The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-20
EVANSVILLE IND FRIDAY MORNING,


They condemn and despise THEM Read
their proclamations, addresses, army or
ders and newspapers. At no time have
they ever spoken of Northern friends ex-
cept as ALLIES IN THE WAR; They deride
the foolish appeals of their Northern
allies for peace and compromise, and
preclude all hope of the restoration of
the Union on any terms.
What incalculable mischief is being
done by these Northern allies-their
speeches and newspapers are quoted,
and results of elections reported in the
Southern papers, as-evidence not of any
hope of restoring the Union, but to show
that the loyal people of the North are
becoming willing to submit to any dis
honorable and humiliating terms of
peace, based even on a full recognition
that the fendish rebellion was right, and
that it was well to destroy this Govern
ment
People of Ohio! But one alternative
is ettyom You mast pronounce this a
Just rebellion You must sag that it
acas right and justifable to destroy this
Repubtic; that Republic as aceqk,
Helpless Government poacerleSs to sas-
tain itself, and 10 be destroyed wheneUer
c0nspirGt0rs enough can be allied for
the purpose, or yOW must shOw to the
acOrtd the power of selfpreservation in
The great example of Confederated Re-
publics. That it has n quiet dormant
force, which aroused, has gigantic
strength and energy. That it not only
Ill L
rights and privileges, but can sustain
internal treason.
We are fighting for the Republic; to
it we have given our hearts, our arms,
our lives We intend to stand between
you and the desolating hosts of the reb-
els, whose most cherished hope and de-
sire has been and is, to take possession
of and ravage your own beautiful Ohio.
Once already, we have stood as living
wall between you and this fate, and we
may have to do it again
Men Of Ohio! You know not what
this Western Army has suffered You
know not now, the hardships and suffer-
ings of your soldiers in their chill tents,
their shelterless bivouacs, their long,
iIdICHCS, anu llClI UdlIlG luluuGu
ranks. If there be honesty and purity
in human motives, it must be found
among your long enduring soldiers.
Hear us, and for your countrys sake, if
not for ours, stop your wild, shameless,
political strifes, unite for the common
cause, and never think or speak Of peace
and compromise until the now empty
terms mean: The Republic as it was,
peacefully if it may be, but forcibly at
all events 1t is said war and force can
not restore the Union! What can?
Is there anything else that has been
left untried, short of national dishonor
and shame? Nothing. Purely physical
power has been invoked to destroy the
Government, and physical force must
meet it. Conquer the rebellious armies,
smut IN by DiUCkddes anu vior0I fvue
mics the deluded people of the rebellious
States, and let no peace, no happiness,
no prosperity dwell in their land or
homes, until they rise against their own
tyrants, until popular opinion with them
0vertbrows their false Government and
dooms their despotic leaders Whip them
and confne them, until "Acteon is de-
voured by his own dogs"
This is all that can be done, and it
must be done with the determined ener-
gy of a united people. Thus feel and
think the soldiers of the grand army of
the United States. Are you with US, or
will you now desert US, sell your national
birthright for a mess ofpottage, and sue
cess in local politics, barter away your
country, crawl at the feet and lick the
hands of the perfdious, cruel and devil
ish conspirators who have organized this
rebellion, and who boasts of their success
| in destroying your Government, Staying
your sons and wasting your treasure,
contemned, derided and despised by
them, while you are humbly craving their
favor? Not waiting or even hoping for
returning loyalty in them, or for terms
of peace to be rendered by them? Can
you thus dishonor yourselves, your sol
diers and your State?
We ask you now to stay, support and
uphold the hands of your soldiers
Give some of the wasted sympathy, SO
lily but freely bestowed upon the old po-
litical hacks and demagogues, who SEEK
a blessed martyrdom in Lincoln Bastiles
10 IHe suffering UuI DldNelJ cuuuFlilS SOL
diers who in the camp the field and the
hospital, bear real hardships uncom
plainingly. If treason must run riot il
the North, keep it there-inault not your
soldiers by sending to them the vile ema
nations of the traitors who are riding intC
office, place and power, over the ruins o
the Government and making them theil
stepping stones Insult US not by let
ters, speeches and papers, which tell vi
that we are engaged as hirelings in an
unholy Abolition war, which make mol
idols of the hour of those whose hypo
critical demagoguery takes shape il
cowardly, covert treason-whose con
slant vocation is denunciation of theil
Government and its armed defenders
The Army of the West is in terrible
earncst-earnest to conquer and destro,
armed rebels-earnest to meet force will
force-earnest in its hearty detestatiol
of cowardly traitors at home-earnest il
will and power to overcome all who de
sire the nations ruin.
Ohios 100000 soldiers in the field
citizens at home, potent in either capaci
ty, ask their fathers, brethren anc
friends, by their fresides and in thei
peaceful homes, to hear and head this ap
neal. and to put an end to covert treas