The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-24
THE bEMOCaAOY AGAIN EXTHIU JsEI.
Jason Ii. Brown and Hiram.
H. Read Ola she ROst REn.

ueE OI 1AlTU anu AOCaSN OblO Hos- nc
crowd was probably mewhat 0in- |
creased by its having been whispered
around that new convert to Dem9cT
raey would make public profession
of his faith as it's in Seymour and
Blair. -i9iD9fa
Mr. Brown is young man about
twenty eight years old, fluent speak
er, of a fowery turn Of mind, leading
into flights of fancy and rhetorical
fourishes that would be eloquent and |
interesting were he less prolix and
redundant. His language, while not
strictly grammatical, was more tree
from low invective and pot-house
slang than generally distinguishes
Democratic speeches. If aylittle pro-
fame in his denunciation of the
spirit " of the law in reference to
the payment of the 2Gs, and some
what irreverent il his Scripture illus
trations, we must do him the Justice
to say that. in language and spirit, it
was the most creditable Democratic
speech we have heard this year.
His speech, when stripped of its
sophomoreisms and sophistries, was
declaration that the Union had not
been preserved or the Constellation
maintained by the war, and his argu-
ment to establish this declaration was
an elaboration Of the old doctrine Of
State Rights and independent State
identity. 30
At the close of the war the rebel
States were entitled to the same rights
and PRIVILEGES as before the rebellion,
and Congress had no right to inter
fere with them. orr
The right to vote was not God Civ
en- but Safe given, and the General
Government had no say in the matter
The ballot box had been invented
solely for white men, and by the
Eternal, negroes should have no
share in their use. The. rights of per-
son, property and franchise were Sc
cured by the State constitutions
alone, but in ten States Congress had
regulated these rights. sai 10 i.
If it was right for the soldiers to
fight JEFF Davis and Lee because
they tried to take the States out of
the Union, they should now vote
against Grant aud Colfax for keeping
them out. If it was right 70 indict
jeff. Davis. johnson and others for
trying to take those States out of the
Union, is it not right that Morton or
Grant should dangle at the other end
Of the rope lor saying the Estates are
out? '.tra
The Constitution of the United
States required that the three co ordi-
nate branches of the Government
should together guarantee to each
State a republican form. Of govern
ment. That could only be done by
allowing the people to,be governed in
The States the right to establish their
own constitutions and enact their own
laws. IL
In the course Of his speech he
dropped sop to the Irish and
the German element, and also to the
Catholic. He said the Republicans
commenced In 1854 With an attempt
to disfranchise all foreigners and
Catholics, but he failed to tell them
that the leading men in that crusade
against the foreigners are now
shouting themselves hoarse for Sew
mour and Blair. The Louisville
Courier was a native American paper
as early as 1913, aud the Louisville
Journal defended the Know Nothing
party, after that bloody Monday"
and the Democratic candidate for
State Senator in Vigo County
was one of tho origi1al men
who organized Know Nothing
ism in Terre Haute. On the subjects
of bonds and taxation, Jason follow
ed in the beaten track, but was not
very exact or perspicuous He depre-
Gated the fact that the cow of the sol
dier's widow was taxed. and all her
household goods, while the bloated
bondholders paid no tax at all,
He closed by comparing the poor
Democrats. who are so shamefully
burdened with faxes, to lazarus, and
the bondholders, including Belmont,
and Edgerton. and Hendricks. of
course, to Dives, and thought it per-
fectly proper that Dives went to hell,
and painted in glowing colors the
blissful time when the suffering and
dog licked Democracy woul be safely
ensconced in Abraha MS bosom, and
the bloated bondholders would be
calling from their warm quarters for
water In the course of his speech he
warmly eulogized n. B. Forrest, and
denounced Joe Brown of Georgia, who,
he said, was the author of Anderson
Vile, and had inflicted every cruelty
on Union soldiers, while Forrest had
treated them with the gentleness of a
mother. aa $500
After Mr.. Brown had closed A. T.
! Whittlesey introduced Mr.. Hiram Z.
Read, who declared that he was no
longer able to stand the pressure of
the bonds and taxes, or the growing
prominence Of the African race.
AcCURACY.-The Courier ofyester-
day says that the Democratic Silver
Band serenaded Jason B. Brown, at