The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-03-22

said Abraham Lincoln was traitor ana
a despot. / heard Vallandingham say
that Caszar had his Brutus, Charles the
III had his Cromwell and Lincoln had
better take care if he would avoid the
fate that overlook them. He did meet
that fate and his blood is upon the hands
of the democratic traitors who By their
teachings melted tie assassin TO the
commission of this awful crime. The
democratic leaders and newspapers de-
cried the currency of the country and
said the green backs would never be
paid Men who love their country are
interested in it's credit These men did
all that was within their power, all
through the war, to weaken confidence
in the national credit and to depreciate
the value of the national bonds These
men bound themselves together in secret,
mid night cabals, to plot against the
Government and exerted themselves in
every possible way TO induce Union sol
diers to desert: secreted them from ar
rest; assassinated United States enrol
ling officers and nobbed Provost Mar
shals and draft officers. They did these
things because they were opposed TO the
war in defense of the Union. At Chica-
90, they declared the war q failure and
an unustiiable waste of blood and treas
ure When the Government laid its
strong arm upon that inhuman wretch
Wirz and after convicting him of crimes
that in their Infamous brutality excelled
the darkest record of depravity that the
history Of the world records, executed
him upon the gallows, every democratic
leader, every democratic politician and
every democratic newspaper in the ma
ton declared the execution of this t1end
nothing but "a judicial butchery =
Now these men did not thus stigmatize
the action Of the Government because OF
any conscientious scruples against the
shedding Of blood. They are on the re-
cord in this respect and cannot plead
any excuse of that kind. When old
JONI BROwS invaded the State Of Nir
ginia and made an attack on Harper
Ferry he committed treason against that
State He was tried and Convicted
When the Governor of that State, Henry
A Wise, was appealed to for the pardon
or respite of John Brown he refused on
the ground that the crime of treason was
so great that he could not interfere to
save him Aid | have never heard that
a single democrat has found fault with
Wise for not thus interposing. 1t was
all right to hang John Brown, accordin g
to these coppcrheadS, but judicial
butchery to execute WirZ. Wise him
self has since committed treason against
the Government of the United States,
and his offence is as much more aggra-
waited than that Of John Browns as the
whole nation is greater than the State OF
Virginia. Is there n democrat anywhere
to be found who would consent that
Henry A Wise should be tried, conyic
ted and punished for treason This
proves that the opposition OF the cop
perheads to the punishment of traitors
is not in consequence of their opposition
to capital punishment but because they
are in sympathy with treason and trai-
tors themselves. And they cannot shake
off this record. If you will take copy
of any democratic newspaper published
in the summer or fall of 1864, you will
see at the head of its editorial columns,
in large letters, 50 Electioneerin0 Doc
ments for Sale - Prominent in this list
of documents you will find the = Great
Speech of Alexander Long" in which,
as you all remember, he opposed the
prosecution of the war, and denounced
it as unconstitutional, stigmatizing the
administration as Jacobin club and q
nest of traitors. Now the object of cir
culating such documents as that was to
get people to believe the ideas that these
documents advocated. They wanted the
North to submit to the rebellion and ac-
cept such terms as JEFF. Davis might die
tate. This was the position of the dem
ocratlc party two years ago. Now, since
our armies have conquered the South
and that section lies PROSTATE at the ma
tons feet these copperheads ask US tC
let by cones be by cones, bury the past,
and let us all be friends together.
In concluding his speech Col. GRAY
referred to the recent address of Mr.
JULIAN, to the votes of this District, in
which that gentleman claimed that he
ought to be re nominated because he had
so much more experience than any other
candidate, The speaker showed that il
that was Il sufficient reason for re nom
mating Mr.. Julian now, that it would
be a still better reason two years hence
and in fact, if that consideration was tc
govern the case we had better make on,
4 title deed to the office. for Mr.. JULIAN
sign it and hand it over to him at once
\ gentleman in the audience asked the
speaker what he thought constituted q
State Col. GRAY replied that when
Congress passed an enabling act author
and form State Constitution, and after
that Constitution had been presented to
Congress and approved, if there was q
sufficient population to entitle such pro
posed State to at least one representative
in Congress, that that body declared
them entitled to be considered State
and then admitted them into the Union.
The gentleman wanted to know if i,
was not men and women that constituted
State and if there were not enough
Of these in any State who were loyal to
entItle them TO a representative IN Con
gress, would such State not cease to ex-
list To this Col. GRAY replied that il
there were not loyal men enough in 9
State to entitle it to representation, lie
was willing to wait until there were
enough, The rebels had been thirty
years trying TO get out of the Union, and
if it takes them thirty years 10 get back
into Congress he had no complaints te
offer. The difference between Mr. JU