The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-04-02
A Rnfternut Meeting.

mocraey" to rally to their old standard
The day appointed was Friday, March
9th, the meeting to be held at Bethany
Church at P NJ t Isl
Bethany is an old log house about
seven miles south of Boonville, and has
long been noted as Democratic Church,
as its pastor SO emphaucally called it. -
Benoni Fuller was to be speaker of
the day, but on account of sudden illness
was unable to be present, so Judge Moore
of Boonvile answered in Mr.. Fuller's
place, and appeared at the appointed
Tune When he rode up and alighted the
Butternuts gathered around him anxious
| to know the cause of their friend Fuller
absence.
After shaking hands and passing
| few compliments, the venerable Judge
notified his old friends (the butternuts)
that the time had arrived for speaking,
he leading the way.
The Judge began by saying that it had
been some time since he had the pleas
ure aud opportunity of meeting his old
friends in political matters, but it was s.
and could not be amended. He said he
was willing to unite himself with any
party creed to suppress the rebellion, no
matter what be the name, until the I'M
constitutional Proclamation was issued
and the writ Of habeaS corpus was SUI :
pended in the loyal States. What ne
in the State of Indiana where there are
no traitors, said the Judge, Ito which
loud cries of none was heard from all
parts of the house) He said he believed
that the President was honest, but it was
investing too much in one man, and that
it only tended to despotism. He closed
by saying that he wanted this rebellion
put down and the Union restored as it
was" but he could not and would not
submit to the terrible montrosities
which were now being enacted by this
miserable Administrator THAT w II
not, that we'll not, sounded from all
parts of the house)
AS soon as the Judge was through
Captain A. Frisbee was called on and re,
sponded by saying that he Was for peace
now and had been from the con-
mencement of the war, and that he did
not advise any man to enlist in this I'M
holy and unconstit ltiOnal war, but he
had never encouraged desertions, and
had never done anything in opposition
to the Government, but he thought it
was an abolition war and ought to stop
and the Southern States given their
rights, which should have been done in
the first place, and there never would
have been any war, but the only alterna-
tive now left was compromise, because
we could never make peace by force of
arms.
He wished to have it distinctly under
stnod that the Southern people had rights
rights were not respected, the Democrats
would rise en- maSSe and have these
rights respected. He thought it was
time that all conservative men organ
lzed IN order to resist the despotic rule
OF the Administration party He wound
up by advising his friends (the Butter
nuts) to organize.
This Capt Frisbie is not captain in
the United States Army, but formerly of
Home Guard
After Frisbee was done, Mr.. Pyatt was
called on, and took his stand in the pul-
pit with as much solemnity as if going
to deliver funeral address. He vas
sorry that his country was overwhelmed
| by this great rebellion on the one side
| and the Abolition and despotic Admins
tration on the other. He thought the
best way to get rid of these nuisances
was to organize, catch the rebels and
| hang them on one end of a pole and
hang the Abolitionists on the other.
Applause He said it was tue that
tue Administration party had all the
arms and munitions of war in their
hands, but they must do the best they
could. He said it was a little horse
racing which he used to pride himself
on. He said, when commencing the
race, they would choose for the track
and then for the go word" The same
was the case now, only they (the Union
men) had the go word on them~(the
Butternuts), but he assured them they
(the Butternuts) would get the best of !
the race; but he did not recommend or
advise commencing on them (the Union
men) He thought, if the Conscription
Act was put in force, that the "Aboli-
tionists would get the worst of it.
Kisses and cheers. He ended by say
ing that all good men must stick to the |
" Democratic party and show the "Aho-
litionists that the Southern people had
rights, and that these rights must be re-
spected.
Mr.. Lowell was called on, and re-
sponded by telling puppy story, and
promptly took his seat.
Mr. Dickerson was then called on.
He had answering patriotism, and aid
not know that he could say much more
than had already been said; but he
thought the Proclamation was the main
cause OF the continuance of the war he.
cause 1t made united South and a
divided North-that he had brother in
the South who told him So He had
never known anything Of the K G. C.'s.
and did not know or think any such or,
ganlzatlon existed but he thought there
should be some mode of self-protection
against this abolition aud despotic Adj
mlnistration. He took his seat amid ,
misses and applause
Mr. Bonner was called, and respond
ed by saying that he was a very poor
speaker, and that the friends had occu-
pied all the grounds that he should have
done, but he thought the time was com
ing when this corrupt and contemplate t
Administration would be brought to an c
Swer for this abuse of power, and for in /
generating American citizens in bas-
tiles. There was n dow oF no.u:L..: l.