The Evansville journal., 1868-02-13


State of Iud ana | shall not, how
ever. attemp, al7g vTudiiic8tI0n OF In.
dianags most noblersegator. but / can
insure the sapient knight eff The
D58s5g sasr that Ho MAJ stands higher
With the. Union men 0f this coun ty
and / doubt pit of the entire State
than @. P Merton; and the wrath ot
] the Denoetaf upon him WiliDnly in
crease. the lastFe Of the lBuFels al
ready thickly clustering upon his
brow. - aall
Il am not. surprised that the Demo
Icfdt detests our resolutions They
have the ring of the true metal, and
WeIdid8net expect them TO please the
De8tocrat5Ii and IS he had contented
himself with xan onslaught on dthe
resolutions alone, your readers would
have been. spared the infections OF
this epistles u s3dr ae0
dlOnes of the resolutions Is substan-
tally late 4avorite expression Of
President johnson, who is now the
great file leaderof Democracy; in fact,
he Is ekief among Democrats, having
been one twice. The other resolu
TOES are unanswerable, hence theaed-
itor contents himself with denounc-
ing those engaged in the meeting and
5eerlng at the party. The editor
ought only to expect embryo states
men from the Commonwealth of But
Ter, especially As she furnished at
least one en.hlyo military chieftian.
No doubt the editor hates the word
loyal. No doubt he is opposed to re-
construction unon loyal basis The
Democracy would fain see those
whose hands are yet red with the
blood of the eouotTymen placed at
the helm o ~rate. and the loyal peo-
pie of the land. 0i every race and
color, turned ores bound hand and
foot, to tic II u Of unregenerate
rebels, bu t. the mission Of Con-
gress to sec that 40 such outrage Is
permitted; likewise it is the mission
of Butler County to sustain, to the
best Of her ability, Congress In the
glorious work of protecting all men,
despite the iulminations Of embryo
editors. Those persons In the South
who, In the dark days Of 1S6l-2-3.
and '64, were found faithful among
the faithless, and who remained true
to the glorious flag of our
country, when all around were cover
ed with treason and perjury, as with
a garment, are entitled to the protec-
tion of the Governments and its whole
power. it need be. should be exerted
to protect such persons, and a Govern
ment that would willingly fail to ex-
tend the needed protection in such
cases, would be unworthy of a. place
among the nations Of theS -earttf.
This protection is being, and VIII Be,
extended by the glorious Congress of
the nation, and whoever and what
ever stands Ia the way of the same,
must destroy thepower of the United
States or it will destroy them. To
say that these loyalists would be pro-
tected without the Intervention of
Congress, is simply to say what every
man acquainted with modern Democ-
racy knows to be untrue
It Is amazing that the Democrat
should talk of consistency, when
nearly every Democrat in the State is
Macy of the would-be
leaders were once the fereest de-
nouncers Of rebellion and rebel SYM ]
pathlzeTs; could not even tolerate a
man who was on good terms socially
with the staY-at-homes secesa butnoW
they are nightly for the oppressed
south. When the military was su-
preme in Kentucky, and each South
ern sympathizer was iD constant
fear OF arrest or punishment,
Of some kind, these same War DEM
Gratis were breathing forth death aud
1amnatlon against alloeym mpathizers
With rebellion, and even suggesting
hat those voting for Mickiffa would
ARE like the dog In whose teeth wool
was found. but now, when the senti- 4
nent of the people OF the State is ex-
pressed Ia favor o" the Democracy, 1
,hese same men at once become the /
most furious against abolitiOnists and 1
Union men, and strange to say, the |
animate Democracy seem to delight /
o honor some of them, but to their |
credit be it said, they give most of I
,uch men back seats, If any.
The animate Democracy are scarce
y less inconsistent, for after seeking /
or years the dismemberment of the /
Union, and filling the land with wars 1
lnutterable, and entailing an enor- /
nous debt upon the nation, they face 4
bout and assume to be the best /
riends the Government has, in fact /
he only men who really desire a
estoratiOn of the Union, and that too
7hen their late assertions that there /
vas no Union nor Constitution are yet
lmost re=echoing through tie land. /,
truly. consistency is a jewel But e
hat as it may, IWouid rather be incon-
istent than a Kentucky Democrat.
'he editor of the Den9ocrdt ventures
he belief that the few true Democrats
f Butler will not permit her to remain
n her present state of semi barbaism.
t IS true that there are some very
Ice ganflmen In this cnnntz-- ruhn n