The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-30

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vows of fidelity to the Government
are no dishenor, that the war against
the revolt was a blunder, that the
emancipation proclamation OF the
President and the deliberate acts OF
Congress are void, and that by force
Of aEms they are to be swept
away at the beck of the South,
in order to restore them to their
ancient rights. The Supreme Court OF
the United States have decided that
by war the rebels lost all their rights
under the Constitution. and that all
they can have is a favor. But of
what avail are the laws of Congress
and the decisions of the Supreme
Court? Blair promises to trample
them into DUST" and next will Sc
verely follow a claim that the rebels
shall be paid for the loss of their
slaves. Let us here pause and ask
why they should not be paid. They
lost much by the war and by the
proclamation of freedom. IF the war
was unconstitutional and wrong,then,
surely, the emancipation proclamation
was void and the laws by which money
was raised to prosecute that war, are
void also. | have presented this
issue as the leading Seymour and
Blair lei have framed it. It is a
fair issue-clear, open, and bold
there is no lodging this issue. And
now, | ask, upon this issue, who will
vote against Grant? Will Mr.. John
@. Adams, after his recent letter and
speech ofjust rebuke to the South, vote
against Grant? Every rebel hater of
our free Government will vote against
Grant. Every cruel jailor who ex-
posed, starved and robbed our prison
ed soldiers, will vote against Grant.
Every alder in those crimes against
humanity and against civilization,
perpetrated at the Libby and at An
Jacksonville, will vote against Grant.
Every contemner of our flag, despiser
of our government and violator of its
benign laws, will vote against Grant.
Every rebel raider from Canada, who
robbed and murdered the defenseless
people Of st. Adams; every inhuman
wretch who plotted to poison your
waters, burn your cities, and intro
duced pestilence into all the North,
will vote against Grant Every trait
or, every conspirator who aided In the
murder Of President Lincoln, and
the assassination of Secretary Seward,
will vote against Grant. And some
good men, blinded by party preju-
dice, or held in bondage by party
fears, may vote against Grant. But
tell me, will any father, the blood of
whose only son was shed in his coun-
try's cause, vote against Grant? Will
the surviving soldier, who endured
the perils, and now shares the glOries,
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Will the trustees of the widow and
the orphan, aud the humble laborer,
whose little all is in some savings in
stitution, dependent wholly upon in
come derived from government bonds,
vote against Grant? Will any Father
in the Roman Catholic Church, look
ing to the welfare of the children of
that Church, whose earnings are de-
posted for safety, and drawing inter
est from United States securities, vote
against Grant? Will our adopted fell
low-eitizens, upon. whose advice
millions of foreign capital have
been invested here, vote, against
Grant? Will any intelligent man
of business, merchant, banker,
manufacturer, salaried clerk, or
day laborer, who wishes stability,
security and prosperity for himself
and his children, vote against Grant?
Will any man who does not wish the
nation humbled, treason honored and
patriotism insulted, vote against
Grant? ECries of " No, no."1 Con-
slider it we'll, fellow citizens; vote de-
liberately, vote. conscientiously, vote
down the patriot, vote up the rebel if
you will; vote Grant a failure and
Lee the hero of the war. But, be-
fore you thus vote, tear down these
mocking monuments erected to your
patriotic dead; demclish every MEM
orial stone at Gettysburg, and IN
everySplace where a grateful nation
has reared a soldiers tombl Level
three hundred thousand little all
locks, under which sleep three
hundred thousand young men
of the country they died to
save f; the grass is very green,
so watered by mothers tears,
and the roses bloom we'll which
mourning sisters and bereaved wives
have planted on those graves! Tram
pie them in the earth-they are all a
mockery-the sleepers diedin an igno-
BILE cause, and well deserved their
doom-and the rotting prisoners of
the Libby, and the starving, tortured
soldiers at Andersonville had but
their just deserts! Vote against Grant.
and when you see the rebels, all red
with the blood Of your mothers sons,
holding high revelry in the Capitol
and confusion, dismay and anarchy in
the land-go tell your children: We
voted for thatl [ would have the
South treated justly-yea, very gener-
Ously; L would take no step for ven-
geanee-but would not restore them
to power, with their present mad
views and audacious purpose to sub
vert the laws and destroy the libel ties
Of my country. Applause. The vote
will soon be cast; when the ballot
has decided an issue in America, the
decision conquers even the will; all
submit to the fat Of God. As this is
the last, so will it be the bitterest
contest. In it the son shall be divided
against the father, and the father
against the son, and a mans foes shall
be they of his Owl household. 1t is
a war of the mind,'a wal of ideas-of
the will, and of all the evil passions.
The result is certain. The storm will
rage with great blackness; but, as the
sur rolls down on the Sd of Novem-
Der next, and stamps with the ink of
night the eternal record of that day,
you shall see one-calm, serene and
we'll worthy of your trust-rising
above the storm, and you shall hear
his voice, saying, Let us have