The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-03-24
xmpudeneo UmparaIloled,

Impotence Unp@raneled.
We heard the other day of letter from
O young gentleman, now prisoner at In
dianRpolis, to his mother in Kentucky, in
which he stated that he had always been
taught that the people of the South were
superior race to those in the North, and
what he saw while prisoner only convinc-
ed him of the truth Of the position.-'
"Why, mother" says be, tive are waited on
here by these people and receive as much
attention, with the same apparent docility
and obsequiousness which characteristics our
slaves, in their attentiveness to our slightest
wishes. 1 am fully convinced, had doubt
ed it before, that the South is the ruling
race and must triumph in the end" This,
we understand, If not the language, was
about the substance of the young gentle
mans reflections. IL also shows what hid
den mines of gratitude have been opened
out by the sympathy and kindness of the
people of Northern cities towards the mis-
guided beings imprisoned in their midst
While the above Instance may strike
most persons as being remarkably cool, its
impndence cannot compare with that of
the editor of the Nashville Patriot. 1t will
be remembered that the Patriot was the
most violent secessionist sheet in Tennessee.
Its recommendations were most blood
thirsty and its appeals to the passions of the
Of the most incendiary character. Il re.
commended punishment by death for all
who persisted in standing by the old flag,
or even in reVering its memories it urged
the destruction of those who dared TO en-
terrain, much less express, opinions deroga-
tory to the Confederate Government; and
it seemed to revel in the prospect that all
the terrors of the French revolution might
be brought upon the people of Inflated
Tennessee. No paper urged the destruc-
lion of the loyalists in East Tennessee with
more violence and pertinacity, and no paper
manifested such rage at even the senlbiance
Of loyalty to the Government.
Fort Donelson fell, and the federal army
marched on Nashville and quietly took pos
session of the city. The cowardIy dog who.
had done so much to incite the people to
take up arms, instead Of shouldering mus
ket and defending the soil of the State as he
had urged others to do, remained in the
city and claimed protection from the mill
tary authorities. He even dared to con-
tiuae the publication of his treasonable pa
per, and instead of hanging him to the
nearest lamp-post as he deserved, General
Buell. permitted him to continue in bis trea-
sonable business But Gov johnson, it seems.
designs turning over a new leaf, and has
called the gentleman to an account, and in
formed him that he can no longer preach
treason under the folds of the Stars and
Stripes.
The following article, which we copy
from the columns of the Patriot will
chow to what extent the impudence
of these Southern traitors will carry
them, and also the great necessity that
somebody should be hung for treason be-
fore we can expect quiet to be fully RS
stored:
On the 18th inst, one of the editors and
one Oi Oh Inc EAtElOt, ID the
absence Of their associates, resumed the
publication of the paper. They were not
prompted by an eager desire to print q
newspaper, the passage of Nashville from
under the authority of the Confederate to
that OF the Federal Government, having
rather disinclined them to renew their in
terconrse as Journalists with the public |
They yielded their own inclinations TO the |
entreates of friends who wished some other
source OF information than the organs of |
the administration at Washington, and TO a |
Iandaote desire to afford emplovment To |
printers with whom they had long end |
agreeable business connections We re-
from the experiences of independent nauvs1
papers in other cities under the flag ~ ~ |
Union, that We had little hope of being nars
mittsd to enjoy, unmolested, the libertv NJ
speech which was once presumed to be tbe
constitutional right of every American free |
man, and were not, therefore, surprised
when on Saturday last Governor-G General
johnson, in an interview which he request
ed with the newspaper proprietors of Nash
vile, imposed upon them conditions more
suitable to the empire of France, whose inn
psrial despot has banisbed a free press, than
TO Tennessee. We need not state what
those conditions were. Unwilling 10 be
uammelled by them, we abdicate the tri-
POD with scorn Of sensibiIity which no