The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-15

COLONEL RICHARD 7. JACOB,
~ OF KENTIICKY
tt THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY, OF
THE NORTHERN STATES.

cGENTLEMEN:-There are at this
time in the State of Kentucky three
parties-the Radical, of which it is
not necessary for me to speak of at
this time; the Southern Rights party,
which has stolen the right of Democ-
racy, and the Union Democratic party.
The last two both claim to bein strict
utilization with the great National
Democratic party. If this were true
there would be no necessity but for
one organization, and then there would
be but two parties in the State
the Democratic and the Radical. The
National Democratic party in the
Northern States have partially iu-
dorsed both. The Southern Rights
: party know that without that indorse-
ment they can not live, and must
speedily dwindle into insi~gnificance.
Hence their audacious seizure of the
name and their strenuous efforts to
deceive not. only the people of
Kentucky, but the Northern De-
mocracy, which has given them
temporary success, in deceiving thou
sands of Union men in the State,
and a few speakers and presses in
the North. Yet the majority IF the
leaders, and a vast majority of those
who composed the organization in
1861, belonged to the Southern Rights
party, and cried down with the Dem
ocratic party and the Union; there
IS neither. We. who represent the
Union Democracy, have equally claim
ed to be in full utilization with the
Democratic party North. We have
made the claim in good faith. We
do not wish either to deceive the peo-
pie of Kentucky or the Democratic
party North. Therefore we respect
fully refer our claim to the Demo-
cratic party North, and ask them to
distinctly indorse or repudiate us.
We are either for or against you. IF
we are for you, indorse u. IF
against you and your principles, ex-
dorsement of us, the sc-called Dem
ocratic party" will soon dwindle into
nothing, leaving only an organization
composed chiefly of disappointed Of
f~ee-seekers and traitors, both to the
Democratic party and to the Union
during the war. BY your indorse-
ment we Will soon become the domi-
nant party. which will give strength and
vitality to your party North. By
your Endorsement of this spurious
party here you will give them a long
e. lease Of Temporary power, but you
destroy your party North, and will
give strength to the Radical party both
here and in the North. The question
is naturally asked why we cannot
unite the two parties here claiming 20
be Democratic? Simply from this
fact that this "so-called Democratic
party" alias Southern Rights party,
OF Kentucky, is an organization with
almost military efficiency, that is emf
nently proscriptive. and no man who
has either been in the Union army or
has had Union sentiments can, with
honor, belong to it. 1t is an organi-
zation for the purpose of bestowing
honor upon those who have been hos
tile to the Government of the United
States either secretly or openly. Tt
is an organization for the express pur-
pose of dishonoring and proseribinp
Union men. Can We, with the 6rsf
spark of honor left US, belong to any
such party. [ know that they deny
this through their presses and
public speakers, but privately and by
their action emphatically endorse if.
Now, the Union Democratic party is
an organization eminently non-pro-
scriptive. It was this party that. af-
ter the war vas over, gave perfect am
nesty to the returned Confederate
soldier-it wiped from the statute
book all proscriptive enactments, aud
gave all perfect equality. All that it
asked was that the past should be for
gotten, and that no one should be
prescribed, whether Federal or Con-
federate, for past opinions. We cared
not who obtained position, whether
he had been in the Federal or Com
federate army. SO that he had been
selected for his wisdom and integrity.
and We were not forced by the action
Ot parties to indorse a I" Lost Cause.
tGfrsFer r.