Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-03


Home Guards with a iack-knife This
slander he was compelled to retract by
some of the Home Guards present, and
whom Whittlesey afterwards Intellectually
attempted to have indicted by the Grand
Jury, for repelling the SANDER
After the farce was over, and the Mt
Vernon Clique had returned home, they
either became ashamed Of their own acts,
or discovered that it would not do to
have German on their ticket, and as
they were the managers of the Conyer-
ton, and had forced things all their own
way, they set themselves up as higher
authority than the Convention, and con-
cluded that they had a right to revise,
alter and set aside the work of the Cor
vention as far as it suited them, conse-
quently they falsifed the record by leav-
ing the nomination of DR.. Barbisch out
of the published proceedings of the Con-
vention.
The following is brief summing up
of the beautiful consistencies of the
Clique in their Convention:
First-The Convention professed to be
a Convention of the Democratic masses
of the county. 1t was, in fact, gotten up
and managed throu yhout by few inter
ested individuals from Mt Vernon. 1t
claimed to represent in It's action the en-
tire party of the county, yet after the
adjournment of the Convention, one of
the nominees was repudiated by the
Clique, and the minutes of the Conven-
ton mutilated, and part of them sup
,s,oeeodi T., tbo plo 4for,Yo adontoJ br
the Convention, the following resolution
occurs: That we adhere to the princi-
Piles Of Democracy, which in times of
war have ever inculcated cordial and
unreserved support of the Government" j"
In the face of this resolution, the decla-
ration was publicly made by one of the
"leaders," and went unrebuked, that he
would support no man for Office who had
been in "Lincoln's Army" where, of
course, he would be supporting the
Government in the most effective way
that it can be supported; and it is noto-
rious that one of the aspirants before the
Convention for the Office of Recorder,
was defeated solely because he had
served long and gallantly in the Union
Army. On the other hand, the only man
who received unanimous nomination
was man who had served as Surgeon
in the rebel army The " Govern
ment to which the Clique pledged its
support, must certainly be the Rebel and
not the Federal Government!
Again, the Convention says in reso-
luton, that "we refuse to blindly follow
the leadership of any ONE who may array
THEMSELVES in opposition against any
war in which our beloved country may at
the time be engaged" And yet Val
landigham was Justify cheered in the
Convention, and the principal speaker
on that occasion devoted a large part of
his time to eulogizing that notorious in
dividual, who has publicly " arrayed him
self in opposition to the present war in
which our beloved country is engaged, /"
and over and over again proclaimed him
self in favor of peace on any terms.
wsAgeia. the Conyeation resolves, THAT
valor of the officers and soldiers of our
Indiana regiments, sc. Not halfhour
before the Convention had adopted this
resolution, it had slaughtered one OF In
diana gallant officers and soldiers,
| for no other reason than that he was a
gallant officer and soldier" and had
endeavored to give practical support
to the Government in a war IN which
our beloved country is engaged! -
Again, the Convention, after declaring
that it would follow the leadership of nc
/ one who opposed any war in which our
beloved country may be engaged, resolv-
ed THAT we approve of the course OF
! the Democratic representatives IN the
last Legislature. Now, what was the
the action of the aforesaid representa-
tiyes? They introduced resolutions, an(
supported them by speech and vote, de
nouncing the War in bitter terms, an(
tho President and Governor as tyrants
declaring that no more money should o.
given for the prosecution OF, the war
calling for peace conventions at Louis
> vile and Nashville and demanding o
the President an armistice and cessi
/ ton of hostilities and if the Presiden
, declined to do this, that the States, i
i defiance of the General Government
? should bring about cessation of hostil
ties, and enter into negotiations TO
f peace nor was there single resolr
/ ion introduced on the part of the majo,
S tity sduring the entire session favorin
: an unconditional prosecution of the wa
/, and the unqualified restoration of th
e Government !
i Again, the nominee Of the. Convei
/ ton for Recorder announced himself
e speech before the convention, in fave
It of {" old men for the Offices, and Il
n yonng men for the army. Unfortu
l. ately for the gentleman he has larG
'r family of young, grown-up, stalwart sol
/" and sons.in- law, five in number, all
j, whom would make capital soldiers, bl
Is not one of them is or ever has been
p the armyl On the other hand, the on
n one of them who ever expressed desi
N to serve his "beloved country" in t
~ army, was prevented from entering t
SO service by his father The latter l
ne pugnance to young men for office,
IT seems doesn't apply to one of those so
m who is destined to fill the Recorders
II. fee should his father be elected !! i
er Again, the convention resolves, "Tf
1d it is the pride and boast of Democra
I'D to bow with submission to the will of
majority, &C. and yet the clique,
no less than forty-eight hours after the &C
W, vention adjourned, snub and set asi
ry one of the candidates whom an ov
or whelming majority of the convent
ad had nominatedil
Now, dare that clique, after repudi
m m ing and boiling" one of the "regu
L. nominees of that convention, ask
of rank and file of Democracy to supp
lth the balance of the ticket? A contr
Tas broken in one of its parts is broken
cir all and the work of the Convent
al being repudiated in part, the whole I
zee ceedings become nullity and faI
am and no Democrat is in honor bound
sti- be governed by them.
ITO
md MANTUA MAKING.