The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-28

who were dismissed tor their d1Sl0yal-
ty." IT, was "a fit Assem- bly, for these
men TO go, to. 5n Y es, such a, man as
Wolford assembled. there,s and made
q, speech, My friend here says | some
times speak contemporary of him:
Why inot2 Why should alnotp loyal
men speak contemptuously of Fed
seral officer who was dismissed for,dis-
loyalty ?91 IGheers. 20 But even that
could not atone for bis. sins. He was
a candidate for Lieutenant Govern
or. Did :hens get the nomination
Not at all. The old man was
gently showed aside. We want mo
man whose garments have ever had a
shade of blue In them 49,
WHO EARE KENTUCKY pENoCRATs?
William S. Preston was there. Who
was he? Did you ever hear of his
being Union man Sduring,the war?
[ Eahghter. He was a General-under
Jefferson Davis. He made speech
in that Convention, he laid down
the issues, and | quote his exact lam
guage as near as may be.
day, as .reemen of Kentucky, to de-
eide, are the very same over which we
fought in 1861 and 1882" Il
Which sidemere1t they lighting on
then? Then they were contending
forithe doctrine ofasecession and dis
solution of the country by war, To-
day what is the issue? He goes a little
further, What does h, say in regard
to the erssldiers p He retires him
se)f-didn't get the nomination for
GovernorAand says:1 Il Il
L beseech and -implore you not to
turn away these, brave, Confederate
boys, who ifoughtso many long years,
periled their lives in defense of the
cause which neither they mon you
should be ashamed of to-day, Take
them back; give them the front
places; they have done nothing that
they need regret.T TYT2 WTE
What had they been doing? Fight
ing to destroy the liberties and insti-.
tutions of our country And yet the
declaration is made and applauded,
that these, men had done nothing
that z Ssa peoplsI . IF kentucky ought
Bill Preston didn7 i get the nomina-
ton for Governor. Why not? Be-
cause they thought it would not be
polite to head their ticket with a
rebel General, for fear some few Con-
seryatiye Union men might object.
Whom did they nominate? John L.
Helm, who at the beginning of the
war was within Buckner's lines, but
who, when the fighting began re-
turned home, pouring out his vitu-
peration against Federal soldiers and
3 h. I'd IL a,,e .pG
ed stay -at-home reviler of his Cow
ernment.9 And let me say to you,
right here, that of all the men of this
land Of ours, these men who, during
four years of desperate war, remained
at their homes. not having the bold
ness to take active positions on either
side inlmy opinion, are the meanest
of men. ai fCheers.l Let me say fur
Their that j would rather to-day trust
Preston as Governor of Kentucky
than Helm. sisiasI' liei7a sssie zna =
7 Who else appeared at that Couven-
tion? John W. Stephenson. of Gov
ington, n0minatad as Lieutenant Gov
efnor b He made speech A loyal
man was he during the war? Never
heard ofrit iffhe was. In 1861 he
Twas Known to have made aspeech at
| eCovington, or somewhere else, about
the time of the neutrality party. in
which be said :'f's Let the Federal
Governnent attempt to march an
army across the soil Of Kentucky to
subjugate our Southern brethren, and
we will riseupsas loheVman and meet
them ON the banks Of this beautiful
river, and stand for our rights until
| its waters are crimsonedWith blood:
Never heard OF his meeting anybody
in that way. Laughter, Who are
their other candidates? Howard
Smith Is he a Union MANI One OF
John Morgan's chief officers. Who
further? John Rodman? He Union
MANI When Bragg and Kirby Smith
had pressed our army out of sight, al
most, OJohn Rodmanl was at Frank
fort, % authorized. under Confederate
authority, to raise a regiment for ser
vice. But BueH's cannon soon
\ thundered around the hills of the
capital, and John went. off without
getting his regiment completed and a
fewf9days saftsrwards sneaked back.
/ One1man there was, who at one time
saw some Union service, that was