The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-28

they would not pay him a centfJr his patri-
otism. Had he been white be would have
been entitled TO aud would have received
$l3. 900 to $40, 900 salvage. Yet these men
were so much afraid of the Niger they voted
against paying him anything. Every man
in the Senate voted to pay Bob but in the
House III voted against 1t. Among these
were Voorhees, and Vallandigham, prac-
tically declaring under oath that they
would rot give a negro dollar for saving
the co lntry. No honest man would have
refused it. M #tN
He referred again to the cou6scation bill.
|" We have erred on this subject of using
negroes, and con6scating them. 1t is not
a political question, but military ques-
ton, aud in that light alone, should be
viewed. 1t is as much a military question
as any thing else. @ 4zA
you are discreet military man, you
want to know the strength and resources of
your enemy, and then you want to weaken
the one and destroy the other. This was
the rule of Napoleon, to learn the strong
and the weak pointsof his adversary, ana TO
strike him at the weakest
Ii you were prudent general you would
know that every slave in the Geld of his
master IS as good as a man in the army
The men who have slaves, can 60 to war
without Inconvenience. Take his negro
from the field, and you take bis master
from the army to provide for his family.
What right has man to run for Con-
gress, who says this is an abolition war,
and then blows out of the other side of his
mouth that be is a union man No man
is good union man, who is not willing to
loose every negro to save the country. If
you want TO put down the rebellion, you
must strike the rebels where it hurts the
worst"
They voted for 100000 men and $780,
100000 but vote against the means of
paying. Is this consistent You can make
up your minds. 1t is easy to vote appro-
priatious but of what use is it unless they
vote the means of raising the money 2 The
man who goes round the country complain
ing of and trying to prejudice the people
against the Tax law is no patriot. Three
fourths or nine thenths of the tax is ltvied
on the east. If the law is wrong you can
amend it, but don't send men to Congress
who won't vote for any thing. These men
voted against every measure to sustain the
Vallandigham, Voorhees, and
Law.
They talk also of the terrible debt, and
of stealing. Do they expect to pay no price
for their country
| don't like to talk much absut stealing,
because there has been so much Of it done
on our side Buchauan's Secretary of War
who was Democrat stole more than all
that has been stolen since. He stole 300
cannon and 3o0,0 900 small arms, with which
to kill our children. He and his friends
stole our forts, our arseaals, our mints and
our soldiers. There are bad Republicans
and bad Democrats, as many of the one as
the other, now 6lchiug from the govern
ment.
This, too, is a fruit of the rebellion.
have but one fault to President Lincoln
know he is honest. | know he is patri-
otto and desirs to save the country and
will do whatever he believes necessary to
save it. But think he wants backbone. =
Perhaps he is waiting for public opinion.
wish he had gone as far as l would. The
most important question TO be decided is
the next election of Representatives to the
General Assembly. Jefferson said the Cow
eminent of this country would be the pow
er that held the mouth of the Mississippi
The Mississippi is ours, and if Lincoln and
Congress can't open it, there are 300, o06
freemen in the Northwest who will do it
Your interests demand it !; your freedom
demands it. Will you ever consent to be
border State of this Confederacy? If you
can you should go and vote the Sth-of jan
uary ticket. How did Tennessee and Mis-
souri, go out of the Union. 1t was through
the influence of the knights of the Golden
Circle and the treachery of bad legislators.
Did you ever hear an 8th-of- January
man speak without attempting to prejudice
you against the New England States p
Now watch these leaders. Remember what
Jesse D. Bright said as he left the Senate.
That he would appeal to the verdict Of the
people, and that speedily.
You have raised 100000 men for the
war. Has Jesse D. Bright ever come
among you 10 say a word of your duty2--
You have many such men among yon.-
If there is man on earth you should
lethe it is the man that can stand silently
by at this crisis. There are Knights of the
Golden Circle in Indiana. You may have
some here, hope not. You will have no
peac. until that organization is broken
up"
The Gov. described how they manage
and how Incorporate. He gave as the evil
dence oe their existence, the finding of the
Grand Jury at indianapolis composed of
Republicans and Democrats. One of the
members of that jury told him that be had
tried the sign as revealed to them by one
of the witnesses, at the Both of July con-
veution and more than so members of that
convention recognised and answered. That
convention was composed in great meas
ure of that kind of men. Such men took
Tennessee, Virginia and Missouri out of
the Union.
JEFF Davis understands that no power on
earth can keep the Northwest from the
Mississippi. The States south were almost
all loyal but the loyal men were over-awed,
and the States secretly turned over to the
Confederary, by K. g. C's. and wicked
legislators. Indiana may be taken out the
same way. Davis supposed that Indiana,
Illinois, aud southern Ohio would go with
the south, or the rebellion would never
have been begun. Men in Indiana said be-
fore the war commenced, that if an army
started to subdue the south it would have
to pass over their dead bodies. This was
taken by the traitors, that they had friends
in Indiana" Mr.. Wright alluded to the
speeches made 10 the 9Th of January con-
vention, and in that of July Both, to show
the speakers were aiming to make Indiana
an appendaCe of the Southern Coufeder-