The Indianapolis daily herald., 1865-11-07
CONVICTION IN THE KNPUBLICAN
OHGANIZATI.N

Hon. GEoRGE ". Julian spoke in Lafayette
las, week, presenting bis peculiar views upon the
present condition Of public Affairs. De is in IA
vor OF hanging all prominent rebels, confscs-
ting the property OF all who were engaged in this
rebellion, and dividing it among the soldiers,
freedmen, and Others; giving the negroes in the
Southern States the right Of suffrage. but with
holding It from the blacks of Indiana just now,
on account Of its ine1pediency, and opposes
President JoHSsoSs plan Of restoring the late
insurrectionary States to their former place in
the Union. But il appears, contrary to the re-
ports spread from this city. that be did not speak
in disrespectful terms of either the President or
His EIcellenoy, Governor MoRroS. Comment
ing upon these statements, the Lafayette Journal
remarks:
There ia not one word of truth in the state
ment that Mr.. Julian denounced Governor Nor
ton and President johnson. He spoke IN the
most respectful manner of both those gentlemen.
and from the beginning to the end OF bis remarks
he did not utter a word of denunciatlon OF either.
He opposed, as a matter OF course, the theories
Of reconstruction held by those two gentlemen,
but his opposition was confined 70 arguments and
Either the person who sent that disoatch uttered
what be knew to be false, or not knowing what
Mr.. Julian did say be assumed what was not
true in his dispatch. This il the course, how
ever. that puffers and parasites take to buy the
favors Of prominent men. The preseat instance
Is unusually pregnant with falsehood"
On Thursday night. in the same place, Major
MACE aud Col. WooD, formerly Of Lafayette,
k,,t 81. 3 Ali
themselves Of speeches. both having acted here
tofore with the "U nion' party, in antagonism to
the views expressed by Mr.. JULIAN They were
opposed to negro suffrage. TO any commingling
Of the races, against the confscaton Of the pro-
perty of rebels, and any extreme punishment OF
the rebel leaders, on account of its expedieney
Major MACE remarked: "If the South wanted
TO come back and build up their States with ours,
with union of hearts and a union of hands, We
| should say amen"
Col. WooD said, in the course of his speech:
at is unmanly when person is down, and
cries enough, to hold him down. He would lie,
| him up and If his enemy was really a good fell
| low would take drink with him. Some parts
of the South were not so bad. Tennessee had
| given 81, 900 men to the Union army Yet you
will crowd on her what you won't endure in In
diana. Indiana in this was a Pharisee. You
call Tennessee Estate down yonder." What
right have you TO legislate for TENNESSEE Mr..
JULIAN may try this on but the people will not
endure il. He won't carry twenty congressional
districts west of the Hudson river. He can't
carry any votes outside the Burnt District if he
can that. Ii he went South with his proposition
the Southern masters would carry everything"
On Saturday night last Col. JAMES WILSON was
to address the people, giving his views, which
said to be different from those who had pre-
ceded him. And last night, the great Republi-
can Mogul, Governor MoRroN, to fire his
big gun, in response to JULIAN, We suppose.
From all these indications il will be safe to
draw the conclusion that the Republican leaders
are in considerable of quandary in regard to
the questions which now forcing themselves
upon the attention of the country.