The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-13
Prepare for Action.

l. ne elecClOn IS close at hand. Let
every Union man in Indiana prepare to
be at his post The leaders of the
Breckenridge and Vallandigham party
are making a desperate effort in behalf
of the Sth-of-January ticket The Union
men in Indiana have o work to do if
they save the State from falling into the
hands of those who sympathize with trea-
son, and who would sacrifice the Union
if they could but secure for themselves
place and power There are hundreds
of Union men in Indiana, now deceived
into the support of the Sth-ofJanuary
ticket, who, when convinced of where
they are drifting, will turn their backs
upon that ticket, and support the candi-
dates nominated by the Union Conven-
tion. 1t is plain that it is the duty of all
who see things in their true light to en-
deavor to convince their neighbors of
the fact that there is but one Union
party in Indiana, and that, if he is a
loyal man, it is his duty to vote for the
candidates that are known to be truly
loyal.
Let the Union men all over the State,
in every county and township, be at the
polls in October; and while our soldiers
are imperiling their lives in the tented
field in defence of our country, we ought
to win for them at home glorious and
decisive victory over the men who have
been giving the cold shoulder to the
cause of our country, and courting the
smiles of traitors! We know that every
Sth-of-January man is at home, and will
be at the polls in October, while every
soldier from Indiana now in the service,
and who will not have the privilege of
voting, with hardly single exception,
would vote the true Union ticket; but we
have men enough left at home yet, if
they will do their whole duty, to defeat
the Breckenridge ticket in Indiana The
honor of the State and the cause of the
Union demand that the Sth-of-January
ticket should be defeated 1t is not
Union ticket, and we will prove reereant
to our trust if we do not put it down.
After the Sth-ofJanuary Convention
had burdened the Breckinridge organs
of Indiana with its proceedings and
speeches, they were sent South, and the
entire proceedings and speeches were
copied into the Southern papers, and
highly commended as sure indication
of a great reaction in the North in fa-
vor of the South and in opposition to the
war" Yet the leaders of the 8th-of
January party claim to be loyal? JEFF
Davis and the rebel organs of the South
do not think So They think right. We
have rebel paper now in our office, pub
lished at jackson, Miss, containing the
speech of John G. Davis, made at the
Sth-ofJanuary Convention. The rebel
paper endorses that speech; yet John G.
Davis is in good standing with his party
is counted a loyal man by the Brock
ties; yet he receives the plaudits of trait
ors both North and South Are you pre-
pared, honest citizens, to vote for such a
man as John g. Davis? If you are not,
you Will vote against the Sth-ofJ anuary
ticket, for, in voting for that ticket, you
vote for Davis, or for men who hold to
the principles that he advocates, and
who endorse him and his treason
Remember-think before you vote the
8th-of-January ticket, citizens of Indiana,
that the triumph of that ticket will be
hailed by the rebels with Joy and glad
ness, and as "a great reaction III the
North IN favor of the South, and for
midable opposition to the warp They
will be encouraged at the success of that
ticket, and will renew the contest against
the Union with new vigor and determi-
nation; but defeat that ticket, and we
say what we honestly and firmly believe,
you will weaken, most effeetually, the
cause of treason The leaders of the
Breckinridge party North are professedly
loyal, but let them once get into power,
and have control of our State and ma
tional affairs, and the Gathering and
prints of the hoofs of the cavalryman's S
horse and the rumbling of artillery, will
be round and about your own doors,
desolation will be found at your firesides,
and privations be the share of your anx-
ious mothers and weeping children.
Would you avert the horrors of civil war
from the fair fields of Indiana? If you
would, vote for no man who is not known
to be at heart for his country
We are slumbering, as it were, upon
the brink of a volcano. which at any mo-
ment may burst forth and spread desola-
ton far and wide The leaders of this
8th-of-January party are traitors at heart,
and are as much the sworn enemies of
the Constitution and the Union as jeff
Davis and his Southern eonspirators.
They are plotting treason in our midst,
and but waiting to get the power to pre-
cipitate the Northwest out of the Union
They are already declaring that the in
terest of the West is with the South and
endeavoring to prejudice our people
against the East All this means some
thing, and the people should awake in
time. If you would crush the rebellion
and remain freemen, vote down the Sth-
of-January ticket; but if you are blinded
by party prejudice, and viii not listen to
the truth, you deserve to be slaves