The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-10

DlSErlct OrganlZaUOnS are cOnpaA q
lively powerless. Upon the county
and precinct committees to the great
/ est degree devolves the exertlon neces-
ssry, and will rest the awaiting honor
of having redeemed their respective To-
calities. If county organizations are
not complete and effective, complete
them-make them so. Put forth your
best citizens as your standard bear
ers. Support them. Let personal
considerations be subservient to and
ever merged into the success of the
party. The defeats of the past can
be attributed more properly to the
lethargy of our own people than to the
activiviiy of our political opponents.
Look not to this county or to the
other. First set your own houses in
order. Every vote is of incalculable
value. See that it is recorded.
Through local Organizations and their
machinery, urged to action by every
man with the good of the party and
with the best interests of the State of
Kentucky at heart, a glorious tri
umph of right over wrong, economy
over extravaganza, justice over iDjus-
tice. and freedom over tyranny, can
and will be effected. Yes, here
even in Kentucky.
This result, so earnestly hoped fer.
and from which so much good will in
evitably flow, cannot be obtained
without a struggle. If with the nat
ural inspiration of the times, together
with the auspieious circumstances
which until now have not presented
themselves, our people. so long cast
down, awaken not to their duty, to
their own inertness and lethaTgy must
be credited the possibility of failure
10 the future. Attributable to the
spirit of our legislature, aud the pro
scriptive policy of those into whose
hands our State has fallen, emigration
sweeps beyond, through. and stops not
within our borders. Our forests re-
main unfelled; our richest fields un-
cultivated; our mineral wealth un-
developed; our marfs inactive; our
natural trade paralyzed, unrestored
and non progressive.
The proud prestige that was wont to
be Kentucky pride. and the birth
right of her every citizen In other
days. by the forgetful hands of her
own people has been sold for mess
of pottage." Let US reason together.
Divesting Ourselves of every besettiDg
weight.let US begin the race that leads
to our greater destiny. Armed as
now we are, progress Joined to right,
by the determined voice and unfalter-
ing commands of an awakening peo-
pie, let US reclaim for our heritage
that portion of proud eminence;
place her above aud beyond the
pale of prejudice and suicidal pas
sion; restore her TO the vanguard of
statesmanship, hospitality and Rlori-
Gus renoWn. However urgent here
tofore may have been our necessity
for earnest labor in this the hour of
accession to our ranks, and renewed
strength of ourselves, there remains
a plain and uumistakable duty to
every patriot from the Big Sandy to
the Mississippi Standing upon the
broad vantage ground of truth. thrice |
armed, will il not be performed? The !
race is before as. What county will |
be laggard? Who fall by the wayside |
Respectfully,
JOHN T. CRoxToN.
Chairman.
HORACE NORRIS.
For State at Lagre.
JeHN P. HALL,
First Confessional District.
ELI III. MURRAY,
Second Congressional District.
GEORGE T. WooD,
Third Congressional District.
~ @. TAYLOR,
Fourth Congressional District.
EDGAR NEEDHAM,
Fifth Congressional District.
J. G. SAVERS.
Sixth Congressional District.
WILLARD DAVIS.
Seventh Congressional District.
II. S. BURNHAM,
Eighth Congressional District.
w. R. DoBYNs.
Ninth Congressional District