Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-14

Iieve is the best in the world, it is ex-
ceedingly gratifying to me to meet you
to day, standing on common ground,
raIlying around the Consultation and the
Union of these States, the preservation
of which, conseientiorsly and honestly
believe, will result in the promotion and
of this people. repeat,
/ am grati6ed to meet you to>day, ex-
pressing these principles and announcing
the sentiments to which you have given
utterance, and | trust this occasion will
long be remembered. have no doubt
of your intention to carry out and com
ply with every single principle laid down
in the resolutions youhave submitted.
] know that many of you are distrustful,
bat am one Of those who have conf
dence in the judgment, in the integrity,
in the intelligence, and in the virtue OF
the great masses of the American peo-
pie, and having such confidence ! am
willing to trust them, and thank God
that we have not reached that point
where we have lost all confidence in
each other. The spirit of the Gov
jernment can only be preserved,
we can only become. prosperous and
great as people, by mutual fOr6earaElee
and confidence. Upon that faith and
nidenee alone can the Government be
successfully carried ont no the cardinal
principle of representation to which you
refer. I will make a single remark,
that principle is impervient, that
it constitutes one of the fundamental
elements of this government, the repre-
sentatives of the State and of the people
should have the qualifications prescribed
by the Constitution of the United States,
and. those qualifications must unques-
tionably imply loyalty. he who comes
q representative having the qualifications
prescribed by the Constitution to fit him
to take seat in. either of the delibera-
tive bodies which constitute the National
Legislative, must necessarily, according
to the intent of the Constitution, be q
loyal man, willing to abide by and be de-
voted to the Constitution and the, Union
of the States He cannot be for the
Constitution-he cannot be for the Union
--he cannot acknowledge obedience to
the laws, unless he is loyal When the
people send such men here; ngood faith,
they are entitled to representation
through them.
In going into the recent rebellion or
instruction against the Government of
the United States, you erred; and in re-
turning aud resuming your relations
with the Federal Government, I am free
to say that all the responsible positions
and places ought TO be confined dis
tinctly and clesrlv to men who are loyal
If there were only FIVE thousand men in
State, or less number, but sufficient
to take the charge of political mi.
ehinery of the State, those FIVE thous-
and, or the lesser number, are entitled
TO il.
] look upon it an being fundamental
that the exercise of political power
should be confined to loyal men, and II
regard it as implied in doctrines laid
down in these resolutions and in the
eloquent address by which they have
been accompanied. may say that fur
thermore, after having passed through
the great struggle in which we have
been engaged we should be placed upon
much more acceptable grounds in our
relations to the general government.
If unmistakably and unquestionably
loyal men were presented to ell the
places Of honor, / feel that the day is
not far distant when all will be peace
and harmony.
! speak confidently in reference to the
great mass of the American people,
when say they have determined that
this Union shall be made whole, and that
the great right of representation in the
councils of the nation shall be ackn owl
edged.
Gentlemen, that is a fundamental
psinciple. No taxation without repre-
sentation, was one Of the principles
which carried rs through the revolution.
This great principle will hold good yet,
if we but perform our duty-if we but
comply with the spirit of the resolutions
to me to-day.
American people will maintain and
sustain the great doctrines upon which
the Government was inaugurated, it can
be done and it win be done, and think
that il the effort be fairly and fully made
with forbearance and with prudence and
with discretion and wisdom, the end is
not very far distant. 1t seems to me
apparent that from every consideration
the best policy which could be adopted
at present would be-, a restoration of
these States and of the Government no.
on correct principles i
We have serious foreign difficulties,
but the moment It can be announced
that the Union of the States is again
complete--that we have resumed our
career of prosperity and greatness-at
that very instant, almost, all our foreign
difficulties will be settled, for there is no
power on earth that win care to have a
controversy or rupture with the Govern,
ment of the United States. Under such
circumstances, if these States be fully
restored, the national currency, which is
thought by some to be inflated to q very
great extent, will be enlarged The
number of hands through which it has
to pass will be increased; the qnality of
commerce 10. which it is to be employed
as medium of exchange will be en-.
larged, and then it will begin to approx
mate to what we all desire--a specie
standard If all the States were re-
stored, if peace and order reigned
throughout the land, and industrial pur-
suits and old avocations of peace were
again resumed, the day would not be far
distant when we would put in The com
merce of the world two hundred and
fifty millions of dollars, or three hun
dred million dollars worth of cotton and
tobacco, and various products of the
SoutherR States, which would constitute,
in part, basis Of this country then,
instead of coin being invested, we should
reverse the position and put the base at
the bottom, as it ought to be- and the
suffrage to the black man. This was a
after the fact, to chief of
the rebellion, dictated by the President
as conqueror, according to his own
imperial will He was not only pardon
ed but restored to popsr. ~ ,su "a
II was further known that General
Wade Hampton retired from the guber-
Material field in South Carolina, because
HE accession the chair might embarrass
the President in bis benevolent designs.
The executive had no right to thus act
as the President, but as g conqueror.
When man like Hampton talks about
the radicals of the North. IL ia known