The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-03

pOseU 10 De tue Quty OF their LseDFe-
sentative in Congress, but that gen
tlemsn thought otherwise, and pre-.
ferred to give a free treat to the
crowd. The persons who had cheered
Mr.. Niblack on, became very noisy,
and insisted on interrupting the
speaker, who told them that if they
came simply to be entertained, al
though this was a free treat, they
could be better entertained at a cir
Gus for quarter of dollar, where
the clown told better and fresher
jokes, and in better style, than the
Congressional jester. This joking
dodge was not new. It was as old as
lawyers, and was always resorted to
by lawyers who had no case, no evil
dence, and no arguments, and was in
tended to divert attention from mat
ters of vital Importance.
Here shovel mouth called out from
the crowd, I'm no nayger man, an
I'm goin home, begorra."
As to paying bonds in currency, it
was proposed in 1862 to pay the
coupons in greenbacks, and forty five
Democrats voted against it, among
them voorhees, and the Representa-
tive from this District. Judge Law.
He reminded the audience that the
Judge sought to make a great point
on the failure Of States, under Repub-
lican rule, to tax Government bonds,
while he failed to tell them that Ken
lucky, Maryland and Delaware failed
to tax them. It was because the
Supreme Court, many years ago and
when composed of Democrats, decided
that Government securities could not
be taxed by the States.
Mr.. Gooding showed that Mr.. Nib
lack admitted voting against the
apportionment bill. although the
Democratic party claimed they were
going to carry the whole country.
The Republicans had confidence in
the people to allow them to elect
thirty more members. Republicans or
Democrats, as they choose, but the
Judge and the Democrats were not,
T Interruption from yelpiDg Demo-
Gratis. although these new members
were to come from the West; and if
the claims of the Judge and his party
were true. they would be thirty DEM
ocratic members.
As to the Fifteenth Amendment, il
was once the boast of the Democratic
party that its doctrine was the same
all over the land. Yet, In Louisiana
Democratic Convention admitted
negroes and made them Vice Presi-
dents; and Hendricks had advised
them to get the negsoes to stand By
them in their fight for equal justice
and equal rights.
Perhaps they objected to the ne
groes because they were not smart,
but if so, smartness was not inherita'
BILE, for many of them had Democratic
daddies, and in their veins coursed
some of thest blood of the South.
He thought strange if the Demo
cratic doctrine was all alike, that the
Chairman of the Democratic Central
COMMITTEES and editor of the Dsmo
cratic organ, was to be found upon
one side of the question of negro suf'
frage and their candidate for Congress
on the other. for Whittlesey had adj
vised Democrats not to be weak
kneed on the subject. and accept ne
gro votes.
He knew the reason the Judge
didn't want negro votes. He had ex-
pressed it we'll at Newburgh, in the
onset, and the reason was the same
why Jack di6n't want his supper, be-
cause he couldn't get it. LApplause,I
Mr.. GoodiDg showed that one d
the first four men killed in defense Of
American Independence, was negro,
and the man who killed Major Pit
cairn the leader of the British forces
at Bunker Hill, and turned the tide
of events, and saved the battle, was a
negro. He quoted from history, to
allow that Washington did not think
himself too good to conduct the war
of the Revolution With negro soldiers,
that the people of the thirteen
original States permitted them to
vote, and that in she Democratic
State of New York. they had always
been voters under a property qualit-
cation.
AS to the Judges assertion that we
are not free, because we can not pre-
vent whom we please from voting,
bat this Fifteenth Amendment was
the death knel of Know Nothingism,
for under its provisions no mans
right to vote could be abridged on ac-
count of his race.
This was too palpable fact for the
| Democrats in the crowd, who tried to
raise a clamor. and drown the Cap.
tain's voice.
He asked the Judge whether be
would propose the repeal of the Fiji
tenth Amendment, and said it was
idle to clamor here, if he would not
agitate for repeal in Congress.
If the Democracy were as brave and
impartial as they pretended, why did
they ask that thirty-six millions OF
white men be protected again four
millions of colored people. He did