The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-21
ESTABLISHED, 1881.

favor and authority with their party,
and are largely entrusted with its
management, have heretofore accupi-
ed offices of great trust and response
bility, in which they proved to be re-
creant and corrupt rs h-a
They are the men who, in the Legislature
of Indiana, bitterly opposed and denounc-
eu every e1fofl TO CONFER the right OF Suff-
rage upon soldiers in the field who could
not come home to vote.
They. are the men who wrote letters to
soldiers in the army, urging them to de-
protection if they did.
They are the men who labored with dew
lish zeal to destroy the ability of the Gov
ting its financial credit. They assured the
people that g greenbacks'' would die on
their hands, and warned them solemnIy
against Government bonds, as O wicked
device TO rob them OF their money.
They are the men who refused 10 contrf--
pGse e the sanitary commission for che
4elleI q Sex elq Wounded soiate3s, up04
tae wing ana reGriticat Hretence E1at
the contributions were consumed by. tha
officers OF the erIny.
Iizes ara lsa Mtss " qa eEeusc tsis
ntsilE Iii tH NA1 ti
soldiers lamilies at llgfue bsr he inGasncus
sander tnst they we've living Better
Enes are TIC men Nflo Qee44zels ~
speeches. resolutions, and BY thefr votes in
Congress, that not auot5her man Aox an
other dollar should oe voted 10 carry ON a
cruel war against their Southern brethren.
They are the men who in the midst of the
last great campaign OF 1861 at the time
when sherman was lighting bis way step
by step, from Chattanooga TO ATLANTA, and
Grant was forcing Lee. back into the de-
fenses of Richmond in desperate and
bloody battles from day to days; when the
fate of the nation hung in the balance, and
the world watched with bEeathleSs inter
est the gigantic struggle which was to set
tie the question of RepublicaI Govern
ment, assembled in Convention in Chicago
and resolved that the war waSa failure;
that our cause was unjust, and that we
ought to lay down our arms and sue for
the Confederate scale to make the Union
kick the beam. 1t was q bold and desper-
ate interference in behalf of the rebellion,
at the very crisis of the fight. 1t was an
insult to the loyal armies of the nation, SO
vast malignant and deadly that language
can convey no adequate idea of its wicked
win record the fact With astonishment
that the Government, at the most critical
moment of its life, when a few hours, or
whether it should live or die, could permit
a large body of its enemies TO meet upon
its soil in peace and security, and publish
q tlagrant manifesto IN behalf of the re-
belHon. -aass4 rsffss ia .5f is5.
Now, do not mean to say, that all the
Democratic Leaders have done, all these
things but what do say is thfsp that the
bfned together, and constitute the real
leaders of the, Democratic party. The few
moderate men of the party have been
are carried along with it merely for num-
bers and policy. while the living and ag-
gressive element which controls 1t are the
sympathy and concert with them. ~ glle5
They are the men who have perverted
the word Democracy from its once honor
rebellion, and for every. crime, that at
taches to- a causeless and atroelons civil
WHO CALLED THEMSELVES bDrsfoop 4 ~
arms against his Gov6fpment, calls him
every sdeserter.n every sneak y who rar.
away from the draft, calls himself q DEM
ocrat, Bowles, Milligans. Walker, Dodd,
Democrats. Every "SOn of Libertyv = who
conspired to murder, burn, rob arsenals,
and release rebel prisoners, calls himself q
Champ Ferguson, Wirz, Payne and Booth,
proclaimed themselves Democrats. Every
man who labored for the rebellion in the
field, who murdered Union prisoners by
cruelty and starvation, who conspired to
bring about civil war in the loyal States
who invented dangerous compounds to
burn steamboats, and Northern cities, who
eontriyed heIlish schemes tointroduce into
Northern cities the wasting pestilenee of
yellow fever, calls himself Democrat.
Every dishonest contractor who has been
convicted of defraudfng the Government,
every dishonest paymaster or disbursfng
officer who has been convicted Of squan-
dering the public money at the gaming ta-
BILE or in gold gambling operations, every
officer in the army who was dismissed for
cowardice or ldisloyalty, calls himself q
Democrat. Every wolf In sleeps clothing,
who pretends to preach the Gospel, but
proclaims the righteousness of man-selltng
and slayeryZ7eyery one VINO shoots down
houses and meeting houses, and murders
women and children by the light of their
own flaming dwellings calls himself .s 2
who burned up little children i'm cOlored
asylums-whO robbed, ravished, and muir
dered indiscriminate1y in the midst of a
blazing city. for three days and nights
called himself a Democrat. In short, the
Democratic party may be described as
common. sewer and loathsome receptacle,
into which is emptied every element of
treason North and South, and every ele-
nent of inhumanity and barbarism that
mas dlsnonQreu Tie age. aa3 Ee tsgl
And this party, composed ofthe men and
elements / have described, in defiance of
truth and decency asserts itself as the spe-
cfal Champion OF the Constitution and the
Union, which but q short sixteen months
ago 1T was in arms to destroy; and pro-
claims to an aStonished world that the only
effect of vanquishing armed rebels in the
field, is to return them to seats in Con-
gress, and to restore them to political
stitution by force, they seek to do it by
construction, and assume to have made
the remarkable discovery that rebels who
fought to destroy the Constitution were its
true friends, and that the men who shed
their blood and gave their substance to
preserve it We're its only enemies. fN
el RECONSTRUCTION -
1t is impossible to adopt plan of recon-
struction which viii fully meet the views
of all loyal men, and an approximation is
the utmost that can be hoped for. atfs frfss..e
1t would, in my opinion, have been both
just and polite to have admitted to their
seats Senators and Representatives elect
from the State of Tennessee at an early
period in this session. Such action by Con-
gress would have saved much exasperation
of feeling. and given general satisfaction
to the country, and should be glad vet to
see it taken before the final adoption OF
any legislation in connection with which
the constitutional amendments may be
submitted to the States. They are loyal,
have been properly elected, have loyal
constituency behind them, and can honest
ly take the paths prescribed by law. .a. SD