The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-17

| greSS. secondly, there are not nVe
hundred in the entire State who
favor negro suffrage or negro equality.
And the smallest editor of your paper
could hold out at arms length every
pound of mortality in the State that
| fayors the elimination of State lines.
To substantiate the first proposition,
I refer you to Messrs. Rousseau, Green
CLAW Smith and Randall, members of
Congress. For the truth of the
second proposition, please see the
platform of the Both May Convention,
and to ascertain the correctness
of the third proposition, ask
every Kentuckian you may meet.
When the LIST of May Convention
brought out Judge Duval who has
never denied sympathy with the re-
belIion, and who still, notwithstand-
ing the decision of arms, advocates
the right of secession, the Union men
of the State classified according to
Northern party lines, as follows: Two
thirds, Conservative Democrats, who
supported the Chicago nominees,
and one third Conservative Republi-
can who favored the ratification of
the Constitutional Amendment abol-
ishing slavery, put in nomination Gen.
Hobson, a gentleman, who, with the
threat of dismissal from service if he
voted against Lincoln hanging over
him, cast his vote for Mcclellan and
| Pendleton, and whose democracy will,
therefore, hardly be questioned. The
nomination of Duval was direct
challenge from the Breckenridge or
secession Democracy, to renew the
contest of 81, and the Conservative
Union men, regardless of past petty
differences, (and the difference be-
tween Conservative Democrats and
Conservative Republicans in this
State has only been upon questions eff
fecting local politics), united upon
.Hobson, a supporter of Mr. Douglas in
go, thus, in reality, narrowing the
contest down to struggle between
Douglas and Breckenridge Democracy
d The race, then, is not between a
notwithstanding to the Northern
aeceptation of that term-and a
! Democrat, but between a Douglas
Democrat and Breckenridge Demo-
| crat-between Union Democracy and
Secession Democracy. You are, there
fore, supporting Douglas Democrat
Ia gentleman who has always voted
the Democratic ticket, and whose
Democracy is as unquestionable as
| that of any of the leaders of the
party in Indiana. You have pledged
yourself :" to second every blow 7"
struck in his behalf, and to be con-
sistent, must indorse those gentlemen
| who have taken the stump for him,
every one of whom, save Hon. Curtis
+. Burnham, is Conservative Dem
ocrat, in favor of President JOhnson's
policy, and all of whom, Mr.. Burn
ham included, if | have been correctly
advised, cordially indorse the plat
form of the Congressional Convention
lately held at New Albany, and the
able and eloquent speech of Hon.
Dan. Voorhees, in its behalf.
You indorse The conservative ora
tors, and they indorse Mr. Voorhees,,
therefore you indirectly ind0rse the
tall sycamore, of the Wabash" l
really did not anticipate an indorse-
ment !" of the champion of the Democ-
racy of Indiana, and the prospective
Democratic candidate for the United
States Senate, from the JOURNAL $50
early in the campaign. a
In conclusion, I hope, qolea some of
The orators, at present Statnaptng for
Hobson, come to Indiana to acork. for
General Manson, you will remember
that they are the men whose blows
you seconded, and over whose sue
cess you 'rejoiced, , and whatever in
tiuehce the JOURNAL may WELD, will
be exerted in favor of the success of
Manson. GEO. w. SHANKLIN.