The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-17


BY and hy. +howeEer-they train reached
short curveihathe road, the effect of " hich
was that the side of the car on which our
waited, while the opposite side was cores
pondingly de pressed. at this point his
fears caused him TO expose to his fellow
passengers his political relations and
opinions by exclaining to his wife, Mol
he, Mollie. bar do,oa. for Gods sake, bar
do,r., Moliie; the darn'd shipg y golng to
When 1 read Judge Thurman's speech. 4
Immediately though of his Egyptian
be condensed into one protracted admo-
cratic cratic side Of the train 70 .s6ar down, bar
down, Z lest the darn'd thing should be up
s'F6f the com com fort and encouragement OF
TIE Judge and liS ffisna i 9 'Sgg I, 70 Ss
case was that the q darn'd ;things got
around the curve without tipping over,
wheths1gstng ses sSa aspon Mait
Off our venerabse friends who occupy the
Democratic side OF the, CT Oh st d,i now
think hey can help TO keep IL level by
bearing down, as itrounds the curves tnat
must be encountered in its progress, in the
nanieof Democracy, let them take long
pub and strong IS bar dotcp all together,
whenever they feel, hike it, enjoying the
consolation of the old adage that .'seyery
little helps ~ but then they ask the peo-
pie to , d ischarge the present conductor,
and install Old, Basag.en or h.s wie 10
the hugest joke of the season, but can mol
oG II au Is Ppro5osei. indeed. 10 change Con-
ductors in Ohio but, without any change
u CScnduc ito Cox asks to be relieved fIom
the labers 81 the position, and on ~ mpai1n
urate Conducfol Hayes In his place Is he
not worthy thus to be inaugurated? First,
a Major, tnenla Lieutenant Colonel, then
Colonel, and then a Brfgadier General ip
the army of the Union. he developed the
highest capacity Efogl every, com inand In
ave and sn Msn rance of when she bravest Of
the brave m ght wen be proud. ,se....
We ase loId py the nfssorian tS ssat hiat
under Lieutenant Colonel Hayes was the
first Infantry engaged. being the advance
OF the colum: Il on that day. IL was ordered
at an early hour TO advance by an I'M
frequentedJ read leading up the nou tain,
and to attack the enemy. Posted behind
stone walls, the enemy in greatly superior
force. poured into. our ranks a de tructive
fire or muskefry, grape and canister at
short range, and in q very short space of
LieStaasnts Hood. Ritter and smith were
wounded: Colonel Hayes, arm broken
Captain Skiles. shot Through the elbow,
arm amputafed; Ritter. leg amputated; y
and over one hundred dead and wounded
lay upon the field, out of the three hun
drtd and fifty who went into the action. y
"The comInand now devolved upon Ma
jOr Comfy, aud remained with him from
that time forward The enemy suddenly
opened fire from, the left, aud the regiment.
changed front OH first company. Lleuten-
ant Colonel Hayes soon amer again made
his appearance on the field with his
wound half dressed. and fought against the
renon strances of the whole command, un-
ill carried Oh. ,8fgs Fll -ffs3 g. 81 Usa4 ~ y
I II this is not an exhibition of the stsffo OF
where you viii find itf And yet, Mr.. Pen
-dleton would have us peieve that General
iicans, does not know what il is to stand
by the Constitution. When the brother
Democrats of Pendleton and Thurman, in
greatly superior force, were pouring de-
structive fire of musketre, grape and can
lister at short range, into General Hayes
and sSsn BEHIND behind
afser the Pendieion ashton: and then it
was that Hayes and his brave boys in blue
were exhibiting their utter Ignorance OF
what IL was to stand by that same Consti-
tuition. s
sent-Judge Thurman the " dead past; :"
but in one respect they resemble each.
been wounded in the service. The former
in the service of the UntOn--the latter In
acting as the next friend Of the prosecuted
Democrats who were captured in different
parts of the Confederacy and without due
process of law imprisoned at Camp Chase.
Query: was it one of these Camp Chase
plains was fnprisonedffof5 preaching the
Sermon on the Mount?
Judge Thurman also received some ugly
wounds i'll the Nallandigham campaign of
1858, and again in constructing and Defend
ing the Chicago platform OF 1854. Indeed,
1t would be no exaggeration 10 saysthat
from the crow q, OF his mead To, the sole of
his foot he Is covered With political
= wounds and bruises and purifying
=, But these gentlemen in the name, Of de-
mocracy, ignore the principles OF the Dec
iaratiofi Of l776, and WHIST they pertfnacl-
between States in the Union is an, impos-
sibility, still maintain that there, may be
such an III Inequality of rights a $ between the
init one race of .men TO deprive another
race of men Of all rights; Some men, ac-
rights which other men are bound to re-
spect, and as in former years, state rights
are to be exalted. that indivfdual RI hts
sis upon wiricfr this lmonstrous theory is
sought to- be maintained is. as nntenable
and ILLOGICAL as the principle itself is wick
SIM +. Pei 'dietos, for instanceyin the plens
titpde of bis. inapproachable;s Periority,
ne sedfs heoet6S rs sSSs
petuap IN ferioraty, and them nIakessfhis
supposed inferiority the ground, OF deny
ing then equasi Jusotce ana r itn I'M
for to Mr.. Pendieton to be permitted to
plead to the jurisdiction of the tribunal
eiss
impeaching the decree, can only Insist
tnat the principles of the Declaration of
Independence apply to all, inferior as well
as superior.
Fsss ss a, ssgs f b BE and
and organization They have different
tastes and capacities. 1t is not a mere
difference of climate, or sun. or birth, OF
radical difference of race, of blood, of in
Se&tesb Of capac tn, which no trainingcan
pine can extinguish. God made them
different; man capnot make Them the
same or equal. - II q AN .
nearly as much respect as any opinion of