The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-04-23
Rnrnside,s Order.

From the Louisville Journal, 17th.1
Gen. Burnside's General Order No.
SO did not come day too soon, and we
are assured that, having been issued and
fair notice given, it will be executed, as
it should be, sternly and vigorously.
The forbearance hitherto observed to-
sBao rgg rEsahiale ff has done mischief. It has
encouraged and even invited disloyalty.
1t has enabled rebels and rebel sympa-
thiZers to carry on and carry ont their
TTCCIe or no resist
ance and little or no danger.
The rebel military authorities of the
South have felt that their emissaries and
agents could safely be sent and kept in
Kentucky wherever rebel purposes were
to be subserved. They have probably at
this moment at least two hundred re-
crulting officers sojourning at different
polnts, dressed in the garb of citizens.
and appearing to tie public eye, or at
least to the eyes of Union men, to be
quiet and inoffensive members of the
community, but actually holding rebel
recruiting commissions, and applying
themselves at all safe hours to the ac-
complIshment of the work assigned them.
There have been no efforts to search
out these secret recruiting officers. They
have been left to make all their arrange.
ments at leisure, to establish by concert
with each other a general organization,
and to get ready to either make an in
dependent movement within the State
or to unite with the first rebel forces that
might invade us. Returned rebels have
hPpn Known . nI rnoaunf,ol T.
neighborhoods, dwelling there without
having taken any oath of allegiance or
even non-combatant's oath, or reported
themselves at ali to any military or civil
authority. and of course their general
object could not be doubted, but in nine
teen cases out Of twenty nobody has in
teriered with them.
This extraordinary laxity on the part
of the Federal authorities has been q
blunder or crime, and we heartily re-
Jolce that the whole policy is to be thor
oughly changed. Now let every good
citizen give promptly whatever informa-
ton he can to enable the authorities to
against the peace and safety of the
State. he who connives at or promotes
the escape of the guilty is himself guilty.
There is in the order of Gen Burnside
one passage, which has no doubt created
q profound sensation in many quarters.
1t is this: "Ihe habit of declaring SYM
pathy for the enemy will no longer be
tolerated. " To many persons, male and
female, INDUCED as they have been and
as they never should have been, this may
seem harsh, but, if harsh, it is also lust
and necessary. To express sympathy
for the enemy is to electioneer for the re-
belliou. 1t is the commonest and most
general and one OF the most efficient
modes of electioneering for it Ii our
men and women insist on their right to
eiectloneer for the rebellion, let them ex-
ercise the right within the rebel lines.
there room enough there.
Some think that women should be al
Owed to soy and do what they please,
put the stern obligations resting upon
he authorities of our country in this SOL |
smn and terrible crisis have nothing to |
10 with courtly 5aIldntrX Women have
no more right than men to expect to be
allowed to use their influence in bring
ng on war and massacre and devastation
q tue midst of US. They have no more
light to foment rebelions than they have
% steal or murder or burn houses, and
indeed the first named crime involves in
"A ITS consequences the others and a
thousand more.
It. is well understood that here, in Lou
vile, the talk of female sympathizers