The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-22
A Real Kentucky Union Man.

L. c luOCOAHS az VIC OnIOu OIuD
Room, Masonic Hall, last night, was
largely attended. Every seat. was
filled, and many were compelled to
stand during all the speeches. Y @a 7
After music by the Crescent City
Band, John j. Chandler, Esq, was
called to the Chair, He announced
the principal object of the meeting to
be to listen to a speech from the
Union Candidate for Congress, Gen.
VIM. Harrow; but he regretted to an
nounce that the General was so
unwell that he was anot at all able to
speak at great length, but would adj
dress them as best he could in his
present state of health. saEq f.,-
The Generals appearance on the
stand was greeted with hearty APP
plause. After asking the Indulgence
of the audience for the manner in
which he Should address them in a
quiet way, which he was compelled to
do in his debility, he entered upon an
able review of the political issues and
parties of the campaign. We made
full notes of that part of his speech,
which we would be glad to report to
our readers this morning, but the late
hour at which the meeting adjourned,
and the press of other matters, COM
pell US to notice in this issue, only
some parts of his unmercifnl and
scathing review of the record of his
competitor, Mr.. NIBLACK. Never
have we heard an nnfaithful public
servant so. terribly and so truthfully,
excoriated as was our unworthy Rep
resentative last night. tol IsT.tI8a
He referred to the fact that NibIack had
| declined to canvass the District with him,
and thought that, after he had been six
years member of Congress, and thorough
ly versed in political questions, he ought
not to fear to meet him aid discuss the is
sues before the people. The General
charged that one of the real causes why
Niblack refused to make the joint canvass
was, that he was unwilling to call out the
masses of his own party to hear the facts
presented, as they would be. in this cam
paign.
He commenced review of Mr.. Niblack,s
record, by showing that, before the break
ing out of the rebellion, he had canvassed
this district, and assured the people that
Mr.. Lincoln's election would result in war I;
but no where, in or out of Congress, had
he warned the Southern people that rebel
lion, on their part would lead to war on
the part of the Government. While he
had encouraged them to rebel, given them
all the aid and comfort he could, he did
nothing to warn them of their treason.
! | And the speeches and acts of himself, and
men of his party, were the prime cause OF
the war;
When President Lincoln made the first
call for 5000 men, Nibiack denounced 1t
as an unconstitutional act-uSurped and
: unwarranted authority
Legislature he did all he could as one of the
leaders the Rebel party to take the mill
, ton and place it in the hands of our Di-
rectory, the members Of which were Off
, GERS in the reasonable organization, the
| knights ofthe Golden Circle. .sa
, He opposed the resolution introduced in
, the Legislature calling for an Investigation
1 into the existence and objects of the
HhnlgntS OF the Golden Hirclei while i1 ne Was
e of Second Lieutenant in that order. IL
He voted in favor of resolutions which
|. declared, in effect, that not another man
! or dollar should be furnished to carry on
the war; refused to lay them on the table
. thus to condemn them.
> He was member of the Chicago Con
e vention, in 1864, and voted there for that
i, transparent and reasonable He-that the
|, war was a failure, and that we must make
peace, and withdraw our armies. ~
y In his canvass with oil. Allen, in 1854
time and again, on the stump, he declared
> that he would not vote another man MOI
war, as carried on by the Administration
The same language was freely used by
h stated that he desired that these men
should give credit to whom it belonged
Is for this sentiment. That it was first ut
tered In connection with the contest OF
l. the 2lSt day of January, 1861, in the Senate
Chamber of the United States by Jefferson
= Davis, in his farewell speech. These mel
a had adopted the sentiments of this Chic
of traitors, and faithfully had they follow
e ed his teachings all through the war.
= The General, in a mastery manner
)l grouped together the various acts of Nib
"a lacks public life in the four years of war
~ and presenting them fairly before his au
70 dience, he boldly and plainly declared t.
them that the man who is now their Rep
Is resentative in Congress, If justice We7'
eUe1liy nleted out TO him, eooatd 7lo1O be sitti
,cr political leader, JEFF D0Uis. That being guilt
. of these acts of treason, and giving aid ant
l. comfort TO the enemy in arms, he aO0S either
stupid ass or an intelligent and responsible
g. traitor And when the General declared
!, that so believing, he proposed to presen
s, him to the people of this District as dis
honest public servant and traitor to hi
country, the crowded hall responded to j
re with tumultuoEs applause, showing tina
our people were anxious to hear the make
re unvariIished truth in plain language.
The General charged that in Nfb1ack'
e, six years term in Congress, his Who'll
A. service was not distinguished by singh
u affirmative measure of legislation for tn
10 public good; that his constituents could a
Q well have been represented by the yea an
We nay of Ben. Wood as by Mr.. Niblack II
was mere cypher, except the weight
IN one vote always on the side of treason
4 When there was any tincture of 10y
u atty in measures of legislation, Mi
lacks vote was always on the othe
side-sitting with traitors, acting wit
traitors, voting with traitors. Referrin
eS to his vote against the confinemeI
III and trial of jeff Davis, he boldly declare
III that the nineteen 90 men who voted i
re the negative, were participants in b
- crime, and a just judgment would Wis
wv them with the same sentence which the
Chief deserved. There was nothing, doub
er less, which had pleased JEFF. Davis SO niue
hi as the acts of his faithful servant, VILLA
Ut e. Niblack. [Great applause.l