The Evansville journal., 1868-02-13

half OF loyalty and good government.
ard We viii ex pect the FoTtieth Con
gresa-to complete the glorious work
Tof its predecessor.
VI Reso Ted. That We are in favor of a
speedy restoration Of the States lately
y 9EaFiRgv against the Government, to
3 their proper positions in the Govern
ment, but such restoration should be
made on a loyal basis, and not upon
okuch terms as will make the said
States the nurseries of treason and en-
gines for the oppression Of Union
men.
ResolUe.2, That treason shall be
= made odious, and traitors ought to
expect back seats. If any.
ResolUed, That inasmuch as Gen.
10. s. Grant compelled the head OF the
rebellion to surrender to him on the
Tented field, We recommend him as a
suitable person to receive its
fnal surrender IN the civil walks
of life; but while expressing
p this preference for him, We will
: Icheerfully support for he Presidency
ANY true man known 70 be sound up
on the great questions OF the day, es
peeially Gen. p. II. Sheridan or Hon.
81 ID. 2. Morton
To say that one IS opposed to negro
suffrage and at the same time endorses
the Thirty Ninth and Fortieth GDn-
crosses, favors reconstruction on a
r 30gnL basis, and recommends such
a notorious negro equality advocate
and infamous social and political dog
as O. j. Morton, of Indiana, is simply
Ito assert a tnonstrous absurdity Such
people are either fools or knaves, and
in either case not to be trusted.
Isuppose the editor had become suf-
focated by uttering good doctrine n
the reading and insertion of the reso-
buttons, and this / plead for him in
Iextenuation Of the great crimes
against good deeorum committed IN
his concluding remarks.
4 l pres ume the sage of the Demo
lcrdt thought it the last evidence Of
embryo greatness to jeer and denounce
the people of his native county, which
county he left at the commencement
of the last unhappy unpledsdntneSs. :"
whether for his own good or the good
of his county, this deponent saith not
The Democrat seems to be as lily
Informed as to the history of parties
in this State as Of the record of those
to whom 1t refers, and as Its editor is
seeking to become a leading politi-
clan, | will furnish him some impor-
tant information on the subject, for
which | will not charge anything
The statement that / was a Simon
pure Democrat at the commencement
of the war, is really true in fact, but
not in the sense in which the re-
nOwned editor speaks of Democrats
! had uniformly voted the Democratic
ticket from the time / was entitled to
vote, and had voted for the. illustri
Gus statesman of the West, S. A.
Douglas, in 1860, and when the rebel
lion commenced / was a jealous
Unionist; advocated coercion. oppos-
ed neutrality, and forwarded recruits
to Rousseau. at Camp Joe Holt, even
before he had erected his tents, and
am rather ashamed until now that [
did not enlist my2elf | also brought
into this county the first Lincoln
guns that were seen IN this part of
the State, some of which, I am sorry
to hear, were taken by force from tie
good citizens of the county by the
Democrats, lead BY S. B. Buckner, in
1861. ta
1t is true I was a delegate to the
Chicago Convention Ia 1864, having
been, by the Union Democratic State
COnvention, appointed alternate, and
the Hon. I'll D. McHenry failing to
attends / became 4 delegate. I pre-
sumo no one ever heard Of an Under
wood delegation being at Chicago.
except the sage of the Dsnl0cr1t.
-The Union delegation was sometimes
called the Guthrie delegation, while
the Democratic delegation was some
times called the. Wicliffe delegation.
4 am willing, however, to admit that
1t is something to my discredit that /
was any sort of delegate to said Con-
vention. / hope, however, that when
the people reflect that such illustri-
Gus patriots and braves as Grant
Sherman, TTumbull, Holt, Stanton.
&c, were once Democrats. they will
readily excuse. a semi barbarian for
being delegate to the Chicago Con
ventiOn. wish it to be constantly
borne IN mind, too, that ] had no
connection with the Democratic party
when the brilliant editor of the
Democrat became a recognized lead |
er OF Democracy in this State. /
Is It not a little remarkable that /
whenever a Democrat wishes to stig !
Matte Union man. the first thing |
they do, il possible, is to show thar |
he was once a Democrat? Is II GER /
tainly true that it is inconsistent for a /
Union man to have been a DenocYat2 /
| hardly think it has been so until re- +
Gently, but it seems to be "a INV 4
The charge that Butler County was 4
backward in furnishing soldiers for +
the Union is entirely new. must /
say l am astonished at its mendacitv. +