The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-09-10
The Presidents Letter.

the Roman CathoilcS ana foreigners
The same kind of ability the Express
devoted in days past in 7inciting
mobs to destroy Catholic Churches is
now displayed in arraying the same kind
of agency against the Governments that
it may insure the success of the Rebel
lion 1t has always, somehow or other,
been arrayed against law and order.
The impregnability of the Presidents
logic may be better appreciated when
we see the contemplate character of the
assaults made upon it and the ridiculous
ness of their failures. The Express does
up its part of the work in the following
smart manner:
Considering that President Lincoln
represents "all the intellect, q all the
intelligence" " all the history and po-
etry, as well as all the craftsmanship
ed by the exclusive EopyaaiffsEeea as ftaim-
especially in such headquarters as that
of the Parrish mansion-we respect
fully suggest, only that if Washington,
or jefferson, or Madison, or Adams, or
Fillmore, had written letter to a mere
partisan convention, the letter would not
g have had in it such phrases as
Extracts NTH Glossary
Uncle Sans web feet" (the Navy:)
The job" (the War@ Empire, New
York; Key Stone" (Pa.i) Jersey"
New Jersey.)
In commenting upon the Presidents
remark that the use of colored troops
constituted the heaviest blows yet dealt
to the rebellion" the Express says:
-rsA--se,-- -A--.e-v.vr-s s115,
in his colored spectacles, but not we,
who use only the glasses the opticians
make and sell. The "heaviest blows A"
the Rebellion has had, were in the series
of victories, under General Grant, which
ended at Vicksburg, and there was not
anegro save as servant there. Ante
tam and Gettysburg were the next, and
not negro soldier was ON the ground
in falsifying plain historical facts to Gre
ate prejudice against the President.
When it says: "in the series of victories
under Gen. Grant, which ended at Vicks-
burg, there twas not negro save as
servant there, it simply and knowingly
lies. The battle of Milliken's Bend was
fought by negro soldiers fer tbs preser-
walton of Grants commune cations-and
1t was fought well. Hundreds of negroes
were in the trenches before Vicksburg.
iaboring day and night, and the Express
:. knows it. We are assured that none
more cheerfully acknowledge the value
of their services than Gen. Grant him
self
But we quote again from the Express.
1t is one of the organs, and its utter
ances are valuable by reason of this fact.
1.-THE whole tone and tenor of this let
ter is one of cunning, low cunning-but
the guise is so flimsy, that every one can
see, the President means to re-run for
the Presidency, on the exclusive negro
platform, and in maintaining it, to outbid
all the Fremonts, Chases, Stantons, or
any other rivals for negro suffrage and
negro freedom.
ave may as well make up our minds,
therefore, that during this Administra-
ton, there is no Peace The war is to
continue, and the CONSULTATION the
President speaks of, means the ''free ne
gro, the universal free negro" All
the Presidents low cunning upon the
subject of Peace, is as fmsy as his new
halfdisguised Policy.
Again quoting the Presidents asser-
ton that mo word or intimation from
those controlling the rebel army in rela-
tion to any peace compromise, had ever
come to his knowledge or belief, the Ez-
press says:
1.-THE President knows well,-ss ace
all know, that the great, the leading, the
cardinal object, of the proposed visit of
Alexander a. Stephens to Washington,
was for "peace," and "a Peace Compro-
mise; but he would not accept his
mission, or accept him as commission
er,-because his object was peace!
Hence, while the President may be tech
nically correct, that ''no word or init
nation" has reached him sin relation to
any compromise, the denial is only
piece Of cumming, because he would not
permit such word or intimation" to
reach him,-while the laws of our land
forbid any North man or South man, to
negotiate for peace,-except through
Abraham Lincoln & Co."
Now bolO does the Express know that
the cardinal object of Alexander H.
Stephens visit was peace? Is it in COM
smunication with the rebel authorities at
Richmond, and did it receive an intima-
ton beforehand of the contemplated Wis