The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-03
preclpitated upon US By the Demo,

VS. a time when the bond of the
rebsl Confederacy we're worth more
than ours, which by the good man
/ agement Of the party are now worth
me- ly par.
Tney throw it up to US that the
bonds are tc be paid gold. while
the soldier Jas paid II greeubaeks,
but the President and all the officers
of the Government took their pay in
the same money. He also showed
that while the Government had
right to make greenbacks money, as
between our own people, we had no
power to make them money ID Ger
many, where our bonds we're mainly
taken, and where they would not
have been taken at all, if it had not
been expressly agreed to pay them
gold.
Congress had proposed to pass
law to so apportion the members Of
Congress as TO give the West their
due proportion of representation, and
although the Democrats cried out
that we were legislating in favor of
the East and against the West, every
Democrat in Congress voted against
il, and among them. Judge Niblack,
and it was defeated By only four
votes.
Mr.. Gooding's time having expired,
he was succeeded By Judge Niblack.
who was received with yells and cries,
that abundantly showed of whom the
majority was composed.
One respectable looking gray
bearded. but half intoxicated Demo-
crat, leaning on the fence for support,
cried out knock the niger hell
high" while man bearing a not very
distant resemblance to a shovel nosed
shark, yelped out ito hell wud the
nagur," but Mr.. II. E. Read induced
him to sit down and be quiet.
Mr.. Niblack said that the First
District appeared to be getting i'm.
portant to the Republicans all at
once, and they did not seem 10 think
that his opponent was able to take
care of it, for they had got Senators
Pratt and Morton, Governor Baker
and Colfax down here to look efter
it. and if Grants mouth a0oald 90 off,
they would have got him down here
too. CYells and laughter.
He referred to the Fifteenth
Amendment with lofty sccrn, and
spoke of Mr.. Gooding's treatment Of
the question. when the shovel
mouthed man again called out We
wants to hear your vice now"
He didn't want to discuss the State
debt. People ought to know enough
about it. a voice called, Give it
to him. Nib. ~ TIE old man lear
iDg over the fence kept asking ques-
tions, and the Judge went on 70 speak
of the State debt, laboring fearfully
and seemingly at a great loss co make
it clear to either himself or his hear
ers.
Re asserted that. although the debt
was claimed to be paid. the interest
nad only been reduced one third, and
that the Republican administration Of
the State could not tell where the
money had gone to. Said that John
son had reduced the United States
debt 100000; that Grant was
buying up government bonds at pre-
MUM; that our bonds had only gone
to Germany recently TO pay for goods
purchased there, and that the Prus-
slams knew they were payable in legal
tender when they bought them. He
quoted Stevens. Butler and Horace
Greeley to show that the bonds were
payable In greenbacks, and that the
Republican party. in their platform,
had cheated US by resolving to pay
them as provided for, and ther. enact
ing to pay in gold.
He said that Colfax's assertion that
Grant never drank anything was new
to him, but chat he would not say he
did. lt was merely new way oil
putting the matter Laughter.
He would make no charges of cor
ruption against the Republican party,
but alleged that Grant had changed
front on the question of paying the
debt in gold.
He admitted that he voted against
the funding bill. and said it was DOS.
sible to pay it faster and reduce taxes
all the time. He wanted to get rid Of
the debt as soon as possible. (Shovel.
mouthed Democrat cried out, mo
sur."O Argued that because the inter.
est of the debt accommodating under
the funding bill would in thirty years
amount to sum equal to the princi-
pal; that it was unjust to make pos.
terity pay the principal after We had
paid the interest, but ignored the fact
that in his way the interest euualled
the principal every sixteen years.
He was opposes to the income tax
because he said it was inquisitorial
and annoyed the wealthy business
men, and hence he voted against these
acts.
Speaking OF the Fife enth Amend
ment, he said he would annihilate ii
if he had chance, but would not ag-
itate, for there was no chance now tC
repeal it, and if he could not be elect
ed by white votes, he did not want to
be elected.