The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-20
CAMPAIGN TRIBUNE.
THE Extra TRIBUNE
FOR THE
2OLITICAL CAMPAIGN.

A political struggle, rarely surpassed in
importance or Intensity, has been precipi-
tated on.the country by the treachery of
Andrew johnson and some of his official
or personal adherents to the great and
patriotic party by which they We're intrust-
ed with power.
steadfast loyalists of the South under the
feet OF the whipped, but not subdued."
Rebels, and to enable the latter to glut their
vengeance on the former, whom they hate
and curse as responsible for the most un-
expected overthrow OF their darling Con
federacy." as
The recent wholesale massacres at Mem
phis and New Orleans were but conspicu-
Gus manifestations of the spirit now ram
pant in the South, whereof the pro-Rebel
triumph in Kentucky is a more recent eX-
ample. The soldiers of Lee, Beauregard,
Johnston and Hood are now the dominant
power from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande; they elect each other to Office in
preference even to stay-at-home Rebels;
they have Supplanted nearly all others as
policemen of Southern cities; they are or
gained and Differed as 5 ate militia; and
they ruthleSsly crush every demonstration
of loyal Whites or loyal Blacks in asser-
ton of the equal rights of American Free
men The school houses of the Blacks are
burned and their White teachers subjected
to violence and outrage by unchanged
Rebels, who relieve the work of murder
and arson by cheers for Andy johnson and
excavations of Congress.
The purpose of forcing representatives of
the Rebel states into Congress, in defiance
of the loyal oatn. by Presidential fiat and
Military power, is openly avowed, with
threats that those who resist it shall be
treated as rebels, and civil war thus kim
died throughout the North and West.
1t has thus become imperative that those
who stand for LIBERTY and LOYALTY
for the right of the Union to exist and of
MAN to be FREE-Should organize and
work to strengthen the hands of CON-
GRESS for the inevitable contest before us.
We must convince the SOUTH and the
COPPERHEADS that revolutions go not
backward, that emancipation is an un-
changeable fact-that the glorious CIVIL
RIGHTS act can never be repealed-that
the rights of the humblest AMERICAN are
henceforth guaranteed and shielded by the
FEDERAL CONSTITUTION and must be
maintained against all gainsayers--that
the days wherein BLACKS had no rights
which WHITES were bound to respect
have passed away forever.
We hold to-day, the power in all the
FREE STATES of $50, in WEST NIR-
GINA, and in MISSOURI besides. We
must hold these in our ensuing election,
and add to them MARYLAND and DELA.-
WARE the former lost to us through
must elect to the XLth Congress an over
whelming majority devoted to Loyalty.
Nationality, andthe inalienable Rights of
Man. t5r f,t .ta4 @Dt to
To this end, let Light and Truth be sys-
tematically dihused to every neighbor-
hood. every fireside, throughout our broad
country.
10 this end, we propose an extra issue of
the Weekly Tribune Identical in size
and contents with the regular edition),
which we will supply on the following
terms, the paper to be sent and subscrip-
tions to commence on receipt of the
money: att.t-, -faa