The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-25
EVANSVILLE, IND, TUEsDA CORNING,

were the obstacles in the way of these
pleasant little "Democratic" demonstra-
tions, as "Lincolns dogs, who ought to
wear a collar with that name on it. In
a speech at Peru, Mr. Milligsn, CO.
rest, gave his Copperhead friends the
following reason for despising soldiers:
'No Democrats have ever joined the
army ereept those gho ,oent for plunder
andpGy, and who were ever after un-
worthy the name of Democrats"
In a card in the Terre Haute Journal
last week Voorhees, says;
Preparation has not been confined
to one party The Democracy are pre-
pared for defense. Let no one think
this is written in the spirit of threaten
ing. l am laboring now every day in
behalf of law and the supremacy Of the
Constitution.
We note the admission which this
threat makes as an indication of the in
creasing boldness of the rebels in the
North, They are, to a large extent,
armed and .drilled.-and forwarned to
SEEK cduSeS VI cOuulCI Will hHeIE lO1dl
neighbors.
The Vincennes Sun, which possesses
the merit of being too silly to conceal
the purposes of its party, says:
every man who opens his eyes must
plainly see that we are in most awful
peril in the North to which the Southern
rebellion compares like the simmering
of tea-kettle with the compressed fury
of steam boiler.
And those who see this peril, see that
it has been made by the Copperhead
leaders of the North. They speak freely
enough of their own work. Such Ian
guage is boast of the danger that trea-
son has created.
While the leaders and papers of the
party of treason thus openly encourage
and discuss insurrection against the
Government, and boast of the peril in
which the leniency of the Government
has allowed their Vaccinations to place
it, their followers have not been slack in
applying the lesson. Keep the facts we
have cited in mind, remember the teach
ings and threats of the Copperhead or
gans, and then read the facts collected
below from the papers of this State.
The Jay County Torch Light states
that the wheat of Union man named
Crosby, of BIackford county, was burned
by Copperhead short time ago.
The Marshall County Republican re-
lates the following:
"On Saturday night last Mr. George
Flora's barn, in Union township, with all
it contained, was entirely consumed by
fire. Mr. Flors's entire crop of wheat,
also his son crop, estimated at 1000
bushels, was stored in the barn, which
was new and valuable one. The loss
of Mr.. Flora and his son is not less than
$1,000.
a Iew Gays pravTous. IITe TetIursr-tJr
Provost Marshal Darlington, the elder
Flora assisted him in arresting a couple
of deserters, and that their political
friends set fire to his barn in revenge is
an irresistible infererc'. They come
enihS sn ny to IL tie SftRGfS and treasona
BILE speech of Milligan, and filing their
skins with mean whisky, went to Flora 5
in the dead of night, and while he and
his family slept after their day Of toll
totally unconscious of the impending
evil, these fiends incarnate-friends of
deserters, who derive their inspiration
from the teaching of such men as Val
landigham,- Voorhees,, Milligan, Reeve
Packard, and Carbin-apply the incen,
diary torch to his barn, and thus in al
hour destroy the fruit of years and hare
labor.
The Morgan County Gazette says thai
the barn of j. S. dickey, of that county
near Morgantown, was burned on Frida.
night of week before last, by Copper
head, and relates the following circum
stance:
"Some six weeks since Mr.. Hicke
found letter nailed to the gate-post, i
which he was told that if he didn't ceas
his id abolition talk, he would b
punished.
At the village of Milroy, in Rus
county, on Saturday week, Mr.. Sproul'
the editor of the Copperhead paper {
Rushville, made a speech which so e.
!, cited some of his audience that the
cheered heartily for JEFF. Davis. A so
der in the crowd "tackled one {
; these shouting rebels, and in the mele
l shot him, and general fuslllade trol
his friends followed.
The Putnam County Republican r
t ports an instructive instance of the pc
E feet organization, thorough armiug, al
/ disloyal purposes of the Copperheads
: that region. A parcel of rioters wei
!, arrested, on Indictment by the Grar
e Jury, and straightway the Copperheat
r of another township fifteen miles Q
: seized their guns and assembled togeth
:, for the purpose of resisting the office
t. of the law.
< 1t is said by Butternuts themselv
d that near 400 men were in camp, mi
o or two south of Manhattan, and all r
r. ports from other sources agree that the
n was "quite a gathering" They col
: menced coming in before daylight I
y Wednesday morning and remain
n, until Thursday, when, their "supplie:
d, being exhausted and the enemy n
re having appeared. they dispersed. II
of Z" big scare" which took hold on all t
nt Butternuts of the township at one til
ne suggests some queries to the minds
ne law. abiding citizens. In the first pla'
/. how was it possible, with but a few hou
Is. notice, to collect such number, arm
sr- and equipped, at one point2 Next, b
de did it happen that the entire num'
tn should, when thus suddenly called
be gether, be of one mind? Next, why
m the name of God should the arrest