The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-29

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tionaIity, he will fnd that it stands
unamuulled and in full force and eff
fect,and that so it stood at the time
this plank was incorporated in De-
moeracy's creed. Without judicial
| sanctions and amid comprehensive
minds, and from preiudiced lips, and
in the very face of their book, In To-
| ~calities such as Kentucky, where to
so great an extent men allow their
love and compassion to overcome
their judgments, they cry out, Ne
gro Suffrage" Negro Equality"
and ven Negro Supremacy" and
are, In truth, arraying their party
here against their party yonder; for
they do favor negro suffrage; they
have incorporated itin their platform,
and where it can have anything
of hope to succeed, it urges the col
Ored brethren to join and go with
them. If a principle is right 1t can
not be IN a proper name too earn
estly urged, or, at least, defended. If
1t IS wrong, no circumstances can
warrant its adoption. If negro SUI
frage is wrong, why do they not only
accept 1T but incorporate it in their
platform of principles, and IN certain
localities labor so earnestly to reap
the results and benefits from it?
If any Democrat denies the mean
ing and import of the words used IN
this text OF Democracy, why, l ask,
was the gentleman who now bears
their banner, the President of the
New York Convention, from whose
pocket was to come forth this negro
equality doctrine = why, / ask, was
he and why were SO great a number
of that Convention-sO willing some,
and anxious others, then as now, to
put their banner In the hands Of the
great instigator, promulgator and
fostering father of abolitionism and
manhood equality and suffrage, Sal
mon Z. Chase? Why, gentlemen, as
long as | can remember, Mr.. Chase,
however much of respect | may have
given him for his eminent ability and
for services rendered the Government
in the different public offices he has
filed, he has been ever too
extreme for me, and | can but hope
if any persons present contemplate a
running from q extreme to another.
They will take uader advisement the
propriety of halting with US, in their
fearful flight, before going on to the
utmost extreme, to the very essence,
in the eyes of Democrats, of all isms-'
negroism. larry in Jericho awhile,
wait until thy boards are fully grown.
as yet, l think you are unprepared to
relish, to its fullest extent, the savory
and mighty. favored feast, although
you have accepted the invitation, and
IN November next are expected-but
| call upon you 20 send in your re-
grpts and dine with us.
Remember, la this connection land
[ quote from the Democratic plat
form,) that slavery has been done
away with by the voluntary action of
the Southern States; that by their
voluntary action the negro is made a
citizen, and then mark their proud
Proclamation of Equal Rights and
protection for all naturalized and ma
tive born citizens at home and abroad.
If there is any negro suffrage In
Republicanism, is it not as fully set
forth here? If there is equality or
supremacy in the. first, is it not even
more so in the latter2 GO to your
neighbors, Tennessee, Georgia and
South Carolina. Mark their pleadings
at the mouths of Democratic State
Executive Committees, and from the
lips of her Democratic orators. There
you find them appealing to the col
ored man to come forth aad do battle
with them against a common enemy,
and promising them with
as solemn as their appeal is earnest,
that no right they now possess shall
ever be taken from them. Would
Tennessee ever have done this had
she not derived the power so to act
from the National platform of
! Democratic principles? Never AS
{ it was necessary for their success
{ there, they have done so. And [ now
here state and charge, if it was neces-
: sary for democratic supremacy 10
l Kentucky, and they could control
} their vote, the same course would,
7 even by Democrats, be adopted. If it
} is right in Tennessee, is il not right
l here? Are Kentucky Democrats bet
ter men or truer to the faith than
Tennessee Democrats? No, gentle
men, il is the practical workings of
the underlined and elastic Democratic
party-it is lot necessary here, and
therefore it is odious. 1t is essential
} there, and they advocate and embrace
it; and with this, aud leaving it with
the consclences of all men, l but ask
that you mark their cutlery now, and
compare 1t with what will be their po-
sltlon In the future-say 1871. .
!. RECONSTRUCTION.
. Now let US look into this great work
of Reco obstruction, and see wherein it
consisted, and upon whom the guilt
rests. la1 H9
= The war ended, it was essential to
to the government as well, and more
, particularly important to the South
. ern States, that their relations to the
GoVernmentshOuld at once be defined.
The confederate soldier was borne to
the bosom of his friends with the
broad and perfect protection to him
Of a parole. The States were left
without law, discovered and without
recognized States, as between them
selves or the General Government.
Andrew Johnson, through the func-
: tons of the Executive Department of
, the Government, appointed Provi-
sioaal Governors for the States.
and cssayed to re establish the
civil power of the United States
over them. His plan of Reconstruct
J ton, although not assented to, was
not for months dissented from by
Congress to whom the power legiti.
mately attached. But even the plans
of President johnson Che who was
voted thanks by tho New York Con-;
vention,) were at the instance of the.
Democratic party refused and re-
jected. No act Of reconstruction
met their approval. They rejected
them then as bitterly as they reject
every thing now. They cried uncon-
stitutional there as they cried it
during the war, and now, until
~forbeaTauce to assert Its pro
per authority, ceased longer by
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