The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-29
An Able Argument by a Young
Voter.
lie Gives His Reasons for Casting His
First Presidential Vote
for Grant. l
SOURD nOCTRENE BY A KEN
TUCHY LOYALHST. ro1


Every one who is at all intimate
with the gallant deeds of the Union
soldiers of the West in the late war,
know General ELI FL. MURRAY, of
Kentucky. Entering the Federal
army in the Third Kentucky Cavalry,
while a mere youth, he rapidly rose
in rank by his gallant services and
his marked abilities as a dashing
cavalry officer. The standard of the
brave and patriotic General JAMES
JACKSON was taken up by a worthy
successor when he offered UP his life
for his country, and right CALAMITY
was it carried in the forefront of
battle by General MURRAY to the
close Of the war. We are glad to
know that he is able to do as yeoman
service in the arena of debate.
The speech which we publish be-
low was delivered at Greensboro,
Kentucky, yesterday, upon the in
vitation of the Grant Club of that
city. 1t is the argument and reasons
of a young Republican, casting his
first Presidential vote, for the faith
which is in him. We ask for the
speech the careful perusal of every
young man who is to cast his first
vote for President next Tuesday. As
the views of a true Kentucky l~oyalist
it will attract general attention. We
regret that the crowded state of our
columns eompels US to notice only an
abstract Of some points discussed,
but the main body of the speech ap-
pears verbatim as it was delivered:
Gentlemen of the OUensborO Grant
Glib:
1t is with feelings of exalted
pleasure that | have accepted your
very courteous invitation to address
you o night. | am gratiied to find
that my lines are to fall ia such pleas
ant and goodly places, and am happy
to-see before me the faces of so large
an audience of fellow. citizens and
men loyal and ardent in the adher-
ence to the true principles of Repub-
lican Government. am happy also
I'D see DGlOIG nC cUuu6 VI my ITISQQS
who. although not within the folds
yet are here TO see something of the
bearing of loyal men, and mark the
commingling of those who, even in
free and untrammeled Kentucky,
dare to oppose the fiery pro
gress of unterriied Democracy. My
friends, may 1 ask to be looked
upon aud listened to as l am-not as
politician-as an American, a Ken
tuckiaD, a citizen whose desires and
inclinations would lead him to be the
listener rather than the debater, the
pupil rather than the teacher, yet as
every man does, so do possess and en-
terrain certain doctrines of political
faith; and as an American, and par
ticularly as the characteristic Of an
honest man wherever found, it is my
endeavor to account for that within
me; and when required, as so often /
have been, both here and elsewhere,
1t would be to wrong myself, and to
evade an apparent duty, not to add
my mite, a sous though it be, to the
furtherance OF those doctrines held by
me to be the just and proper ones to
govern our own actions, and to be ac-
cepted as the ruling and poverninu
uOCLLAnG VI Jul ~
This, gentlemen, is my first politi.
cal speech. 1t has never been mino
since manhood to be anything Of ]
politician. l have never been amid
the people in a Presidential contest
and although | have lived for a good.
ly number Of years within this Gov.
ernment, vet have not, as yet, east Z
vote for President. Aud [ trust In
my alpha tonight / shall not set forti
d view not honestly and p~atriotically
held BY me, as l expect never to hav,
cause to regret the Presidential vote
which in November next | expect t.
cast for the nations defender, Ulysses
S. Grant. | trust that what L ma,
a will not be received as the reck
less opinions of thoughtless youth
For as L have anything Of honesty ant
truth within me, my only desire now
and ever has been, is to see the lanC
of my nativity, the land of m,
fathers-torn and discovered though
it has been - restored to IL
more than ancient day, fraternity anC
peace; its wounds healed without
blemish. a defect or a scar, and that
too, without the oppression Of a liy.
ing soul or reflection upon q buried
form. From this point, be you one