The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-20

less relief soon comes, we cannot
expect them :. to remain long 1oyal; !"
and they threaten that theywill go back
to their traitorous schemes of rebel
lion again, unless they are admitted
to their rights, and that right speedily
Listen, while we hear the Union can
didate for Vice President in '64 give
his views on this and kindred matters:
Why all this carnage and devastation
1t was that treason might be put down ana
traitors punished. Therefore say tnat
traitors should, take a back seat in the
,yorl, of restoration. If there be but five
thousand men in Tennessee loyal to the
Constitution, loyal to freedom, loyal 70
iustice. these true and faithful men should
control the work of reorganization and
reformation absolutely. Loud and pro-
longed applause.l l say that the traitor
has ceased to be citizen, and in joining
the rebellion has become public enemy.
He forfeited his right to vote with loyal
men when he renounced his citizenship
and sought to destroy our Government.
We say to the most honest and industrious
foreigner who comes from England or Ger
many to dwell among us, and to add to the
wealth of the country, " Before you can be
a citizen, you must stay here five years.
If we are so cautious about foreigners, who
voluntarily reuounce. their homes to live
with us, what should we say to the traitor
who, although born and reared among uS,
has raised a parricidal hand against the
Government which always protected him?
Ny judgment is that he should be subject
T ed to a severe ordeal before he is restored
to citizenship. "A fellow who takes the
oath merely to save his property and de-
MES the validity of the oath, is perJured
man, and not TO be trusted. Before these
repenting rebels can be trusted, let them
bring forth the fruits of repentance. He
who helped to make all these widows and
orphans, who draped the streets of Nash
Vile in mourning, should suffer for his
great crime.
These le ders must feel the power of the
Government! Treason must be made odiOatS,
and traitors must be punished and fnlpoUeTiSh-
ed. Their great plantations must be seized,
and diufded into small farms, and sold to
honest, industrious men. The day for protect
ing the lands and negroes Of these authors Of
rebellion is past. II is high time it ioGs. I
hare been most deeply panied at some things
aChich h-9e come under my observation. We
get men in command t0ho at,lder the influence
offdtteTy Jdt0rlin0, and cd1Tessfss0, grant pro-
lection to the rich traitor, .Ctle the poor Union
man stG1acs out in the cold often unable to get
a receipt or q voucher for his losses. GCries of,
g That's SOL" from all parts of the crowd.l
The traitor can get lucrative contracts, Uhtte
the loyal man is pushed aside, unable to OBJ
! tain q recognition of his Just stripes and
shouIder-straps.o want them all to hear
what say. / have been on a gridiron for
two years at the sight of these abuses.
blame not the Government for these things,
which are the work Of weak or lfaithless
subordinates. Wrongs viii be committed
under every form of Government and
every administration. For myself, mean
to stand by the Government till the flag of
the Union shall wave over every city,
| town, hilltop, and crossroads, in its full
power and majesty.
We ask our readers now to say.
with the Philadelphia Convention
fresh in their view, who has changed,
ANDREW JOHNSON, or the Union
Party? We claim that our candidate,
in 1864, replying, to the Committee in
forming him Of his nomination, ut
tered the true doctrines upon which
these questions are to be settled, only
that he was a little bitter and unre-
lenting. And that the President,
who made the speech on Saturday to
the Committee of the Philadelphia
CONVENTION, Is essentially. radically,
traitorously, wrong. And we call
upon his speeches to make the de-
cision.