The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-18

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dress adopted by the Presidents Con
vention, and the making of which
brought forth cheer after cheer,
and the widest enthusiasm. And
the report says that REvERDY JOHN
SON, in the ecstacy of the excite-
ment, called for its second reading,
and again that vast crowd broke forth
in tumultuous manifestations of joy.
What does this sentimeant mean2
Simply the old story of Southern
wrongs and the spirit of rule or ruin,
by which the Northern people were
held under constant menace, and
which at last eliminated in a bloody
rebellion. We heard the story for
twenty-five years before the war, but
we thought that threat was buried in
the grave with the hundreds of thou
sands who fell in the contest to which
it gave rise. Yet there is found
cringing Northern tool to Southern
arrogance, ready to revive and give
utterance to the sentiment, and of
course the whole crew of Rebels,
Copperheads, and of6ce-seekers go
wild under it.
Mr.. RAYMOND says that under such
treatment as the South is receiving,
no people can long remain loyal. The
exclamation of every Union man is,
when did these Southern people be-
come loyalP Certainly not in their
prosecutions of loyal men in their
midst; not in the bloody riots of
Memphis and New Orleans; not in
their usurpation of all the State Gov
ernments, and the complete exclusion
of every man tinctured with loyalty
to mis- country during the war; not in
sending bitter rebels and prominent
| traitors to represent them in Congress;
not in refusing to accept the situation
brought about by the war and acqui-
escing in its results.
And what is the unjust treatment
to which they are subjected, that it is
threatened will make them traitors
again? What, in the language of the
address, is the humiliation, sought
to be imposed upon them?" Simply
this, and nothing more: Before the
war they not only represented them
selves in Congress, but their slaves
also. Now slavery is abolished, They
assert that they do not wish its re-
establishment. The Union party in
sist that slavery being destroyed, this
right of representation of slaves be
also given up, as consequence of it.
We claim that the Southern people
and the Northern people should stand
on exactly the same footing as to re-
presentation-that the men who vote
shallsbe entitled to have representa-
ton in Congress, and none others.
The proposition is plain and unambig-
uous; it is just and right; it is only
Constitutional recognition of what all
eoncede theIswar has accomplished,
Upon the acceptance of this PROPOSE
ton, we propose to admit them again
into the Union, from which they 'vo-
UNFAIRLY withdrew as traitors and
public enemies. Where ispthe humisl
liation in this? Where is the cause in
this, for them to abandon their loyalty,
and go back again into rebelion?
And what is the occasion ON the part
of any Northern man to grow wild with
enthusiasm, over the assertion of such
threat of disloyalty, on so fimsy
pretext of wrong? Certainly no one
but he who meditates treason in his
heart could do it. $50 y
90 Such is the ntimentsayowed by
Mr.. RAYMOND, and which carried the
Wigwam with whirlwind of excite
ment. And yet this same Mr.. RAY
MoND in his seat in Congress, on the
9Th of June, voted for this humilia-
ton, this outrage upon the rights Of
these loyal Southerners, in the shape
of the Constitutional Amendment, the
only Platform the Union party has.
What are the influences brought to
bear upon him and others in that
Convention, who two months ago
were in full sympathy with the Union
party, we leave our readers to coniec-
tupe. -si.'ilfa