The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-16
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Voorhees, said Summers equality"
bill was still pending" in the United
States Senate. As the Senate Is not |
in session, the bill don't pend in 1t !
much.
Some of the little penny whistle |
echoes of Dan hereabOuts, we learn, |
have improved on his misstatement, |
and are asserting that the bill passed |
the Senate. OF course they either
don't know what they are talking
about, or willfully lie about It. They
can take either horn of the dilemma
they choose.
The Democratic rank and file were
evidently sorely disappointed In the
speech Of their grand giasticutus
on Wednesday. They had heard so
much from their local leaders about
the striking presence, glowing elo
quence, profound logic, vast erudition,
&C., of the great " Daniel that con-
trast between the ideal thus created
in their minds, and the reality was so
striking, that feeling of disappolnt-
the result. The disposition of the
plaud their speakers is well
known to all who attend their meet
ings, yet they bestowed but little OF
it upon the great Daniel. We
have known old uncle Joe Showers
on the stump produce more enthusl-
asm with his old-style. camp meeting
believing, and get more applause. In
fact, the only hearty applause given
during Dams speech, was when uncle
Joe bawled out his assent to some
thing that was said, and was evidently.
as much a tribute to the vigor OF
uncle Joe's lungs, as to the sentiment
Of the speakerl
The Immortal Dan. was terrible
in his denunciation of the Republican
members of our last Legislature for
their action in retifying the abominable
/ Fifteenth Amendment, and thereby
overriding the State Constitution and
dealing a death blow TO States
rights" particularly che right to hunt
''niggers" out of the State. He, in the
same connection, took occasion to con-.
pliment the Democratic members OF
the same Legislature for the good fight
they made to prevent the great outrage.
Dan ought not be so satirical on his
Legislative friends. It is 3 fact well
known to every one acquainted with
the proceedings of the Legislature re-
| ferred to. that more pusilanimous
set than the Democratic members Of
that body never got toget.-er in this
or any other State. Instead Of making
any sort Of fight, they took to their
heels before the day of battle came,
and many of them could not have
been found within the next thirty
days with q search warrant. For ell
the terrible consequences enumerated
by Dan, he has nothing but their
cowardice to thank.
In view of the traitorous record
made by VOORHEES, during the rebel
lion, his reference to the soldiers, ma.
tional flag, etc.. were truly the sub
Unity of impudence. After his init
mate associations and completely with
Dodd, Bowles, Milligan, Humphreys
& Co., in all their dark and damning
plets and intrigues to reVolutionize
this State in the interest of the rebels;
his promise to furnish the latter 100,-
600 men to assist them TO break up
the Union, and his negotiation for
rifles TO arm the Sons of Liberty; it
is actually astounding that he should
have the efrontery to stand up before
an audience and Villify and misrepre-
sent the party through whose forbear-
ance alone he is indebted for saliva
ton from hemp.
When Voorhees, was painting his
picture of the interior of a brokers'
Office, with bloated hondholder "
and blind pensioner at the counter
demanding their respective dues from
Government, we thought what won
derful change In the effect produced
by the picture woald have been |
actual portrait of the bloated." and |
delineated upon the canvas the fea- |
lures of Tom Hendricks, Belmont, |
Seymour, Governor Packer, or any
other of the thousand and one dis
tinguished Democrats, who semi-an-
nually draw their millions of interest |
on the bonds they hold, all in yellow
gold, and who would begrievously in
uslted if asked to take payment in the
I" deprecated paper" paid TO the blind |
pensioners If the injustice to the |
latter is as great Is Dan would have
us believe, wouldn't it be splendid
opportunity for the patriotic and SYM
pathetic Democratic bondholders to |
manifest their sympathy and sense of
the wrong done by donating the diff
ference between the gold and green
back value of their coupons to the
pension fund.- Come, Messrs. Demo
cratic bondholders, demonstrate the
sincerity of your protested sympathy
in the way we have indicated, or dry
up" your demagogic cIaprtrap on the
subject.
The tall Sycamore agonized ter
ribly in his speech over the imagin-
airy troubles of travelling Democrat
under the operations of the Sumner
g equality" bill. He got the poor
fellow into an isolated hotel on tenn
pestuous night, where all the beds but
one were douSly tenanted and that one
occupied by an odorous Fifteenth
and then expatiated
long and eloquently upon the hor-
rors of the fellows situation, and
the wickedness of the party that had
in it a man, who would introduce a
bill into Congress to compel the poor
Democrat to sleep with
the tnigger, 60 without sleep, con-
sent to beshung up on a nail some
where, or trudge on in search of 9TH
err duartersl Dams description of the
situation was truly pathetic, and drew
tears from the eyes of the old rural
shells present, many of whom
passed their infancy in the arms of
''nigger" nurse away down in North
'sKarliny" or "Kaintueky" and whose
most intimate youthful associates,
and bed fellows were
breechless little 'woolyheadsl"
Dan omitted to mention the sex of