The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-01
From the Indianapolis Journal.
TREASON AT WORK
[ SECRET SOCIETY EXPOSED !

We presume that no rational man in the
nation doubts that there are many disaffect-
ed men in the loyal States, who have either
| pledged themselves to assist the rebellion, or
only await an opportunity TO do so. The
| indications of their existence have been too
| frequent and unequivoeal to allow a doubt
on that point, but many have doubted
whether they could muster audacity enough
to engage in any positive acts of hostility.
The peril of treason now is so great that
| it is not outraging reason to suppose that
| the most virulen5 enemies of the Govern
ment have concluded to be quiet, saying
nothing publicly, preserving a studiOus ab-
| gtinence from all topics and allusIons that
might irritate loyal feeling against them,
and showing their real spirit only in secret
rejoicing at national de feats, or in such as
saults upon the Government as might be easi-
| ly attributed to some less obnoxious motive.
But though treason might be reasonably
supposed to be driven to this concealment,
and the course of the Sentinel and other re-
! bel sympathizing organs would confirm the
suPposition, there is absolute proof that it
has not confined itself to such harmless op-
erations. It is actively at work, right in
our midst, and in various places in the
State. 1t still preserves its outside appear
ance of discon ntented quiet, willing to let
| the public believe that it is not dead, if they
| will only believe that it is not at work, but
under this veil it is reaching out in all di-
rections to seize and combine the elements
| of resistance to the Government, and fa-
shiou them into deadly power for evil.
| We have, heretofore, alluded to some of the
arA-tz inatlasatad IsL44-Gi-1ISetvfs vfs, an q
supported by the Sentinel, which aimed to
defeat the collection of the direct tax in this
State but later discoveries show tEat those
| efforts were bu. the beginning AMI rough
outlines of system which is now as com
plete and thoroughly prepared for its in
Internal work as it can be.
By means which it is not necessary to
disclose il has beeu ascertained that a Sc
cret soctgty has oee7s UIyursfeoy .. ea5o oo,sea
with the purpose Of opposing the aear and
defeatiRg all attempts TO sustain 1t 6y tdIdtl0z
This Society has its oaths, passwords, signs
and lodges, as any other secret society, and
is undoubtedly an offshOt of the "K. G. O."
association, adapted to this latitude. 1t ex-
lists in this city, in Terre Haute, in Rock
Vile, in Madison, and several other places.
Its meetings are secret, and its lodge rooms
are kept carefully concealed. Its members
in this city, and several others, are positive
ly known, though it is not known that
there may not be others connected with it
than those who have been ''spotted." The
existence of the Society has been known for
some time, bat it has only been within
short time that appliances could be brought
to bear to procure a full exposure of the Sc
crets. The meetings have been watched,
and the participants marked, but their pur-
pose could only be conjectured. They have
been tracked night after night through all
their wanderings and concealments till all
that could be learned outside has been made
as familiar to the detectives as to the mem
| bers themselves. But recently detection has
got inside and we publish below the ex-
posure it has made: