The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-19

| Let us see what the leaders OF MS own
party say about it. The indianapolis
Herald, the State organ of the Democ-
racy of Indiana, has the following, on
this Bounty Bill which Mr.. iNIBLACK
says entities him to the votes of the
soldiers: q a a-i.' 'l9t'ti =
From the Indianapolis Herald, Sept. l.
THE EXTRA BOUNTY, ,r,,.-..tI
We have serious doubts if the bill was
ever intended, by its trainers, to bestow adj
ditioual comfy upon any class of soldiers,
and we are inclined to think it was drtfEIlg
drda0n s0lth a vtetO to TendeTtt i9loperdttUe and
votd, and siptplyput forth as a bait to catch
votes. We repeat the opinion that we ex-
pressed sometime since that no soldier l0iu
,euer receiUe a cent. Of bounty ursde7Stls biz,
and that It aods peuer Intended that he should.
President JOHNSON, who is now re-
ceiying the hearty support of Mr..
NIBLAcK, in the courselef his speech
at St. Louis, on the 9th inst, in dis
cussing the conduct of Congress dur
ing the last session, uses the following
| language:
They (Congress)pretendedto do something
for the soldiers. While they were tickling
and attempting to please the soldiers, by
giving them $50 for two years service, they
took 1T into theirhea to give somebody
else something [laughterl; and they voted
themselves not $50, two years service.
Your attention: L want to make a Iodg-
ment in your minds of the facts, because I
fr,pN
in, want to clinch it on the other side.
[Cheers.l The brave boys, the patriotic
young man who followed his officers, slept
in the tented field, ard perilled his life
and shed his blood, and left his limbs be-
hind him, and came home mangled and
manned, he can get fifty dollars bounty, if
he has served two years; but the members
of Congress, who never sfnelt powder, can
get four thousand dollars extra pay. [Great
cheering.l NIV Nls gAN,4yE
This is faint picture my countrymen,l
of what has transpired. os1J uefa1
Here we have, upon the evidence
of the Congressional Record and the
statements of the President of the
United States and his own party.
friends, Mr.. NIBHAcK voting the
brave soldiers Of the Union mere
pittances,s: while he votes :, himself
$4,000 a year, mileage, and seventeen
months back pay And he has the
hardihood to ask soldiers to vote forA
him for his services in this matter.
No wonder the Herald, his own party
organ, denounces it as a mere 'sbait
to catch votes and that g it was
never intended that the soldier should
receive cent Of bounty under Z ft.o.
No wonder that the President is COM
PEELED to say that it is an imposition
upon the brave heroes who saved our
country from ruin and treason.
We have notspecially touched upon
the determined and reasonable oppo-
sition of NIBLzcK to the war, as we
reserve that for another article. We
content ourselves in this connection
by quoting the declaration which he,
made at score of places throughout
the District during. the canvass in
1864, as follows: fts Lsel - =
2 / WILL NEVER VOTE TO DRAFT A
MAN INTO THE SERVICE. y
e " [ WILL NOT VOTE ANY MORE MEN
NOR MONEY, UNDER ANY cIRCUM-
STANCES, FOR THE PROSECUTION OF
THE, WAR UNDER THE POLICY UPON
WHICH IT Is CONDUCTED" aqeale
, Such was his publicly declared opin-
ions, as authenticated by the notes
taken down in Col ALIENS own
hand writing, and which can be prov
en- by hundreds Of witnesses, s ~ ~ - !,
We ask the soldiers aud all loyal
men, in the First District, are you
prepared to vote for the man,
as your Representative, who re-
fused, during the war, to extend to |
the soldiers,in the field, the right to-
vote; virtually DISTINGUISHING them,
because they were fighting for their
country?
Will you select, as your Represen-
tative in Congress, the man who was
base enough to take from the County.
Jail thief, and place him by the side
of the gallant volunteers of Indiana,
as his substitute, and pocket 5000
of the peoples money, for so doing {?
Is he worthy of your votes who can
resort to the gross deception of vot-
ing for worthless and invalid
Bounty Bill, merely as a blind by
which to vote himself an extravagant
and unprecedented salary?
Can he properly represent you in
Congress, who has been a consistent,
determined. and reasonablae onno