The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-31
The ImpressmeRt OF Provisions In
the South.

The Richmond Examiner, of the 18th,
says the temper of the people revolts at
the injustice and arbitrary violence of
the imrressmen S, and tLat-
''Ihey will take effectual measures to
prevent the Government from obtaining
what they prowl through the country to
seize for mockery of payment There
is feeling of resentment, deep-seated
and widely prevailing the best class of
the community, against Government,
which is responsible for these mad and
reckless impressments; and there are
high officers in this goodly city who
fancy they are popular in the land, but
whose names are held ia execration by
the staunch classes which control public
opinion.
These arbitrary impressments of Gov
ernment touch the peoples pride and
sense of fjustice, and have effected great
and natural change in their sentiments
towards the cause. Men, who, in a ro-
mantle and pious enthusiasm for their
country, have cheerfully given up their
sons to the battle, and have assisted
with sort of mournful pride in the
burial of their offspring slain on the
field, have had their feelings and temper
toward the Government suddenly chang
ed by the rude and rapacious action of
Government press-gangs.
The impressment of supplies for the
army is not confined to Richmond. We
,fedcracy, of March 1bjfhfta bfhf,t qd6p9r8iall JGpa-
per being before us:
"There is now an almost universal
outcry against the unjustiiiable seizures
of private property, which have recently
become too common. The people are
beginning to feel and appreciate its enor-
nifty as they never did before; hence the
outcry. If our Governments, States and
Confederate, wish to maintain the respect
and good opinion of the people, they
had better cause their officials to cease
all such operations-so near akin to pill
laging-at once, and adopt system of
obtaining regular supplies, the same as
citizens do.
"The army must be
fed, if there be enough corn and meat in
the country to feed it; and if it should
ever come to such strait, let every man
give out to the army the last morsal in
| his house.
''The first seizing during this war was
| by order of Governor Brown, in the
spring of last year, when he ordered all
the salt held by spectators to be seiz-
ed, and certain price allowed in pay
ment therefor 1t was a lawlesS and un-
! iustifable act There was no necessity
for it. 1t was mischievous, and has re-
suited in untold evil to the country.
/ This everybody now sees and acknow-
lodges, though at the time number Of
our good people applauded and justified
the act, particularly among the farmers
residing in the country They wanted salt
to save their bacon. = Now the pre-
cincts of these people are invaded.
The farmers bacon, shucks. fodder,
pork-hogs, and beeves are seized. The
man VINO reioiced at the seizure of the
salt, has felt the heavy hand of the seizer
laid ruthlessly upon him.
: "And now a word to our Legislature
At the last session a wicked act was
passed to take control Of our factories or
possession of their products, if they
would not sell their goods at certain
prices, and what is the result? To-day
Osnaburgs, yarns, sheetings, and shirt
f ings are higher than ever was known in
Georgia. A poor country woman cant
get bunch Of thread for less than ter
dollars. (Think of that! two dollars g
: pound and cotton at the highest, moi
more than eighteen to twenty cents pei
, ponnd y and it sells at eight dollars ant
half per bunch by the bale. A yarc
of Osnaburgs, shirtings and sheet
ings, cannot be bought for less than 81
s to 81 10, and will cost from ninety cent:
, to 81 by the bale.
"Such prices were never known Oh
y heard of in Georgia, till the Legislature
y undertook to make the factories sci
c cheap"
/ 1t is all nonsense to say, as some o
f the Southern papers do, that the i'm
: pressments by the Confederate Govern
: ment are "unnecessaryr jeff. Davis il
too smart to allow such things if h,
i could help himself The fact is, so re
:, lentless has been the conscription, ant
i so widespread the desolation of war, il
s the South, that there is scarcity OF pro
l. visions, and that it is absolutely neces
y sary to rob the people in order to feeC
d the army The agents of the Govern
e ment seize every thing they can ge
It their hands on, and pretend to pay for i
t, at arbitrary rates far below those Of tht
n market, in paper, six dollars of which