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

iuAdOSU the price VI SOiui anu IL yOu
were placed in power this day you
have no remedy against the high
taxes you have levied but repudia-
tion. ysfe5
| When a Democratic politician
comes around you clamoring about
high taxes you can turn to him and
say, as Nathan did to David, Thou
art the man." The announcement
you gave to rebels first levied these
taxes The assistance you gave to re-
bellion continued them, and the per-
sistent and deyelish malice with which
you traduced the Government, the
army, and the great cause for which
we struggled. swelled them to what
they are; and now you go about as
public disturbers, by falsely ascribing
to others the direct consequences OF
your own wickedness.
DAMAGES TO RESULT FROM DEMO
CRATIC SUCCESS. -
And now let me invite your atten-
ton to the danger which threatens the
nation should the calamity happen
that the Democratic party, or the
party to be formed out of it in Phila-
delphia, comes into power. In that
case we are able to predict with abso-
lutte certainty their first measures, and
to survey in advance the fatal line of
policy which would be pursued. The
right of State secession would be at
once asserted as the fundamental law
of the constitution. Every rebel
clings to it to-day with the tenacity
with which he clings to life, and a
large proportion of Northern Demo
cratic politicians proclaim the right,
while there are none who deny it
heartily and In earnest. The fruits of
victory would be surrendered, and the
glory of our arms furnished by the
final dishonor of the cause in which
our soldiers fought. The rebels would
at once be restored to political power,
and rewarded by the highest positions
in the Government, while Union men
would be driven from all official
place and SUBJECTED to every ig-
nominityF which could be in
fiicted by their yincictive enemies.
The valor, the endurance, the une-
qualed heroism of the Union army
would be systematically degraded, and
their success ascribed solely to over
whelming numbers and brute force;
while the chivalry and the story of
the exploits of the rebel army would
be magnifed through every medium,
and exalted byseveryTmeans that pow
er exercised BY reason could devise. ,
They would place rebel officers and
soldiers upon the same equality before
the law with those of the. Union ar
mics. pay them and pension them the
same, and make like provisions, for
their widows and orphans. They
would assume the payment of the rebel
war debt, and decree compensation
for emancipated slaves. They. would
make payment for Southern property
destroyed during the war, and com
pensate for all damages inflicted by
our armies, upon the ground that they
were ruthless invaders of Southern
soil, seee ssei f.4s4.e.....
They would repeal or nullify the
operation of the Civil Rights Bill,
leaving the freedmen to the intolera-
BILE oppression of their late masters,
who would virtually reduce them to
slavery, by denying them the enjoy
ment of all civil rights.
They would bymalignant legislation
and vindictive prosecutions, drive into
exile every Union man in the rebel
States who had opposed the scheme of
rebellion. 81 ~ -. 9.
They would hold every Union officer
responsible in damages for the arrest
and imprisonment of conspirators,
spies, bounty jumpers and runaways"
from the draft. 81
Already the Union men of Ken
lucky have had foretaste of what
would be done upon this subject. And
if you but give to the rebel the un-
disputed control, of the Government
they will in some form or by some
process seize upon and con6scate the
estate of every Union man in Ken
lucky, and as in Ken4ucky, so else
where. +t5h ahI
They would abolish all punishment.
disabilities and penalties for treason.
They would defeat all amendments to
tile Constitution. They would pre-
vent representation from being equal
lied, and would retain in the hands
of rebels, for all time, the unjust adj
vantages they now possess. In short,
they would do all In their power to
undo the results Of the war, to repair
the damages the rebels have sustain
ed, reassert the principles upon which,
the rebellion was founded, and accom-
plish by legislation and fraud the
original scheme of secession and ma
tional destruction which was defeated
on the field Of battle oaE aTl
ITO THE UNION MEN OF. KENTUCKY.
iqgAnd now let me address aword to
the Union men of Kentucky, many of
whom areHhere to-day and enquire
who compose the Democracy of your
: Do they. not number among them
the men who, in the disguise of Con-
federate soldiers and guerrillas,, laid
waste and ravaged Kentucky plum
dered her towns carried away her