The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-14

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}. n. SILVERTHORN,. Associate.
Who IS TO BLAME?-The Louisville
Journal of the 18th, taking paragraph
from the London Times, as text, goes
off in long TRADE Of abuse against Il e
earnest Union men of the North, charg-
ing that they are responsible for the hops
inspired in the leaders of the rebellion
by the dissensions in the North.
The Journal says the charges made
against the leaders of the Democratic
party, of sympathising with the Confed-
eracy, and Of conspiring to divide the
Northwest from the East in order to at
tach it to JEFF Davis dominionS, give
cause encouragement to the South
We are surprised at this disingenuous-
mass on the part of the Journal, when it
well knows that the speeches of Vallan-
digham, Ben. Wood and other leaders
of the Democracy, the Chicago Times,
the Dubuque Herald, Cincinnati En-
quirer, State Sentinel, and like sheets,
have been freely circulated in the South,
and these are the agents that have given
heart and hope to the rebellion.
The resolution of the Indiana Legisla-
ture, that the State would not give anoth-
er man or another dollar to suppress the
rebellion, gave more comfort to the reb-
els than all the Union papers combined.
The rebel leaders draw their comfort
from such declarations as the following
from the Dubuque Herald of March 9TH
In speaking of outrages committed, as
tits asserted by the Union troops in Mis-
souri, 1t says:
ut is to be hoped that the race ofthese
worse than brutes is nearly run. When
will these things cease? Whenewill the
people stop this terrible war, and end the
career Of these thousands Of there's and
robbers, moo arearing military clothes,
and licensed by the Government to com
NIT erery crime that acarice, eHnity or
lustcan cORceiue.'
1t is, perhaps, superhuous to say, that
the Dubuque Herald never contains a
word about the barbarity that distinguish
es the rebels in their treatment of the
Union men of the South.
What would be the fate of the man
who should utter such vile ISLANDERS
against the soldiers of the Confederate
army?
Ben. Wood, Member of Congress from
New York City, prepared q speech, to-
ward the close of the late session of Con-
gress, which he did not deliver in that
body, but was permitted to print in the
Congressional Globe In this speech he
speaks of "the utter, unequivocal, and
.irremediaBle failure of our enterprise of
conquering back the Union" He says:
Had l the faculty to crush with one
blow the material power of the South, l
would not strike My pride as an Ameri-
can would revolt at the thou glgfnQf drag
ging them = reluctant, heftz and
spirit-broken i into feIlowshsb 81 that
they abhor.
Were [ certain that, in a military
sense, this war would prove successful,
nevertheless Iswould oppose it;
when the purpose of the Southern people
to abstain from political companionship
with US shall have been demonstrated as
fixed and irrevocable, and not the pas
sionate resolves of heated blood, then. as
a necessity useless to struggle against,
shall not only counsel, shall urge,
separation. x x
- have never voted dollar for the
war. AS a legislator, as citizen, as
man, claim to be a6solved from all par
ticipation in this strife With all my
humble abilities 1 have endeavored to
arrest it. -.
"Whatever proposition, in my mind,
shall enhance the prospect of peace,
shall have my vote Peace is the goal
of my political course, the haven of my
hopes. I care not by whose chart |
steer, or whose hand shall guide the
helm, SO that the compass shall point
thitherward."
These are the sources whence the
ConfederacS draws encouragement; and
when the Journal palliates the conduct
and teachings of these demagogues, it
adds to this encouragement.
We know the mass of the Democratic
party are at heart loyal, but they have
been SO deceived and duped by such
leaders as Hendricks, Voorhees,, Vallan-
digham, WickIife, and Wood, that many
of them have been led to band them
selves together to resist the authority of
the Z. S. Government
RGr We understand that a lot of fel-