Year: 1866

exile every Union man in the rebel States
who had opposed the scheme of REBEL
ion


They would hold every Union officer
responsible in damages for the arrest
and Imprisonment of coas spicAtEors. spies
bounty jumpers and 'runaways' from
the draft


Already the Union men of Kentucky
have had a foretaste of what would be
done upon this subject And if YOU bat
give TO the rebels the undisputed control
of the Government they will in some form
or BY some process seize upon and con
fiseate the estate of every Union man in
Kentucky, and as in Kentucky, so else
where


They would abolish all punishments,
disabilities and penalties for treason.
| They would defeat all amendments to
the Constitution. They would prevent
representation from being equalized, and
would retain in the hands OF rebels, for
all time, the unjust advantages they now
possess. In short they would do all in
their power to undo tie results OF the
war, TO repair the damages the rebels
have sustained, reassert the principles
upon which the rebellion was founded,
and accomplish by legislation and
fraud the original scheme of secession
and national destruction which was de
feated on the field of battle


TO THE UNION MEN or KENTUCKY


And now let me address a word to the
Union men of Kentucky, many OF whom
are here to-day, and inquire who com
pose the Democracy OF your State,


Do they not number among them the
men, who in the guiso of Confederate of
ficers, soldiers and guerrillas, laid waste
and ravaged Kentucky, plundered her
towns, carried away her horses and cat
tie, destroyed her railroads, IN ordered
thousands of her citizens, and drove
thousands of others to seek safety by
fight? Do they not number among them
the men who followed John Morgan into
Indiana, but whose plundering excur-
sion was at once converted into q flight,
and who were transformed from inya-
ders into fugitives and prisoners?


Sixteen months ago they called them
selves Confederates, to day they call
themselves the Democracy, ana after the
1fth of August viii cali themselves by
whatever name may be agreed upon at
Philadelphia. And If then YOU will but
raise up a corner of their new disguise
you will perceive under it the rusty
gray back" and the s'stars and bars


Union men of X kentucky, you are afraid
of being called names, and have some
times been driven from your convictions
by the cunning rebel cry Of Radicals .
Let us cease to quarrel about names, and
go to the substance of things. There
can be but two parties in Kentucky, The
one composed of the rebels, their adyo-
Gates and friends, and the other of the
unconditional Union men. who have pre-
served the Government, and would keep
it in loyal hands. In very truth the so
called Democratic party is the most rad
ical organization in the country.


1t is in favor of the most radica, meas
ures for the immediate restoration of re
bells to power.


1t is, and was throughout the war,
radically disloyal.


1t is radically opposed to equal repre-
sentation.


II is radically opposed to every princi-
pie of Justice, humanity and liberty which
our fathers engrafted upon the Govern
ment.


Democratic radicalism is but diabol-
ism. Il is made up OF EXTREMIST hate
to liberty, to progress and to the en-
lightenment and uplifting of the human
race. 1t believes in class privileges, in
the meanest forms of aristocracy, and
for success and power appeals to the
lowest passions that way the human
heart.


Thank God, its hour has come The
issues are now being made up. and the
line will soon be as plainly drawn be-
tween the two contending parties as they
were between their respective armies on
the field


The hideous lie by which Northern
Democratic leaders denied their compli
city with the rebellion, now stands con
fessed, and the Philadelphia Convention
will illuminate all minds which have been
| kept in darkness.


| The victory cannot be doubtful. The
/ God of battles who has brought US forth
in triumph from 50 many fields of blood
| will not now sacrifice US to treachery and
/ treason at the ballot box
There will be but one inconsistency in
/ it When the heutenants and disciples
! of jeff Davis sit down in council with
/ Northern Democrats, there is no reason
| why their great master should not be in
/ their midst