The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-08
Too Much Meeting and Not Enough
Soldiers,
DELEGATES TO CLEVELAND.
SPEECH BY WILL. C. MoREAU.
COL DENLY EXPLAINS.

proceedings of the Soldiers Meeting, ex-,
| pecting to find, of course, house-full of
war-scarred and war-worn heroes, but
were surprised, when we arrived, to find
the house filled with Democrats-the front
] seats being occupied by those whom our
polite and courteous friend Kierolf has
been pleased at times to call political
| hacks. We looked for the soldiers, but
must confess our inability to discover
them in any considerable number.
| Col. DENLY occupied the Chair and we
saw Capt. Willard, Capt. Redfern, Captain
alias Colonel A. G. Dennis, and at the close
/ of the meeting we met Major Joe Cox, and
| our blessed old friend Sergeant White.
| The seats we had expected 10 find occupied
by the battle-scarred heroes, were possess
ed by such heroes as Ben. Stinsoh, Ben.
| Nurre @. r. Radd, A. T. Whittlesey, ct id
onaate genus. Our quondam friend and fell
low Black Republican, Maj. VIII G. Mo
reau, was already speaking, and we found,
| to our surprise, that delegates to the
! Cleveland Convention had been appointed
before our arrival. The names, as we
learned them, are as follows4s Col. Charles
DENLY, Major Jos. Cox. Capt. James Fitz
Williams, Capt 6. T. Redeem, Captain Ma.
| than Willard, and Lieut.. Joe. overall. = ID
We should be pleased to report Major
Moreau's speech, did the iateness of the
hour and the crowded state of our columns
permit. Will. is an attractive, if not am
eloquent speaker, and has a peculiar and
highly ludicrops manner of illustrating
his discourse, that never fails, to elicit inn
mense applause from an audience that
goes to hear him with the fixed fdeterr
mination to be pleased. It. is, as every
body knows, extremely difficult for a man
that has been a, Democrat. a Know Noth-i
ing, an Abolitionist,, a follower of. Geo.
WI Julian, and a. Black Republican, and,
at last, an, ,admirer OF, Andy johnson, to
make an argumentatiye speech, hence,
Major Moreau; contented himself with a.
repetition of the clap-trap, with which the
country has been RECALLED by Joe. McDon-
aid; iWra.s E! Niblack, and other equally
distinguished Denocratic-w ool-dyed ora
TORS interlarded occasionally with wild
declarations and 'inimitable buffoonery,
and, now and then, touch of that pathos,
of which he is so great master.
He Htdown on Congress, the Rump Con-
gress, as he elegantly styled it; Charles
Summers and iold fhad. stephens, the
Freedmenis Bureau, the. Civil Rights Bill
and the Constitutional Amendments; tel
ling now and then highly amusing anec-
dote, of which commodity Will. possesses
a large store. Altogether the speech was
we'll suited to the capacity of the audience,
whocheered and stomped with a wild We
helnence, . Sometimes rather fnappropri-
ately, it is true, but always with will.
We may, perhaps, when< we have more
space, recur to our notes of his speech
again. tae
THE speech did not possess that fer
vfd eloquenee that his speeches of 1860
did. The "reminiscences of the past andthe
associations of the present, no doubt had
their effect At the close of his speech,
which lasted till half past nine, Col. Den
by made personal explanation relative to
articles that recently. appeared in the
JOURNAL. .sas3s4sfss. .a,it 4 igA
He did not indulge in biilingsgate and
yituperation, such as generally character
ICES the citizen speakers of the Democratic
party-as for instance, Whittlesey, White
and Kferolf, but in gentlemanly and
dignified manner expressed his opinion /
that the JOURNAL did not understand
the sentiments of the Democracy at the \
outbreaking of the war. iia-7 2iij ~ ~
He said the flower Of the Democracy had
SOnC lUbO lIlc MStIf anu many VI bueIl haQ
not come out of it. He alluded to Shank
lin, Gen. Walker, and others, all of whom,
he declared, would have been Johnson
men now. ,eeiA'
iqa The Colonel was Interrupted by the an
,nouncement that Mr.. Voorhees, was in
process to the American House, and the
meeting, which was certainly large and
enthusiastic, hastily adjourned to meet
and welcome the distinguished orator of
to-day. t4 lahssl Ios17 !-est 1al
1fl4 RECEPTION OF VOORHEES,. 4
Hon. Daniel w. Voorhees,, accompanied !
by Judge Patterson and Sci. Hannegan, of !
Terre Haute, arrived in the city last night |
and were escorted, by Captain Willard and
others to the American House, where |
rooms had been engaged for him.
Before his arrival large crowd had as
sembled in front of the hotel, and upon |
his arrival there he was received with loud |
acclamations, and was immediately con-
Quoted to his room.
After being introduced to number of |
gentlemen, and exchanging saIutations |
with few old friends and acquaintance, |
he was introduced to the audience and |
thanked them for the generous reception |
awarded him. His health would not per-
nit him to speak last night, but he would |
try and address them to-day. He would,
however, enunciate a thought. He had at
the commencement of the last Congress
felt convinced that President Johnson
would do to tie to, and had not been de-
ceived, and he thought the Democrats
might fairly claim him as their President
by adoption. But.the chill air reminded
him thatit would be inprudent for him to
protract HIS remarks, and he retired to his
room.
Mr. Voorhees, looks very badly, and he
us that he had been very sick
and was yet quite ill. a
After he had retired, Major Moreau was
called out, and, being possessed of natural
cdcoetHes IoQ1tendi, he went in, repeating