The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-04-02
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Rg- To find the following in the New
Albany Ledger is one of the hopeful
signs of the present The Ledger has
ceased its wanderings and is doing good
service for the Union cause:
Many persons are allowing the expect
ed CONSUMPTION to give then. great deal
of trouble and uneasiness. This is the
: extreme of foolishness. If Governor
Morton does his duty toward Indiana,
and we cannot doubt that he win, there
win be no draft in this State until all the
other States of the North have raised as
many men for the army, in proportion to
their population, as Indiana has done.
If this is done, and we believe It will be,
Indianas ratio of conscripts, in a call
for coo, 900 men, would be less, on an
average, than one hundred men to the
county In this (the Second) Congress
sional District, the draft would not make,
on an average, over seventy men from
county, and all these could easily be
supplied, under a liberal system of boun-
ties, by volunteers, and such a system
would doubtless be organized d.
lit is NOT, therefore, -eifher manly or
patriotic for citizens of Indiana to allow
their dread of censcri ption to array
them in position either apparently or
really hostile to the Government The
act Of resistance to law is revolutionary;
and in the instance of the eonscription
law would doubtless be decided treason
able. Let every citizen set his face like
flint against any such resistance. Tie
man who would counsel such resistance
and lead men off into it is acting vio-
lently wrong. and his counsels should be
discarded. We must have the Union
the whole Union-without star dimmed
upon our glorious banner. To have this
we must fight To fight we must have
men. "A dissolution of the Union once
established, our troubles, our privations,
our fighting, would be jus, commenced.
There is promise ahead. The skies
+ are daily. growing brighter. The end of
the rebellion draweth- rapidly opuvv.
: Treason is now making its last formida-
bic stand, and on all sides is environed
with the armies of the Union, made up
of faith, full of valor-determined and
anxious for the great dav of battle which
will wreath our banners with triumphant
garlands. Never since the war COM
menced has there been so much cause of
encouragement for loyal men as to-day.
And let US not now, when the star is as
E cending the sky to come and stand over
the victorious armies of the Republic and
point the world 10 a reunited country,
become discouraged or refuse to put
our shoulders to the wheel WHICH is 10
roll over and crush out treason from the
land. And if the conscrption does come,
and we are called upon to respond with
our quota of men, let it never be said
that the glorious fame Of Indiana, won
upon every battlefield Of the rebellion,
was furnished either by resistance to law
BY her citizens, CT the lack of bravery on
their part to respond to the call of liberty
upon them in the hour of her peril We
have faith in the valor, the patriotism, the
sound Unionism of Indiana. We be-
lieve when called upon for her sacrifice
she will carry it to the alter of her coun-
try, and, ike Abraham Of old, there offer
1t up, though it be the last remaining one
of her gallant sons The Union can and
must be preserved And no considera-
tions should be allowed to influence citi-
zens in taking positions of equivocal
patriotism toward the government in
reference to the CONSUMPTION or other
laws.