The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-16
An Indignant Soldiers Rebuke of
the State Sentinel--.Card from Col.
Ncf1inniS
from the Indianapolis Journal.

A copy of the following communica-
ton, addressed to the editor of the Senti-
mel, has been furnished US for publica-
ton, 1t is scorching rebuke to that
intensely disloyal sheet:
HELENA, ARK, Feb. "a, 1868.
Editor Indiana State Sentinel:
SIR-In the Daily State Sentinel of
the 10th inst appears an article in rela-
ton to card addressed the De-
mocracy of Indiana" and signed by
Democratic officers from Indiana, which
desire to notice If the Sentinel had
been disposed to do justice in the mat
ter, and to publish the whole of the card
in connection with the criticism, no re-
ply would have seemed necessary, be-
lieving, as do, that the address speaks
for itself
Truth may be ignored for time, but
its earnest supporters and defenders can
not be put down by sneers and innuen-
does. Truth may be unwelcome, but its
enunciation can never be regarded as
hbelous or slanderous
The address was composed by one
whom believe to be an earnest lover of
the truth, and is a truthful, honest, pa
triotic paper. The motives which in
huenced its publication believe to have
been sincere patriotism-a desire to show
to the people of Indiana that all classes
in the army, regardless of politics or po-
sition, entertain the same views in regard
to the suppression of the rebellion, and
an earnest and sincere wish to see the
u-ba1a raO.lo &C
as one man for the maintenance of the
Union, the Constitution. and the laws
The Sentinel says: ''If high positions
in the army are to be purchased and
held at the expense of all manliness" !"
&c. Would the Sentinel try TO make its
readers believe that our "high positions"
were purchased, or that it is necessary
in order to hold them that we should re-
sort 70 the publication of addresses to
convince the authorities that we are sin
cere and in earnest? Does not the SEN
tinel know that at the time we accepted
our positions, the entire North was a
unit in favor of the prosecution of the
war? that there was scarcely man or
newspaper that dared utter word or
publish sentiment in opposition to it?
and that, therefore, the publication of
such an address, at that time, would have
been entirely uncalled for and unneces-
sary?
The idea of purchasing our positions
is unworthy of the Sentinel, and the idea
that the publication of the address was
in order that we might hold them, is abb
surd and ridiculous, especially as there
is no immediate prospect Of being called
upon to vacate, no complaints having
been preferred against US for neglect of
duty or incompetency. AS to the ques-
ton of competency, in my oUn case, 1
have a very distinct recollection of feel
ing highly gratifed over the very kind
and fattering notice of myself, which
appeared in the Sentinel, upon my pro-
motion to ''high position" and for which
l take this occasion to return sincere
thanks
Again, "The charge that the money of
the rebels is being freely used to subsi-
dize the press and politicians of the North,
has no foundation in truth" If the Sen
tineJS assertion is correct, from whence
comes the money to pay for the hundreds
of thousands of reasonable speeches, ad-
dresses and pamphlets, denouncing the
administration and the war, that are be-
ing constantly circulated among the
troops composing our army, in all Sec
tions of the country2 Who pays for the
tens of thousands of reasonable North
ern newspapers that are equally free, and
that so much pains is taken to circulate ?
Who pays the expenses of those misera-
BILE scoundrels who are employed to trav-
el from one point to another, where our
troops are stationed, for the purpose of
creating dissatisfaction, by preaching
treason to them, by pursuading them to
desert, by offering money to purchase
citizens clothing and pay their expenses
to their homes? Can it be that Indiana
traitors, who complain that they and the
country are being impoverished by the
taxes they are compelled to pay are lib
eral enough, or can afford, under
their excessive burdens, to pay those ex-
penses? Who pays for all this? Can
the Sentinel answer?
In reply to the assertion that "the
officers are making money by the war,
believe it true that large majority OF
them barely pay their expenses, and OF
the signers of the address, that General
Hovey, and Coils. Mclean, Slack and
Spicely are worse off to-day, in a pecu.
MARY point of view, than when they en-.
tered the service, the first three being
prominent lawyers with extensive prac-