The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-31

vateers are about.
The man who can look at the getting-upf
of the First of May Convention and not
know that 1t was a concern in the rebel in
terest, can It have sense enough TO keep
him from butting out his brains against a.
lamp-i1Ost. A rebel leader who advised
the rebellion before it began, and who was
in 1t from its opening to its close, and who
invoked the rebel armies to disperse the
Kentucky Legislature and to burn our
Kentucky cities and towns, was the con-
ceiyer, the mover, the author, the engin
Ger, of the rebel Convention project. The
bones of an old rebel Central Committee,
blasted by the first breath of war, were
gathered up by DIR. Buchanan, himself
rebel, and so put together as to make
talking skeleton, and this CHASTITY, grim
ming, and horrid thing squeaked and glib
beredvout the call for the Convention. The
members of this skeleton-called rebel Con-
vention were all notorious rebels and rebel
syTnpathizers, and alFthe speakers and ac-
tors in it and managers of it prominent
rebels and rebel-sympathizers. stsr
All the candidates for its nomination were
leading rebels and rebel sympathizers, and
its nominee was as well-known a rebel
of the candidates, and probably the best OF
them, was high officer in John Morgan's
guerrilla command. We can hear of none,
not rebels, or rebel sympathizers, that sup
port the nomination. The conventions
organ, whilst contending that the rebellion
was right, and that its suppression was an
awful crime, processes the fullest liberation
of all Democrats, but it CART be thumb
screwed or rump-burned into an admission
that any are Democrats who won't support
the rebel doings of its rebel conventions.
All others, no matter how long and earn
estIy and consistently they may have been
Democrats, are no Democrats at all in the
esteem of the organ and its followers.
Thus we see what sort of a Democratic
party it is that the returned rebel leaders,
in opposition to the wishes and against the
good of the returned masses, in violation
of the peace and quiet of the State, in dis
regard of the great danger of the creation
of bitter strife between those who were
enemies but should now be friends, think
that they have established. We have not
mistated or over-stated a single point. The
First of May Convention candidate will
get a great many votes, for there are great
many rebels, ex-rebels, and rebel sympa-
thizers in the State. But he will get the
votes of no others.
The Journal says, very emphatically,
that Judge DUAL will get the votes
of none others than rebels, ex-rebels,
and rebel sympathizers in Kentucky.
IF that be his standing in that State,
what is to be thought Of those who,
living in Indiana, indorse him SO
heartily? Can they be Union men?
Public opinion has settled no point
more completely and satisfactorily
than that the man who, brought up
amid Northern associations and free
from the prejudices naturally attach
ing to those surrounded by the infu-
ence of slavery, should yet indorse
and sympathize with rebels in their
efforts to overthrow the Government,
is infinitely meaner traitor, in
addition to being coward, than any
in the Southern States who took up
arms and fought for what they mis-
takenfy regarded as their rights.
Such are the Indiana Democrats who
advocate the election of Judge DU-
VAL, and applaud and encourage
traitors like MILLIGAN in promul-
eating their reasonable opinions. se
" SO positive are we that Mr.. MILF
GAN has struck his party a terrible
blow, that we feel assured Union men
will be prompt to circulate his speech
as campaign document. The loyal
men of Indiana have not forgotten
the efforts of the Sons of Liberty to
revolutionize their State, inaugurate
riot and murder, secure the liberation
Of the rebel prisoners confined at
Camp Morton, and So cripple the re-
sources of the General Government
as to compel a recognition of the
Southern Confederacy The leaders
of that party may roam at will through
our State, and faunt their treason in
our faces, owing to mistaken Execu-
tive clemency, yet the people in due
time will put seal of condemnation
upon them that will insure their eter-
nal infamy, besides depriving them of
all ability to do harm Such, at least,
is our faith in the intelligence and pa
triotism of the people. We may be
mistaken in our estimate, but do not
think SO. We believe that even in
Kentucky, the impotence of returned
rebels will receive a rebuke, at the
next election, that will warm the
yheart of every loyal man in the coun-
try. IF not, that State is more hope
/ lesslv reasonable than we. ever mag