The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-29


States) disfranchised by the Radicals.
and the States of the South given
over to negro supremacy and tyranny.
Repeating the lecture above-named,
which now applied with greater force,
Mr.. Evans demonstrated, from the
official figures and statements, that /
the registered qUhite vote in Virginia |
was over 116, 900, being over l.. 900 IN
excess of the negro vote; yet accord |
ing to Mr.. Bradley but few, If any, OF |
these 1uhites were respectable. OF this |
Mr.. B. may be better informed than |
your correspondent; but when the |
question emerges why are any of
these Southern whites disfranchised? !
a loyal man knowing them as we do
can not only theorIze as to e0hy they
are not respectable, but he can also
give most excellent and satisfactory
reason for their acknowledgements.
Mr.. Bradley. thought that perhaps
General Grants letter of acceptance
was the first letter he had ever writ
ten, but Mr.. Evans, TO the evident
delight of his party friends, reminded
his opponent aud all his synapathizers
that on February Is, 762, the General
had written a famous and important
letter. and that General Lee could
testify that Grant had written one no
less important or famous-9 h April.
1865-to the great detriment of rebel
hopes and to the joy of all who loved
their Government. Mr.. Bradley
charged that the poor man had to pay
| Government taxes while the rich
| bondholder didn't. Mr.. Evans thought
| that shame itself ought certainly to
blush at a charge so false and base
less as this, and in reply asked every
man present IL he had paid any
taxes to the Government, and if so,
how? Had the Assessor of the United
States ever listed enc dollars worth
of their property dd UGlOrtp M? did any
pay United States taxes on laad,
horses, cattle, bank stock, or anything
of that Descriptions All must admit
that they had neither listed their
property nor paid taxes In that way,
but that the only way they paid direct
taxes to the Government aside from
stamp duties, was to payit on incomes
of over 81 900, and the bondhOlders
paid this tax as well as every one else,
and every one could then at once see
that system of taxation like this
bore much more upon the rich than
the poor, and that an actually poor
man had nothing to pay. In this
connection was shown the absurdity-
uDjustness, and unconstitutionality OF
taxing, that character OF property
wiz, the bonds of the Goyernment)
and no other. Nv. asas ..e
Mr.. Bradley also undertook to dis
cuss financial matters, but was as I'M.
fortunate in his attempts to show that
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} to be otherwise discharged than as
required by justice, honor, and good
conscience, as he had been in his
other statements. =bcc
Does ut it do loyal Republican
good to hear from Maine?
l had thought to stop here, but
am reminded of the recent Democrat
ic Convention, wherein this county in.
structed and appointed its delegates
to the Greenville Democratic Con
gressiOnal Convention, soon to bC
held. | shall not attempt to describe
it In full, but only to give you an idea
of its spirit. There were only two
candidates really before them, viz.
Mr.. Henry d. McHenry, sometime :
Union man, and one, too who vO,e
for our expiration of 1861 or 1862
and Colonel VIM. n. Sweeny. Sweeny
was decidedly the favorite. but Nc
t had some friends. In the discussion
| McHenry's record as Union man
was fully ventilated, and his opposer;
declared that they wanted mar
whose record was untarnished by any
, undemOcratic stain. Mr.. McHenry's
vote IN the Kentucky Senate, on th6
said law, was denounced as the
> | L. l. l. 4 -
, most damnable and Infamous scoun.
DIRE, and when the rebel spirit haC
been thoroughly aroused, the vote
was taken, and Mr.. Sweeuy was over
whelmingly declared the choice Of
this county. Mr.. Evans, in his dis
cussion, taking this as his text
read the rebels smart lecture
for their hypocritical cant of = for
give and forget" " let by-gones be
by Cones" &c. They cannot practice
that much with Radicals, for while
they are willing to forgive and not
punish traitors, they are not willing
to forget their treason altoge ether; but
here is the third party who are not
, only willing 10 forget and forgive, but
almost to applaud treason. .Yhese
men. prominent among whom is Mr.
McHenry, furnish fine examples for
the rebels to practice their theory on.
Their failure to practice does not
arouse our sympathy Tor third party
men, but it shows conclusiveiy the
bitterness and hyp6cracy of rebels.
We are having an equinoctial flood,
and burying ali rebels in it for the
present. l am asking pardon for the
length of this. t-.s.cs...r -sA..i
4 sF s..i I'D Most respectfully, 81
-Eor a'"Hp - EDELWEIS.
[ desire to ask. Owensboro loyalists
if Mr.. VIM. N. Sweeny did not have
to give bond as rebel for his good
behavior duriug the WARP think L
have his name on lis5 of such in
my possession. This matter should
be looked into. IT,.