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

Hence all the legislation during the war
and since is unconditional and void.
Hence, when the Senators and Repre-
~entatives from the rebef States with
drew from their seats in 1861, they
left Congress fragmentary and un-
constitutional body, and thereby con-
>titutionally broke up the Govern
ment and every effort since made to
keep il alive has been clearly uncon-
stitutional. So you see, my
friends, to what strange uses good
Constitution may be put. 1t is true
that the Constitution provides that a
majority of the members of each
House shall constitute a quorum to
DO business; but as this is in conflict
with the Judges theory, he very
properly ignored it.
g. That emancipation has, every
where, and especially in the West In
dies been a failure, folly and a
crime; that the negroes are an infe-
rior, indolent, worthless race, aud
that negro suffrage portends The direst
calamities to the nation. And this
bill of fare presents the starvellng
feast to which the Democracy of Ohio
are invited to sit down.
DEFENSE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
To the charges made against the
Republican party by Judge Thurman,
| shall not stop to reply. They are
mostly from the stereotyped edition
Of 1864 and 1866, and are as devoid of
merit now as they were then. 1t does
not lie in the mouth Of the party of
The rebellion to complain that the
country might have been saved on
cheaper terms, or that proper. econo-
my was not practiced in putting the
rebellion down. The defense Of the
Republican party is found in the fact
that today we have a Government
and a Union preserved; that to-day
we have a nation more powerful and
day. We have country full of pros
perity, and with bright and gratifying
PROSPECTS for the future. We may
world9to show a political organization
that accomplished half so much for
the preservation and glory of a nation
in 50, short time and. it's career Is
not yet ended. Its work will not be
done until equal rights, harmony,
and prosperity shall reign throughout
the land, and the last lingering rep
resentatiye Of reasonable Democ-
racy has been driven from power.
THE TRUE ID BMoeRATIC PLATFORM.
of But notwithstanding the extreme
poverty sof the Judges speech, it
must not ubed supposed that the So
called Democratic party is not in
favor Of Anything 1t has a platform
I ! 4. - Al. 9
ers-a platform which they would
execute to the letter if they had the
power
This platform has not been form
ally drawn out in resolutions, or pro-
claimed by conventions but it
breathes through all their speeches,
pervades their literature, and is
found openly or covertly in every col
umn Of their newspapers. 1t is the
platform Of desperation, of mingled
hate and revenge, and an unconquer-
able attachment to the abuses and
errors Of the past. And the chief
planks in it may be described as fol-
lows:
The reputation of the National
Debt.
The restoration of slavery, or, if
that cannot be done, payment by the
nation for the slaves.
Pensioning the soldiers, widows
and orphans Of the Confederate army.
Recognition Of the right OF seces-
sion;
Aud the unconditional return of
rebels to p olitical power.
JESSIE d. BRIGHT SPEAKS FOR THE
DEMOCRACY OF KENTUCKY.
The Hon. Jesse ID. Bright, jus It
elected to the Legislature of Ken
tucky, long a Senator from Indiana,
and the leader of his party. and al
ways bold and frank politician, in a
recent speech at Carrolton, as reported
in the Cincinnati Gozette, made the
following declaration:
He started off by saying he had al
ways been a States Rights Democrat.
He denounced Mr. lincoln, Douglas
and Andy johnson in the most bitter
terms: said that the Democratic SEN
ators from the South did wrong in
4acating their seats at the beginning
of the war; and Mr.. Lincoln had no
power under the Constitution to call
out any troops: was opposed to pay
ing the public debt, that Kentucky
ought not to pay another dollar until
her Representatives were admitted,
and that if the South ever regained
her rights it would be by the sword;
aud said if that was treason, the Gov
ernment might make the most Of it;
was In favor of returning every slave
to his original master; was in
favor of law in Kentucky that every
one who lost anything in Kentucky
during the war or by the war, should
be paid, and that the. General Govern
inent should refund it to Kentucky.
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