The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-01

can only give an abstract of it. He
said: We have as much to fear from
the success of the Democratic party,
as represented in this Capital on the
22d of February, as from the rebel
lion. There our enemies were openly
waging war against us, but this party,
while processing to a degree of at
tachment to the Government, endeav
or to make the very same issue. Their
Lieutenant Governor was selected be-
cause he was known to be in sympa-
thy with the rebellion. The rebels
claim that we seek to destroy the Gov
eminent, but these men raised their
fratricidal hands to overthrow our in
situations. The masses of the South
should have universal amnesty, but
we do not wish that these men shall
reconstruct the Union after seeking
to destroy it.
The Union party has a great fight
to make The victory may not come
this time, but it will come sooner or
later. Why was Col. Wolford thrown
overheard the other day? Because he
was accused of shedding Southern
blood. No War Democrat was elected
on their ticket. But this Conserva-
tive party must come to US, and Ken
lucky must be redeemed from the
curse of the theory of the right of a
State to set up separate government
for itself. (Applause.) Talk about
the charity of the Government
Were there no brave men except
Southern men?
This antagonism to slavery had been
started in Europe. 1t had extended
here. AS Kentuckian, | say that |
rejoice that the shackles of the slave
are broken. cloud applause.) [ be-
lieve, with Clay, that slavery was a
moral, political evil. You can no
more stop what the great God DEGREES
than you can arrest the planets in
their orbits Rome was permitted to
fall, because Rome had nothing to do
with modern civilization. The death
of Rome was necessary, in order that
new government might be formed
upon the ruins of the Roman empire;
1t was decreed in the nineteenth cen
fury that slavery should be wiped out
applause Talk about the name Of
abolitionist, why the South abolished
slavery herself. But we are inter
fering to abolish the heresy that be-
longed to slavery, and that is the
heresy of SECESSION; but | trust the
time may soon come when loyal men
from the South can enter into Con-
gress. But Kentucky has got to
place herself in union with the great
Northern States. We must make
Kentucky a second Empire State.
The Union party is getting hold, in
Kentucky. The ship of State is about
to right herself, and all who stand in
the way must go down.
On the anniversary of Washington,
that party met to have sensation.
They delight in sensation, and got up
the rebellion as a sensation. The
nation is now building a monument to
Gen. Washington, to which every
State has contributed a stone; but the
time will come when every State will
its block of marble or
granite to monument to Abraham
Lincoln, which will be prouder
than the pyramids, and as lasting as
the rock of ages. Immense applause
The time is coming when the names
of Geo. HI. Thomas and Ulysses Grant |
and Sherman, will be regarded
as the saviors of the country
The people will yield their testimony
to the service of these men, both in
the North and in the South, in put
ting down this rebellion. These
rebels said they could not be con-
quered in the field, and now that they
cannot be conquered at the ballot box,
but they were mistaken then, and |
they are mistaken now. Applause
DIR. Maxwell, of Marion, and Hon.
W. W. Holt, of Montgomery, also !
made speeches, but we must close our
report for to-day. We may be able
to publish them at another time.