The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-17
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COpperhead Talk. ~

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The Parke County Republican says
that Voorhees, made speech at Cop
perhead meeting at Roseville on the 4th
INST, IN which he "adyised his friends
to arm themselves and drill, and be
ready to defend their rights; and when
the time came to strike he promised
them he would be with them" Such ad-
wee as this made the riot in New York
ana hIled her streets with flames and
blood. Such advice as this made the re.
belilon IN Holmes county, Ohio. Such
advice as this caused the murders in
Iowa recently, out of which an insurrec-
ton grew in day. Suce advice as this
collected an army in Brown county two
or three times to resist the laws and as
sist the rebellion. Such advice as this
can come from no heart not rotten with
treason. If Voorhees, were in the rebel /
dared to follow his counsel, be would do |
less mischief with the bullets he could |
fire at our soldiers than he does with his |
incendiary adcice to the ignorant crea-
lures who hang on his word Moreover
If he were in the rebel army there would |
be more chance Tor our soldiers to pay I
him tor his reasonable advice, of which
they chiefly are to be the victims, and
Tor his sland,rous attacks upon them.
In speech at Sullivan recently he said
OF our soldiers, "They ought to have
collars on their necks with the words
Lincoln's Dogs marked upon them"
Men whose shoes he is not fit to unite,
are stigmatised as dogs" fit only for a
collar, because they obey as they have
sworn to do, and as their duty as citizens
requires them to do, the orders of their
Government. If all the virtues of all
the Voorheeses since the food were boil
ed down into one man, there is not a sol
der from drummer boy to general,
who would not be worth as many of him
as could be stacked between the tropics
ten thousand deep. There is no vice in
loyal soldier that is not better than the
virtues of a traitor. There is no fibre in
a soldiers composition that does not con-
tain more manliness, courage, aud hon.
esty, than a continent of Voorheases.
lie may lind some time that the dogs"
he desplses so much will show him & heir
teeth when he won't be half so eager to
meet them as he was to abuse them.
Soldiers have good memories, and they
will remem Der Daniel.
Abuse of soldiers, when there are no
soldiers about, appears to be favorite
recreation OF Copperhead orators In
speech published in the Copperhead pa
pers OF this State, and stamped with the
deliberate approval of both speakers and
publishers, Joseph K Eagerton, the :
Copperhead member of Congress from !
the 10th District, says: ''It is to be ex-
CANT, ants sSd,ts tHear hands and souls lcith
the plunder of the detenceless homes Of
fkks. Southern people, will not hesitate to
to attempt f6 ffY ofag ohagft tat t ths hhsSs SsuE IN
the blood of those of their own kindred
and neighbors in the North whom they
have the Shameless audacity to de-
in public manifestoes from the
army as Copperheads and traitors"
This is the reception given by the
Copperhead party of Indiana to the earn
factious resistance to the Government
With such language, and with such vile
aspersions, are the citizens of Indiana,
who have put their lives and all they
have in hazard for the preservation of
their country, assailed by the party call
ing itself democratic" The time will /
come when these Democratic SANDERS
can be retorted at the ballot-box, and
then there will be no man so humble, so
cringing, so servile in his mean submis-
sion to the soldier as the Democrat
who now reviles him, while. giving all
help TO the rebels. A slight indication
of the return which the soldiers will
make for these little Democratic compli-
ments may be seen in the following cir
cumstance related by the Terre Haute
Express: t
A very striking evidence of the feel
ings of the soldiers of the Union for our
Congressman, Voorhees,, was shown yes
terday afternoon at the depot, as the I
train was about leaving for Indianapo-
lis. A car load of officers, soldiers and
marines, from the Army of the Missis-
sippi, were ON the train, on their way
from Vicksburg, and one of their num-
ber recognized in the placid features of
Voorhees,, who was maiestically pacing
the platform, made known his presence
to the occupants of the car, when a Cap
tain in an Ohio regiment got out of the
car, walked up to Voorhees,, and, as if
about to greet him, asked If his name
was Voorhees,. A sweet smile lit up =
Dan S face and he answered in the affirm
ative, and put out his hand as if to ex-
change shakes, but the officer drew back
and told him he wouldn't shake the
hand of id Copperhead," and told
him he was traitor, and if the soldiers
had him in Vicksburg they would hang
him. .
SUGAR EVAPORATOR.