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


taxation, and every attempt to inter-
fere with slavery; that the Nation
was on the verge of bankruptcy, and
that if the war was protracted, rev.
olution In the North was inevitable.
The rebels believed these enormous
lies, and protracted the war for more
convinced that they could not succeed
by force of arms. For more than two
years they continued the struggle, ex-
pecting every. day that something
would turn up in the North by which
their triumph would be, secured.
When hope long deferred made
their hearts sick, and despair was
coming upon them, the Democratic
leaders of the North renewed their
exhortations, redoubled their. as
surances of assistance, and proclaimed
that the hour of deliverance was at
hand. And on the 29th day of July,
1864, in the midst of the last great
campaign, when Grant was struggling
through bloody fields to Richmond,
and Sherman fighting his way step by
step to Atlanta, more than ten thous-.
and Democratic politicians assembled
in the city of Chicago, and with a
fierce enthusiasm that threatened to-
overcome all opposition, declared the
war unconstitutional, wicked, and
failure, and imperiously demanded
that it should be at once abandoned.
Will any man whose front is not Of
brass tell me that this did not encour-
age the rebellion? [ tell you that it did
that it cost US thousands of lives, and
protracted. the war for months The
news sunk like lead into the hearts of
our soldiers, but sent thrill of. hope
aud EXPLANATIONS Of JOY throughout
the rebel camps.
WHAT DEMOCRATIC MISREPRESENTA-
TIONS COST. lf..aa
Every one Of these enormous lies
that / have enumerated-eost the ma
ton not less than twenty thousand
lives and 5000, 100000. They made it
necessary to raise new armies, to
create new loans, to impose further
taxes, and to lay new and heavy bur-
dens upon the people, already taxed
and tried as no other nation had ever
been. fyouwould fully comprehend
the work of the Democratic politici-
ans of the North, you must read the
costly and blDody record of 1863, 1864
and 1865 Now that we are iu pos
session of the achieves of the rebel
government, and now that the rebel
lenders are free to tell the story ofthe
rebellion, we know that the war, could
not have extended beyond the dyear
1862 but for the i'co- operation of the
Northern Democracy, and so threat
'ening and formidable Was their trea-
son that from the beginning of 1868
to the end of the war, the Govern,
ment was compelled to retain In the
Northern States from, 10000 to
10000 men 1uto | prevent them
FROM breaking out into open re-
bellion. From the beginning of 1863
until the final surrender of the rebel
lion it lived entirelyoupon the hopes
and delusions of the Democratic lead
ers Of the North.
WHAT THE, DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS
DID TO MAKE THEIR PROPHECIES
COME TRUE.
1t must be said, however, in vindi-
cation of these mrn, that they labored
assiduously to make good their prom
ises and to achIeye the success OF the
rebellion. They conspired to over
turn State governments; they dis
cograged recruiting and organized re-
sistanee to the laws They did all in
their power to destroy the credit of
the government by enhancing the
price of gold, and thus making our cur
rency and stocks comparatively worth
less But III Notwithstanding d they
did all this. yet they failed at every
point, and the Southern people by
their eredulity and misplaced conf
dence, were brought to dishoner and
ruin. Every promise, made to them
was broken; every hope blighted, and
every prospect turned into darkness z
John Morgan, In full faith that
thousands OF met would rally to his
standard crossed the Ohio River into
Indiana, but the emmissaries who in
yited him upon our soil proved but
deluslVe guides to the prison door,
and the secret .vasfr ofythe Sons Of
Liberty who, were TO swell the ranks
of his armIes-to save themselves-
were compelled to join the raaks of
his adversarles. ! uly the eQlDem6-
the worst enemies Of the South. They
HISt oeG0CS1 tAth AltO FFeDeIitOu
they then induced them to- continue ii
until their blood and substance were
wasted, and when they could hold out
no longer and the war ended, their
fatal influence and interference did
not cease, for when thea Southern
people submitted themselves oto the
governments and were disposed to ac-
cept the situation, these evil coun-
selors again appeared aad advised
them to submit to no terms Of fecon-
struetion to accept no Goa tditfonsg
that they had lost no rights by rebell
lion, and were entitled 10 Immediate
renresentation- IN Con t,.ak. Ki.l.flas Il