankee company, to be
sawed out hoated of, and sunk in the
ocean, This rebellion is an old plot As
far back as 1856, Governor Wise sent
secret circular TO the Governors of all
the. Southern States stating Fremont
would be elected. / propose, in this
event, to march to Washington, seize the
archives, and declare the Union dissolv-
| ed. Fremont was not elected, but
meaner man was-James Buchanan
Leading Southerners in Congress re-
fused to stay in the Union, even though
they were allowed to dictate the terms of
compromise. Mason said the South
would 60 out, although the North should
give more than she asked. Good United
States arms of all kinds were condemned
at the Southern arsenals by Southern of
hcers, were advertised for sale in obscure
papers; and Southern Governors were
notified to send agents on to buy up SIS
muskets at 50 so apiece. Thus they
prepared for rebellion, secretly for years.
In 1860 | visited Montgomery, Ala, and
was invited by the Legislature to deliver
an address in their hall, on public affair
| did so. l declared myself Southern
pro-slavery man, and that | desired the
prosperity Of the South. They applaud
seen with pain their act to arm the State
in case Republican President should
be elected said it meant treason, and
that was an unconditional Union man,
and would stand by the Union although
slavery should perish. Some of Il e men
hissed, and some elegantly dressed ladies
bounced up and left the hall; the devil
was in them, then, before it got into the
men.
My ticket in 1860 was The Bell-Everett
ticket, sort of Kangaroo affair, with
all its virtue in its hind legs John Bell
is now poking about Rome and Atlanta
xutfh Ol1 L.
arm, hunting for his rights. He'll get
them, his iron works have got them al
ready. Douglas headed the next ticket
"a gallant patriot, who, if alive to-day
would bn in the field with star or two
on his shoulders. Breckenridge headed
the third ticket
The fourth and last ticket was headed
by Mr.. Lincoln, and if none of you have
heard the result before | have the pleas
ure of informing you that he was elect
ed There would have been no war if
Breckenridge had been elected. He
would have gone into office, sworn before
SeIand G9a ana F6e ESSfnstitation and the Union,
spent four years in filling every Southern
fort and city with arms, removed all the
public money South, manned the whole
navy with traitors, and at the end of his
term walked out of the Union, leaving
the North without gun, a ship, pistol
or sabre. | thank my God to-day that
neither Bell, Douglas nor Breckinridge
were elected, and that more honest,
brave, wise and patriotic man was elect
ed than ever Breckenridge could be, un-
less he could be made over again, and l
think l know enough of the divine char
acter to say that the Almighty would
never undertake that job. These South
ern leaders are the worst men who ever
lived There are better men in the
Penitentiary, and if l were not afraid of
getting up theological controversy, l
would say that there were better men in
| hell They took solemn oath of Office,
they devoutly kissed the Bible upon it,
and then after legislating in Congress
all day, and drawing their salaries, met
in secure room by night to plot the
BILE Toombsl Honorable A o. P. x. Y. 1
z Nicholsoni / will not insult Judas
Iscariot by comparing him with these
wretches Why, after all their cry
against Abolitionists, these rebels are
gang OF negroe thieves. SCOTS Ala
bama Cavalry, composed of the Southern
chivalry, kidnapped my negro Charles,
one Sunday, and run him South. He
came back to me the other day, having
given them the slip, after getting his
| s'rights" abundantly. Now, I had ex-
pected that these ''blue coats" might
take negro occasionally. but not the
flower of secession aristocracy. These
rebels have stolen more negroes since
the rebellion begun from Union men and
run them South, than the Abolitionists
ever did. Northern Abolitionists are
not fit to hold candle by the side of
these Southern negro thieves. Your
Captain Perkins, of the town of Frank
lin, is specimen of these negro thieves.
They are hypocrites and scoundrels, as
we'll as traitors. l hope the devil may
seize. them and drown them in the sea,
Al - al Nor- Tanfo