The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-25

one in each OF the counties OF 1r-
ginia, and Of which you could not
find. in the whole State of Indiana, as
many copies as would furnish the peo-
pie In this room. You were pledged
to.the resolutions of '98 and '79, with
out knowing what they were, simply
because your leaders put them IN to
crafty the Southern party. Will
again read: Those States which are
opposed thereto that's, constitutional
action have the right, and are In
duty bound, to interpose for arrestlng
the progress of the evil, and for main
tanning. within their respective limits,
the rights and privileges appertalnlng
to them" The meaning of which IS,
that whenever Congress passes a law
which they believe unconstitutional,
they will resist it. Another para
graph reads: Each party has an
equal right to judge for itself. as well
the infraction as the mode and mea-
sure of redress.
And there lies the germ of secess-
ion; there is its contamination. That
is Just what South Carolina put In her
ordinance of secession She chose to
Judge for herself the measure of re-
dress; that measure was war upon the
nation, and she was justified by the
belief that it was Democratic. Hence
the popular belief in the South that if
the war were to begin, a large portion
of the Democratic party North would
fight on their side. That was, gen
eral opinion, How did they get that
impression? From the teachings of
those party leaders who had put these
things into party platform, and who
had pledged you to stand by them with
this people of the South to the extent
of actual war, believing that you would
give them practical and physical as
sistance. Is there single soldier who
went down South to fight, who came
into contact with rebels, who was not
told by them that at the time they be-
gan this war, a large portion OF the
Democrats North would fight on their
side? They did not expect this of
Republicans or Wings, but they did
expect their Democratic friends to do
it. There were hundreds and thous-
ands of the Democratic party who were
just as honest in their devotion to the
country, and as truly loyal as anybody
could be, who, when they found they
had been traded away in the market
and sold for price, and that price the
offices these leaders had enjoyed, they
stopped at that point and Withdrew
from the party that had betrayed them.
But there are in this State Others
as honest as any men In the world
who have never yet realized that they
have been trafficked and traded away
by these trickster politicians. Yet
this has been done in the name OF
Democracy as a sort of political pana-
cea that was supposed was broad
enough to cover all the ills of life. |
refer to this that we may be enabled
in debating about a return OF these
States to their practical relations to
the Union, to see how their separation
was brought about In my opinion
the best way in the world to do 1t is
single one OF the men that had any
sert of agency in bringing lit about
1t you had lost your house by FIRE,
the work of an incendiary, you are
not apt to call upon that incendiary
to help you build it up. Threat those
men as incendiaries, and before ]
would ask them to rebuild the temple
OF this Governments L want to know
that their torches are extinguished,
and that not a single spark is re-
manning, 1t is perfectly certain that
these, States haVeto be brought back
to their practical relation to thecoun-
try IN some new way, and however
much we may differ as to details we
may agree upon the main proposition
that We will have it done by loyal and
true men. - 4 81 eFs foa hIfYfV
These States were in absolute re-
bellion. They made war upon the
Government, upon you and upon me,
and We had to send out our Sons. our
brothers and friends to fight them,
and many a young spirit has been
sacrificed at the shrine of the coun-
try, and many family brought to
mourn by the calamities of this war.
and we arc about to pay in taxes
more, perhaps, than any nation ever
paid before, and it is our duty to see
that all this IS not thrown away. The
war has ended In so far as a conflict
of arms is concerned. But it is said
that the war was the result of am an
tagonism of sentiment between the
North and South. The South insist
ed upon the extension and perpetua-
ton of slavery. The North resisted
both the extension and the perpetual
ton. 1t was called by politicians the
rrepresslble conflict between the
North and South. IF the war was-the
result OF that spirit of antagoniism T
am for plucking out all the seeds of
that conflict as one of the means of
restoring permanent peace, for if anv
OF the elements of this antapon;sm
are left, you have not accomnl;sbed
it; you have left the seed to terminate
and grow up again The war ended
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