The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-26

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of being remembered.
The Kentucky Democratic COnVen
tiOn.
This Convention was largely attend,
ed. There was a considerable display
of enthusiasm. It was an assemblage
of men who did all they could to de-
stroy the Government during the war,
and still glory in the name of rebel.
JESSE D. BRIGHT, the disgraced
traitor from Indiana, presided, and
was selected as an Elector for the
State at large. He still glories in his
REASONABLE record, and advocates the
reputation Of the Government in
debtedness We do him no injustice
in this assertion. At the close Of the
Convention he was called on for a
speech, of which we find the follow
ing abstract in the dispatches of the
Associated Press:
The Hon. Jesse d. Bright was
then called for, and, on taking the
stand, said that he had the same
political views now that he had al
ways maintained. He was opposed
to the war from the beginning 60 the
end. In Congress he denied the
power Of the Government to declare
war against a sovereign State TAP
plause He also denied the power
of the Federal Government to issue
paper money to cut the threats Of the
people of the Southern States. He
never intended to vote to pay a dollar
of the principal of the debt. Cheers. ]
He was opposed to paying a dollar of
the national debt IN coin. He would,
if Democrats so thought, vote to pay
the debt in paper, and then let the
paper take care of itself. Cheers.
He was aware that be was not sus-
tanned by War Democrats in this
opinion.
In conclusion, Mr.. Bright said that
it was the work of the Democratic
party to rescue the country from its
present perils. He thought that, in
the end, every dollars orth of prop
erty destroyed during the war in Ken
lucky and Maryland would be paid.
We invite the attention OF the In
dianapolis Herald to the closing SEN
tence of Mr.. BRIGHTs speech. 1t
may see in it a reason for the Repub-
licans of Indiana placing in their
platform a resolution against paying
the rebel debt, or losses incurred by
the emancipation of slaves. Mr..
BRIGHT says the success of the Dem
ocratic party will insure the rebels |
pay for their property destroyed by
the war, and also for their slaves. |
The success of the Republican party
will forever relieve the people of that
burden. Mr. BRIGHT is a Brick |
PoMERoY Democrat. He would vote |
to pay the Government debt in
paper, and then let the paper take
care of itself He is opposed to pay
ing a dollar Of the national debt in
coin. He never would vote to pay
dollar of the principal of the debt.
When he is elected by the people of
Kentucky as an Elector. to cast the
7ote of that Estate for President, he
will vote for no man who is in IA
vor of paying the principal of the ma
ional debt. If Democrats so thought,
he would vote to pay the debt in pa
,er, and consequently he will support
ir. PENDLEToN, if that gentleman is
Wiling to let the paper money issued
axe care of itself. We wish the bust
less men of Evansville, especially
hose who have property, to read the
hort extract from Mr.. BRIGHT's
peech which we publish. It is one
# the elearest expositions of democ- /
acy, pure and simple, without dis
,uise or concealment, that they will i
'ften see.
At this same Kentucky Convention
Jol. FRANK WoLFoRD was called on
or a speech. He devoted most of
lis time and eloquence to an eIabor-
tie eulogy of JEFFERSON DAVIS. He
poke of that chivalric gentleman's
leroism in the Mexican war, aud of =,
lis noble qualities of head and heart. |
Had nothing to say of Belle Isle and q
libby Prison, Andersonville and the
tockade at Columbus. He advocated :
n immediate amnesty, and the resto-