The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-04


It was claimed as a decree of that
Just God who never allows a free
people to be conquered. But they
were mistaken in the DEGREES of
Providence; and they are mistaken
to-day when they say that the Dem
ocratic party shall control the destiny
of this country. GCheers SRev-
olutions never so backward. It was
put forth in the maintenance of the
integrity of the Union by the physical
power of the nation. The moral
power is to come now. The Roman,
Empire existed for eight hundred
years; but this Government existed
for only one hundred years, and if
God Almighty takes part in the per-
petuation of anything that is good, it
has destiny as lasting as the sands of
time. 1t is not to be terminated by
those who sought the life of the ma
ton. 1t would be inconsistent with
common sense to suppose it was to be
overthrow by the political power of
those who failed to destroy it on the
field of battle. 1t is to be saved by
those men who, on the field, testified
their devotion to it by their blood, as
they lay wounded, during the long
watches of the night, or in the toll
some muddy marches, till at last they
exclaimed, " How long, o, Lord, how
long shall victory be deferred?" These
are the men who are molding the des-
TIMES of this country.
Let those who do not intend to be
crushed by the power of this move
ment stand out of the way, and lei the
car of progress advance. The State
of Kentucky wants her commercial,
industrial, and educational interests
advanced. She don't want to tie her
self to the dead fallacies and idols of
the past. We have nothing more to
do with African slavery. Shedding
tears over such dead institutions
would be like weeping over corpses
that had rotted in their graves and are
now blown about by every wind of the
desert. We don't propose to chain
Kentucky to any wheel of that kind.
We want her to march with Ohio-to
move along like ship tull-sailed and
well manned. She stands still to-day,
because men who are clutching at this
phantom of the past hold her back;
because she is not placed in unison
with the balance of the great States of
the North, who are not only leading
this country, but the whole earth, in
civilization and progress.
am no sanguine man, though a
young man, but / predict the ultimate
and complete triumph of the Union
party in this State as we'll as in all the
States of the country. And from
Kentucky, as the hub of the Unionism
of the South, we will rid the rebel
States of their delusion, and bind
them not with any military power, but
with common interest and good feel
ing, until at last this great Govern
ment, from end to end, viii roll on in
its course as do the grand planets that
wheel around the sun and move in the
march of ages. Let us go into the
field, take up the standard of the
Republic, for the standard of the Re-
public is the standard of the Union
party. Let the watch cry be heard
upon every hill and every valley. Let
US place truth in opposition to error,
and though for awhile victory may be
stayed, it will come at last as surely as
the operations of nature take place,
such as we see in the changing sea-
sons.
Let the Union men of Kentucky
stand firm, unseduced by compro-
misses, or the promise of, Office on the
other side. Those who have laid that
fattering JUNCTION to their souls have
found that the promised fair fruits
turn bitter as ashes to their taste.
Resolve to stand on principle. Prin-
ciple. with honesty, reigns more than
corruption. Let all you aim at be
your Government, and your country
will reward you; and if you are not
rewarded by Office, you will have the
reward of being able to hand down to
your children the heritage of the fact
that you were patriot. And in the
tide of time, the grandest names that
come down to us in all history. are of
those. who loved their country, and
were ready to make sacrifices for it.
Stand firm, gentlemen, and all will be
we'll. Detection will come to this
Democratic party. These Conservative
men are not going to stand still and see
the rebels get all the offices. It is
not in the nature of things. / don't
charge that the Democratic party are
all rebels. I believe the great body
of the people are loyal and true to the
Government. 1t is to their interest
to be so; but they are misled, when
they are induced to support the ticket
nominated here the other day. Con-
sentative men will gravitate towards
/ the Union party, because it has truth
in it, 1t will obliterate in Kentucky
the last vestige of disloyal sentiment,
and Kentucky will proclaim to the
East and to the West, to the North
and to the South, that she has, not
only by the force of arms in the field,
6anished rebellion from the border
states, but that by her intelligence