Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-07-25

lost confidence IN their Commander-in-
Chief, were divided smoug themselves,
demoralized," and with that terrible
word they would fall upon Us with the
rebel veil and renewed assurances Of
crushing our broken ranks. Reflect
Mr. Lincoln, and thus show that we in
tend to stand by him and fight out the
fight oD his line if it takes another four
years, and IT is the enemy that will be
demoralized and compelled to suceumb.
His reelection will be the Waterloo of
all their hopes, for 1t will eonvince them
that their last hope-a divided North
has gone the way of all the others.
There is one other idea suggested BY
the resolution which had much TO do
with the popularity of Mr.. Lincoln, and
in determining the popular favor for
both the Presidential and Vice Presiden-
.ial ticket Abraham Lincoln and An
drew johnson are both the sons Of pow
erty and obscurity. They were not emily
bora Of poor aud humble, but Of unedu-
Gated parents; and not only so, bat sur
rounded BY the blighting influences Of
slave aristocracy. When old enough
to appreciate the difficulties of their pc
siiions-fo feel
''Ths opProssor's wrongs, ths proud mans cor
tpRssiies,
The fasosnes Of riches, and the spurns
That patient merit q the unworthy takes"
10 which their youths were subjected,
they sought in purer atmospheres op-
portunities to avail themselves of the adj
ysntages Of the Democratic principles
Of our Government, and to so improve
and use the minds that God had given
them, as to raise themselves from their
humble origin to be the peers Of the
pr0udest aud most exalted of this or
any other land Under any other Gov
eminent than ours, these two poor mtn s
sons would doubtless have lived and died
10 their original obseurity. Here alone the
poor nan IS by law the equal of the rich,
and the poor mans son, equally with the
scion of wealth and family, is candi-
date from his birth for the highest Offices
and honors Of the Republic. Ours is the
only Government that ever existed Of
which this could be said II may, en-
phatieally, be termed the poor mans
Government Who then so fitting
representatives. and leaders Of the peo-
pie in this bloody but determined strus-
gle Of the true Democracy OF the com
try 10 maintain the Government against
proud and over-bearing aristoeracy in
rebellion 10 destroy il, as those two poor
mens sons, who, under the benign and
fostering Influences Of American Dem
oeracy, and the blessings Of Heaven,
have proved themselves so we'll worthy
to be their leaders7
Mr.. Chandler said ii was with deliber-
alton that he characterized this war as
the struggle Of the true democracy TO
maintain the Government against the
aristocracy in rebellion to overthrow it
Though slavery is agreed on all sides TO
be the cause Of the war, be held it to be
only incidentally the cause; that the
| prime cause, the origin and fountain, OF
/ this rebellion, and all the woes OF our
country, was radical, elementary defect
aud incongruity in our Constitution and
| system Of government itself If the
National Constitution, instead OF giving
the Southern States a three-ffths repre.
sentation in the Government for their
slave property, had given them a three
/ filths representation for every 81 900 or
| 81 300 worth Of their cotton bales or
| cotton lands, or incomes from cotton
lands, the privileged class, the aristoera.
/ cy, thus created, would, none the less,
have claimed the right, iure dirino, to
govern the country, and il defeated in
that claim, even after enjoying and sxer.
eising it for more than three feurths oil
the existence OF the Government, as in
1861 they boosted they had, they would.
/ just the same, have rebellcd against the
Government and attempted 10 DESTROY il.
That is the nature and history Of priv.
legged classes in all countries and ia all
periods Slavery, therefore, though the
immediate, is but an incidental, cause OF
/ the war. That anomalous feature Of our
democratic Constitution which gives 10 a
portion Of the States three-ffths repre-.
sentation in the Government for a par.
ticular kind Of property, aud thus creates
and nurtures q privileged class a proud,
naughty, and overbearing aristocracy in
this democratic government of ours, is
the true, first, original, leading cause and
origin, not only Of this war, but Of all
/ our national troubles Mr.. C. said he
could not now discuss that point, bat
would only add 10 conclusion that this
hard bargain was wrung from our fathers
in the Convention that framed the Con-
stitution BY the persistent seihshness,
meauness and want Of patriotism, of the
Southern States, and especially of South
Carolina and Georgia, and now tha.
those States reject and defy the Constitu-
ton, and sparn and spit upon il, the man
that pirates of this hard bargain, this
odious three-6fths property Representation
in the Government, as one of the " ga.
cred guarantees of the Constitution
which we must preserve and abide by
for the benefit of these traitor States
whatever name be may claim, is himself
traitor to Democracy aud the cause Of
the people, though a most proper and
fitting representative of that new kind
| of Democracy which, in Convention a.
indianapolis, dares not take sides for or
against its bleeding country. assaulted on
all sides by this Internal rebellion of the
Aristoeracy, and when it comes down SO
far on the border as Princeton, aud is
backed, as it fatters itself, by majority
of thousands, boldly places itself on the
side Of the rebels by affirming in solemn
resolutions, that it is dangerous to civil
liberty for the Government of the United
States to attempt to govern them any
longer than they consent to be governed
by it-thst nine-tenths OF the inhabit
ants of State, though their hearts be
black as hell with treason, have the 40.
solute, " Constitutional right to govern
the loyal one-tenth-that the Union car
not be preserved by the sword, and there,
fore we must submit to its destruction
resorting to peaceful measures and com.
promising with the rebels upon the best
l terms we can get. This is got to be
Democracy in the First Congressioha
Diftriet of the State of Indiana, and il
is gravely proposed to send a Represent
alive Of such Democracy to the Ameri
can Congress-to Washington, not t.
| Richmond.
| After the conclusion Of Mr.. Chand
| Lars remarks and tba anr,Iar.o ,-I;5