The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-25
Turner Hall Again Crowd
I'D With Earnest Re
4 pnblieanS. aHss
A Great Speech by Judge
DsBruler.
A Few More Bombshells From Gov.
-' Dunn1ng., pa PC
A GOOD NIGHTS WORK.

The First Ward, having supplied
a part of their forces with beautiful
lamps, marched to the Hall, fifty in
number, in. procession, having forty
nine lamps, and one transparency
lead by martial music.
The following Inscriptions were
upon the transparencies;
q First Ward Grant Guards"
Portrait of General Grant
THE ConqueriDg Hero Comes"
81 shall move immediately upon
vonr Iwofks'H S.oE nfb9 = ESQ
z Grant, Baker and Veatch."
2 AS they fied'into the Hall, which
was already we'll filed, they were
greeted with the widest applause, the
Crescent City Silver Band in the
meantime playing Yankee Doodle.
During the speech the Eighth Ward
entered in procession bearing a beau
tiful United States flag and trans
pareney bearing the portraits of Grant
and Colfax, with inscriptions that we
did not obtain.
When Judge DeBruler was intro
duced to the audience. every available
foot Of room, both in the main audi
torium and in, the galleries, was filled.
We were glad to see several wavering
Democrats present. 5
Judge DeBruler set out. by saying
that the present was the greatest cri-
sis in our history. Greater events
were transpiripg than depended on
the Battle of the Pyramids, when
Napoleon inspired his legions by the
announcement that thirty generations
were looking down upon them. The
veal or woe Of more than thirty gen.
erations depended upon the issues
now before the people-issues greater
than any that depended on Napoleon's
battles. 1t would be impossible to
give any thing like full report Of his
mastery and convincing speech, and
can give but briefly the points dis
| clssed. N H.,. tarIt
We have the same issues now, and
the same men to contend against IS in
1860 and 1864. In. the contest that
had been going on for eight years, in
ealculabe woes and sufferings had
been inflicted upon the nation by a
Democratic rebellion. The question
now was, shall we reap the benefits of
our victory, or turn the Government
oyer to the rebels? He traced the
acts and ventilated the speeches of
Horalio Seymour before and during.
the war. aud signally refuted the
claim of craftsmanship set up for him
by his friends, as we'll as his pretend
ed patriotism, showing that he had
during the war been 10 full sympathy
with the rebellion, and had used his
utmost ability to defeat the plans of
the Government. lHF k.s
He made a most .scathing review of
his conduct during the reign of ter
ror in New York. in July, 1863.
With his words and his acts he con-
trasted those of General Grant, whose
every act aud every word had been in
favor cfhis country from the moment
the clouds of war began to gather.
Seymour and his friends had con-
Cured with Buchanan, that there
was no power in the Government, un-
der the Constitution, to coercc a
State. He had declared every act
Of the Government looking to the
suppression Of the rebellion as UNI
constitutional, and had coincid-
ed in the declaration made by
the Democratic party in 1864 that the
war was a failure, and had triumph
antly asked, : Where are the victories
Eyou promised u.s. at the very hour
that Grant was unlocking the gates OF
Vicksburg and Meade hurting back
the. rebel hordes at Gettysburg.
He also noticed the fact that Sey-
mour had vetoed the Act of the New
J York Legislature granting to the sol
, diers the right to vote in the field. and
now he claims to be the especial
friend of the soldier.
, lie had with his Democratic friends
declared the issue Of greenbacks un-
constitutional, but now wanted to pay
off the national debt with them.
The Democracy say Grant cannot
speak. He had made one little speech
I at Fort Donelson, for which the
d Democrats could never forgive him
He also reviewed the conduct of the
men who nominated and now sustain
Seymour, YaIlandigham. and the Sons
of Liberty, and their attempts to in,
troduce war and destruction in the
States of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois
| Now Vallandigham is candidate fol
Congress, and Humphrey, and Dodd
and Develin are high in Democratic
: favor.
Having failed to defeat the soldiers
they take the dodge of the : White
Boys in Blue,'' and the " White
) Mans Party" They desired to talk
no longer of old issues, and ask will
you talk forever of our treason? and
we will answer, as did Poe's Raven
" yes, for evermore; and if you don'I
repent and vote for Grant you will
hear it in hell for eYermore.
| They did not want the negro to
have any hand in the Government
Yet IN the South the Democrats were
using every appliance to get negro
votes. They had even got to spelling
the name negro instead of niger, as