The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-07-29
A Concealed Battery Unmasked.

Our efforts TO unearth some of the traitors
in our midst has been partly successful.
One of them opens FIRE from a concealed
battery in Saturdays Gazette. OF course
he signs himself " Democrat, but is about
as much entitled to the name as Benedict
Arnold and Aaron Burr are to that of Pa
triots This anonymous scribbler and con-
cealed secession sympathizer, wincing under
our structures makes the most dismal at
tempt to reply sarcasticalIy that We ever
witnessed. He has all the malignity me-
cessary to constitute sarcasm, but the calibre
of his brain fails to correspond, and he only
succeeds in being silly. 1t is not the first
tine in which an attempt to shoot a r.
pound ball out of six pound smooth-bore
gun has proved disastrous to the expert
menter. The fact that this " Democrat
should state three OF four falsehoods, in or
Democrat" only proves his relationship to
those in arms further South, by the aippan-
cy with which he appropriates to his own
use from the +" general stock in trade"
We have made no filings at Democrats.
We have said some hard things against trail
tors Of the Breckenridge, Burnett Vallan-
bingham aud John G. Davis stripe, who call
themselves /" Democrats" The Gazette cor
respondent voluntarily classes himself with
these infamous traitors and seems to have
been strnck by shot aimed at them and
their associates. True Democrats repudiate
traitors, and viii take great pleasure in
stripping the disguise from those who would
sneak into their camps for the purpose of
betraying both the party and their country.
IA Democrat" not only writes treasona-
bly, but confusedly-as though he was ex-
periencing those uneasy sensations which
are said to torment criminals when first
they realize that punishment for their
crimes is about to be visited on their heads.
What can be more muddy than the follow
ing
If Northern soil was in so much danger
as TO sustain the President in his unconsti-
tutional acts, where would have been your
head to-day, Mr.. Journal, had not Demo-
Gratis shouldered their muskets and entered
the ranks to serve their country ? Severed
from the body by the scalping knife of JEFF
Davis, and confined IN some. Southern ma
gazine, to be used as a bomb she'll for the
destruction Of your Northern brethren.
We suggest to q A Democrat" that OBJ
security or change of climate is the only
wise course for him to pursue while enter
tanning his present views. Our army at
Manassas was defeated through the machin-
ations Of disguised traitors, who have been
permitted to remain in Washington. This
will not always be tolerated. Men here, as
they have been in the Confederate States,
will be called on to take sides. Experience
teaches that traitor in camp is far more
dangerous than regiment in the field, and
the camp must be purged of traitors before
success can be expected in the field. Ope-
rations on a laree scale will soon commence
in the Mississippi Valley, and it will be
dangerous to the defenders of the Union for
men-even though they claim to be Demo-
crats-to be constantly betraying their
movements to the enemy. When it is pref
~ well known that some in our midst are
active members of the order of knights of the
Golden Circle, it squite proper that patriots
keep their eyes open to their movements.
Arnold was but little suspicioned, until he
was providentfaly detected in the blacklist
of crimes Aaron Burr's treason lost moth
ing OF its wickedness because he was once
VTce-President Of the United States, nor do
we conceive that g A Democrat is any the
less traitor because he calls himself DEM
ocrat and denounces the Journal.