The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-07-24
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

0Cu ouO "a tHO militia iCS iLhoHlo SSnb ouI
inpursuit of Morgan, has made an official
report of his ampaign. In the report
we find the following paragraph:
II am sorry to state that there were
but four points along the line of our
march where we did not find men who
had been rendering assistance to John
Morgan, and who were willing to do
everything in their power to help him On
this expedition of robbery and plunder;
their sympathies were all for Vallandig-
ham, and there was not one among them
who could not render valuable informa
tion in regard to the Order of the K. G.
Cs.
JEFF DAVIS MoB.-It is essential that
the people know who were instrumental
in starting the riot in New York, who
sympathize with the rioters and seek to
palliate and excuse their infamous con-
duct and what were the political mani
festations of the mob while on its mis-
sion of rapine and murder We have al
ready given the names of individuals and
papers who did most to cause an out
treak, and it is now proper to show who
were in sympathy with the mob and in a
measure justify their proceedings:
The leading Copperhead papers of
New York, such as the Ne,cs, World and
Freemans s Journal, the second day after
the riot began published reports oft with
the following head lines; "The People
Shot by United States So7diers!" " GU
NERAL OF OLD ABE's Draft"
A Copperhead Journal thus justifes
the mob:
EIrcuse must be made for the conduct
of the crowd by the glaring fact that a
number of their kindred had been shot
down in cold blood by their sides, while
fighting in defense of the same principles.
lie. resistance to the draft
The following incident shows where
the motive that created the mob came
from:
"On Monday was present at the sack
and firing of the houses in Lexington
avenue, going through the whole mob
from its extreme verge to the very steps
of these houses. There l saw a man
known to many persons as rebel SYM
pathizer, hand and glove with the rioters,
encouraging them, in consultation with
their ringleaders, and welcomed by them
wherever he went. There l heard wishes
expressed for the success of the rebel
lion and the destruction of "the nay
gers" There a man of decent exterior
and apparent intelligence exclaimed, as
he saw the houses burning, This is the
! most glorious sight 1 have ever seen;
this will pay jeff Davis for the loss OF
Vicksburg." On Tuesday evening l
j heard among the rioters in the upper
/ part of the Third avenue, cheers for j eff
Davis; but it was dark, and could not
see the individuals who proposed or who
gave them. But early on Wednesday
afternoon | was in the Second avenue as
detachment of the 7th regiment march
ed up to disperse the mob which had
been maltreating the negroes near Twen.
ty-seventh street. The rioters vanished
before the detachment, but closed in be-
hind it, and began to hoot, and then tc
stone, and finally to shoot at it. One OF
the very rioters who made this attack
when the detachment had moved about
square off, called out" Three cheers
for jeff Davis The cheers were given
and numerously, though not very loudly
for the bayonets were too near
stood not ten feet from the man who pro.
posed the cheers, and face to face with
him. In ten minutes afterward l saw
the crowd which he then led stoning the
this men"
Another incident of the same kind
A man mounted on horse and wait
ing before an ale house in Forty-secont
street, near Ninth avenue, was convers
ing with a crowd of men and women who
seemed to know him. Excuse me, la
dies, for swearing, but damn Abe Lin
coin. We have got to burn the Tribun,
and Times Offices; would have burned
the name not heardl except that So
many poor girls are employed there.
could have done ii. Hurry up that ale
Here's to JEFF. Davis and damn Alb,
Lincoln"
Now put these facts along with other
facts, the cheering of copperhead news
papers, the sacking of the Tribune office
the guard kept to protect the Time
\ ONCE, Ine prOmpIneSS Win WHICH JIG CT
of abolitionist gathered a mob ant
produced murder, the bloodhound fur,
with which defenceless negroes wer
hunted down and killed, the curses o
the Government, the whole spirit an
conduct of the mob, and see if any othe
deduction will come out of them thal
that the whole affair was suggested, pei
fected and directed by men who symps
thize with the rebellion, and intended
to neutralize the victories, or aggravat
the defeats, of the Government. VIII
the leaders of the rebel abetters in Me-
York are, the whole nation knows a
well as it knows who Gen. Grant il
, Open and boastful enemies have tn
merit, at least, of being surely knowr
and easily found, and the copperheads {
the North have been as open enemies {
the Government as ever the tories wer
of the Revolutionary army. And wher
k open and violent enemies are, we nee
not look long to find the origin of an