The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-14


Every regiment, by the regulations. is
entitled 10 ~ wagons, and as they gener-
ally use mules which you. know are some
times stubborn, especially when half broke,
il requires two drivers 10 each team, one to
drive and another To lock the wagon when
he mules haulk, or when they start down
a hill. This requires A drivers TO regi- |
meut. have in my mind IL regiments,
which would require 484 men to be detailed
from the ranks to drive teams Our regi-
N uts are badly thinned out already, and
thus we weaken the division to the amount
of an average regiment. Now. when we
meet the enemy these men should be IN
front ready 10 shoot, not away back taking
care of mules.
propose to send q negro to every team
and another to help him, and thus
strengthen my division whole regiment.
| have seen the men march all day and at
night when they broke ranks, an officer
put into their bands pick or spade and
ordered them to dig, and thus all night
long they toiled, and labored without sleep
except what they could catch during the ia
tervals of labor. Now do you suppose
those men are fit to fight in the morning
propose to lake the negro to drive the
teams aud do the digging. I'd call them
| MP every morning and make them clesn
and sweep the camps as carefully as good
house wife does her rooms, I'd have no MI
asmatic filth there, and the health of the
troops would be preserved.
! They are SO convenient for the getting.
They lay all round loose On my march
from Corinth to Memphis could have gath
cred up number equal to three times my
whole division, but was afraid to do it for
fear you would cry out abolitionist. am
not an abolitiauist. / hate negro, and
never see one but think there goes the
cause of the war. After the war is over do
you think I'd make him equal TO my fellow
citizens or my soldiers No, | would do
no such thing. l would fight to prevent
such thing and would help others fight to
prevent it.
But am asked what would you do with
them2
Let us leave that to fight about after the
war is over 1t will be time enough to
consider that question then.
For myself, however, will now say, I'd
be in favor of getting them all together,
clothing them well, providing them plenty
of food, and giving them our biggest ships
!
them forth to seek new country as re-
ward for their services. But all these ques-
tions can be settled when our country is
saved.
Now what doall these objections amount
to are they not trifling compared to the
salvation of our country. This war is wag
ed for peace, and there can be no permanent
peace until these rebels are sutiugated
Subjugatiou there again is another objec
ton. You must not attempt to suhjugats
the South. What is subjugation2 Ii Eng
land were to come over here to force upoI
US new constitution, ana Rew laws, aul
new rulers, and should succeed in doing il
that would be subjugation. We try N
such thing with the South. They helpe
make our laws and constitution. We onl
seek to enforce the laws they made. w
send our armies South, not to subjugate tn
South, but to enforce the laws. That is NO
subjugatiou. But every traitor in the Sout
must be subjugated. In the North toe.
Yes, in the north too.
The war we are making is not only I
at home Win your IamIIIes anu your quIc
firesides, have never realized the magnitud
of the contest. You have never though
n that this was war made by the South I
enslave you, and that we must now figt
for our liberties Just as our fathers did j
he revolution. This revolution was plar
T ed years ago. Henry A. Wise many year
ago said that he thanked God there wa
neither newspaper or a school house j
his district. What do you suppose be mean
He meant that general intelligence was to b
suppressed and the people by false teach
ings should be educated up 10 a point whe
they would be ready to accept monarchy
This could not be done at once. 1t must 0
gradual and insideous. There are two elias:
es down South, distributed just as in til
old country-the rich and poor. Men wer
taught that wealth gave superiority. Eve
the negro appreciates the distinction. Thi
feeling has been cultivated for years with
view TO hoodwink the people and to estat
lish monarchy, with titles of nobility an
all The hollow tinselry of the old aristoC
racies.
For years the South has dispised an
hated the North. They cultivate the sent
ment SO as TO have some excuse to fight I'd
north. This has been their study for year
aud all their teachings have been tendin
to that object. They don't mean to estat
lish a Republic. How was their preseu
pretended Government formed?
A few men met in secret and formed
constitution and government. The wi
of the people was not consulted or consd
cred. The convention made JEFF. Davi
President without the vote of the peopl,
Tie people were not consulted in the maj
ter. Suppose such thing was attempte
in Indiasa-that secret caucus shout
make governor and constitution. an
place armed men arOuod them to maintai
them, without allowing the people to hav
voice in the matter2 This is just wins
they have done down South.
This was the first step towards mon Al
chy. This is the way Napoleon made him
self Emperor. He put himself at the bea
of the army, moulded them TO bis will an
then proclaimed universal suffrage by hi
bayonets winning their votes.
Thus jeff Davis sought to establish him
self as monarch. Men who were in JET
Daviss confidence have told me that is no
a republic but monarchy they meant t
establish at Richmond, with Jefferson a
its head. But how does this EFFECT you
In Venice, upon the accession of certai
Doge, the NOBILITY got up a farce, wiki al
, the gay pageantry OF an oriental court; tn
shipping was rugged in the most gorgeou
manner, and the Doge with his courter
and attendants sailed out upon, the Adri
attic sea, aud there amid courtly ceremo
MES dropped wedding ring into tn,
waters in this manner to signify that III,