The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-25

TRUTH TO PROGRESS.
We are to advance to newer and
better issues. A true Democratic
party will always be respected in the
eyes of the lovers of the people, be-
cause the lovers of the people rever-
ence God, the Father OF the people;
that God who makes no distinction
between them. When they come to
His heaven, redeemed by the blood
of His Son, who died for all, 1t will
not matter whe her they were white
or black. or to what race they be-
longed. They will be good enough
for God.
UNCONDITIONAL UNIVERSAL SUP
FRAGE.
This Government of ours has held
Declaration of Independence, that all
men are born free and equal. But
you know how fashionable it had be-
come. in later times, to say this birth
right belonged only to white men. 1t
was even fashionable in some places
to read it all lohite men," ETC. But
our fathers meant by it all men. In
Europe it is all men born of certain
families that have the right to tree
dom and equality. For the English
man il is the Queen who derives her
right from God to govern the nation,
and transmit it to her children; next
to her it is the mobiles; next to the
mobiles, some fellow who has made
fortune selling soap and tar, laugh
teri, and who is only ambitious like
Edmund About's Frenehman) to
marry his daughter into family that
has done no work for four hundred
years The idea is held there that
the mass of mankind are too ignorant
to enjoy the right of suffrage
But the true American idea is that
suffrage is not the due of int lligence,
not the due of race, of wealth, &c !;
but knowing no practical test by
which We can con6ne it to the vIrtu-
Gus and intelligent alone, that it is
the due of all the people.
INTEGRITY OF THE MASSES.
The. masses of mankind are what
might be called ignorant, they have
no book larnin'." they have not
been to college, a great many cannot
read and write; but the masses of
mankind are honest and virtuous !;
the masses of mankind, however liz
norant, love their country, work for
it, fight for it. die for it. They are as
true to day as the intelligent portion
of the community Intelligence alone
is not a sufficient security for the per-
son that casts the ballot Lucifer was
not wanting in Intelligence; he was
the brightest of the sons of God, and
he rebelled. JEFF Davis and Breck-
inridge were not wanting in intelli-
gence, and they committed treason
against their country and against
mankind.
Those things which will govern
best In every land, are virtue and in
telligence; but there is 40 plan by
which you can secure them unless you
let every person vote, save those
guilty OF crime. Show me how you
will get ali the virtue and intelligence
without embracing all the people, and
| will give up my right to vote. If it
were left to the judges of elections to
say who is virtaous and intelligent,
they would declare that all were not
so who did not vote their ticket.
Laughter.
He that loves his country, however
ignorant, will find out how to vote
right. If he makes a mistake to-day,
he will correct it tomorrow To say
that where equality prevails, virtue
and intelligence will be less powerful
than vice and ignorance, is to say I
have no faith in God, and to forget
that God and the race naver die; that
He employs men simply to work out
his designs, consciously or uncon-
sciously, willingly or unwillingly. 1t
fOrgets, too, that vice has no power,
except it wears the mask of virtue.
" Hypocrisy is the homage which vice
pays to virtue" let US remember.
GRANT THE coUNrRY's HOPE.
l long for the coming of the bright
day and the glory that will follow in
It's train, when all men shall be con-
verted to the Union and the ideas it
represents in America. And [ want
some person like Gen. Grant for the
next four years TO give full play to the
great measures born out of the civil
war by maintaining, with his strong
hand and resolved soul, peace, that
the laws may be executed and do
their benehcent work. [ appeal to
you, OulOu mel, III DendlIa OF the
growth aud development of our Amer
lean Union whereby all men shall be
blessed. that you support the stand
ard bearers of these great principles.
We need for mis- emergency just such
a man as Grant. a tried and true pa
triot, modest but firm; a worker, not
a talker (apy fool can make speeches,)
the strongest soul alive.
Some say be is not a great man
Well, he, IS the greatest man at least
that the war gave birth to- He