The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-25

U1aua. WAS uclU tO-udy III tllAS pistCc-
A large assembly was present, lnclud-
ing numerous turnout OF the farm
ers of the surrounding country. Capt.
: Friedlay was called to the char. After
the election of delegates to the Con-
gressional and Senatorial Convention,
Gen. Nathan Kimball was called upon
60 address the assembly.
GENERAL KIMBALL's SPEECH.
He commenced by adverting, in
popular manner, to the wonderful
growth of the nation under the fos q
tering influences of general education
and free Institutions; to the recent
rebellion, as an attempt to subvert a
free Christian Governments; for the
establishment in its place of a hateful
and despotic slave oligarchy-modest-
ly referring to the part he took, as be-
ing nothing more than the duty of a
9 citizen, to take the field against the
traitors who sought the overthrow of
q the benefcent institutions bequeathed
to us by our forefathers. The Gen
s eral then referred, in a familiar and
popular style, to the fact that the De-
mocratic party had, from the first, af-
: filiated with the slave power, which
illuminated in the rebellion, and
5 showed their sympathy with the reb-7
els during the &Tar; their efforts to
cripple the Government in its prose-
b. cutiOn, and their too great willingness
to sympathize with rebels, now that
the war has ended in their defeat.
: He also referred to the eagerness with
G which the Democratic party sought to
ally themselves with the President
and his policy-not because they
loved him or wholly approved of his
course, but to hamper or destroy
the Union party. IF elected to the
Office of State Treasurer, he would
fulfill its duties with faithfulness and
diligence.
SPEECH OF JUDGE R. W. THOMSON.
- ITO make the opening remark of
/ Judge Thompson Ineligible to the
reader to whom his personnel may be
unknown, it should be told that he
presents a remarkable instance of a
well preserved citizen of the old
school. Dressed In black, swallow
tail coat, and snow-white bushy hair,
his aspect is that of venerable citi-
zen, at once commanding respect and
admiration. An orotund voice, of
unusual power and richness, surprises
the nearer into the admission that the
speaker is still in the prime of vigor-
orls manhood zlrzHSS. I eFhaps there
= are some of you here whose minds on
this occasion have REQUIRED to scenes
which TRANSFERRED in this town thirty
years ago-for / see some Of you were
here then-it so it is possible that
you may have expected from me upon
this occasion something that would
stir your blood But the blood does
2 not now run so rapidly in my veins as
= it did then, and am admonished that
but few more years will have passed
i, when all of us of the early population
!. of this town must be known no more
forever to the place which now knows
II us so well. IF / have been enabled
to do aught for the country, and in
the cause of the country, / am in
9ebted to you for that ability Here
is the first home ever had, and
from your hands / have received
-~kindnesses which can never be for
gotten they are written on the tab
lets of my heart so strongly that time
can not obliterate them. ! should be
q insensible to their emotions and their
teachings if, on this occasion, I did
not deal frankly and fairly with you
who have known me so long and so
b we'll. Nay, more; without regard to
the opinions and sentiments of any
living man, it has been my habit, at
all times and under all circumstances.
freely to express my own. [ do so
- now, and / shall do it frankly and
candidIy.
Notwithstanding the scenes of the
Last five years, and the calamitous pc
ROD through which we. have passed
Ia and the seeming security under which
q our institutions are now resting, there
( is, in my judgment, if not much, al
least some danger ahead of us, which
we must avoid We have eOngratula.
ted ourselves that the old ship 81. State,
which has been tossed upon the rough
ta seas so long and so rudely, is now rid
81 ing safely at anchor In calm and I'M
ruffied haven. But be assured that
that ship is not entirely safe. There
are still wreckers upon the seashore
to parcel out her precious freight
There are still traitors on board t(
scuttle her when the storm shallcome
1t is for the great body of the people
of this country to rise up and assert
their sovereign power, dignity anC
majesty and say to those who would
trade and traffic in the market of in
aiat erest. Thus far shalt thou go, but n,
-unfurtherg 1T matters but little to yor
q and to me- whose heads are whitenec
ID over with time, under what particular
form of institution nee may live during
the few brief years left us, but we arr
bound by every obligation of patriot
ism and duty to preserve to our chill
5n6 GFen unframed that glorious heritage
3 3i5 which our fathers gave us, and to do