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

lou you leeA Hke gOln5 anu euNiio6 'HS'A
,lory?
But End many have objections. Ask a
nan if he wants to enlist, and be answers,
| have family TO maintain, property to
look after, or business that will 60 to the
" devil during my absence"
If he really cares for that family, it be
waots to prosper in business, il he wants to
make bis property avsilable, let him enlist.
Let us become nation of soldiers, and our
property will be safe.
A million of men is asked for, let us all
go together and make the war sharp and
short, and our families will be safe. APP
peal to you, If this is not the true method
Another says, I'd like to go, but don't
like the way the war is conducted. l can
not approve of the policy OF the govern
ment." s sn4
| thought once, that objection was good
one, but II is now removed. The policy
has been changed, and henceforth war is TO
be made in earnest. You will never be call
ed upon to guard rebel property again.
This thing has been done. have seen
work of that kind performed. | have Or
dered it done though it went against the
grain, but could not help it. | had to
obey orders. lpg
If the boys took peaches or plumes from
the orchard of rebel, and entered his gar
den and gathered wha. the ladies, believe,
call bouquet, the old secesh posted straight
to headquarters, and then Wallace caught
thunder. 1850
But that sort of thing is played out
Henceforth il is to be war to the knife. No
more Cancellation. Conciliationi this is
another objection. They say we must con-
ciliate the rebels. Let me tell you the
more you conciliste the more implacable
| our enemies grow--the more polite you are
TO them the more bitter they become.
| They have been taught that they are
superior race of beings, that northern men
are, as one of their politicians expressed 1t,
| the mndsilIs of society. As they are ac-
eustomed to be met by their slaves each
morning with congee, when we bow to
them they believe we have only done our
duty to them, and that they have only re.
ceived their right.
Henceforth l think if any one treat these
traitors with polteness and bows, they will
have to go within prison lis to do it.
Many go round the country and ask why
do we fight? For Gods sake quit this
/ cutting of throatsi We must compromise
this. Compromise who talks of compro-
mise? No one who has an idea of the sub
iect wish those who talk of compromise
had seen what l have seen. They could
not doubt their senses. Many profess to
think we can compromise, but l tell you
never, never, never.
We may desire compromise but jeff.
Davis would never consent How would
you 90 about it? Go ask JEFF Davis to
| compromise and be will treat you with
scorn. He will throw himself back on his
dignity and exclaim, =" have conquered.
have achieved my purpose, they are ex-
hausted. They have no fighting men left"
Do those men ever sit down and ask
themselves what compromise they can pro-
poser No compromise you could offer
, would be accepted, except you recognize
, the Southern Confederacy, and are you pre-
|. pared to do that ? Dare you do it Don't
! you know there is not a man or an officer
who has the power to propose such COM
!. promise. All are bound by solemn oaths
!, to preserve the government, and who would
dare entertain e. such an idea SIS
r Again. Bow do you, who talk of com.
promise, propose to divide 2 Where will
: you fix the boundaries Where will you
= run the lines? Propose to JEFF Davis tia,
!. he take the cotton States and he would
laugh in your face. He would demand all
the slave States and the Territories. Are
: you ready to do this2 Are you Keutuck-
!? ians ready to go to JEFF Davis2 mo no)
Would you be willing to give up Virgins
r with all the memories that cluster around
n her early history? With the graves of her
!, heroic dead2 4@@A
!. All over the South sleep the bones of our
4 brave boys. Are you willing to give them
O up, or to go and crawl as slave to ask per.
7 mission of jeff Davis to visit their graves ?
!. We will never give them up. have come
/, to that State OF feeling when | believe to
q save our country and to preserve our honor
we will give our last man and last dollar
!, But we hear this called an abolition war.
: Abe Lincoln's war. And there are those
o who have desired to go and help the boys
fight but some one mas whispered Abolition
in their ear.
! have been a Democrat aud never had
i any particular liking for President Lincoln
or aboitionism, but this is not an abolition
q war, nor is it Abe Lincoln's war or ;he
= Republicans war or the Democrats war
o bat war of the loyal people of the nation
p against traitors. Who was it that fred
n upon an uuarmed American vessel going
!. on a message of mercy? Who built theil
| batteries, throwing up their sand banks day
Il after day srouod Fort Sumter? They
:. were not Democrats or Republicans or ab.
= olitionists, but accursed traitors. No true
q Democrat will discourage enlistments BY
"a calling this an abolition war, or in any
. way paliste treason.
"a But don't they propose to abolish slave.
~ we are asked. When started out in this
n war, thought it would end in the abolition
!. of slavery, and regretted it. | held to the
, Douglas doctrine, that those States which
. desired TO hold slaves had the right to dc
: so, and l didn't like the idea of seeing the
= slaves of even traitors disturbed, or freed
but Lord fellow citizens, have got glo.
4 riously over that. Why, traitors have nc
= right to property of any kind, not even tc
their lives, and if they have no right to live
what right can they have to dog or a mig.
I ger? And the prejudice which | and The
. soldiers had; which led us to determinesIha
! we would not use negroes in the army, We
have got over that too. 7
? say this as soldier, not as a politician
~ | have discovered that slavery is not an ele-
/, meut of weakness in the South, but is the
main strength of the rebellion. They rass
n crops for the South, while the white men
q go and fight. They have raised enough to
,e feed the rebels for another year, and If they
A. have done it for this year, they will be able