The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-28

while the men of the South are pro
posing to accept the last act OF recon
struction, and yield obedience To the
| legislation of Congress, they are agaia
urging that it is unconstitutional aud
wicked, and begging for its rejection
And what if they again succeed :?
They will inevitably bring upon them
the general coniscation of their eS
tates and punishment only visited on
the incorrigible and the obstinately
rebellious. And hence L repeat the
declaration that the Democratic lead
ers at the North are aud for years
have been the most deadly enemies OF
the Southern people They have be
trayed them In war, and betrayed
them in peace, and have fed them
upon falsehoods and delusiohs until
they have brought them to the very
door of destruction.
The Democratic party are utterly
opposed to reconstruction except upon
terms that will return the rebels un
conditionally to power, and give them
ten Democratic rebel States Unless
this can be done, they prefer to have
the contest renewed, to have anarchy
supervene, hoping that something
may turn up by which the govern
ment may pass into their hands, or
their condition be otherwise improv-
ed. About the true interests of the
Southern people they are as indiffer-
ent as they are to the Esquimaux in
Walrussia, and regard them simply
as the means to an end, as in
struments by which they can inn
prove their own condition NIanv
men in that organization wish to dis
solve it and form new alliances; but
the old leaders and hacks. whose
history is identified with the rebel.
lion, and from whose garments the
stains of treason can never be washed
know that from any new organization
they would be carefully excluded as
men whose presence BODIED pestilence
and disaster, and thus they cling des-
perately TO the wreck Of the old party
as the only means to prevent them
from going to the bottom forever
The revival of the Democratic party
would be the triumph Of the rebel
lion. and it would then conquer inj
peace after it had eiiied in war. But
you may as we'll talk of reSiying the
Confederate Goversiinent, Of Frescr-
recting the rebelz dead from tlious-
and battle fields b where they have
been buried by their N orthern lead
'ersaI a party covered with the blood
of murdered thousand ds. linked to the
atroc ties of fieudish9civil war, pur-
sued by the cries hoR the widow aud
orphan, and Of the vast multitude
whose homes nhayeJ been made desc
late, has no destiny obut death, and
should ask. notfor office, not forgive
mess, but only burial from human
sight. f9Re1 .a'H u on .eaf f'r'
ISSUES OF THE DAY SPRUNG oCT or
....o..t 49,. THE WAR.
Some Democratic speakers say they
will not discuss the war, but cohfine
themselves to living issues, leaving
the past with the dead past They
would be glad to have US leave out
the war and forget the part they bore
In it. But this is impossible. Every
issue OF the day is the offspring of the
war, and you cannot understand it
without knowledge of the war. and
its legislation. With the Democrat
ic party as political organization we
have no compromise to make. 1t
sought the life of the nation, and no
good can ever come out of it. A good
measure in its hands would turn to
curse. Upon its garments is the
blood of our fathers, husbands and
brothers, who perished in suppressing
a rebellion il had fomented and MAIN
tanned. - ...
While the. people groan under
heavy taxes; while the father mourns
bis son. lying in his sunken grave in
the South; while the widow 10 her
loneliness, and. desolation weeps for
her husband who perished miserably
at taAndersonYille, the crimes of the
! Democratic party car car ne neyer be for;
to palliatel the crimes of the rebel
leaders. In the South, but / cannot in
conscience say that. their guilt ex-
-ceedsl that Of the Democratic leaders
in the h,eg.Sl North 99rtlh who instigated them to
rebellion, encouraged them in per-
sistence, and by every argument and
invectiye excited and kept alive their
passions against the Government.
3 JUDGE rHURmAN's sPEEGH4
r Tread with care fhespeeeh Of Judge
/ Thurman. the Democratic candidate
for Governor, made at Waverly on the
jth OF. August on the opening Of the
campaign! I took it for granted that
the Standard bearef9f his party would
unfold its principles and policy, and
mark. out the field upon which he pro-
pbsed to- fight the battle. But the
chfefy noticea Bile filipg about the
speech is that it PROPOSES nothing,
| pregehtsi no policy offers 30 plan Of
redei1ptiofi By NIFiet the Nation may
be9sa9ea.i The pseettyiof the speech,
| however. sais but she poverty Of the.
I Daf tyln nwhich 10 represents. and it is
somewiiat nTen1afk kahle that a party