The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-25
REBELS no BE ENFRANoHIsED.

ander government administered with
economy.
REBELS TO BE ENFRANCHIsED.
Under the operation of these prin-
ciples, there can be no disfranchised
class. The men engaged in rebellion
constitute g class. Sooner or later
every rebel must have the same priyi-
leges under the laws granted to all
others. Yes, these privileges must be
extended even to those who took part
in the rebellion. Il is not, can not
be long withheld from them.
THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.
The XIVth amendment know dis
qualities a class from holding Office,
and there are many men In Office
whom it will exclude, and many more
who are now candidates for Office
here with US. unless by vote of two
thirds of Congress, these disabilities
are removed.
These qualifications are not pleas
ant. [ do not like them; the peo-
pie will not like them. They will
prove this dislike, if the rebels will
only show some affection for the
Union that coRQuers and forgives.
They will remove them. They are
being removed every day.
THE PRESENT VIEWED FROM THE FU-
TURE.
There are persons, now within the
sound of my voice, who will perhaps
live to see the year 1900 dawn in this
country, having then 100000, 900
people in it, who will know nothing
of the miseries of this hour, but will
remember with exulting hearts the
great heroes who achieved them, that
reserved for them our terrific from
shore to shore, stamped upon it prin-
ciples as broad as the continent, and
made possible the prosperity which
they then will enjoy. The despised
Radical of this day, will not be be-
hind that agel
A HEAVY CONTRACT.
The work of putting down the Radi
cal party Which, it is said, can be done
by our joining the Democratic party,
is very large contract. This Radi-
cal party crushed radical rebellion
the greatest piece of Radicalism l
know anything of-which but for
Radicalism would have broken up the
country. stopped her progress, and
carried us back again to the ideas of
the fudal ages. While this Radical.
ism was putting down this rebellion,
it finished the Capitol, reared its
dome to the skies, and placed upon it
the statue of Liberty, all golden this
day with the beams of this June sun.
When that year 1900 shall dawn, other
wings with other domes perhaps still
grander, will have been added to ac-
commodate the Congress of these
United States.
And while crushing this great re-
bellion, it was building the great Pa
cific railway, which, while | speak,
extends fifty miles beyondth the summit
of the Rocky Mountains. In 1869 or
20, the shores of the Pacific and
Atlantic will be united by iron, and
time and space across the bounds of
this great empire measureably an
INITIATED. When 1900 dawns, the
generation born of this great era,
breathing its inspiration, the new
fresh. fourishing civilization Of Amer
lea Will stand face to face with the
Asiatic. worn out and wasted by
centuries Of divine right class privi-
reyes ana slavery OF tue masses, ulleQ
yet with a great but useless wealth
and populations. But the people of
that era, / well believe, will know
how to deal with that civilization, IN
der the law of Justice, and beholding
the Asiatic- as their neighbor viii re-
member the command, Love thy
neighbor rs tbyself.gg Then behold a
mystery--the sun. shall rise in the
west to light the darkness of the east.
But the men of 1900, all free and
equal, almost unconscious Of the pres
ence of the African, at least no longer
alarmed by it. will look back upon
this age, and with some feeling of
amazement at our prejudices and diff
fculties in conforming ourselves to
American principles. But looking
back, | do not doubt that praise and
thanksgiving will be given 70 the men
who, under God, saved them from the
consequences of rebellion and slavery.
I would not know how to interpret
the future, or say what the
year 1900 would have in store, if the
rebellion had succeeded. Have you
thought about it? One war after
another, one instruction of the black
people after another, rising against |
COnfederata masters. would have oc-