Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1867-08-09


cy IL not because we have insisted thai
rebels shall be held under restraint and
loyal men promoted, that our flag shall be
respected at home as we'll as abroad, bul
IL is simply the reason a rebel Irish
man gave TO loyal Irishman who
captured him on tho field Said the
Hibernian in blue TO his rebel countryman
"Why, Jimmy, my boy, what are you do
ing on that side p ''rhat side, indade,
answered Jimmy, "and is this not the
Dimmercratick side?" [Laughter1 The
Irishman thought that the rebel side must
necessarily be the Democratic side, aud
guess that my friend. tho gentleman from
Brooklyn, hns a similar idea In his head
yet Laughter.
OPPOSITE ATTRACTIONS.
The recent rebellion while il was in
progress was led by men who belonged to
the same party to which the gentleman
from Brooklyn now belongs, and the same
party belonged until | became so
thoroughly ashamed of il that / left il,
and is IL not little remarkable that tho
same disloyal stencil which drove me out
seems TO have attracted my friend from
Brooklyn into il? Laughter.
rAlrnLEssSEss on THE DEMOCRACY.
There Is nothing that to regain its lost
power the Democratic party would not
willingly do. IL il could acquire tomorrow
moro power by crushing under its iron
heel the South, than IL could be succoring
IL. II would hurl at It's Southern brcthern
thick aud fast
"Ourscs Of hate and hisses Of acorn.''
Their history we'll establishes the fact
that
"rhelr friendship Il q lurking snare,
Their honor bat an Idle breath,
Thar suiic the smile that traitors wear,
Their love IL hate, their life Ia death"
Their sympathy with Andrew Johnson's
plan of reconstruction, aud their hostility
TO the Republican plan Of reconstruciion,
is not attributable to tho merits or de-
merits Of either plan as policy for tho
country, but solely as party policy.
WHAT TUE DEMOCRACY HAS FORGOTTEN.
To bo charitable, We will have 10 give
the gentleman aud his party credit for a
memory as full Of treachery as thcir South.
ern brethren were of treason. They seem
to have forgotten everything they ought
10 remember, and remember some things
they certainly ought not only to forget.
They seem to have forgotten tho scenes
aud events that mark tho historical epoch
through which we have so recently passed,
aud they soom TO have totally forgotten
that those pct Southern brethren of theirs,
when the did occupy seats on this floor
gave US practical illustrations Of dignity
Ia debate that made this Hall u "bear gar.
den" aud much moro attractive to lovers
of gladiatorial sports and patrons Of the
"iancy" than they could have been TO the
wise, prudent, sedate, and good citizen
When bowie knives bristcd from their
breasts, revovers filled all their pockets,
aud clubs were substituted among them
for canes; when they spoke to Northern
legislator In these Halls with scowl on
their brows, threats on their lips, and fin.
gers on triggers. II is true, We have blot
ted out for them, eternally aud forever,
the charming institution, under the pecu.
liar influences Of which they imbibed these
dogmatical and insoleut airs; but If, when
il was in full blast they could not remem-
ber that the style Of manner that might do to
drive gang Of slaves, would not answer
TO persuade u congressional peer, il is not
at all probable that time enough has yet
elapsed for the fact to appear in their man
ucrs that they fully aud properly realize
tho fact in all Of its moral and political
sublimity, that they are not somebody's
master yet, aud may again subject us to
their old style Of argument so peculiarly
Southern. They seem to have forgotten
the price the peace we enjoy to day has
cost this nation, and the crimson currency
in which it was paid; the broken hearts
with which il filed bruised and troubled
bosoms at home, the mangled bodies with
which it filed hospitals everywhere, and
the lfeless forms of manly beauty with
which it filed hundreds Of thousands of
namelcss graves on the far-of battle-plains
of the South. They seem to have forgot
ten the bitter scaldng tears that rolled
like floods of lava down the fair faces of
the loyal mothers, wives and sisters Of this
land, when the names ineffably dear to
them were found announced to the long
lists Of the killed, that were published as
sequel to the first fash of the lightning
that reported battle had been fought;
and l dare say they have forgotten that
there ever was such prison as Anderson
vile, and the long, long catalogue Of hor.
rors that brave men had to suffer there for
being true to themselves, their Constitu
ton. their flag, their homes, families, and
country.
REMINDERS or THE PAST.
Well for such gentlemen would il be if
they would occasionally meet, as they
wander daily over this broad country, a
few of the many wan specters of suffering
and woe who were captured by they saint
ly Southern brethren Of Northern Demo.
Gratis on fields Of strife, thrust into pris-
ons unfit for dogs, aud starved till hale
constitution was wreck, and then left to
suffer the worst penalties of privation incl
dent to weather and climate. l would
give my friend from Brooklyn illustrations
of individual suffering at Andersonville
that would make the hair stand on his
head, the blood freeze in his veins, and
curses spring involuntarily to his lips.
l remember one poor boy from my imme-
date vicinity especially. His name is
Dougherty lie went into Andersonyille
prison without scar on his young body
or cloud on his fair brow, but under the
humanitariauism of Southern chivalry he
came out without foot to walk on. They
were literally frozen off in prison.
There are thousands Of such instances
that might be paraded if l had time ol