The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-25
Affairs in Dixie.

We are indebted to Mr.. I. E. Wheeler,
low IN Memphis, for copy Of the Mem
his-Grenada appeal Of the 10th inst.
Editorialls, the appeal confines its
attention principally to the discussion of
resident Lincoln's emancipation proc
.maticA. 1t complaingIy says, that
while, the Confederate Congress is
spending days in discussing measures of
redress for the wholesale plundering of
the South contemplated by Lincoln's
proclamation, our psapte are .fretting at
The contemplation Of the dangers that
threaten them"
The appeal thinks the best retaliatOry
policy to be adopted by the rebels is to
hand over the Federal prisoners, as they
are captured, to The State authorities, to
be tried by the civil laws The local
codes Of most Of The rebel States visit
capital punishment upon those guilty of
acts similar to that imposed on his army
by President Lincoln, and the appeals
theory, if adopted by jeff Davis and car
ried out, is but roundabout way Of de-
claring that all Federal prisoners here
after captured shall be put to death
This humane manner of conducting the
war, it is thought, viii compel the United
States authorities to repudiate5 the proc
lanfation Our own opinion is, that it
viii pretty effectfully extinguish the pa
rolling programme, which has, so far,
proved the most successful card yet
played BY the rebels If JEFF. Davis de-
cides that he will hereafter treat-prison-
ers as felons, the war will soon be
brought to an end. Our boys will make
Tshoft work Of the barbarianS
In another article headed /" How to
aid.the Cause, " the Appeal justi6es the.
wisdom of some our officers in making
use of the contrabands, and completely
silences the miserable tories in this and
other Northern States, who have made
50 much fuss about taking and using the
niggerlh iha@aA Ahvt 4%a y
We copy the Appeals editorial on this
b subject in full:
Since the invasion of the South the
Yankees have stolen thousands and tens
of thousands of negroes and made them
useful as teamsters, laborers in camp
etc, and unless they are checked such
depredations will be continued. AS the
war originated and is carried on in great
part for the defense of the Shareholder in
his property rights and the perpetuation
of the institution, it is reasonable to sup
pose that he ought to be first and fore
most in aiding and assisting, by every
means in his power, the triumph and sue
cess of our arms. This is SO manifest
that it needs no argument to enforce it,
and we allude to the subject now only
because ofthe fact, as we are informed,
that the agent of Gen. PRTCs, who is in
want of so teamsters, has canvassed this
neighborhood for some days past, and
thus far has only been able to procure as
many as four. This should not be-
Good wages are offered, and proper,
care and attention viii be given every
negro thus hired to the government, and
the Shareholder ought to remember that
for every negro he thus furnishes he puts
n soldier in the ranks. Let the slave-
owners come. mp to the assistance of the
army in this particular. 1t is their sol
emn duty IN this critical hour of our
trials, and il shows destitution ofpat-
riotism to shirk it