The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-13
An Illinois COpperhead in kentucky.

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You will pardon me for asking
space in the columns of your paper,
and I will endeavor to give you the
history Of a Democratic or rebel
speech made in our town on last
night 1 propose to write it, because
/ believe it contains the sentiment Of
the whole so-called Democratic party
of the country. The speech was de-
livered by one DR.. Alfred Padon, edi-
tor of the Constitution and Union, and
who is a resident of Carlyle, Illinois.
He spoke with all the energy he pos
sessed, aided by the influence of the
lower regions, and tried, for about
two hours, TO, and | think he did
eonclusively, prove to the satisfaction
of the rebel party Of this town, that
the North and the Northern people,
whom he very vehemently denounced
as negro equaliZing people, were the
sole cause Of the late war. That the
South and the Southern people were
In no way responsible for the war
but that the whole cause of war orig
mated in the North; was nurtured 10
the North, and that the North com
mltted the first act of war, by
going into Missouri and making
war with the people, and driving
from his home their patriotic Gov
ernor Jackson. He seems to have
forgotten all about the rebel authori-
ties having fred into the Star of the
West, when she was sent unarmed to
convey provisions to Major Ander-
son and his sixty brave men, who
were literally starving, long before
there was a single gun fred in Mis-
souri,. He seems, too, to have for
gotten that Fort Sumter was fired
into by General Beauregard and
utterly demolished. This, too, be-
fore the Government had done any
thing toward making war upon the
South. In giving what he termed
the true principles Of Democracy. "
he said that, when a little boy.
just begun to run about. he was sit
ting down with a hammer, playing.
and his mother or father told the
child to put the hammer away; that
he would run away, and turn and
shake the hammer at them. and that
the very act of running away was
Democracy; thus showing that the
whole Democratic theory was founded
upon disObedience to law and good
order; that when England acknow-
lodged the independence Of this cOun-
try she did not acknowledge our indie
pendence as a free, sovereign and in
dependent people, but as free, sove-
reign and Independent States. That
the States remained independent, and
when the articles Of union were
formed that they expressly reserved
those rights. That finally the States
saw that 1t was incOnvenient for them
to attend to all the business. aud that
they needed an agent Therefore they
met to form a Constitution, and BY
that Constitution they did create
their agent. That to this agent the
States delegated certain powers, to be
exercised at the will and sufferance of
the States, its masters. That in the
Constitution the States expressly re-
served the right to resume those pow
ers and dissolve the Union at their
own pleasure. That In the North all
the Republicans were determined that
the negro should be set Tree OF the
Union should be dissolved in the at
tempt to free them; consequently on
the election of Mr. Lincoln the South
ern States saw proper to, and did re-
sumo the powers they had delegated /
to their. ageRt, and seeded from
the Union, and that in so
doing the South committed no
ofense; that she was guilty. Of neither
treason nor rebellion: that she was
only exercising he right 10 secede /
from the Union, which all acknOwl- /
edged she had q right to do; that
there was and could be no question
about her right to secede at any time
she saw proper. He deplored the con-
dition OF the South, and said that this I
state of things could nor and should I
not exist; that the Democrats must |
wTest the power from the hands of !
those mlScTeant and abusive persons /
who are now ruling the country and !
repeal all the undfriendly acts of that |
party, and restore the States South to /
their original sovereignty and indie
pendence, and re establish slavery in |
all the States, and that this should be |
done If they had to resort to the bav-
onet to do 1t; that he was going to !
tight until it IS done. He exhOrted |
the Kentucky rebels to stand firm in
their purpose-only whistle if they
should get into trouble with the Rad
lcals and the Illinois Democrats
would come to their rescue. They |
would come with gun in hand and |
steady nerve and determined pur-
pose, and that they would wreak ven
geance on the Radicals. When these |
last remarks were made I was astoun-
ded to hear the floor rattle with the |
stamp of the company, and there was |
not one rebel soldier that I saw cheer, |
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