The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-07-12

Is IT RIGHT ?-We doubt if ever a sam
pie of stolid Indifference existed on the face
of the earth, equal to that presented by the
people of the North, and especially by the
people of the border counties of Indiana,
Ohio and Illinois.
For more than a year a wicked and
causeless rebellion has been going on
against the government
Thousands of rebels are in arms seeking
to destroy the nation and create a State
of anarchy, and despotism. Thousands of
our best young men have been slaughtered
on the CORY fields of Spring Mills, Fort
Doneison, Belmont, Pea Ridge and Shiloh.
Just across the narrow Ohio, Guerilla
bands are prowling and robbing and plum
dering and killing and threatning to invade
our own peaceful and happy shores. Rebel
cavalry are making forays into the heart
of Kentucky, threatening to again lay that
unfortunate and distracted State desolate.
Yet, under all these admonitions of danger,
what preparations do we see making for
our safety or defense Scarcely single
step has yet been taken. Nay more, we
see men in this city daily furnishing these
very rebels who are threatening our lives
and the lives of our families and friends
with the means of more effeetually accom-
plishing their hellish work.
During the present week, as we are credi-
bly, informed, six kegs of powder were sold
ia this city to go to one small village in
Kentucky. Can any sane man say this is
right? That such quantity of powder
can be legitimately used in one small
neighbOrhood Does it not betray the very
contamination of utter madness and infatu-
alton, to persist in thus furnishing to our
enemies the means of destroying our own
lives and the lives of our people? Can a
man have single principle of patriotism
left in his heart who will, for the sake of
few paltry cents of profit and gain, thus
furnish the elements Of destruction to the
enemies of his country2 What infauation
has seized our people, Where will this
thing end
We know not who sells this powder
we are only assured that it is done.
There are other evidences of our indiffer-
ence to the circumstances by which we are
surrounded. Men from Kentucky come
into our city daily, and ventilate their trea-
son in our faces, and suffered so to do with
impunity. These men are doubtless often
spies, and are sent by their rebel friends to
gather information. But so gently has the
Government dealt with rebels, that they do
not hesitate to openly advocate their dam
noble doctrines OF State rights and seces-
sicn, and exult over the reverses of our
arms.
How long with these things be permit
ted Will we sleep forever Are VIC
cravens and towards that we dare not APP
prehend such traitors and rebels, and pun
ish them for their crimes 2 Or are we so
careless of our own lives and of the lives of
our wives and children and friends that we
prefer to lie still at our ease until our
Threats are cut and our dwellings fred over
our heads2 Is it not time our public au-
thorihes should move Ia this matter2
Companies of our soldiers are sent into
the counties across the river, with orders
to arrest all who haunt their treason OPEN
ly, or are known secretly to sympathise
with or in any w0y abst tho r0LvIs. We
cannot see why they shall be permitted to
come here, and faunt their treason in our
faces with impunity.