The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-03
An Able and / Impressive Speech.
Desire Al Of the People to
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ia crowd of over a thousand peoples In
Guiding a number of ladies, assembled on
Saturday night, at an early hour, on the
corner OF Main and Third Streets, to listen
to speech from Judge DeBruler,i Union
Candidate for Congress. - s9a5
From some misrepresentation, the speak
er did not arrive at the stand until near
o'clock, and a large number, thinking,
perhaps that he was not coming at all,
left the ground, but stin some 200 or 500 re-
manned, and were well repaid for their pa
thence and endurance in standing in the
street for nearly three hours, by one ofthe
ablest, clearest, and most convincing
speeches that has been delivered in this
city this season. .'is 3
The crowd comprised many of our lead
ing citizens, men whom we have seldom
before seen at public meetings, and who
stood during the whole evening wrapped
in the most eager attention, an evidence of
the spirit of inquiry that now possesses all
classes on the political topics of the day.
We would be glad to have been able to re-
port the speech in full, but the sumptuous
arrangements made to facilitate our efforts
in taking notes, prevented us from getting
it down as fully as we might have done,
had we been compelled to sit down fat
upon the platform, with our back against
tree. We hope such care will not again
be taken to accommodate the "humbleI
representative of the press, who now ad-l
dresses YOU" CVSde Andrew Us last 81
Speeches on the Circle.) D-i'i'' z HfaDa
/. We dynever before had the pleasure of
hearing Judge DeBruler speak, and we
were most pleasantly disappointed i'm
hearing, so able, forctble, and logical a
speech as he delivered. gsa1oo
After apologizing for his Late appear
ance, he proceeded to make rapid review
softhe history ofsthe country and of parties
during the last five or six years; and now,
when the question is to be settled as 10
where the power is to lie, in settling the
great questions at issue, he finds the Demo-
cratic party presenting the same undivided
front In favor of the enemies Of the couh-
try that they presented all through the
war. At the outset of the rebellion, they
had declared that we had neither the right
to coeFce the rebellious States nor the abil-
ity to subdue the traitors. We made the
issue then on that question, and the Demo-
Gratis failed to establish their theories.
When the first call was made for troops,
every Democratic newspaper throughout
the land, had set up a howl of usprpation,
derision Again the Democracy failed. In
deed they had signally failed in every po-
sition they had taken since 1860, and he
believed they would SO continue to the end
of the chapter.
When means were devised to raise
money to pay our soldiers, they attacked
the finances, and declared that our bonds
would be worthless, and that the people
never would bear the burden of taxes that
would be imposed upon them.
When we sent our bonds to Europe we
could only obtain 40 to As cents on the dol
| lar, while rebel bonds sold for so to 65 cents.
| The European money lenders met us with
| the declaration that the Democracy of the
South were the power in this country, and
| that the government of the United States
| was broken up. All this was the result of
| the efforts of the Democrats to destroy the
national credit. And now, after the Phila-
Edelphia Cow ention, and another effort of
the Democrats, assisted by President john
son to break up the government, we find
| Confederate bonds at once advance in the
/ European market.
| Hereyiewed the course pursued by the
| Democratic Administration of Buchanan
and the means employed by the traitors
who composed his Cabinet, to destroy the
power of the Government to defend itself
against traitors, by sending all the public
arms to the South, our ships of war to the
Utmost seas, and our army to the far South
vest. under the command OF the traitor
Twiggs, who surrendered 1t to the rebels at
tie outset of the war.
But a navy had been built, arms had
| ben manufactured, an army of half a.
million men had been put into the field,
AMI the loyal men of the NorEa and East
ha( responded to the call for money with
an slacrity never before with essed and all
against the earnest opposition OF the DEM
ocraic party The Democracy had again
failel.
T. They had opposed the draft, had written
to soldiers to, desert and come home, had
consIired to murder draft officers, and had
murdered many of them throughout the
state.aaYaga aoasTseCT +sofas.Tg
Judge Nfbfack had made the demagogue
declaration that we could draft poor men,
but we could not draft money. Did the
Judge want us to steal it, That was
! Democrats mode. Floyd and Thompson
had illustrated it. Z, XXI . ,...' = y
K But the money had been raised, and
every soldier had been paid, and the Gov
errnmeni was preparing to pay them more,
but was restrained by President Johnson.
When Grant and Sherman were driving
back the traitor hordes togthe James River
and to the sea, the Democrats had met in
Chicago to nominatea President and not
resolution did they pass, nor a speech
did they make, giving encouragement or
hope to our armies. They declared the
war a failure, and urged a cessatiens OF hos
tiIities, and thus encouraged the, + rebels to
hold out. But i'm til they had failed and
the Confederaey had failed with them. /
Tremendous AppIapsel z 800 5,Il Toi III
YiWhat would have been the result had the
Dem ocrats succeeded and Mcclellan
elected on that plat t3rlTpal Does any intel |
1igent man believe that the rebels. would
not have been successful and that the loyal