The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-31

| times gone by, that L never saw Ine
day when | had much faith in the
Democratic party. / never belonged
to that party in my life; a great many
good men have, up to the time when
the late war began. But when it was
thrust upon the country by the lead
ers and politicians who control that
part, all good men dropped the name
and went into the organization which
had for its purpose the crushing out
of treason; and esince that time all
real patriots, and there were many of
them in the Democratic party, have
no longer called, themselves Demo
Gratis. -
/ Onthe other side of the river we
have had no Democratic party for
four years, and why? Simply because.
as L said In the beginning of my re-
marks, Democracy was only another
name for treason. Another reason
was, because all the great leaders in
the rebellion were Democrats; all the
leaders of this party in Kentucky, as
elsewhere, had gone into the rebel
lion-John G. Breckenridge, Simon
Bolivar Buckner, John Morgan
Every man wholeft his home and his
kindred, and went off to the Southern
Confederaey to join himself with those
who sought the life of the nation, and
ieame back with a torch Ia his hand to
fire the ahomes of Union men, was q
Democrat Every guerrilla who rode
over those mountains, across the river,
driving the Union people from their
homes, Insulting their wives, and
burning their houses over their heads,
gloried In the name of Democrat. 24t
And when you come on this side of
the river, the name was not very
popular lit is true they kept up the
organization, but they had to carry
the load from the other side Of the
line Such men as Bowles and MILL
gan and Horsey,Ioof Indiana, who
organized. the Sons of Liberty, trea-
sonable organization which had for
its purpose the assassination of the
loyal Governors of the North, and the
turning of their State Governments
over to the hands of traitors These
men boasted in the name of Democrat.
Then we had no such party in Ken
lucky during the war, because Ken
lucky was then ruled by Federal
bayonets, with loyal men behind them.
lCheers.I GOA aosm scot E. Z
DEMOCRACY IN KENTUCKY.
Buttsince the war the thing has re-,
vived on that, side of the river. On
the LIST of May last they held Con-
vention in Louisville, where they re-
organized the Democratic party of
kentucky, and who were they that
met for that purpose? The same men
who in 1861 had wandered after trea-
sons. banner. the same who in 1862
and 1868, had done all they could to
break up our country; the same who
in 1863 and 1864 rode, through your
State and mine, stealing our horses
and burning our towns The leaders
| of the late rebel hosts there met and
| re6rganized the Democratic party.
| And in a series of nineteen resolu-
tions they speak not one word of con-
demnation of the rebellion, not one
word of appreciation of the Union
men, not one congratulation that the
nation has been preserved, but they
sustain the wise policy of Andrew
johnson" [Applause.] And it is a
noted fact, sustained by the ballot
boxes of Kentucky, that in those
counties where the largest number of
returned rebel soldiers were to be
found, there the Democratic ticket
received the largestvote; and on their
local tickets, those who have done the
most against their country, received
the most votes. This is a sad COM
rnentary not only on Kentucky loyalty,
but on the loyalty of the Democratic
party. [Cheers.] ~
But [ may be told that the Demo-
cratic party in the North is somewhat
different from that of the South. Ny
fellow citizens, there's no difference,
and / need only cite you to this fact
to prove it: In the recent con-
test in Kentucky-a contest of treas
on on the one side, against only half
way loyalty on the other cheers +
| the sympathies 0P the Democratic
Y party throughout the whole North
were on the, side of that party the
most reasonable in its character.
4 Every Democratic paper north of the
Ohio River, from Maine to California
was in favor of the secession Duvall
ticket. 1t is a noted fact that the
great head and front of the Demo,
cratic party of Ohio, and I may say o.
the nation itself, Geo. III. Pendleton
the late candidate of that party fol
Vice President, took it upon himself
to canvass the State of Kentucky in
aid of that rebel ticket. Tell me not
then, that Democracy is not the same
thing everywhere. 1t Is the same
dangerous element, North and South
that would wrench this country from
the hands of the loyal men who have
saved it 4 from treason's grasp, anc
who for four. years and a half hav'
J fought to destroy it. ~
4 THE s1TUATIoN-How 1T LOOKS.
Il have already detained you too
long, and will only add few words
: 1t is no idle matter we have to NEE