Year: 1876

TEE ELUE-JEAN5 HUhRUG.
Blue-Jeans WILLIAMS was put on the Con-
fedcrate ticket in Indiana for Governor as q
bait for Granger votes, the theory of the


party managers being that any sort Of a
fraud, if done up in blue jeans suit, might
be palned of upon the Grangers. But the
Blue-Jeans cannot conceal his Copperhead-
ism, nor his true colors: which were not blue,


but butternut. During the War he was a
member Of the Indiana Senate, the official
records Of which show that throughout he


was bitterly opposed to continuing the War
for the Union, and refused to vote aid and
supplies to Indiann Union soldiers in the
field; and that, after, by the Emancipation
Proclamation, the shackles had been stricken
off the slaves, and they were rendering e1-
fcient aid in fighting the Rebellion, he de-
manded their reinstatement.


On the Sth Of January, 1868, while armed
treason threatened at the front and insidious
Copperheadism in the rear, he voted to refer
to Committee for burial C1AYPooL's resolu-
ton pledging the Legislature to appoint or
elect to Office no man who was opposed to
the War for the Union, or who was not 81 un-
alterably opposed to severance Of any
State from the Union" The proposition
simply was, that the enemy in the rear
should not be rewarded with Offices Of pub
Lie trust WILLIAMS vote on the official
journal puts him On record as in favor of
SO rewarding the treason TINT skulked in the
rear


At the same session he voted against the
adoption as the motto of the General As
sembly Of the famous utterance of ANDREW
JACKSON, sThe Union, it must and shall he
preserved" To have voted aye would have
been to put himself on record as in favor Of
the preservation Of the Union. Ee voted
mo, because lie was opposed to the preserva-
ton of the Union, aud his vote Was in har-
mony with his entire course during the War
as Copperhead ally Of the Corfeder2tes.


Later in the session resolutions were Of
fered declaring that the General Assembly Of
the State was Internationally in favor of the
preservation Of the Union, and, to that end,
of the vigorous prosecution Of the War, and
would aid and sustein its prosecution with
money anu SuppAes.


Again, on the 9Th Of March, 1868, the
B1ue-Jeans fraud voted for Wo1FE's amend
ment 10 the report of the Committee on Fed
eral Relations declaring it " the duty Of the
President to Immediately withdraw his
Emancipation :. Proclamation" T1is was
three months after A1r. LINCOLN had issued
tho proclamation, and after the colored
troops, by their services, had bound the coun-
try by every obligation of honor and good
faith to forever maintain it. But the Cop
perhead in bluc-jeansvo to ore-enslavet them.


When the resolution wes offered declaring
that resistance to the CONSUMPTION act should
be put down, he encouraged the reasonable
Order Of Sons Of Liberty in their schemes
for resistance to the draft, and of making an
open fire in the rear, By voting to table that
resolution, thereby voting that resistance to
the draft should not be put down.


So throughout the session, as often as oc-
casion presented, lie recorded himself as an
enemy Of the country. opposed to the pres
ervation Of the Union, and denying aid and
support to the Union soldiers in the field.
Letthe Indiana Grangers and all other honest
voters in that State lool; over his record as
he has made it,and the Blue-Jeans fraud will
bo repudiated by them as n Copperhead of
the most malignant type, whom they are not
prepared to indorso because lie is done up in
blue jeans.