The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-05

long as it was necessary, and not a
day longer. Whenever the rebels laid
down their arms we closed the war
and disbanded the army as fast as we
could. But we were fearfully in
earnest. and if it had cost Us one hun
dred times as much money and lives.
I for one would have fought on until
now" Immense applause. DE loved
his country, and would teach his
children to love it. 1t had raised
him from orphanage and obscurlty
to honor and place, aud had held him
in its sustaining hand all the while.
He had loved and revere1 Abraham
Lincoln and his teachings, and should
always cherish his memory.
We had arrested Copperheads and
Democrats aud put them in jall-had
suspended the writ of hGbeGs corpus
to prevent the escape of scoundrels-
He would withe and pin to the earth
any man who would tamper with the
liberties of the country. We could
suffer no such tampering, either by
States or individuals. Liberty Oace
lost could never be recovered. We
had drafted lots of them, and wished
we had drafted more We had issued
preenbacks and bonds IN spite of
Democratic protests and denuncia-
tions, and had borrowed money and
saved the country.
why did we borrow money! /
ask this for the benefit of my Demo
cratic friends who never could under
stand it. We borrowed because we
needed it. We could not live with
out it. Who decided this, question
We did-we fellows from Maine to
Texas. When the rebel press ruined
our credit abroad, and the Demo-
cratic press tried to ruin our credit at
home, the loyal people came forw ard
and pulled out their last dollar aud
poured it into the lap of the nation.
7 Our,people loaned their money to the
| people The Democrats to this day
| do not know where the money came
| from. szf Applause and laughter
Running through all the acts OF the
| Republican party, including the
/ financial and reconstructlon policy, he
vindicated each act to the satisfaction
of all candid minds. and overwhelmed
all carpers and hypercrilics with -un-
answerabie Logic. - - ~ $50 -
He also arrdig1ed the Democratic
party, and laid bare their hypocrisy
and disloyalty with unsparing candor
and sarcasm. They had opposed every
act of the Government 20 suppress
the rebellion, aud had denounced
every man who had given his aid to
| the Government.
Now when these facts are mentioned
they cry out, those are dead issues.
They declare they are not going to
defend their record. [ wouldn't
either if / had been one of them
! [Great applause
He exposed their sophistries about
bonds and greenbacks, National Bank
currency and bloated bondholders,
sympathizing deeply with the terrible
burdens Of taxation which were rem
dering stoop shouldered those who
had never paid a dollar of taxes to
! the General Government. He brush
cd away the fimsy sophistries of
Democratic speakers about taxes paid
indirectly by those who pay no taxes
directly, by showing that only very
/ limited number of articles were taxed,
and these almost entirely Injuries,
such as whisky and manufactured
| tobacco. .r
He exposed the ignorance or men,
daeity of Horatio Seymour IN pre-
tending to not know what had be-
come OF the billion of money col
| lected by the Government since the
war ended, 680,000,0 600 Of which had
been expended. in the payment of
soldiers back pay, bounties, and pen
sions. He arraigned Seymour as
wanting in intelligence or honesty,
and in either case he was uafit for
the Presidency.
He closed his speech, which was
one of extraordinary force and abili-
/ ty, with au earnest exh ortation to the
young men of the country to ally
themselves with the men who had
saved the country and had stood by
the soldiers during the war. and with
an exhortation to the soldiers and
their friends to stand by the man
/ who had led them to victory aud to
peace. Abiding to our brave dead,
/ he declared that he never could clasp
| hands across their grave with rebel.
lie closed amid deafening applause.
r THE GLEE CLUB
/ Sang a beautiful campaign song IN
admira bic style, after which Colonel
Jones introduced
~ @11i GOV. BAKER,
Who announced that he would not
then make speech, but would ad-
dress them. 10 the Seventh Street
market space, at night. He RETAINED
from speaking then. because be did
not desire to interrupt the solemn i'm
preston made on their minds by
ItTovernor Ogiesby: and besides, he
feared he night hurt the feelings of
some ID .mocrat, as it was almost i'm
T possible to say anything without
tramping on some of their toes. If
you spoke TO some of them of temper
ance, of righteousness, or judgment
to come, tiley were offended at yousa
They were Ike the man who had
been persuaded to go to Church, and
afoer leaving said he did rot like to
near politics IN the pulpits. When as
sured that politics had not been
mentioned, he said he knew better
than that, for the preacher
had said " if tho Republicans scarcely
DO saved, what. viii become of the
+ Democrats?' When cold that the
language used was, IF the righteous
.arcely be saved, where shall the un
godly aud the sinner appearW be
agaia answered, 81 know that was
the language used. but | know darned
well that he was hitting at US Demo-
crats all the time"
The Convention was extraordina-
rily large, and great unauimity and
harmony prevailed in their councils.
A good days work was done, and if
Republicans do their duty from now
till the day of election, the whole
ticket will be triumphantly elected.
DrpsoD,r ~ IT,; FarorSor