The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-07

the right to peaceably assemble, petit
ton for redress of grievances. Alarm
ed at the progress of Democracy in
the face of every discouragement, at
last it sought immunity by secession
and war. The heart sickens with the
contemplation ef the four years that
| followed; forced loans, impressments,
conscriptions with bloody hands and
bayonets; the number of aged men !
who had long laid aside the imple-
ments of labor, but who had been
summoned anew to the field by the
conscription of their sons, to
support their children and grand
children, reduced from comfort
to the verge of starvation,
the slaughter of noble youths, types
of physical manhood, forced into an
unholy war against those with whom
they were identified by every interest,
long months of incarceration in rebel
bastiles, and Punishment from homes
and hearthstones, are but partial
recital of the long catalogue of hor-
rors. But Democrats, North and
| South, combined, defeated them.
Soon as the tocsin of war ceased
soon as the clang of arms was hushed
then came the cry of immediate adj
mission, and with that watchword
they seek to organize under new
forms a contest to perpetuate their
unbridled rule. Say they rehabilitate
them with sweeping control of
local and State organizations =
every foul attorney is at work
to accomplish this result. Falsely
4 protesting to assent to the abb
| clifton of slavery, they are 5ntriving
to continue it's detestable power by
legislative acts against pretended va
grants; they pronounce the four years
war brilliant sword scene in the
great revolutionary drama. Strong
men hesitate openly to speak for lib
erty, and decide TO attend a Conven-
ton at Philadelphia for fear of des
truction, but all Southern men are
not awed into submission to treason;
and we have assembled from all these
States. determined that liberty, when
| endangered, shall find mouth piece,
and that the government of the people
| by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth. We are here
to consult together how to
provide for a union of truly
republican States to- seek to resume
thirty-six stars on the old flag. We
are here to see that ten of these stars
OPAQUE bodies paling their Intellectual
i fires beneath the gloom of darkness
of oligarchichal tyranny and oppres-
sion. We wish them to be brilliant
stars; emblems of Constitutionalli liber-
| ty; glittering orbs, speaking with the
| life-giving principles. of the model re-
public; fitting ornaments of the glo-
rious banner of freedom. Our last
and only hope is in the unity and for
titude of the loyal people of America
in the support and vidicatiOn of the
thirty ninth Congress, and the election
of a controlling Union majority In the
succeeding, or fortieth Congress.
i While the new article amending the
National Constitution offers the most
i liberal conditions to the. authors of
/ rebellion, and does not come up to
the measure of our expectations, we
believe its ratification would be the
commencement of complete and last
& ing protection to our people. And,
therefore, we receive it as the best
present remedy, and appeal to our
4 brothers and friends in the North and
/ West, to make it their watchword in
the coming election. anh
! Our confidence in the over-ruling
providence ofGod, prompts the predic-
ton, and intensifes the belif, that when
this warning is sufficiently taught to
these misguided and reckless men, the
liberated millions of the rebellious
South will, be proffered, those rights
and franchises which may be neces-
sary to adjust and settle this mighty
controversy in the spirit of the most
enlightend and christian philanthropy.
GEO. w. PAsCHALL, Texas, Ch'r'm.
BIO. SIDNEY, Mississippi.
JNo. Ell. ATKINSON, West Va.
4 JNo. III. ALDRIoE, Delaware.
4 A. w. HAWKINS, Tennessee.
SAM. KNOX, Maryland.
w R. FISH, Louisiana.
MILTON j. Stafford, Alabama.
PHILLYs FRAsEE, Florida.
d. r. GooDLEE, Missouri.
: D. G. FoRNEY, Dist. Columbia
j. Al. CREsswELL, Maryland.
G. WAsHBURN, Georgia. =
Mr.. Sherwood's substitute was
voted down, and the original address
/ was adopted. 81. ssa e.r