The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-17


these mIschleFous enIlssaFles came,
peace was achieving It's good results
At'present we live in fear aad without
hope (
We asked, ia case. the pegFoes got
the ascendency in Georgia. what the
white population would do2 -
= Abandon the State. said Mr..
Stephens, " / would leave it with the
precipitation of Lot, and never look
back. We are so organized there. the
proportions of thei5races are such,
that negro citizenship would leave
the whites IN minority. To this we
could never submit. Our only policy
would be emigration. | give this
country and republican institutions
four years more of trial, be said.
This madness for Capitalization this
consolidated despotism, if achieved,
will be the downfall OF freedom Ii
IS the last chance for man at intelli-
gent self-government Against these
principles, now in the critical moment
of their triumph, the whole wisdom
of the founders of our country was
direc ted. Madness reigns; we are
about to destroy freedom to build up
a party and a government. that will
devour US. 4rd
Our next inquiry was as to the
probable admission of Alabama un-
der the defeated Constitution. On
this Mr.. Stephens said that the negro /
Constitution had been put to vote and !
beaten by ten thousand ballots.
Nevertheless Mr. Bingham had re-
ported that the State should be ad- !
mitted upon this same Constitution. |
We expressed a doubt that it was |
Mr. Bingham who had Introduced the |
bill. lie said that Alr. Bingham, like /
all the rest, had subsided into the |
madness OF his party. As to the /
of. such reconstruction, /
he said, scntentiously. Right Why, |
how have they done everything in
Congress2 -. ....-
Being desirous Of knowing whether /
Northern men were still settling in I
Georgia, Mr.. Stephens replied to our /
question IN the mega i've: They came 1
here at first rapidly good class Of /
Northern men, too. Nobody is set |
ting in the State at present Why /
should they? / would not lend /
Georgia a dime if the DeRro issue is
triumphant there. | might as well |
throw it In the sea. Stagnation, bank I
ruptcy and ruin are inevitable IS we /
are drifting at present.
We ventured to suggest bluntly to I
Mr.. Stephens that he should express I
his choice of a candidate for the next /
Presidency. Well, " he SAL, " L |
am not an active man now; ! am a /
paroled prison r. However, / don't /
mind saying that / think Mr. John +
sons reelection would be a good /
thing for the county He is the I
best halfway man that / can see. L /
have disagreed with him many times, |
but be Is a national man, who tries to 4
do tor the best. and who seems to see I
the clearest. / think his position Is
a patriotic one, and he Is steadfast in /
it. If the Democratic party could /
harmonic and nominate him, IL /
would encourage the Southern pe0-
pie 20 believe that all lnightiyet be
weIlY g f.,..ly ssaffa .-sr 8-elL
We asked Mr. Stephens if his cele.
brated Slavery the -eorner7stOne1 |
speech bad been properly reported 1
He ans wered that he supposed il had;
but that in quotation II had been per-
verted TO make bim say that slavery /
was the foundation Of the new con
federacy. He had meant that society
was organized there. upon the recogJ
milton of this institutions, and that /
with the whole policy of the South !
this institution was interwovep.
Mr.. Stephens, when interFogated as
TO the proper basis for reconstruction, 1
sa d that Il should be in a. resumption
of the principles that the States had
never left the Union, but that an IN
surrection had been crushed, aud the
States never having left the Govern
menta merely resumed their old con-
dition.
MISCELLANEOUS.