The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-12-04
Worth Thinking About.

III mourning over the result OF Oen.
Braggs expedition into Kentucky, and
meditating upon what might have been,
the Atlanta (Ga.) Intelligencer says:
Had Bragg done his duty, as we'll and
promptly as Gen. Smith did, Louisville
would have been ours, Cincinnati would
have furnished us supplies, while Column
bus, Ohio, might have been our head
quarters Then aCould tie VallaRdig-
hams Of ohio, and the Brights of IN
diana, haze rallied to the issuing of
Gen. Braggs noted proclamation then
ScOutd many Thousands IN Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois hare Joined the Southern
army; then, too, could General BrGgg
hare cut off the Western from the East
erR States, hare whispered terms of
peace into the Nortk-UeSteT1 ear; aud
then might zoe hare reasonably hoped
for peace
Is any comment on the above neces-
sary to show how the Vallandigham and
Voorhees, organization is regarded by
the rebels? They are prolonging the
contest only in the hope that the demo-
cratic party of the North will get con-
troll Of our government and concede all
their demands. That such is also the in
tentiOn of the leaders of the Democratic
party is evident from the recent speech
of Fernando Wood in New York. Wood
is the father of the organization, and
an authoritative expounder of its faith
In such close communion is Wood with
the rebels at Richmond, that in his
speech on Saturday night last he boldly
announced the terms on which the rebels
would quit fighting. In stating the terms,
he claimed to speak By authority. The
arrangement by which this terrible war
is to cease and fraternal relations be re-
stored, is simply to restore the Democ-
racy, headed by Wood, Vallandigham &
Co., to power--a forgetfulness of the
past-and provision for the public debt
on both sides Woods followers received
these propositions with boisterous cheer
ing, evidently regarding their adoption
as a master stroke of political strategy.
We mention these things that our
readers may see whittier the Democratic
organization is drifting. 1t requires no
prophetic eye to tell exactly what will be
the result of the efforts of the Woods in
the East, and the Vallandighams and
Hendricks of the West. If the pro-
gramme initiated by them is logically
carried out, civil war will rage north of
the Ohio and Potomac. 1t cannot be
otherwise Woods programme contem-
plates nothing else than the submission
of the Northern people to the Southern
oligarchs, by acknowledging their indie
pendence, or by restoring them to the
position they once held in our own Gov
ernment To this large portion OF the
Northern people will never submit The
army especially will repudiate every such
idea, and if they find that traitors at
home are endeavoring to destroy their
efforts to put down treason abroad, they
will return to set their own house i'll
order
That we are not in error in our sur
misses as to the intentions of the leaders
ofthe Democratic organization, we copy
a paragraph from the Vincennes Sun
whose patriotic (?) editor was earnestly
invited by the equally patriotic 90 but
ternuts of this vicinity to locate in Evans
vile. to teach such Democracy as may
be found in the following:
Inasmuch as the two bastiles of Amer
lea have been delivered of their prison
ers-have had their doors thrown open
and their inmates permitted to go, we are
reminded of the finale to the bastile or
city prison of Paris, built in 1869, and
destroyed by the people in 1889, after an
existence of over 400 years-.juSt az
Forts Warren and Lafayette ShOatC
hare been by oar people.
Here is reasonable proposition tt
destroy the two forts which alone protee
the harbors of New York city and Bos
ton, because they were used as places
confinement for men who were and are
morally, traitors, however, they may es
cane the law. We know how difficult
is to prove the overt act of levying wa
on the part of the sneaking sympathlzer
in the Northern States, and that the
have a thousand ways of giving the enc
mics of the Government " aid and com
fort" and yet steer clear of the technica
tiles of the law.
But they are becoming bolder Ih
proposition to destroy forts Warren an
Lafayette may be considered as pre-em
nently bold and entities Green to hig
place in the estimation of his Souther
friends, in whose interests he is laborin
so diligently, and we might add, reel
lessly.
We respectfully submit to our reade
ifthese things are not, to say the leas
worth thinking about
Ba- The Nashville Union says Il
rebel Congress has already passed Ia
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