The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-26
MASONIC HALL CROWDED

enthusiasm that perVaIed thespeople
yesterday was most, remarkable In spite
of the weather, they turned out in num-
bersi al every point where there was be
speaking,f and seemed utterly unable to
hear enough. There was no such thing as
dampening or drowning out the patriotic
fires that burned inevery heart. Without
music, or any other effort to attract crowd
than the, simple that there
would be speaking, the Court House. last
night, was literally crowded With enthusf-,
astie Union men, and many ladies. The
seats, the aisles, and, the gallery were full
to oyerfoWing, and many went away, I'M
able to gain admittaIce. 3i~a& lsf,13 TJisl 81 Z
Mr. Hynes1 introduced Mr.. Sta Clair, of
Boonville, as the fighting chaplain of the,
65thIndiana. The Chaplain began by re-
marking that Mr.. Hynes' introduction ma
tura11y suggested the inquiry, for what
haveiwe been fighting7s Was it that rebels
might be restored to power and Office?
Democratic newspapers and orators affirm
that it was but Union men thought differ
entity. They fought to crush rebellion and
punish traitors The Copperheads plead
for mercy, for the rebels, and Hendricks
himself, out In Warrfck, quoted scripture
thought Mr.. Hendricks, knew as much
about the Bible as the old Baptist brother,
who declared that Moses had been in the
lions dengl When corrected by9a member
of his congregation, he persisted in the as
sertion g that Moses was thar or thar
abouts. I" The Chaplain then gave short
dissertation on what the Bible really did
teach on the subject of repentance and
II col rl.
ton was based on conditions a.. 49,
He next proceeded to sketch the new Ma
tional Union party, recently. organized at
Philadelphia BY President johnson, CIV
ing the ingredients composing it. He said
the new party was reconstructed some
what after the style of certain barrel
that penurious old fellow once owned.
The barrel kept getting out of repair, and
the owner was continually running to
cooper to have it mended. At last, almost
in despair of having the thing made SER
ytceable, he concluded to change coopers'
Accordingly, taking the bung hole of the
old barrel, y he called on another cooper
I and asked him to reconstruct the thing on
new principles. One or, two coopers at In
dianapolis and Chicago had been tinl1ering
at the old Democratic barrel without
! success, and at last President johnson had
! taken the bung-hole down to Philadelphia
! and ordered the construction of another
barrel. which he called the National Union
party. s. The Chaplain also stated how the
| term Comprehend became applicable to the
rebel sympathisers tat the Northern States
/ The sketch was received with shouts of
| laughter, as were most of his hits, by the
| large and attentive audience, who were en-
| tertained by him for an hour and half at
| least. He gave Mr.. Niblack some pretty
| hard shots, relative to his connection with
/ the sinnissippi Insurance Company, and
his votes against furnishing any more men
or money, and against trying and punish
! ing JefT Davis lo ba4 r 80
4 He closed his interesting speech by Civ
ing the soldiers an earnest exhortation as
| to their duty in the next election, and urg-
| ing all to stand by the old nag. % ,et-t
Loud calls were made for Gov. Baker,
| Messrs. Hynes, Chandler and Jones. Gov.
/ Baker excused himself. Major -Hynes
| made a short speech, which was fayorably
/ received. Mr. Chandler tried to get excused
i because OF i'll health, but being urged to 90
/ on, made few remarks giving his idea OF
the character OF the political contest and
the question at issue. Colonel Jones put in
a short plea for Andy johnson, and the
Union men who followed him, on the
ground that they were constructed wrong
and ought not 10 be Tcensured 60 severely
fos doing ana sOins wrsng He save .