The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-10

ton OF the news OF the tall or II en-
mond, and the surrender of Lee and
Johnson's armies. The news was borne
to him at q o'clock in the morning, by
the venerable President Of the Re-
public, and the widest demonstra
tons of joy prevailed. The following
day. was proclaimed a feast day, and
ia procession of 10000 people marched
in triumph under the United States
flag through the streets of Santiago,
while the Star Spangled Banner and
Hail Columbia were played on two
hundred instruments.
The war in which we had been en-
gagged had developed the strength of
republican form of government,
andsshowed that while we were pow
erful to wage foreign war, which had
tendency to concentrate public SEN
timent, we also possessed the inner
ent strength to suppress rebellion and
domestic instruction. As the Chill
ians rejoiced in our triumph, they
sympathized with us in defeat, and
when the great Lincoln fell, that
whole nation was in tears.
The speaker then paid a just and
most touching tribute to the mar
tyred President, who in life mad been
his warmest and most intimate
friend, and whose life so fully repre-
scented the genius of our institutions.
But the death of no one man, or the
treachery Of no one man, or any num-
Der of men, could check the develop
ment of the great idea to which Lin
coln had devoted his life, or stop the.
chariotwheels Of civilization. "a ~
On his return from South America
he had found, to his amazement, the
same fell spirit Of treason and dis
union prevailing, and that the war
was only transferred from the field to
the forum and the battle-box.. The
same battle that had been fought in
1864 and 1866 had to be fought over
again In 1868. ,.v4,,.y. tss,sssrs
The Democratic party, which had
once been a great National party, was
dead. Lincoln's Emancipation Proc
lamation had killed it, and though
some of the fragments show occasional
signs of vitality, as a great political
organization it was forever dead
The Democratic leaders did not
like to have their past record alluded
y to, but would come with the gentle
eloquence of, a cooling dove, pleading
to let bygones be 'bygones, and to now
talk the sweet gospel of peace and
friendship. They claim to be the
Union party, and par excellence the
white mans party By their fruits
We shall know them" Show me a
rebel. a traitor, or a draft sneak,
throughout the whole length and
breadth hof ithei land that is not a
Democrat, and I'll give up the whole
question. Who first talked of dis
HunioR2 Who had@draftedsthe ordi-
nances of secession? Who had led
the rebel; armies to-battle against their
own c1untry2 Democrats, every one
Of thtm@ South Carolina and John
q. Calhoun first taught disunfon. but
jackson, the. true=.patriot and tried
soldier, summarily checked their
machTnations." : y
He illustrated Observation-Disclosures of
the Democracy blythe diafOgue be
twee1Hamlet and Poltoniuss and said
the Democratic party had been-a wea-
sci, whale or camel, as best itserved
their purposes.
They were for Slavery butshad been
for free soil, and their lasteandidate
move the capital of the nation if
slavery was not abolished in the Dis
trict of Columbia
! The brains of the party had been
/ in the South, and never had slaves
more cringingly obeyed their masters
than had the Northern Democracy
their leaders at the South. They de-
clared the Constitution was founded
on Slavery that slavery was national
and freedom sectional, and had finally
repealed the Missouri Compromise,
which was the cause of all our sub
sequent difficulties.
While the Democratic leaders at
the South were planning the rebellion,
hthe Democratic leaders at the North
were fighting the friends of the Coy
eminent In. the rear They smiled.
/ at Union defeats, and wore faces sour
as vinegar when they heard of Union
victories. He painted in glowing
colorss but most u, truthfully, their
reasonable conduct in this State
the Sons of Liberty, the contemplated
assassination of Morton, and the at
tempt to give up the State to outrage
and pillage, by turning loose in our
midst tlle rebel sprisoaers hold inithe
State.
In the canvass in Kentucky where
the parties were arrayed, the blue
coats on one side and the gray on
the other side. when the first cheered
] the ra mes of. Iincoln.- and Grant and