The Evansville daily journal., 1862-04-26

n@@ Abont one year ago, the Mobile
Evening News, in commenting on the pros
pective struggle between the Government
and the rebels, spoke of our volunteers as
follows:
"These recruits are not soldiers, least of
all the soldiers to meet the hot-blooded,
thorough bred, impetuous men of the South.
Trencher soldiers, who enlisted to war on
their rations, not on men, they are. Fellows
who do not know the breech of musket
from its muzzle, and had rather flch q
handkerchief than fight an enemy in man
", open combat. White slaves, peddling
wretches, small change knaves and va
grants, the dregs and offscourings of the
populace-these are the levied forces
whom Lincoln arrays for the honor OF being
slaughtered by gentlemen-such as Mobile
sent to battle yesterday. Mobile is
sending forth to wage this war of inde-
pendence the noblest and bravest of her
sons. 1t is expensive and extravsgant to
put such material against the riff riff of
mercenaries whom the abolition power has
called out to war upon US. We could al
most hope that better class of men could
fall into the Northern ranks that our gen.
tlemen might find foemen worthy of their
conquer, and whose conquering would be
more honorable. For the present, however,
we need not expect to ind any zoe worth
fighting, for the North is just getting ready
and will likely be whipped before it is
ready"
We have no copy of the News, of late
date, TO ascertain whether it is convinced
that the North is now ready. We believe
the News, like many bright Southern
dreams, has ceased to exist. But in the
absence of information from that paper, q
visit to many of our hospitals and conver-
sations with some of " the nobrest and
bravest of Mobiles sons" who were wound
ed and captured at Pittsburg Landing by
the "riff raft" mercenaries, called out by
the " abolition power" induces rs to be
lieve that a change has come over the
dream of individual superiority, in which
the South has been indulging for so many
years. 1t was indeed expensive, extrava
giant to put such material against the riff
raff of the free States, for the riff raft no
desiring the honor Of being slaughtered
by gentlemen" preferred the safer, if no
more honorable, part of doing the killing
and bagging themselves.
We copy the extract from the Mobile
News, to refresh the minds of our people
with the kind of ideas that prevailed South
On the breaking out of hostilities. 1t was
necessary to disabuse the minds of South
ern braggarts of their boasted personal
superiority before the two sections could
hope to live together in peace, and we think
every days lesson is contributing to that
end.
The wounded Mobile rebels who are
being cared for and kindly treated in our
hospitals, we feel confident are convinced
not only that Northern volsnteers will
fight but that there are Northern gentle
men and Northern ladies. When exchang-
ed or paroled, we doubt not they will en-
brace the opportunity Of disabusing the
minds of their friends of many errors into
which they have fallen relative to the peo-
pie Of the North. If they do not, the Law
Of kindness has lost its power, and seces.
eession has plunged its victims to a depth
of degradation beyond the reRch Of hope Oh
mercy.