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

ton, and fmakIng war upon us
own members, and destroying item
because they have been Union men
making war and humiliating its own
members because they have been true
to the Government of Washington
and Jackson, and rue to its Consti-
tuition. Now the Democratic party
North must.decide whether this pro-
scriptive and rebel party, which Sat
urn like, devours its own progeny
because they have been guilty of the
crime of having been true to their
country, is in fall afiliation with the
Northern National Democracy, or
whether we are, who have been true
to our country in all her difficulties,
who were in perfect utilization with
the Northern Democracy during the
a and who defended the Union
and the Constitution against both ex-
tremes at the risk of our lives.
Which will you choose? You must
choose one or the other. If you are
for them, you are against us. Ii for
us, against them. We will not will
lingly deceive the people OF Ken
lucky; therefore we ask. are you for
or against US? By your de-
cision in the affirmative, you
will instantly & Destroy this rebel
proscriptive party, because their
whole stock in trade is their
cry of. Radical and Democrat. By
your decision In their favor you give
them a temporary triumph, but you
destroy yourselves because you IN
fdorse a party which lis thoroughly
proscriptiye and rebel, and you are
placed in that position that you are
responsible to the whole country
either for the success or defeat of this
so-called spurious Democratic party
Of this State, because, whichever you
decide for, the people of this State
will sustain. IF you sustain us you
will sustain those that were true to
the Union, true to the Constitution
and true to the Democratic party dur
ing the war. If you sustain them,
you indorse a party whose or
ganization deserted the Demo-
cratic party and formed the South
ern Rights party of this State
in 1861, and who assume the
name of the Democrat in 1868, in or
der to cloak their reasonable designs
at their convention, which was sup
pressed by Colonel Gilbert, and it
was distinctly stated that the Febru-
airy convention that nominated the
Helm ticket was a continuation of
the suppressed one, when Colonel
Leathers, who was appointed Chair
man Of the suppressed one, was ap
pointed chairman of the Helm con-
avowedin that convention, by a dis
--lo1 90 No-foIo, n H zo, I'll ~
was applauded, that this was the
struggle of 1861, renewed, What was
the struggle of 1861 but Union or
disunion? Again l say, which will
you sustain-the party that was for
or against you in that terrible strug-
gle?-the party which has nominated
and elected none but those who sym
pathized with the rebellion, to Con-
gress in the hope, as | sincerely be-
lieve, that these gentlemen may be
refused their seats, with the belief
and prayer that this will produce rev.
olution in the North, and that Ken
lucky may be precipitated, in the hour
of her indignation at being refused
representation. into the vortex of re-
bellion, with a united South and more
brilliant prospects for successor to
that party which was true to you and
to the Government, and warned the
people of Kentucky to select only |
those men who would comply with the
test oath, however unjust that law
be?-that it was neither pru-
dent, wise nor patriotic to bring the
State into an unnecessary conflict with
Congress or the General GOVERNMENT;
that laws, however unjust and neon
stitutional, ought only to be changed
by a gradual change at the ballot-bo
and not by bringing the State into
conflict with the General Govern
meRt? Now, gentlemen, choose
for hat party who still, in
their blindness and desperation,
are trying to inaugurate a new
and more desperate rebellion,
and only use you that, through you
as an instrument, they can accomplish
their unhallowed purposes; or choose
us, who have always been for the
the Constitution and the en-
of the laws. Choose for
who never lifted his voice dur
ing the whole wal either for the
party or for the Union,
and who boosted in his Lexington
hat because he had been
and had not been for the var o
perpetuate the Union, that he was
indebted for the nomination; or
choose for Kinkead, who was during
the whole war in strict utilization with |
the Democratic party North, and
earnestly for the preservation of the
and the Constitution. This
with us is a war of principle. We
intend to wage If tn the hitter end