The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-16


one who predicted that the Rebellion
could not be SUPPRESSED, every one
who denounced al measures devised
Tor It's overthrow, every one Who siIe.
InRtised tho brave soldiers ~ Lincoln
hlrehngs. every one who demanded
at the very Crisis of the war ala im-
MEDIATE cessation of nostiliiies and
insisted that the war was q failure.
rs resolved on In the National Dem.
ocrauc platform of 1864 every one
who branded the faithful Lincoln as
Nero o. Caliguia, was a Domocratin
good and regular standing with his
Eparty.
ls AoE can ~ be- forgotten that when
JEFF Davis denounced Conrressiopal
c0nhscatlon, while the Confederaev
were conhsoadbg Union mems prom
erty, theyWere Democrats whos6hoed
that denunciation-when JEFF Davis
INDUCED his WIathful explosives at
the employment Of colorad soldiers
to help put down his treason, they
were Democrats who echoed bis
inYectve-when jeff Davis anatho-
matized che Enanoipation Proela-
nation. they were Democrats who
echoed his Rnathema--aud When jeff
Davis elandered Lincoln as mon
ster, DC. they we're Democrats who
repeated his inVeollVes. IhuH, ia
stead Of - l1oro 1ghly united North,
"A which could have crushed the con-
spiracy N q year We had q divided
North, and for 6hls prGl0nFed war,
with lis terrible losses in blood and
treasure, those, VIC acted os i have
stated, we're responsible
For our debt therefore, and our
taxes, they Aave tho solemn RESPONSE
bility, and cannot escape III. No show
cards, nor sophistry, can relieve them
from it. And Whila taxes remain,
every stamp yo1 pat or deed or
mortgage is q sticking plaster 10 re-
mind you Of 2 Democratic rebellion
Democratic In ] BE- origin aud iia Of
licers--DcmocT1t tic ia all the cid and
/ sympathy it received Ia tho North
and sorrOWed over, when it was
crushed By our gallant armies. only
I by Democrats.
Ia fact, for the last twenty years it
has seemed impossible for his Demo
cratic organization, as q party ~ get
on the right side of any issue. new or
fold. When Bogder Rumans drove
the people Of Kansas from their polls,
and by fraudulent votes elected proc
slavery Leglalatnra, and finally sought
TO impose hateful Constitution, es-
: Publishing slavery there on people
who almost unanimously denounced
, IL, the Democratic party cham
pioned this wiokedneas. When
the bred Scott decision, intend
2 cd to make slavery nadonal and
9 all powerful, was proclaimed. they
cordially endorsed IT. AN Through
y the war, every measure 10 strengthen
. the nations arms and weaken Che en-
Q emy'e, whether oonhHehtiOn OH eman-
J, cipation, or colored soldiers, &C., was
Z 10 their OpiniO JAIL wrong on uuo0ngti-
tutional, and fsonly 20 Be denounced.
2 When the war closed, and the ques.
+ came up, whether the insurpent States
9 should be restored 30 the rule of Che
very men who had used their HEecu
! tive, Legislative and judicial powers
r to organize the rebellion and io raisa
D its armies, or whether every effort
! should be made, Ola the con-
: trary. 20 organize them On q basis
: loyal to the Union, The Democrat.
: 10 party, instinotively insisted GA Che
! former. When tax bills and draft
i laws became q necessity 90 Che pTes-
/. ervation Of tle national existence,
( they warrad upon oil their details az
I wicked and lyTannical. When The
. interest On tie national debt could
1 only be honestly lessened by showing
: the world that our national credit
, would BIO BacrCdly maintained at Che
2 highest point by all parties their
2 speakers and presses denounced
those who lent as the money as if
they were sWindleTs, and ito every
possible way sought 20 poison.
the public mind against them. When
our grCcnbacks, whose ultimate
value they had formerly diseredited,
were rising in value towards gold,
they clam0red FOR issues OF hundreds
J or thousands Of millions more.
20 verify their unfulflled prophecies
of evil about them. When Pres
idcnt Grant commenced paying of
the debt with the surplus revenues
that his honest and efficient officers
had collected they denounced his
buying the bonds at their current
value ID tho market of Che world
When a Republican Congress passed
bill reducing taxation eighty mill
lions per year they registered their
votes, as o y, againstit. Whon the
same Congress passed bill % hOu~
estly reduce the interegtou cur bonds,
BY q mutual arrangement with our
\ creditors. Or By paying off our old
AH
they voted against it. When it passed
D Bill 10 enforce The l4th and 18th
n Amendments, with penalties only
against evil doors and offenders they
resisted il WITH vehemenoe and zeal.
III When Il passed laws for the rest0ra-
tion of rebel States 20 representation
Ia the DniDn the Democracy con-
demncd their provisions and fought
them 10 the bitter end. Whom law
TO guard the ballot box at National
elections was passed Furnishing Illegal
voting, shameless repeating and lroud-
ulent counting, they denounced ID and
\ It's penalties, as II the acts n punished
we're not che Wickedeat of crimes
il against free government and republic
4 can institutions. And finally when
d war brooks out in Europe, tlot out
ragged the moral sentiment of che
| world, and without proVocauon, Ger
many was compelled 10 arm ior che
protection Of the BathCriand from in-
vasion and despoilment, their leading
organs % iasinoiively aa in Tho other
gases i have cited, took the wrong
side. IL is this party--a party of re-
action. OF 1egations, Of partisan OPP
| p0sition-WhOi leaders seen deter
mined that IL shall ever be 0u the side
Of WronB--Which appeals 20 the po0-
pie to-day TO cl0the them with nation.
al power.
turn from ihis record which III has
given me no pleasure % review % the
record Of the Republican Ddrty.whioh
has been written ON the brightest
pages Of our nations history. amid
every possible embarrassment and
stumbling block, ii has gone On ia
it's noble WOrl of Liberty and HIM