The Evansville journal., 1868-09-07
democratic Meeting at Inde-
pendence.
SPEECH or DIR. MORGAN
If Republicans Scarcely ba Saved
81 Steal, You Steal, They steal, and
All steal"


enlighten the people. There were
three speakers in attendance, about
twenty boys. and thirty or forty men.
One of the speakers, who has been
engaged for the season we are told,
at once mounted the stand and
commenced to crate. At the COM
mencement of the speaking there
we're only about fifteen voters around
the stand. During the speech can
didate, who become an auditor. acted
as prompter, so the people hould
know when to put in the applause.
The speech was not of sufficient in
tercst to merit more than a passing
notice. When this orator had con-
cluded his remaeks, DIR. Morgan took
the.stand, and addressed his fellow
citizens as follows:
GENTLEMEN: Our Governor was
down to see us yesterday, and he
brought a-a-man to swear for him.
The Governor is a Christian man,
you know, and-and he brought IA
man to swear for him. He said in
his speech at the Convention, a" If the
Republicans scarcely be saved, what
will become Of the-the DemocT0's2
Now the Governor did not tell
soldiers that they had to pay Is per
cent-yes, ID per cent-to--to sup
port the party. That is hard for sol
diers to do out of 5 6 mouth The
Democrats wanted to pay the-the-
soldiers 10 gold-and they introduced
a measure in Congress to do that. but
the Radicals-yes, the Radicals
would not let them do it-and the
soldiers were paid in greenbacks. If
the greenb backs are good enough-yes,
good enough for the soldiers. they are
good enough for the bond holder.
''If the Republicans scarcely be saved,
what will become of the Democrats?"
One man in Cor gress said, l steal
you steal-they steal-and all
steal!" Now how much has been
stolen by the Radicals, and how much
by the Democrats? Mr.. Schenck said,
1 steal-you stcal-they steal-and
all steal" If Republicans are such
thieves, what, what will become of
honest men? If Republicans can
scarcely be saved, what will become
of Democrats?" [ think they will be
taken up to the third heavenl The
Radicals have collected 81 400, ,000, ,000
Now what has-what has become of
all that money? Mr.. Schenck says,
" steal-you steal-they steal-and
all stealp They have collected
$500, ,0OO,0 on whisky. This was all
paid by whisky-yes, by whisky
drinkers; all who drink whisky have
to pay a-a-a part of two dollars
per gallon on whisky; so the whisky
drinkers pay 200, yes 100000. 900.
| Of this whisky tax s87, 600, 900 have
been stolen, and nobody knows any
thing about it, They say / have got
to he-got to be "a drunk0rdi Well
| shan't deny it; | will get all the
the drunk-ards' votesl "If the Repub-
licans scarcely be saved. what a0iIl
become of the DemOcratsY p
We don't want to pay $50 OO0, 900
to support negro schools. We don't
want negro equality. We don't want
we don't want = negro = negro -
SUPREMACY
1t was paraded in the papers, few
days ago, that did not pay hut 50 75
| of internal revenue tax. Vel, what
I Vi tuabs II l. Oub SIdb--
ment aud swOre to II, whose business
was it? ! wish it had been $l75, 900.
IL would have had bonds then. but
| now | have not got any. If it had been
that much, | would have had bonds
then, ana would not have cared if the
interest was paid in gold. That
| would have suited me very well-that
would have suited mel would have
liked that.
The Republicans appropriated eight
hundred-eight hundred, yes, eight
hundred million dollars to buy votes,
and to have the bonds paid in gold. Ii
! Grant is elected. You will have to pay
you will have to pay-$14 so on each
! 81. 000 WHAT is that for? Why, to
! buy votes. Now what can Grant do
without a sword? He was successful
with the sword, but what can he do
| without it? We don't want any more
j military rule. Grant says " let US
! have peace" What does be
mean by as? Why-the-the
Radical party. of course, himself
Ben Butler and such men. Let-us
-have-peace-that's the ticket.
| Who is going to have war? Let us
see. Look at-the-the-military or
! ganizations all over the country.
I What are they all forming for? What
/ did Congress issue Springfield rifles
/ for? Won't they fall in the hands of
/ these men? Whit is the cause of all
i this? The Republicans are the rebels
! -but-but the people will not let
5000 900 of friends in the South be
! trampled down. No; these people
will go TO work and help pay the
the balance of the debt. We want to
sell our corn to the South, and want
them to raise cotton for us; we don't
want to make the negro superior to
the white man; that country must
not be given up to Ito the-the ne
gro; he will live like they do in st.
Domingo-on nuts.
! The rebels have repudiated the
Southern national war debt-and-
| and = slavery is abolished = and
what more may we ask. But | don't
want to speak all night. All of you
vote for Seymour and Blair, and all
will be right-so melody else wants to
speak-I will quit.
Calls were then made for Welborn,
but the Chairman of the meeting an
nouneed that this gentleman had gone
home. The meeting was then ad-
journed The reader may be assured
that, with the exception of few un-
important points Oh which the Doctor
touched, the above is a correct report
of his speech. We give it for the
benefit of those who were so unfortu-
nate as not to hear it.
WARRICK COUNTY CONVENTION
! Governor Baker, and other distin-
guished speakers, will address the