The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-12
Union Convention at HopkinsviIle.
Great Rebel Speaking General Out
pouring of Treason-Nonssnotion of
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Christian Co., KY, July End, 1911
Editors Journal: Aq.GsgCe 'aalF3esI
You are aware we have no Union
organ in Southern Kentucky; conse-
quently, when one wishes to express a
loyal sentiment, he must needs send
it over to Indiana and ask the favor
of having it expressed there. Indeed,
to tell the whole horrible truth, it is
becoming somwhat hazardous to utter
loyalty here. Christian County, and
all Kentucky, made loud professions
of loyalty during the war, but to-day
is, and all the time was, intensely
rebel. And wherever slavery has
crawled and left its poisonous slime.
treason is rampant, now that the
sword is returned to the scabbard.
And now to chronicle the state of
political feeling, as manifested and
demonstrated by the doings and say
ings at a rebel meeting which came
off Yesterday at Hopkinsville, is a
painful service for one who loves good
government, law and order, to render.
And a true statement of what occurred
would scarcely be believed by the
most credulous of loyal men, or even
Copperheads, abroad. Then be it
known that yesterday was the day
appointed for the Rebel candidates
Mr.. Pendleton, for the State Senate,
and Mr.. McKiDzie, for the lower
branch of the State Legislature-to
address their fellow-citizens general
ly, and the great household of rebels
in particular, upon the many dead
issues they keep before the country,
including the past and present status
of the negro. The Union party,
having no candidates in the field, it
was proposed to the rebels that they
would postpone speaking for a short
time, to allow the few Union men
who happened to be present time to
hold a hasty meeting, a request which
was courteously granted and which
resulted in the nomination of d. M.
Woodbridge, ESQ. for State Senator and
w. Evans, a lawyer of our town, and
a young man of great promise, for the
lower branch of the State Legislature.
Mr.. Woodbridge then came forward
and responded to the nomination by
a conditional acceptance, but took
the opportunity to deliver quite a
speech, and his many sharp thrusts
at treason evidently fired the heart
and stirred the feelings of every rebel
in the house.
Mr.. Evans then took the stand, and
in a few appropriate remarks accepted
the nomination just rendered him by
the loyal voters of the county. and
added, that though the true Union
party might be in the minority, in the
county, yet surely they were not
ashamed of having aided the general
Government in the suppression of
treason, and putting to flight the arm
les of the rebels; and if the rebels so
thought from the long silence and in
activity of the loyal men, that we.
would now, tit being about the proper
time) dispel that delusion. Rebel
blood being now raised to about fever
heat, Mr.. Evans closed his remarks,
and the Union Convention then ad-
journed.
During all this the rebels behaved
we'll, and appeared more than usually
respectful. But their dander was up;
and now the squalling and following
| for Pendleton at once became deafen-
ing;rebels running to and fro through
the hall in search of their champion,
and in a few moments he was borne
upon the arms of his almost breath
less friends to the stand. Mr.. Pen
dleton, though a county citizen and
candidate for an important State
Office, is not yet known by, probably,
one-half the voters of the district, or
even his " county; and yet he, in
his introduction, made no allusion to
that fact, but, doubtless, partaking
largely of the enthusiast and exas-
peration of his friends now crowded
around him, opened his mouth and
said that he was for saving and pre-
serving the Constitution of his coun-
try, and to accomplish that end, the
Union party now in power, who were
trying to elevate the negro above tie
white race, and disregarding every
provision of that sound and adorable
instrument, the Constitution of the
United States, must be kicked from
power, and the Government handed
over to the true friends of the Consti-
tuition, (that is, those who have been
trying for the last six years to destroy
it, who would defend, protect, and
preserve both.