Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-07-27
VOL 90
From the Madison Banner.
GOV. WELCOMES SPEC clfES.

at the democratcfmass meeting o1 Friday at
ternoon, left to the Governor of.lhiana but
small fragment of the afternoon for the dis
charge of his stump speaking functions. He
had but few moments TO speak. The steam
cars had just brought bin to that party gather
ing, an d the steamboat was even then near at
hand that was TO hurry our Governor toanoth-
er party rally at Rising Sun. Would that the
magnetic Telegraph could snatch up his excel.
| lency bodily, and flash him about the State,
dropping him down wherever few doz-
ems of his locofoco brethren meet in coun
4 Gil.
But in the brief time allowed 10 his Excel
lency; he felt ii to be at once his privilege and
his duty, as Governor of the State TO welcome
home the soldiers of the 4th Regiment Indiana
Volunteers Ga few oil uhom, attracted by the
bell and below Of the city marshal, were in
attendance.) and to thank them for redeeming
the State from the reproach cast upon the End
regiment.
How singuarly inappropriate this sounds
coming from the mouth of GOV. Whitcomb.-
! Does he recollect anything about secret con-
clave of military politicians that met in the
spring of 1916, in kent's back room in New
Albany, the object of which was to secure to
the Locofocos any glory that the Indiana troops
might win in the Mexican WARP A conclave
of politico military juggers. devising row they
might best toss locofocos into the saddles of
the field offices. And does he recolleot that
he, Gov. jim. Whitcomb was the master spirit
Of that conclave? And does he remember the
thanks he received from the volunteer privates
for thus making them and their cause subser-
Went to his base party intrigue? Does he re-
member how curses Missed along the lines as
he passed, and how his excellency was threat
1 ened By them with immersion in the Ohio riv-
er for his conduct in that particular? lit had
occurred TO him that the election of Colonel
Bew.es was part of the same system of in
/ trgue, and that if party politics had been BAN
4 ished from the camp, Indiana might have worn
the greenest laurels of that campaign-he might
with more propriety have thanked the 18th regi-
ment for pouring out their blood TO redeem the
character OF the State from the consequences of
his political intrigues.
Governor Whitcomb told the volunteers
that in his opinion it was the knapsack and
not the epaulet that won the battle; that Gen.
Taylor with his 81, 900 year got too much
4 Buena Vista glory, at the expense of the yoi-
unteer with his 81 a MONTH The dead bodies
of the soldiers went into the ditch covered
with blood, while the fame of the General
went to the skies covered with glory. The
whole OF this portion of the Cows. was an art
full attempt to excite the jealousy and preju-
dice of the volunteers against Gen. Taylor
1t breathed spirit of INSTRUMENTATION that
would soon prove fatal to all military enter
prise. Who does not know that without the
knapsack the epaulet is powerless in batte?-
And even that old fool, las Mr.. Disney dis
crbed him) General Taylor, would perha adj
NIT that with nothing but his epaulets and
, sold Whitley" he could not well have won the
field Of Buena Vista. And on the other hand
nobody knows better than the volunteers pres
ent Gu that occasion, how vitality essential are
: military discipline and subordihation to sue
cess in military operations. They would call
that man fool, be he Governor or private cit
izen, thai would turn loose each knapsack in
an army of 5000 in battle, to fight ION its
own hook" For. the safety of their own lives
and for the glory of their country's arms they
! would demand military subordination, and
General competent to lead them. And when
they have such General as the one Whitcomb
5 defnmes, they will follow him III war and love
, him in peace.
The volunteers for whose benefit that hum
bug speech was intended, seemed to appreci-
ate the singularity OF the Speakers position
: They saw the Governor of the Commonwealth
coming out from the capitol and running round
the State in the capacity of cunning dema-
gogue and partisan leader. They saw the Ex-
otficio commander in chief of the militia of In
diana endeavoring to prejudice the soldier
: against the general and insidiously preaching
doctrines of insubordination They testified
the extent of the obligations they felt under to
his Excellency, by huzzaing for Taylor. and
shouting mileage
: The Governor like the person that preceded
him, was of opinion that Gen. TAYLOR was too
ignorant to be fit for the Presidency, and he
repeated the assertion that the Wing party was
destitute of political principles. All the ques-
, lions growing out of the war, the veto power
: that ii is said he has exercised little him
I self-and all the other questions upon which
the opinions Of the. parties are divided, receiv-
ed the go-by. But the boat coming in sight
the Governor cut short his speech and hurried
off to preach democracy to the citizens of Ohio
county. He bolted through the crowd to the
river with the Courier fu:tering at his heels,
and this closed the great democratic mass
meeting
On Saturday evening his Excellency return
ed from Rising Sun where in the meantime he
> had let off a stump speech, and again the stem
torlan believing of our city marshal announc-
cd that early candle light his Excellency
would hustle down. little more locofoco
thunder from beef bench in the lower market
house. The volunteers were particularly in
{ vited TO be present. AT the appointed hour a.
, tolerably large number of Democrats and an
!. equally large number OF Wings were in atten-
r dance.
chief magistrate of the State to bid the returned
Volunteers welcome home. That it was be-
lieved he had done on Friday. But a fond
mother will kiss the returned wanderer once,
and not content with that she will fly back
and repeat the embrace of maternal Affection
I Oh how the Governor s'loved those brave boys
he had parted with at New Albany and he
must repeat the words of Welcome. When
such irrepressible love for the Volunteers was
swelling up from the Governors affecticnate
heart, how cruel it was in those soldiers
to suspect that His Excellency was trying
to hunbug them, and TO vociferate such words
as "nnileage,' "soft soap" "that's darn'd lie"
j .huzza for Taylor &c.
Fl This speech was but disll-water dilution of
his speech of Friday, and fell far short of that
effort in every respect. His manifest object in
these speeches is TO poison the minds of the
! troops on their first landing, that they may
carry to their respective homes over the State
! reports and prejudices unfavorable ito General
: Taylor On Friday this demagogue policy was
led nv