The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-14
Violated Pledges.

OF the SERIES OF speeches ne mas mduo
in his great electioneering tour. Re
peatedly has he called upon the peo-
pie to trust him in the future, because
he has proven faithful in the past. In.
his bibulous speech at Cleveland he
said: ~ 49, Ben
"Where is the man living, or the woman,
in the community, that have wronged;
or where is the person that can place their
finger upon one single hair breadth of de-
Walton FROM ONE SINGLE PLEDGE HAVE
MADE, or single violation of the Constitu-
ton of the country? What tongue does he
speak? What religion does he profess?
Let him come forward, and place his finger
upon one pledge have Violated
Now let us see, from an appeal to
his record and few examples, wheth-
er ANDREW JOHNSON has reason to
have that confidence in the consisten-
cy of his record that he processes:
ANDREW JOHNSON FAvoRs CONVERSATION
-'' Treason must be made odtous and traitors
must be punished and impoverished. Their
great plantations must be seized and divi-
ded into small farms, and sold to honest,
industrious men.-A. JoIalson's Nashville
Speech, June 9th. 1864. ,isfs.e aqes4f.st
And yet President JOHNSON is re-
turning their property to such blatant
defiant traitors as HENRY A. WISE,
PIERRE SoULE, P. T. BEAUREGARD
and Others In fact, there is scarcely a
leading rebel in the South who has
not already had his property restored
to him. Is this the way to make trea-
son odious and punish traitors? Is
this keeping hispledgesa 0a be
an calling Convention to restore the
State, t0lo shall restore and re-esta6Iish its
Shall the man lolto gaze his influence and his
means to destroy the GoUernnerts Is he to
participate in the great work of reorgani-
zation? Shall he who brought this misery
upon the State be permitted toGcontrol
its destfnies If this be so, then all this
precious blood OF our brave soldiers and
officers so freely poured out will have been
wantonly spilled, all the glorious victories
won by our noble armies will go for naught,
and all the battle fields which have been
sown with dead heroes during the rebellion
will have been made memorable in vain.
Why all this change and devastation? 1T
toas that treason might be put doaon and trail
tors puqaished. Therefore 1 say traitors
MUST. TAKE A BACK SEAT IN THE
WORK OF RESTORATION -NashptlIe
Speech. -, Ia 80 41iN dl
& Yet President JOHNSON now main
tains that the. Southern State Govern
ments shall be recognized by x7reb-,
els, and approves the massacreo of loyal
members of loyal State Convention
by rebel mob I'M New Orleans. He
is SO managing affairs that, according
to his own testimony, " all this prec-
lious blood Of our brave soldiers and
officers, SO freely poured out, will have.
been wantonly spilled; all the glori-
GUS Victories won by our noble armies
will go, fol, naught, and the battle
fields. which have been sown with
dead heroes during the rebellion, will
have been made memorable in vain. q
Is this the way. to put down treason
and punish, traitors2 Is this the way
to cause traitors to''take back seats
in the work Of reconstruction2' Its
ANDY JOHNSON 81 way. Ee,Ieol
"a say that the traitor has ceased to be a
and iniioining the rebellion has be-
come q public enemy He. forfeited has
rights to vote arith loyal men aOieft he reasoua-
ced his citizenship and sougIltto destroy oasy.
Government. NJ judgment is that he should
be subjected to a seUere ordeal before he IS re-
stored to CITIZENSHIP - Nashville Speech.
oo Yet ANDREW JOHNSON, now de-
nounces as " traitors I all who refuse
to ihdorse his plan of reconstruction,
which consist in throwing the State
Governments of, the South into the
hands of the men who, he declared, in
1854, had forfeited their citizenship
by engaging in the war. Is this like
ANDREW JOHNSON in 1854? 4
"Show me one who has been engaged In
these conspiracies, who has fired upon our
dag, who has given instructions to take
our forts, custom houses, arsenals and dock
yards, end will show you traitor. Were
.FreSloenC OF the On1teO states, would
do as Thomas Jefferson did in 1906 with
Aaron Burr. WOULD HAVE THEM ARREST
ED, AND IF CONVICTED, within the mean
ing and scope of the Constitution, BY THE
ETERNAL GOD, 1 WOULD EXECUTE
THEM."-A Johnson Speech In the United
States Senate, 1861. aiTd ha3 as.a
ANDREW j Crimson now knows who
has been engaged in these conspira-
cies, who has fired upon our flag, who
has given instructions to take our
forts, custom houses, arsenals and
dock. yards |" and more yet, by virtue
of assassination he is " President of
the United States Has he had these
men arrested? With insignificant ex-