The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-04

honor OF value to the struggle
He says that he wants TO stand be-
ore the Convention upon this propo-
sition to renew the rebellion. He
did GO before the Convention upon
proposition, and was nominated
on the first ballot, while Horatio Sey-
mour, I believe, was not nominated
under some twenty-five or thirty bal
lots. Here is the direct proposition.
He is to be nominated, if at all, upon
the proposition to overturn these
State Governments by military force;
again to bring war upon US. You who
war, vote for Frank Blair, but
you who want peace, vote for Grant,
for he said let us have peace"
Loud applause. No man now need
to be deceived. If any man is de-
ceived, it is because he intends to be,
and desires to be; but if there is an
honest man who wants peace, who
wants the bleeding wounds of
the country bound up, who wants
us to return to the paths of
prosperity and power, and develop
ment In every respect, he must avoid
voting for that ticket. Frank Blair
pun ia u~OIhAudbiOu CCduS vi THAI
letter. He vas put in nomination by
a rebel officer from Kentucky, a
member of that Convention, General
Preston. His nomination was Sec
onded by a rebel officer from South
Carolina, Wade Hampton. He was
nominated by the rebel element of
the South, accepted by the rebel sym
patizing element of the North, and he
now stands as the Democratic candi-
date for the Vice Presidency, ard that
letter as the Democratic platform.
1t expresses fully and directly what
is contained in the regular platfoI N
in a more general way; and now, my
friends, let me consider for a few
moments the character Of that
convention. One thing is to be OBJ
served, and that's that the Southern
men went into that convention and
took possession of it with just the
same ease and the same assurance
that they did in former Democratic
conventions. The Democracy In that
convention submitted to them with
the same facility that they had always
done, and | now ask my friends who
were the Democratic delegates In
that convention from the South. They
were not the men who had been
Union men during the war; but they
were the NE who had commanded
the rebel armies, and filed the rebel
Congress, and been Senators and
Representatives; these were the men
who came to that convention and
represented the Democratic party,
and made the nominations.
Now, my friends, allow me to call
your attention very briefly TO what
would be the inevitable consequences
of the success of the Democratic
party in the approaching election.
One of the first consequences would
be the elevation of the rebel soldier
to the same platform occupied by the
Union soldier. In this Convention
you find the rebel and the Northern
Democrat standing on the same plat
form exactly; you find the most infu-
entail men of that Convention to
have. been rebel officers, and none was
more influential han Gen. Forrest,
of Memphis, the butcher, who had
colored soldiers aud even children
murdered in cold blood after they had
surrendered; but yet this man
was received into fellowship in the
Democratic Convention, and no voice
more powerful than his. If you
bring this Democratic party into
power, the rebel soldier must be pen
stoned like the Union soldier, his
widow and his orphan must be pro-
vided for as we provide for che widow
and the orphan of the Union soldier.
They must be placed upon the anne
level, for / ask you if the rebels of
the South get into power through the
medium of the Democratic party, will
they consent to tax themselves In
common with the nation to pay pen
sions to Union soldiers and the
widows and orphans of Union
soldiers, while theirs are unpro-
vided for ? Never. That is
against human nature /; and the
first thing they will do when they
shall come into power by the election
of Seymour and the Democratic tick
ct, will be to place the rebel soldier in
every respect upon the same level
widows and orphans aud all who are
pensioned. Another inevitable con
sequence of the success of the Demo
party will be the reputation of
the national debt. The Democratic
party has no position or status upon the
subject of the national debt except
reputation. Why? J.. Because the
Democratic party of the North vas
opposed to the creation of the debt,
for the purpose of putting down the
rebellion. Every act of Congress au-
thorizing the issuing of bonds or the
borrowing of money was denounced as
unconstitutional. The several acts of
Congress authorizing the issue of le-
gal tender Hotes, were declared to be
a shameless and wanton violation of
the Constitution. The Democratic
party did all in its power by its pol
and its newspapers to prevent
the bonds from being sold, to prev en6
the people from lending the Govern
ment their money to carry on the
war, aud now the great mass of the
party hate the bondhOld-
ers. They hate them because they
lent their money to carry on the war,
and whatever may be the feelings of
Seymour or the bondholders of the
party in the State and
the city of New York, the truth is
JnC StCdb OOuy VI bnC OCu4OCld tiC
party hate the bondholders because
lent their money to carry on the
war. and they will never pay them a
principal or interest, if they
can help it.
But again: The Democratic party
S now in open fraternity and in sol
smn afiliation with rebels of the
The rebels of the South put
heir money in Confederate stocks.
They invested their money to carry
IN the rebellion. They were con-
They lost everything.
And now I want to know if there
$ a man stupid enough to believe