The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-07-20
JULY 20, 1868.
From the indianapolis Gazette.
A Little Scrap OF History.

[From the indianapolis Gazette
A Little Scrap OF History.
Our people will recollect the effort
that was made last winter by the Demo
cratic members of the Legislature to
take the entire control of the military of
the State out of the hands of the Gov
ernor, and place it in the hands of q
Military Board to be appointed by the
Legislature-that is, Board of Copper
heads. 1t was this effort and determine
ton on the part of the Copperheads that
broke up the Legislature that, and
nothing more The loyal members saw
the danger; they saw through the game
that was sought to be rlayed, and charg-
plain enough that they wanted to get the
control of the military of the State out
OF the hands of loyal Governor and
give it into the hands of set of disloyal,
rebel sympathizing knights of the Col
den Circle, or OF such men as would put
1t under the control of that secret disloy-
al organization, to be used in favor of
the Southern rebellion and the secession
of Indiana; to be ased against the Co..
ernment and to precipitate the State into
secession, rebellion and civil war. That
was the game. 1t was so charged by
loyal men, and the facts are now fast
demonstrating that such was the case,
beyond all question. The thing viii yet
be made so plain that no one will need
to doubt
But they were foiled in their treasona-
bic scheme. They refused to legislate
upon any other matters, to pass the nee
essary appropriation bill, or anything,
until their pet scheme of getting control
of the military was passed They de-
clared that that must be done first Al
though in direct violation of the Consti-
tuition of the State they were determined
to pass their military bill, or drive the
loyal minority of the Legislature into the
revolution arr mea u e. last reso t.
of breaking quorum. They were warn
the Constitution, but what cared men
bent upon reasonable proceedings, upon
secession, rebellion, and civil war, for
the Constitution? To prevent this nefa-
rious scheme from being passed into the
form of law, the Union members, as is
well known, withdrew, and thus broke
up the Legislature. That much is his
tory.
Failing to get control of the military
OF the State, the next move of these men
was to get all the troops away from the
Southern border of the State, 80 as to
make it as easy as possible for their
Southern brethren, should they wish to
do so, to cross over and make us visit.
2 bo 4ha4 Al E.L
airy, a set of as loyal soldiers as ever
were got together, was raised expressly
to serve in the Southern border of the
State, and to guard the counties along
the Ohio river from invasion and the
predatory excursions of Snutharn-SAA-1-
Second Congressional Districts, and
some perhaps in the Third They were
doing good service They would be do
ing good service to-day, were they still
there The recent raid of over one hun
dred rebel cavalry into our State below
Louisville would hardly have taken place
if the 5th cavalry had not been removed.
It was removed and sent South. Way
was it done? Few persons, perhaps, IN
this vicinity know why it was done. Inc
same influence that tried lsst winter to
get the WnOle InlllIdiS - o1'""'Ao ~
the State into the hands of the enemies
of the Government, caused the remova
from the border counties of the 9th cav
airy, and thus left those counties open
and exposed to rebel invasion. We know
| the result. But read the following and
be astonished, or rather have your eyes
opened little on the subject;
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. Is, 1863.
"The undersigned, Senators and Rep
resentatives from the First and Second
Congressional Districts of Indiana, re
spectfully request His Excellency, Cover
nor 0. P. Morton, to use his influence tC
have the 9TH Indiana cavalry remoye'
from the border counties OF said Dlstrlc'
7 w Lemon, G. W. Finch
Wm. z. Niblack, John Lemon,
Thomas Z. Garvin, Geo. H. Howe,
Josenh A. Reitz, j. G. Howk,
!, E. W. Spencer, Thomas Ryan,
3 n s. Given, c. B. Ferguson,
S s M Holcom. A. J. Hardin,
: r r Kemp, Jamerson Lee,
1 w H&DeBruler, Daniel Blocker,
= y Williams, Jas. Hardin,
t s Fuller. J. 6. Howard.
Comment on the above is hardly ne