The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-25


have had a little experience you
sE have had) and it opened my eyes.
Eke organization is against US, Union
TEen. We are not of it. Try 1t, you will
know it at last. 1t viii use you, humii-
iiaas you and throw you aside. 1t has
uEgsecuted our brethren everywhere
k4soughout the State; turned them
cut of office; put Confederates over
5Rsm. and only because they were
Eonfederates. They rejected and over
s5auehed Union men In the Demo-
cratic party in Kentucky; were Con-
aarvatives - Conservative enough,
Esaven knows. Laughter. The
Caly stain upon their record was, they
mad been for the war against rebel
den; this, their chief honor, marred
"a their fortunes.
We have done hard tasks, Union
Easn of Kentucky, in this Democratic
uarty here, this parUeRWe, born since
EAe rebellion.
Day by day we have seen Unionism
Mmder the prosecutions of this party
dseline, till now it is niue Breproach
% have stood for our Government.
We could bear it ourselves, q, Union
Enenl but we have friends fallen in the
ASsat battle, and for their sakes, since
6Aey were dear to us, we would have
fhelr cause forever honorable.
had some, laid low by criminal
ISsOtheTs' hands, that l must lament
over with my heart.
They rise up before me now; | see
Aem as once / saw them instinct with
lie, walking with fronts erect in our
midsi-but, no, / shall never again
zee them. They have fallen with
HAeir faces to heaven and their feet to
ahe foe in the great battle for Liberty
mad Union, one and inseparable, now
md forever. Applause.
cannot therefore see any duty
wAich calls me to the Democratic
man ks-all that is within me persuades
me otherwise. must keep every
GASng right In my own breast. | am
aUnion man; / can have no home
sat or tie bosom OF the Union party,
Eknow for the future there can not
De hope, or peace, or honor for a
Kentucky Union man anywhere else.
Ehave tried it and tried it in vain.
ERenewed applause.
j have broken long since with the
wsEty which does not acknowledge
onion sympathies. quit it. for the
KstiOnal Union Republican party, and
shall vote for my schoolmate, the sol
der Of the Union, General Grant,
md for Schuyler Colfax, whom l
wEyer did vote for when | had the
opportunity; quit it fer the cause of
Ebexty and equality; | quit it to help
fEsge to every man In the country the
szame privileges under the law claimed
far myself.
There is but little merit on my
RsEt IN coming up to this elevated
nsound. / am merely accepting the
msaation IN good faith, which the
Radicals and rebels have already pro-
v.1ed.
was opposed in part to the great
wOrk, and il was done without my
epAsent and against my consent. At
Inst opened my eyes to the magni-
H@de of the work and the facts before
we. Will you condescenj TO do that,
ny friends2 Will you lay aside pas
@Sen and prejudice and reason one
with anOther2 VIII you look at all
Nat has happened in this country?
DO you suppose God Almighty
meAnt nothing BY such conflict as we
MmNe passed through All that great
6sBmentation of ideas that resulted
m war aud baptised our land in blood
did 1t mean nothing? Has il done
mothing2 Are we where we started2
Wear to day a thousand years away
krozn the age that preceded the war.
Rhe child scarce able yet to syllable
Hss mother tongue was born under the
Sad order of things, and which he
vail never see again. But [ come
mpw TO an affair that concerns us as
tSaizens of Kentucky chiefly. We
Have proceeded from the Thirteenth
constitutional Amendment abolish
ing slavery, to the Fourteenth Amend
snsnt. 1t Is now fixed and certain
SAing that there is no escape from the
Fourteenth Constitutional Amend
msnt If il has not already been
adopted by States enough to make il
apart of our Constitution, IT. viii be
q. few weeks, perhaps IN few days
2he senate is just about TO pass wha
. called the Omnibus BILL, which ad
mlts six Southern States to represen
Jation IN the Union, which, with Ar
ID Kansas and Tennessee, make eight
These states are required by the Law
recognizing them to ratity the Four
eenth Amendment; and it, therefore
will be the law of the land after the
lapse of few weeks. What are the
provisions Of that amendment?
ssk my friend to read the second sec.
SiOn. (The amendment was. Their
rsad:) -
ZHE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
The meaning of that amendment is
SIMPLY this: 1t will reduce the repre-
sentation of Kentucky in the cleo
Soral college. and in Congress, at the