The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-23

where the civil authorities have failed
to bring such parties to trial !"
This the President declares neces-
sary, because in the South the rebel
authorities will not protect Union cit
liens of any color, but they are muir
dered with IMMUNITY.
g. A third object of this bill was in
case of extreme necessity to furnish
temporary relief to suffering and
starving poor of all classes and colors.
| The war had impoverished the
South, and in many places left them
without supplies. The aged and the
infirm were thrown upon the world
with slender means of support.
County infrmaries and poor houses
did not exist, Some rebel States had
not yet supplied them, Some tenn
porary provision was necessary to pre-.
vent starvation. Temporary relief has
been furnished even to white rebels
to loyal white refugees stripped of all
their means during the war, and loyal
blacks. Who will,say this as a mere
temporary measure was wrong?
4. But fourth object was to take
| possession of the thousands of aban-
doned plantations of the South and
lease them out so that they might be
turned to profitable account, and en-
ployment be given to the freedmen
| in production of cotton. Thousands
of plantations have thus been leased
out, and the result has been the pro-
duction of cotton to supply the whole
country. Millions have been added
to our wealth and to our revenue by
taxes on cotton thus raised We hear
of expense, but the whole appropria-
ton for the Freedmen's Bureau is
about seven millions of dollars Much
of this is for the support of the mill
tary establishment, but in cotton and
taxes thereon the country has derived
many millions which could never have
been otherwise produced or realized.
| 1t does not increase, but only regu-
lates the Presidents power During
the whole war the. President did
everything as part of his war power
without this law which has since been
| done under. it. do 81 81 Il
There are some who want office,
/ and they seem to think the road to
Office leads only through the White
House. Twill not say what caucus
| of Union Senators may think or
might have agreed on. l know that
| the Senate, at its next session, will
not confirm the appointment of any
man to Office who opposes the cleo.
ton of Union candidates in the cleo
tions of October. / know that law
will be passed declaring that no man
once rejected by the Senate shall
hereafter hold Office or receive pay.
| know that law will be passed pro-
hibiting the removal of those now in
Office, except by the consent of the
Senate. Let those who are anxious
themselves accordingly.
| And now one word to the old De-
moeracy. This old party is invited to
surrender its very name and its party
organization to become the caudal
appendage of Seward and Doolittle.
| Alas, poor Yorickl 90
For FIVE years Seward has been de-
nounced for his military arrests. 1t
has been his boast that he could ring
a little bell, and at his bidding arrest
every Democrat in the land Vallan-
digham was put under arrest and sent
to his friends in the South, and DR..
Olds was shut up in Fort Lafayette,
compelled to read his Bible, and de-
MED the use of Democratic newspa-
pers for all valuable purposes.
| Now these same men propose to or
| ganize new political church, with
Seward as its bishop, Olds as its pre-
siding elder, and Vallandigham as its
high priest, and at Seward s. bidding
they propose to sing the exalted strain :.
Tinkle, tinlkle, little bell, , ~
IJg Oh, love the mighty we'll;
| Bastile keeper we adore, it'h
Blessed be prisons evermore. taas
And now, fellow-citizens, these are
the issues before YOU The irestora-
ton of the Government upon basis
which shall give security for the flu
ture is work next in order to the
suppression of the rebellion The
1 glorious Union party which accom-
plished the one should achieve the
tother, rss r8gen Boz y IL i3 haso4 1sl +
L On these issues we shall again march
forth to battle and to victory