The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-31
The City Democracy in the, Country.
Opening OF the Gampalgn-Legisla-
tatlTe and County UIlcerS.
AN IMPORTATION FROM KENTUCKY.
Doctor Morgan DlseOursoth Again,


Representatives, and County
Offices opened the campaign, at VIII
Tia mson's warehouse. in Union Town
ship, on Saturday last. The meeting
had been widely advertised by
posters announcing that John
Young Brown and s. B. Vance, of
Kentucky, and DR.. Morgan and j. f.
of this County, would be
In attendance and address the people,
and as result sixty-fve men, of
whom about a dozen were Republi-
cans, were in attendance. The speaking
was to have taken place at l o'clock,
but owing TO the delay in raising a
Seymour and Blair pole, did not COM
mence until after A o'clock. After
the pole had been raised, the people
collected in the warehouse of Mr..
Williamson, when Dir. Hawkins, Dem
ocratic candidate for County Commits
sioner, introduced Mr.. S. B. Vance.
of Hendc rson, KY, who proceeded to
address the meeting in a short speech.
Z He started out by saying that be
proposed brief review of the con-.
duct of the party in power, and of the
manner in which that party had ad-
mInistered the affairs of the Govern
ment. The subject was grand and
melancholy, but he did not propose to
discuss it, as politician, but as a
Kentuckian, who loved and felt proud
of his State, and of the Constitution,
asserting that he so much loved that
Constitutions that he would give the
last drop of his hearts blood for its
maintenance.
After having made the above re
nsarkable declaration, which may
sound strange, coming, as it did, from
a seoessionist-that class of men hav-
ing manifested the greatest .ove for
the Constitution during the war-he
proceeded toa definition of the rights
of States under the Constitution of
the United States, in which he set
forth, in as forcible a manner as he
was capable Of doing, the old States
rights doctrine, which all admit to
have beea the legitimate parent of Sc
eession. Under the Constitution of
the United States, the various de-
partments of the Government were
clearly defined, the Executive. the
Legislative aud judiciary, aud powers
not delegated to those departments
of right belonged to the States.
He next proceeded to denounce Con-
gress for establishing military rule
over the unreconstructed rebel States,
and INDUCED in wall that this rule
had taken the control Of the State
governments out of the hands of the
former rich aristocratic rebels.
He then returned to defamation
about the Constitution, and charged
that its provisions had been violated
by the Republican party Coming. as
it did, from a secessionist-and that
class of men never having violated
any provision of the constitutional
made the defamation an exceedingly
interesting one. and sounded we'll. 1t
is indeed a strange thing what great
reverence these secessionists have for
the Constitution, after having fail
ed to uproot aud destroy the Govern
ment by force of arms.
His next lament was for the down
trodden rebels of the South. At
present there was no way pointed out
for their escape from the rule of
| tyrants. OF course the rebels should
have been re-admitted to power, even
if their hands were red with the blood
of patriots. This appeared to be the
idea of Mr.. Vance, but we do not
think the loyal people will be at all
likely to concur with him IN that
opinion.
To this end, and to prove his posi-
ton, he pertinently asked, what does
the Constitution require of a man to
become citizen of the United States,
and entitled to hold Office, vote, &c.?
First, that he shall be of proper age;
that he shall have been in the coun-
try certain period of time. &c; and
from that he concluded that rebels
ought to be allowed to hold office and
be admitted back to all lost privi-
leges. This would be a very conve-
nient policy for traitors, truly.
We have not the space to follow
this Kentucky orator, imported for
the purpose of instructing the people
of Indiana how to vote, but have
given enough of it so that the people
will understand what the secession
lists ask and expect. Throughout he
talked of violations of the Constitu-
ton as if his class had never attempt
ed a total destruction of that honored
and reyered document. 1t is not at all
likely -that Mr.. Vance made any con-
verts to his faith last Saturday.
When he had concluded his re-
marks, DIR. Morgan took the floor.
In order to report the Doctor cor
reetly, the reporter is compelled to
use many dashes, italics, repetition of
words and sentences; and, to give a
fair idea Of his speech, to throw in a
note of explanation occasionally. He
said, in ubdued and pathetic voice :.
Ladies' and Gentlemen, Eel O1o- Ciiti-
zeHs: When look upon these times
It-lt-it-is-fedrfui. We look aud
see the condition OF the country, and
IT Observation-Disclosures
heart break. We have two parties