The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-09
Watchman what of the Night ?

The anxiety of the people to learn the
news was never greater or more natural
than now. All feel that we are at the
turning point of the rebellion, and that
within the present month it will be so far
decided that the end can not be far off
or doubtful
There is but one event. possible to
happen, that can prolong the contest
the triumph of that faction in the
North at the coming elections, known in
this State as the Sth-of January" pat
eat firearms" Butternut Democracy
and throughout the whole country as
"Vallandighamers and secession sympa-
thisers." That class of demagogues who
appeal to the farmers to betray their
country, that they may get Sc hundred
for their pork Who strive to ALLEVIATE
the West from the East, and to hand over
to jeff. Davis and his coterie of traitors
and thieves, this glorious empire of the
North West e
But they will not succeed. No, thank
Godl the honest yeomanry Of the land
the noble farmers of the mighty West
who have given their sons freely in The
defence of the proud heritage bequeath-
ed them by the God-like Washington
and the heroes of the Revolution, will
not so basely sell their country or so in
humanity sacrifice their sons on the altar
of their own cupidity.
The morning cometh. - The Star OF
the Union is again in the ascendant.
The achievements of the past month are
but the harbingers of future successes.
The traitorous bands who are assailing
the noblest Government that the sun
light of heaven ever shone upon, driven
to desperation by their mighty wants
made one last, one frantic effort to re
trieve their waning fortunes by mao
attempt to invade the peaceful homes o.
the North. -
They have failed, signally, fatally fail
cd. The great free north is not destined
to be polluted by the sacrilegious tread o
armed traitors They invaded, hesita
ting, doubling Maryland, but were hurl-
worse rrfan tecrruuti-u by a rr1si or ~,
heroes-the grand the immortal arm,
ofthe Potomac"--hurled back upon thei
own barren desolations, made desolatt
by their gigantic treason; hurled
back half naked, to starve, to sicken tc
die, in that land rendered deadly by theil
presidential breaths They invaded Ken
lucky, hating but always chivalroui
Kentucky Flushed with first triumph
over raw troops, they dreamed of cas-,
victory, and in fancy feveled in the spa
cious halls, and in the rich marts of tbs
opulent and fertile north.
But they met lion in the way Tht
veteran "Army of the Ohio" suddenl,
appeared between them and their covet
ed prey, and they start back as if tn,
lightnings of heaven had flashed in theil
faces. They saw looming before then
the bloody fields of Donelson, Shiloh
and Pea Ridge, and skunk back to theil
exhausted South. -
In the midst of their terror and disap
pointment, their hearts are appalled, by
the thunder of Iuka, Corinth, and tht
Hatchie, mingled with the wall of theil
thrice-defeated friends These walls are
echoed back from the plains of South
western Missouri, where traitorou:
hordes fall thick and fast beneath the
trenchant strokes of the gallant Soho
field, whose shouts of victory are echoed
by the triumphant Rosecrans, Hurlbut
and Ord. The morning cometh; the
clouds are fringing with gold.