The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-02-13


States from the Union. has so long been
pet.ed and encouraged BY the leaders OF
the Democratic party. and its advantages
have besn SO constantly argued by Demo
cratic papers. tina. We need waste no words
in proving that they mean TO effect it il
they can. We only compliment their can
dor, or confidence in their treason abls
strength when we take them at their word
motives and intentions, for that is double
work for the devil without wages. And
this style Of Democrats are the last men to
work for nothing. even for the Devil
When they talk of the secession of the
North west they mean it. They are homes.
in being honestly bent on destroying the
nation. How they propose to do this they
do not now conceal. Resistance to the re-
bellion must stop, Of course That is the
first step without which no other can be
taken. For SO long as the government is
able to fight, and keeps on fighting. so long
there is no certainty'tha there will be any
Confederacy for the North western States to
secede to. Hence two modes of action
have been adopted. lst To publicly de-
nounce the war, aud demand an armistice,
as the Copperheads in our Legislature are
doing every day. and nearly every hour !;
and Cd, to make these demands effective by
secretly destroying the army. The first is
the cover under which the other is conduct
ed. Both the upper and under currents
run in the same direction. and start from
the same source. OF the first the public
sees enough in the speeches of Vallands-
ham. and Hendricks, and Powell. and
Salisbury, and Wickhffe. in the resolutions
of the Illinois Legislature. jn the message Of
Governor Seymour, in the daily procee l.
ings Of our Legislature, in the utterances OF
the Cincinnati Enquirer, tn. Chicago Times,
the Indiana Seatinel, and dozen other
papers, and we will pass by it to look lit.
tie into the other.
The generalization Of the army has been
Systematically pursued by these Copper
heals for year, but only with much sue
cess within the past six months For a
year or mora the spirit and sense Of the
We're too high and resolute to allow
any such reasonable operations TO be carried
on successfully, and the most that was done
was the distribution Of vast numbers Of pa
pers, then quietly AMI sueeringly disloyal,
now openly and vehemently reasonable, as
The Chicago Times and Cincinnati Enquirer,
among the soldiers gratis. We remember
seeing at Pttsburg Landing thousands of
copies of the Chicago paper. which the SOL
1iers told US Dere yiUen to them for nothing.
while loyal papers were sold at other
places. Somebody hal thus early given
money to sow the seeds of hostility to the
Government in the hearts of the soldiers.
Bat as the movemsat against the Govern
nent grew stronger. and the way opened
nore widely to the realiz ,tion of theiftrea-
IT. L
set to work more directly to corrupt and
the army. They formed a secret
society with the p p,rticular duty of catching
and drawing into its tolls every soldier re
turned home on furlou ,h or sick leave, and
sending him back missionary fully author
zed 10 spreal the orJier as far as possible,
and spread with it the instru, ,tion to procure
assertions whenever possible. Tat this
society has done its work widely and bat
100 well known we have abundant proof.
lst. John o. Btown. now under sentence
of death in this city for procuring desertions
"a accordance with the instructions Of this
,r1er, confesses its existence, AMI its wide
extent among the soldiers.
21. Aft lavits OF members are on file in
he proper hands showing that one entire
battery. the 25,h. was broken up by deser-
ions of the mambers of this society, while
n camp here. and that leading Copperhead
politicians advised and assisted 10 the whole
business.
Sd. Several companies Of the last two
regiments Of cavalry organized here lost
number of men, VIII, deserted with arms or
whatever they could carry off, and these
ecre order in this city. and some of them
IL s 1axrv of
Washington street.
4th. Similar operations have been carried
IN 10 Illinois. The following factsare related
" Colonel Niles of the 130th Illinois regi-
nent. He says letters are received from
home by the soldiers every day encouragin.
hem 10 desert. Zone which failed in its
object was written by Jesse Ellis, Justice
Of the Peace in Coles county, urging sol
lier and the boys" of his county to leave
he army. This traitor and suborner of
perjury promised protection and the power
81 the county to resist the arrest of the
leserters. He assisted in rsising the com
pany of these boys" whom he now advises
70 desert. Democratic rebel sympatbizers
n Bond coanty. few days ago. did their
utmost to prevent Captain c ,lby Of Green
vile, in that county, from recovering one Of
his own and three OF Captain Hsrris's men,
who had overstaii their furioughs or de-
serted from Memphis. The gallant Captain
recently with several absen,ees.-
The deserters escaped by concealmens or
light. Had the Cartain foucd them they
would have come also. their Democratic
'riends and sympathizers with rebellion to
he contrary notwithstanding. viii tie
Government lot punish these criminals 4?
Desersions. melted aud encouraged BIZ
\ Northern traitors, are becoming a!armingly
md dangerously frequent When the Col
onsl. with Colonel James H. Matheny, and
Captains Prescott and De Camp, of Sprirg.
field. visited Taylorville last October. to
recruit for their regiment. the I3oth,
Charles Manners, now Sheriff of Christian
county, and several others, leading citizens.
whose names are known, endeavored to
1issuade every recruit from performing
heir engagement With the Government in
the enlistmen. articles. They prevented
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