The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-16
A Choice Gem for the Consideration
of our Soldiers.


In Saturdays Journal we quoted
what the Dubuque Herald had to say
concerning our soldiers In another
column we copy the opinion of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer of the soldiers wives.
We now add to these choice extracts the
opinion of the Evansville Gazette of our
own neighbors, who volunteered in the
service of their country, and are to-day
enrolled in sueh regiments as the Goth
and 9Ist
What think our people of man who
unblushingly asserts that our friends in
those regiments are chicken, calf, pig,
and horse thieves? That we may not be
taoughtto over-state the case, we quote
the paragraph from the Gazette, in full.
Ifit conveys any other idea than that our
boys are devoting their time principally
to stealing, we confess ave don't see
it."
In spite of her heroism and sacrifices
Kentucky has been made to suffer griev-
Gus wrongs The Northern and South
ern armies have alike ravaged her soil.
The soldiers of the former have unlawful
ly taken as much property as the gener-
ais of the latter Her farms have been
turned into waste places, her stock
slaug htered, her forage too often carried
OH without compensation. The poor and
the rich have suffered alike in the de-
strucllon' Attila said that " grass grew
no more where his horse trod;" our SOL
dIers may say that rooster crows not, nor
calf bleats, nor pig Squeals behind them.
The horse they saw in the pasture too of
ten will never see pasture again. The
cow will give milk no more; the geese
will float not again in the familiar pond,
not IN any other place except the camp
Kettle. Let US not enumerate other
crimes, stores robbed, houses burnt, &c
they are exceptions. The negro being
endowed with locomotion desires to prove
his capacity for walking, and rarely does
he meet with a rebuff in entering the ar
mics of the Union. He cannot be given
up; the master who presumes to ask for
him is as brave as Stonewall jackson.
Many of our regiments imagine that
Kentucky is hostile ground and that no
rights are to be respected there. The
Kentuckian's right to be a Union man,
about the only solid right he has left, is
not admitted; the answer is: 'fOh, yes,
you're a Union man to save your mig
gersl As if, after all, even that reason
is not as good as the Unionism of Mas
sachusetts, which consists in stealing
ringers" Look at Connecticut and
Kentucky. The Copperheads meet in
the former State and pass resolutions
and nominate a ticket. In Kentucky
they attempt the same thing and Mr..
Gilbert, of the wo-thousand-and-some
thing Ohio regiments, disperses the con-
yention. Where will all this end? When
will the passions of men break out into
rebellion, the greater for the prior mod
Grafton? Have Kentuckians less rights
than Indianians, because they own ne
groes and we do not? Would that a
change might come over the spirit of the
administration; would that truth were
permitted, as of old, to meet error on
even terms; would that all questions in
States not in rebellion might be left to
argument and to the peoplel The adj
ministration would then be stronger, and
the government have better chance of
perpetuity s-..-.-