The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-12


the popular mind, and rebels rise to
influence and power. Now, let me
say right here, before | go further,
that / have no objection to rebels, or
those who were rebels, even holding
Office, if they are of the right sort ac-
cording to my Judgment. But you
never see the right sort clamoring
for Office, and constantly harping on
the old strings, Abolitionists,
BLACK Republicans" Federal
hirelings," Radical Jacobins," and
all the other cant phrases of political
claptrap, to keep up and perpetuate
bad feeling, and bitterness, and Sec
tional strife.
The right sort of a rebel says he is
tired of war-has gotten enough of it
and wants peace; he is willing to risk
the magnanimity of the Union men,
and will accept the terms imposed
upon him and make the best of it; he
says he was fairly whipped, and. from
the standpoint of unionists, his act
of rebellion against, and war upon,
the government, necessarily looks
monstrous and wicked, and he will
not strut around talking about his
rights" like defeated rooster in
COCKPIT with his comb cut and his
tail-feathers all out. The right sort of
a rebel says the wall of distress and
want and suffering, the consequences
of the rebellion, comes up from many.
parts of the South, and rebels should
cease their bombast and boastfulness,
while they apply to heal up the
CHASTITY wound which civil war has
made-and not assume to dictate
when they should occupy the attitude
of a dignifed surrender.
There are rebels of this sort, how
ever much some of the Northern peo-
pie may doubt it, but there are not
many in Kentucky, where the Sham
Democracy assumes the championship
of the lost cause" Many Southern
rebels advised the seeded States to
accept the Constitutional Amendment,
as Tennessee did, as basis of recon
moderate and reasonable,
for fear harsher measures would fol-
low stubbornness and unreasonable
demands. But these sensible and
trustworthy rebels are silenced
by the riff-raff, Sham Democracy,
cy, which is still inspired by the spirit
which murdered Union men and ne
groes, under the lead of butcher Mon
roe, the rebel Mayor of New Orleans.
And what has been the consequence
of lawless and violent rebels assum-
ing control in the South, and re-ani.
mating the exanimate Democracy
of Kentucky in defiant hostility to
every measure of reconstruction that
does not honor and dignity the rebel
lion? Just, simply, this has been the
result; The basis of reconstruction
offered last year by Congress, in the
Constitutional Amendment,
made it easy and reasonable for the
rebel communities to assume the for
feited condition as States, without
negro suffrage or further military dis
cipline; but now, seeing the rebel
lious and murderous spirit which
manifested itself so conspicuously in
New Orleans, and which is cham
pioned by the Sham Democracy
everywhere, the safety and security of
Union people and negroes demand, in
the view of Congress and of many who
would have opposed these measures
last year, further and more vigorous
protection, and placing politi-
cal power in the hands of the blacks.
This is the situation to-day, and if
further resistance be made to every
reasonable plan of reconstruction Of
fered by Congress, we may yet seethe
Southern STATES declared to be what
they are in fact, rebel communities,
and Territorial Governments, with a
strong military arm, established over
them. 30 $50 oaHs
Now let us go back to Kentucky
politics: -t9S
/ do not know whether we will
have Union candidate for Congress
In this district or not, but we ought to
have if for no other purpose but to go
round and hear John Young Browns
speeches. He will show clearly, from