The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-09

tenn in the world; but he did not
want to disgrace them by admit
ting negroes. lie was willing to levy
a tax to educate negro children, but
did not want to compel white people
to send their children to niger
schools or-keep them at home. he
did not intend to say but a few words,
but after seeing so many people there,
| he had felt better than for a week.
Welborn, he said, would tell them all
about it. (The Doctor was going on
to a something more, but the band
| struck up a tune and drowned his
| voice. He stood waiting till the band
ceased to play, when loud calls for
Welborn caused the venerable Sena-
tor to subside.)
The Doctor has improved In his
elocution. His pauses are not so
numerous or so %protracted, and he
does not back stitch as much as
he did during the canvass last Fall.
by some one at the door asking him
to go outside and speak, or send some
one out to speak. He replied that he
had no power to send any one. tie
was hardly his own master, and then
went off at a tangent and with mani
fest asperify of temper with the para
graph commencing, If your are a
Republican you are not your own
MASTER" &c. Welborn took the stand
amid much applause. He felt sure it
was not a personal compliment that
he received this warm welcome, but
the principle of right he had vindi-
Gated. Great men always ignore
themselves in this manner. Douglas
did so, and so did Andy johnson,
when he was distributing the Consti-
tuition and the flag over the country.
He then read a letter from the
Democratic members of Congress
from Indiana to Joe Mcdonald, sug-
costing that the Democrats in the
| legislature should either bolt or re-
sign, in order to defeat the Fifteenth
Amendment. He then rehearsed the
| story of the caucus and the resigna.
I ti0ns, giving minute details, and Civ
ing the whole Republican party in
general, and the Republican members
of the legislature in particular,
especial fits for their perfdy, tre1eh-
cry and many other crimes.
1t was said that the action Of the
! Democratic Legislators would in
volye the S ate in some expense.
Anybody that would talk to MIN oil
expense when principle was involved,
he would burn him as a poorScow-
ardly sneak. lie said the RepublI-
cans were treacherous, and designed
to spring the question on them and
pass the Amendment before they
could get away. Jim Hanna had gone
to Governor Baker and asked him II
he would call a special session if the
sary legislation and then resign, and
the Governor had replied very
c~ourteously, that when the contin-
gency arose he would let him know.
Stearns Fisher had told him that
but for him the Amendment would
have been taken up, Wednesday, aud
forced through. lie said they were
afraid to put eff the Amendment till
the other measures were passed, be
cause they thought Governor Baker
would be afraid to call an extra SEES
sion solely to consider the Amend
ment. It had been rushed through
Congress with indecent haste at the
close of the session, because they had
not votes enough 10 this Congress TO
pass it.
The expense of the revolutionary
proceeding would only los each voter
60 cents, aud any one who would not
pay that to save himself from voting
with negroes should vote for a Re-
publican, and not send him back, as
he would do the same thing over
again. An enthusiast in the crowd
I'D see the thing in eternal first. ]
He didn't ask them to send him back,
but if they didn't it would show they
were in favor OF negro suffrage, and
he would just as soon see the ques-
ton settled here as elsewhere. They
had asked the Republican members
to resign, but they had declined-net
seeing the necessity of doing so.
They talked about the Democrats
having taken pay for the whole SEES
sion aud all their stationery. The
Republicans at the beginning of the
session had given them $50 worth Of
stationery, &C., each, though he had
opposed it, and had proposed $40
worth as sufficient. But the Radicals
had voted his proposition down. He
had not drawn his pay for the last
week, and had only drawn $50 worth
of stationery. He limited that some
editor had said something about him,
which was very naughty. The same
editor had partially committed him
self against negro suffrage, but since
Grants Inauguration had not said
anything about 1t.
The handsome Representative was,
at times, holly eloquent, and at times
quite bitter. He felt the deepest anx-
iety as to the fate of the children of
the poor white people. who were like
ly to be compelled to sit beside greasy
negro urchins in school, while the
children of rich white men would be
sent to private schools. How his soul
did yearn with compassion for the
poor and their children.
There was no need for an extra
session. The revenue bill had been
passed. The taxes would be collect
ed, and Governor Baker could use
the money without its having been
appropriated, as Governor Morton
had done.
There were many other things
that the eloquent gentleman alluded
to, but we are crowded for space aud
time to record them. After he had
had his say the Committee returned,
and Post Master Whittlesey read,
with extraordinary JUNCTION and en-
phasis, the following, which were
unanimously adopted:
wnEREAs, The Republican party of 1860
d. cIarsd by resolution. "That the right of
each sta e to order and control lis own do
nestle institutions according To it's own
judgment exclusively, Is esse atial to the
balance of power on which the perfection
and endurance of our political fabric de-
OendS:" - y " anu,
WHEREAS. The Radical party, at the
last Chicago Convention, announced that
ssTne guarantee by Congress, of equal suf-
fro re 10 ali loyal men in the South was de-