The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-12-16

House. Inc meeting was calleO lot
two o'clock, but at that hour but few
persons had assembled = could
count but forty in the house-com-
prising the great lights of the Demo-
cratic party in this County, prominent
among whom we noticed Judge Law,
Postmaster Whittlesey, Ben. Stinson
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Will
lard. Robert S. Sproule, Sheriff Mil
Ter, Deputy Sheriff Cox, Sam. Jones,
A. g. Dennis, John Gavisk. Ex-May
or John Hewson. Captain VIM. Me-
Lain. Geo Mcbride, Geo. Stackhouse,
DR.. Muhlhausen, Father Harrington,
Fred. Lunkenheimer, Peter Maier,
j. f. Welborn, Elem. Durham, d.
LowenStein, Ira d. Fairchild, Johnny
Burke. Pat. Burke, j. d. Sanders,
and a few other notables who do not
wish their names to appear in this
connection.
The sparseness of the crowd sug-
gested that something must be done,
and the Democratic Silver Band was
brought into requisition, and, after
playing a piece outside, they were fol-
lowed into the Court Room by a con-
siderable crowd, until the house was
pretty we'll filled.
After returning to the room the
band played Hail Columbia" which
was a new piece to many Democrats
present, and was received with rather
delayed applause.
Judge Law, as a matter of course,
was called to the Chair, and proceeded
to orate on the glorious prospects of
the democracy" discussing the two
great issues which he considered
would alone occupy the attention of
the people in the next political
canvass. These were, first, the fnan-
cial question, and, second, negro suf-
frage and equality. He then pro-
ceeded to argue in favor of paying
the principal of the 3 20 bonds in
greenbacksy and quoted extensively
though in a somewhat muddled man
ner-from the report of the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury. The Judge is
not particularly apt at notation.
On the niger question he was more
at home. and spoke ~learnedly and
well of the infamy of making a negro
equal to a white man, which, he de-
clared, was impossible to be done, at
the same time declaring that the Rad
icals would achieve this impossible
ity if they were not checked in their
mad career. The niger argument
was the same we have heard from
Judge Law and others from time out
of mind We have not space or time
to follow him on either branch Of the
subject. He closed by predicting a
glorious future for the Democracy,
with fat offices and browning victo-
ries, and urging the faithful to make
missionaries Of themselves, dissem-
mate Democratic documents AID
newspapers.
Whittlesey moved that DR.. Lowen-
stein and r. S. Sproule be chosen
Secretaries, and they were chosen.
Whittlesey, on behalf of the Chair
man of the Central Committee, who
was absent, explained the object of
the meeting to be to select delegates
to the Democratic State Convention.
Mr.. Whittlesey then moved that a
committee of three be appointed to
draft resolutions and to select dele
gates; and Postmaster Whittlesey,
Ben. Stinson, and Joe. B. Cox were
appointed. As they retired Mr..
Whittlesey suggested that Mr.. Sproule
should be called on fer a speech. and
Mr.. Sproule was called on. and came
up standing.
He didn't think he could add any
thing to Judge Laws speech, which
had-covered all the issues before the
people and had convinced every one
that the 5-20's should be paid in
g~reenbacks, and that the negroes
should not be made equal or superior
to white men, and then proceeded
in a regular spread eagle speech, elo-
squent with finely rounded periods and
gIittering generaIties, to convince
them over again. Although his
speech was more polished than that
of Judge Laws. it failed to elicit the
applause the other had received, es-
pecially when the Judge spoke of
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