The Evansville journal., 1868-02-21

taxation became necessary to main
tain our credit, to pay and supply our
heroic soldiers, and to keep our flag
flying in the field, we dared to defy
the prejudice which every Democrat
ic speaker and editor attempted to in
fuenee against the burdens Of taxa
ton; and thus daring, triumphed.
When conscription laws became a
military necessity to fill up our regi-
ments, decimated again and again by
the bullets of the enemy and the dis
eases of the camp, the siege and the
march, and when the country was
filed with Democratic denunciatiOn
of these laws, we risked popularity,
victory and all. by defending them as
bravely as our veterans defended the
country in the field.
When Mr.. Lincoln at last struck at
slavery as the cause of all our woes,
as we'll as the right arm of the rebel
lion, and when Democratic orators
and writers still more scandalously
and persistently calumRiated US as
having converted the war for the
Union into an abolition war, to free
negroes, we fearlessly allied our cause
to that of the humble and the help
less; and Providence rewarded US for
our fidelity by that brilliant success
sion of triumps which gave salvation
to the Union as we'll as freedom to
the slave
When the National Convention Of
our opponents at Chicago dared to
hang out the white fig Of surrender,
by proclaiming the war failure, and
demanding In immediate cessation of
hostilities, we promptly accepted the
issue; and the soldier with his cart
ridge hOx, and the voters with the
ballot box, united IN stamping their
indignant condemnation in the dis
graceful avowal
When the Government was com
PEELED to issue Bonds by the hun
dreds Of millions for the preservation
of our National existence, Democrats
ridiculed them as worthless, and eau
toned the people against risking their
means in them, but the loyal people
were deaf to their warnings; and now
the same party denounce them as hav-
ing made too good an investment in
their purchase.
When " Greenbacks were author
lied by a Republican Congress, who
can forget the Democratic predictions
that it would ultimately take a hat
| full of them to buy a meal and now
| they have the assurance to seek to
make political capital out of their
popularity.
When the Both Congress rejected
the Presidents policy Of Reconstruc-
ton, and insisted on one which should
embody constitutional guarantees for
the future, with full protection for all
who loved the flag and the Union.
our enemies denounced US as wishing
/ to postpone Reconstruction; while
now the same Democrats, with their
/ ally, the President, are striving to put
every possible stumbling block in the
way OF their return.
When a" the 14th Article" was pro-
/ posed as an amendment to the Con
stitutIon, embodying no mandatory
suffrage enactment, bat protecting
equally the civil rights Of all native
born and naturalized citizens, making
a voter in Indiana just as potential as
one in South Carolina, and no more,
barring the door of the Treasury
against any payments on account OF
the Rebel Debts or the emancipation
of slaves, the whole Democratic party
denounced it, and urged the Southern
Rebels to spurn it, as they did. NolC
the two Democratic States of Ken
| lucky and Maryland demand payment
! out of the peoples taxes In the Treas
| ury for the slaves the Nation eman-
| cipated and the two Democratic leg
islatures of Ohio aud New jersey en-
| deavOr to withdraw the assent of those
States to this benefcent Constitu
tlonal Amendment, leaving the door
open for the presentation of these
1 Democratic claims, if Democratic
| Congress could be chosen.
will not extead this letter by a
defense Of the Congressional policy
of Reconstruction for Sen. Morton S
able vIndlcatiou Of it has covered the
whole ground unanswerably. Suffice it
to- say that Congress having author
lied the suffrage of every free man in
the late rebel States, rebels and ali,
except those who, by violating official
oaths. had added perjury to treason,
and the Democratic party having de-
nOunced US for this limited and tenn
| porary dlsfranchisement, the same
! party shouts its rejoicings over the
fact that the remainder of the unre-
pentaut rebels in Alabama have re-
Gently and voluntarily disfranchised
themselves in the vain attempt to
prevent the reorganization of that
/ State on loyal basis.
Nor is this all. The President,
now in full sympathy with the sa me
Democratic party which opposed his
election-the same person who, as a
| candidata declarad that traasnn