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

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on the committee says the change was
made by fraud and the resolution as it
passed did compliment the rebel and Union
Soldiers alike. Fw krf~s .sasaAs sF
sion, had received dispatch from General
Forrest, the butcher of Fort Pillow, Gener-
al Chalmers and other Confederate soldiers,
saying, =" The soldiers of the Confederaey
sympathize with you" This dispatch was
received with loud cheers, and three cheers
were given for Forrest. When read this
it fell npon my'soul like lead Couid it be
possible, that, within two years after the
war bad closed, men could stand up in
Cleveland and cheer the worst butcher
among the rebels, as hero?
He had had the pleasure of hear
ing the honorable Senator from
Massachusetts say it would be a pre-
eious longwhile before any ofthose Cfeve-
land chaps would be confirmed, and they
are an applicants. The new party had
been formed because the Democratic party
had become so black with treason and
crime, that it could no longer be borne
and combating with rebels of the South,
whose arms had been torn from their
hands by you, they callit the "National
Union Party" [Cries of q Played OUT
The Governor desired to saytO his old
Democratic friends, that now, when the
Democratic party, had, been formally dis
solved and slavery had been abolished,
theyw no longer under allegianceeto
party and were free to vote their own senti-
ments. "Refiect when you lie down, con-
suit your own conscience and know you
will vote right"
The Governor painted the pathetic and
humed scene in the Philadelphia Convenr
ton, : with Gen. Buttler's illustration,
which was received with, shouts of laugh
ter. b2s"7 It. ~ y ...'u ~. lf
ut is asked of us that the rebels shall
get right up of the battledeldwherey Won left
them and come back 10 to Congress- at once
and make your laws The Copperheads of
the North ask it. fCries, we object.l Are
your laws? rye are. That is our condi-
tion-t hat loyal men Shall make laws and
that the conditions are made so that rebels
cannot injure US again they hail stay out
Is NOT that right? Yes, yes1 But they
demand to come right in and help make
the conditions, about as modest as the
criminal who should ask to be placed on
the jury by which be was tp. be tried,
TIE Co9perhe Ids sayll u is a great lottfage
that we Keep the rebels out of Congress,
and discuss this question as II we had
turned them out-as if we had expelled
them without cause or provocation.
Five years ago, in 1861, these men volun-
tarily left Congress in violation OF their
oathsg We begged Jthem to stay evenOfr
fef9d to.l m axe dish Horrible Conditions
with them; but they went out, violating
their oaths, and to make bloody war up
on us, that has drenched the battle fields
with the best blood of the nation. They
fought four years and were overcome.
Now, they ask to come back without con-
ditions! THEY'VE t out When they pl eRsed,
andNVe%wfIl let them come back when we
please. [Applausel.
Moses says they must come back at once /;
and they talk as if we were doing great
wrong to keep honorable gentlemen of the
South out of Congress. We don't propose
TO keep them out always, but this genera
ton at least Ish ould gbe kept aoutA They
have forfeited all right, and we have a
right to hang them all, but none have been
hung. Even JEFF. Davis has not been hung,
and fear he never VIII be: E. Yes, he
will. We VIII hang vh6m ON Ia sour apple
tree.''O Applause and laughter.l
The Governor next discussed, in logical
and able manner, the condition offered the
rebels imthe pFeRosed endmen ts the
Constitution, in the course of which, in
speaking of the base appeals made by DEM
ocratic orators, to the prejudices and
the Z subjects Of Negro Aequaifty and
negro suffrage he referred to the
contemplate fraud that had been perpe-
trated by the, ,Copperheads in this city on
Monday, by issuing dirty circular offer
ing a reward to negroes to carry torches.
He said this was characteristic of the ere
my. After reading. the, circular, he said
this2had been iissned and INTENDED as a
fraud, but it was as honest an argument as
they had used during the canvass, and is
entitled to no special condemnation. He
would not insult the negroes of Evansville
by placing them on an equality with this
forgery. The man who would forge such a
document, he said, would forge green
Ill kIN1
people cried that's so!' you're right ~
at is not the respectable people who are
bowling about negro equality. 1t is the
low and degraded, those who fear that the
negro viii outstfip them in the raceiof life,
not restrained by legislation; who fear
whose1daughters go about. labelled -ssWhite
husbands or none" an .intimation that
they had mum Der OF ,colored sultors, and
gave this notice that they wanted a white
one. Tremendous applause, and cries OF
That's so. Amalgamation was scarce
! Iy known at the North. Even in Massa-
chusetts, where the greatest rights had
been bestowed upon the negro, there had
| not been a single case reported in twenty
| five years. But in the South, where the
was bound to respect, where the rights Of
marriage among negroes were not conSid
| cred sacred 2,00Q,00J slnulattoes gave PROOF
| of the prevalence OF amalgamat1on.
So, too, with those who howled about
taxes. IL was not Ul0 men WHO pau taxes
but those. who paid none on the subject
of representation he was able and eonvin
| cling, showing the injustice and dishonor o.
allowing the South the right of representa-
ton on the negro population who were mo-
allowed to vote, thus making a rebel sol
der equal to two. Union soldiers, and in
some instances more. In fone District in
South, Carolina there were Is, 900 whites, and
$4,000 negroes, and yetuthey were entitled
] to one representative. in Congress, thu
making $4,000 rebels in South Caroline
equal to 200 white men in Indiana.
/ He also showed how, under the pre- sen
system of representation, the power of the
Southern States, based upon slave repre-
sentation, was equal to the power of Ohi'
4 and Indiana, or, in other words, that tn
4 South would have thirty members Of Con
! gress, representing the negro population Q
4 the South. The man who voted agains