The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-06

-JFdSGeU- bU6lT dcb1OH 10 tHdG VI tie
Democratic party, preceding and
during the war; how they had worked
together for the establishment of a
Southern slave-aristocracy. He then
ventilated the action of the two wings
of the Democratic party, under Brock
inridge and Douglas, proceeding the
war-hoW James Buchanan and
Breckenridge betrayed the American
people and the Democratic party,
while Douglas remained true, show
ing the difference between Gen
eral Jackson's action during
the notification In South Carolina,
and the formers action, in allowing
the South to plant batteries in the
face of the American people, without
any effort to suppress the uprising.
He then read from one of President
Johnson's Tennessee speeches, show
ing what he thought about the de-
struction of slayery-how he adyocat-
ed its downfall, before the American,
people could ever expect to see peace
in the nation. He then spoke of the
cooperation of the so-called Demo
cratic party of the North with that of
the South-how they had always been
ruled by the latter in every instance
To provo THE proposition, he quoted
the following from the New Albany
Ledger of November 18th, 1863, when
that paper replies to the comments of
the State Sentinel upon Judge Per
kin's letter.
What have those rebels done that
Northern Democrats should again
sacrifice themselves for their benefit?
We in the North have done that be
fore. but instead of purchasing their
gratitude, only now their contempt.
We strengthened the Fugitive Slave
Law to please them We repealed
the Missouri Compromise Line to
please them. We attempted Tor at
least some Democrats did) to make
Kansas slave State, even to the in
dorsement of the infamous Lecomp-
ton swindle, to please them. We did
these and a thousand other things, in
an endeavor to retain and appease the
South. In doing it we sacrificed our
candidates for Governors, for United
States Senators, for Congress, for the
State Legislatures. But all was un-
availing with an ingratitude and
baseness without parallel; these South
ern politicians broke up the
Democratic party, defeated, as
they boosted they would do, it's
candidates for President and Vice
President; deserted the halls of Con-
gress, leaving their Northern friends
at the mercy of the Lincoln abolition
dynasty, and finally made war to give
effect to their treason to party and to
country. This is, in brief, the history
of the course pursued by the Demo
cratic party towards the South, and
the response it has met with from
them.
He then reviewed the action of Mr..
Lincoln, how the so-called Democrats
had abused and misrepresented him,
by saying the war was instigated for
the overthrow of slavery, etc. He
proved conclusiyely that the President
tried to save slavery, but at last, to
save the Union, proclaimed the slaves
free. How it had helped our armies
on to victory. He spoke of the con-
nection between the Democratic party
and the Sons of Liberty The latter
he characterized as the sons of slavery
how it controlled the action of
the Democratic party even now
when it claims to be so loyal He APP
proved the course of President John
son and the conditions imposed upon
the rebel States in his formation of
provisional governments, so far as he
had gone He is in favor of farther
condition of making the basis of rep
resentation the number of voters; and
believes that such an amendment
should be made to the National Con
stitution, before admitting representa-
ton from the rebel States. He said
| that Congress had no power over the
suffrage question-that the respective
States should regulate that question.
He said, and he wished it to be dis
tinctly understood, that he was OPP
posed to negro suffrage, and to negro
representation; that the representa-
ton in Congress should be up
on the basis of the white voters
thus making the loyal whites of
Indiana and the great West equal
in rights and powers with the
South. He said that all men of all
parties should demand the adoption
of such an amendment, or the rebels
would get the power in the Govern
ment and accomplish, through that
means, what they failed to gain by the
force of arms-for they demanded the
right, and as they had assumed to
govern and control the Democratic
| party in the late slave States, and were
receiving the cooperation of the So
called Democratic party in the North.
To accomplish this end it was now
absolutely necessary that the true
men of all parties and of every section
should unite and resist the demands
of these traitors, and should stand by
the President and Congress and thus
retain the power in the hands of the