Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-28
A singular fact Developed itself in the I

a singular fact developed itself IN the
Alabama State Convention during the
discussions Of the ordinance aholishing
slavery in that State. The con mittee on
the slavery question brought in TWO re-
port& A majority Of the cOmniltee
we're IN favor Of abolishing slavery i'm
mediately and without conditions Bat
The minority didn't want to abolish the
institution until the Supreme Court of
the United States sustained the Emanci-
patton Proclamation. In other words,
they didn't desire to embcdy in their
new Constitution clause striking down
the cause Of all their woes, unless the
Supreme Court, by q formal decision,
rendered the adoption Of such a clause
unnecessary. In the latter case they
were wiling to make it part of the
Constitution. But the singular fact we
mention is, that while the so-called
Union men Of that State-ths men
who opposed secession in the out,
set--obiected to the majority report o
the committee, and were hostile to the
immediate and unconditional dsstruc-
ton Of slavery, those Who sustained the
report we're the fighting secessionists,
the men of courage. These latter
urged that the whole question had once
been submitted to the afbitrament of the
sword, and the South had lost that sla-
very was dead, and common sense die
tated that it should be buried out Of
bights1a szr eaoa.f
This conduct on the part of leading
rebels, is something that has not been
counted on by the Union men of the
Northern States If the abolition po i.
cy is urged and adopted in good faith,
as seems to have been the case in Ala
bama, President Johnson's reconstruc
ton plan will have received an unauswer-
able vindication, and fault finders IN the
loyal States viii, in great measure, be
silenced. When il beomes well under
stood that the abolition Of slavery in
the Southern States is the work of the
rebels who have been most prominent
in the war, against the wish aad in OPP
position 10 the efforts Of those who have
always been regarded as the simon pure
Union meu of that section, there will BE-
remarkable change on the part of the
radical orators and Press towards Pres.
ident johnson. Equally sudden, too,
will be the change OF front on the part
of the Democracy who are now active
in their endsayors TO wheedle him into
their organization and turn bis
back upon the friends who have
thus far stood by him and who placed
him where be iG They will dis
cover that his reconstruction policy ia
not what they anticipated; that its prac
tical working is different from whatthey
contemplated, and that, after lalI, it is
q mean demagogieal trick to break uF
the great Democratic party--or, rather
TO keep it broken up. We will see de.
nunciations take the place of soft wordl
and complimentary phrases in their pa
/ pers, and the honey apon the tongues OI
their orators viii be converted into th'
poison ofsspA The President viii ther
receive abuse in proportion to neutral
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been bestowed upon him during thl
summer noE past
But the action OF the subjdgated rebel
Of Alabama will have an inspiring efec
uponsthOSe who love their country every
where, forlit vida remove a dread tha
has hung over them that perhaps, afte
all, the fruits of our great victory wout
turn to ashes on our lips.