The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-21

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been driven from your convictions by
the cunning rebel cry of Radicals
Let us cease to quarrel about names
and go to the substance of things.
There can be but two parties In Ken
lucky, the one composed of the rebels
and their advocates and friends, and
the other of unconditional Union men
who have preserved the Government,
and would keep it in loyal hands. In
| very truth, the so-called Democratic
party is the most radical organization
in the country
| 1t is in favor of the most radical
measures for the immediate regtora-
ton of rebels to power.
1t is, and was throughout the war,
radically disloyal.
1t is radically opposed to equal rep
resentatiOn.
It is radically opposed to every
principle of justice, humanity and lib
erty which our fathers engrafted upon
the Government.
Democratic radicalism is but dia-
bolism. 1t is made up of EXTREMIST
hate to liberty, to progress and to the
enlightenment and uplifting of the
human race. 1t believes in class
privileges, in the meanest forms of
aristocracy, and for success and power
appeals to the lowest passions that
sway the human heart.
Thank God, its hour has come. The
issues are now being made up, and the
line will soon be as plainly drawn be-
tween the two contending parties as
they were between their respective
armies on the field.
The hideous lie by which Northern
Democratic leaders denied their COM
plicity with the rebellion, now stands
confessed, and the Philadelphia Con-
vention will illuminate all minds
which have been kept in darkness.
| The victory cannot be doubtful
The God of battles who has brought
us forth in triumph from so many
fields of blood, viii not sacrifice us
to treachery and treason at the ballot
box. ~ ~
There will be but one inconsistency
in it. When the lieutenants and dis
ciples of jeff Davis sat down in coun-
Gil with Northern Democrats, there is
no reason why their great master
should not be in their midst. e8
The prisoner at Fortress Monroe
should not be excluded from the soci-
ETY. and council of his friends, but
should be permitted to be present at
the last surrender that he may with
dignity, as before, cast around it the
encircling folds of his ample skirts.
~ CONCLUSION,
Union men of the Second Congress
sional District, you have for your
standard bearer gallant soldier and
true patriot. For more than two
years he has languished from dreadful
wounds received while fighting your
battles. And now, strong in mind,
brave of heart, though feeble in body,
and with wounds still bleeding, he is
fighting over the great battle at the
ballot box. When you compare his
record with that of his competitor,
when you consider his great services
to the country, and the manner in
which his competitor was occupied
during the same time; when you con-
slider the noble principles of liberty,
loyalty and union by which he is ami
mated, and the miserable dogmas of
State rights, immediate restoration of
rebels to power, and political equality
of rebels and loyal men, by which his
competitor and the party with which he
is identified are distinguished, you will
feel proud and powerful in your can
didate, and will, with one accord, en-
Enthusiastically resolve that General
Gresham shall be elected as your
Representative in the next Congress.
The time has come to redeem your
District from the thraldom of Cop
perhead Democracy, and the elements
are at work to achieve the great re-
suit. *.Q 2ai
From every part of it I have re-
ceived words of high hope, and am
cheered with the assurance that the
people are aroused to the great Issue,
and will meet it as men and patriots
Shall the constitutional amendment
be adopted? Shall the Government
be kept in loyal hands? Shall the
Union soldier be preferred and hon
ored over the Confederate? Shall
security be taken against future re-
bellion? These are the great ques-
tons, and may the loyal of heart
under the providence of God again
come forth in triumph.
|1o Whoever opposes the constitutions
amendment and enters the Philadel-
phia Convention is lost to the Union
party, and must be set down as against
us, whether he be the President,
Cabinet Minister, or your next neigh
Dor. 1t will be with sorrow that we
part company with an Administration
we contributed to- bring into power,
and from which personally have re-
ceived many tokens of friendship and
considerations yet if part we must,
we will have the 9co1solation of be-
lieving thatIwe are but pursuing to
their legitimate conclusion the princi-
Piles upon which, we prosecuted the
war, and are seeking only to- establish
solid liberty, permanent peaee, real