The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-04

cratic politicians 5f the North, thew
will. by mllitat5 power, return the
colored people to slavery. That would
be another inevitable result of a sue
cess of the democratic party.
Now, Uy friends, we hear a good
deal upon the question of g suf-
frage. My distinguished colleague, in
the speech which he made In this
yard last night, took oct asion to ad-
vert to that subject, and / wish to
read an extract from what he said.
He says: By an act of Congress it
has been established in the District
of Columbia, and now at every cleo
ton in the city of Washington the
disagreeable sight is witnessed of
hundreds of white men being jostled
and crowded from the polls by organ
ICED bands of negroes"
My colleague told the people last
night that In the city Of Washington
the sight is frequently witnessed of
white men being jostled from the polls
by the negroes. [ think my colleague
has been misinformed. [ never heard
of that, and | never paid so poor a
compliment to the white men myself.
TLaughterl. The idea that the supe-
rior race, the unconquerable Anglo
Saxon, with all his intelligence, with
his possession of arms, with all the
advantage that intelligence gives,
even in the city Of Washington, has
been crowded and jostled from the
polls by those poor negroes. Laugh
teri. Where has that occurred? We
know that in Mississippi, at the late
election, that there were whole coun-
ties where the negroes were not al
lowed to vote by the armed white
men, the rebels; but who can point to
an instance where the negroes have
ever kept the white men from voting?
And now the appeal is again made
to the prejudice against the negro;
again that old prejudice is to be dug
up, all disgusting aud rotten and dis
agreeable as it is; it is to be present
ed to the public gaze to again ur:e
men to vote the Democratic ticket.
All, there is one answer to that. 1t
was by one of those tricks that often
occur in Democratic conventions that
! Chief Justice Chase was prevented
from being the Democratic candidate
for President, and, but for this trick,
my distinguished colleague would now
be standing upon a platform of uni
versal suffrage. 1t is well known that
Judge Chase, who, for twenty-five
years, has been the advocate Of color
ed suffrage, who may almost be said
to be the father of that doctrine, that
all the arrangements were made for
his nomination, as the candidate OF
the Democratic party.
It is said that at the very time that
Mr.. Seymour's name was brought tor
ward in the Convention, that be had
arisen for the purpose of proposing
the name of Chase, and it is certain
that such an arrangement had been
made. [ only refer TO this to show
that it is a mere appeal for the pur-
pose of securing votes, and that Dem
ocratic politicians are prepared to
take a negro suffrage candidate, a
candidate protesting any kind of
views If he can only bring them into
the enjoyment of political power.
Now, my friends, my colleague had
a good deal to say last night, as /.
see by reading his speech, that we
had proposed in the Senate, by a
bill, to send arms to those govern
ments that We have just erected in
the Southern States.
Ali so we did. 1t has been the
policy of the Government ever since
its formation to send arms to the
States from time to time, even In
peace; and there was a bill brought
forward, for which [ voted and
spoke, to send arms to the several
States, according to their population,
giving one thousand for every men,
Der of Congress and Senator. These
arms are not needed now in the State
of Indiana, but they are needed by
these loyal State Governments in the
South. These new State govern
ments have no arms; not a
single musket In the arsenal; not a
single dollar in the Treasury to buy
arms, and surrounded by a rebel pop
u%lation that is armed TO the teeth,
and this rebel population is invited
to rebellion by the Democratic party
of the North, and that party has just
placed a candidate IN nomination
upon an express proposition that
these governments shall be over
turned by force; and yet when we
propose to send them arms to be placed
in the hands of lawful militia a great
cutlery is raised in the North. It is
commended that these loyal govern
ments shall be left unprotected to the
tender mercies of a hostile, armed,
rebel population by which they are
surrounded. [ am sorry to say that
that bill did not pass the House. 1t
ought to have passed. | merely refer
to it because of an attempt to preju-
dice the people of the North il re-
gard to the character of the bill.
My colleague took occasion to refer
to me several times last night, to
which | do not at all object. But he
will, therefore, excuse me If l take
the liberty of referring to him, and to
some of the opinions he has express
ed. And first, / will say, he has, up-
Intentionally, no doubt, done me in
justice upon II question, In regard
to the question of currency, and [
want to make a general remark here
before | come to that-that while the
Democratic party has no status or po-
sition upon the subject of the nation
al debt, but that Of reputation, il
also has no status or position upon
the subject of currency, except its ex-
treme initiation, under the pretense Of
paying the national debt, so that the
greenbacks shall become so numerous
that they will not be worth the
paper they are printed on. [ will
thank my friend to read some remarks
from the speech of Mr.. Hendricks on
this subject:
Sin q speech delivered at Columbus, Ohio,
on the ZTJh day of Auguat, 1867, Governor
Morton spoke of the proposition to a the
bonds in greenbacks as q the black chan
mel of repudiatIon"-" the black cloud of
reputation = . charged with the
liVid Iightnings of dishonor and destruc-
zion, +" and as "a weak dev1ce of the enemy
by which they approach direct repudi-
ation."