The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-28
SENATOR MORTON'S GREAT
SPEECH. @
Delivered Last Night at COlum.
bus, Ohio.
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A POWERFUL ARGUMENT.
A .SC4 THING REVIEW or
DEMOCRACY
The Political Record of the
War.
THE COPPERHEAD PLATFORM.
The Black Channel of Repu-
diatiOn.
UNION SOLDIERS TO BE DIS
s lp HONORED. r.
THE COPPERHEAD PLATFORM.
The Black Channel of Repu-
diatiOn.
UNION SOLDIERS TO BE DIS
lD HONORED. rs
THE QUESTION OF RECONSTRUCTION.
IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE.
Appeal to the Soldiers Of Ohio

Fctloao- Cf;tiiseas of Ohio: .2' sal igo
The party calling itself Democratic
is again asking for the confidence
and support I of the people of
Ohio, and it is not only proper, but
to- investigate the title
upon which they put forth their
claims. a.r;i rrft.istIfy ..-.ter fte
As a public political organization,
it is the right of the people to, exam
ine their history, to look into the
career and principles of their candi-
dates, and to understand the spirit
and purpose of the politicians and
leaders who will control them if
elected.
Itis a proposition which cannot be
denied by any intelligent observer of
events for the last ten years, that the
so-calle6 Democratic party was
thoroughly and completely identified
with the origin and progress of the
rebellion !; that, as a political organi-
zation, it was part of the rebellion,
acting as counsellor, sympathizer, fur
nisher of supplies, and doing every
thing in aid # $ prosecution that
could be done in the loyal States.
When [ speak thus | do not mean
to say that all its members, all who
vote with it, are equally guilty, nor do
[ refer to that patriotic host, who
when the Rebellion broke out, lett
the Democratic party and went over
to the side of the country. The
masses of the people of all parties in
tend to do right, and would if they
were let alone; but [ mean its poll
ticians, its leaders, those who form its
opinions, and give shape to its action.
9fT While they have been the open and
avowed enemies to the people of the
North, they have in the guise OF
friends been the most deadly foes of
the South, and have by their treacher-
Gus and pernicious counsels led them,
by criminal and reasonable paths, to
dishonor and destruction.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE WAR.
To go no further back than the
campaign of 1860, we find them as
suring the people Of the South, by
speeches, newspapers and resolutions
of conventions, that Mr. Lincoln was
sectional. candidate, and that his
election as President would be In Vi
olation Of the Constitution of the
United States; that the Republican
party of the North. if they succeeded
to power, would, without provocation
or excuse, oyerturn the institutions OF
the South, and that the South would
be justified by every principle of hon
or aud self preservation IN resisting
even by force Of arms, their accession
| to power. .+u.
These wicked and moustrous false
| hoods were re-asserted in every pos
I siblc form, enforced by ali the vehe-
meuce of passion and the graces OF
rhetoric, and the question may well be
asked how the people Of the South
+. could refuse altogether to believe the
persistent declarations of large body
Of professed friends in the North
| who claimed to speak from superior
knowledge Of what was going on il
their midst ~ 43t"
| Immediately after the election o
Mr.. Lincoln, the slaveholding rebels
of the South, protesting to be ami
mated by profound belief in, tht
truth of the declarations and prophe
cies of the Democratic leaders of tn,
North, went forward in the work o
Ft .r4nu.