Daily national Republican., 1863-02-20
ADDRESS OF THE INDIANA SOLDIERS
IN ARKANSAS TO THE DEMOC-
RACY OF INDIANA.
a sTINGING REBUKE TO THE COPPER
HEADS.
A TRRILLING MAYIFESTO.

To The Democracy Of Indiana:
Having deep interest In the future glory
and welfare of our country, and believing that
we occupy a position in which we can see the
effects of the political struggles at home. upoD
the hopes and fears of the rebels, we deem il to
be our duty to speak to you openly and plainly
in regard to the same.
The rebels of the South are leaning on the
Northern Democracy for support, and ID is I'M.
questlonably true, that unjustifiable opposition
to the Administration, Is "giving aid and COM
fort to the enemy" Whilst 1t Is the duty OF
patriots to oppose the usurpation Of power, il
is alike their duty to avoid captious criticisms.
that might create the very evils which they at
tempt to avoid.
The name OF Democrat, associated with all
that is bright and glorious in the history of the
past, is being sulliGd and disgraced by dema-
gogues, who are appealing to the lowest preiu-
dlces and passions of our people We have
nothing TO expect from the South and nothing
to hope, without their conquest. They arc now
using their money freely, to subsidise the press
and politicians of the North, and with what eff
| feet, the tone of some of our Journals, and the
speeches Of some of our leaders, too plainly and
painfully testify.
We see, with deep solicltudc and rerret. that
there is an undercurrent in Indiana tending
towards a coalition of the Northwest with The
| south against the Eastern States Be not de-
ceyed. Pause, for the love you bear to your
country, and reflect. This movement is only
a rebel scheme In disguise, that would involve
you alike with themselves In the crime of re.
nelllon, aDd bring to your own hearthstOnes
the desolatiOn of n French revolution, Sepa-
ration on either side, with peace In the future
Is impossible, and VIC are compelled by self
| interest, BY every principle of honor and every
| impulse Of manhood, TO bring this unholy con.
test to a successful termination.
what Admit that we are whipped That
Iwenty-three millions of Northern men are un-
| equal TO nine millions of the South Shame on
| the state that would entertain so disgraceCuI n
proposition Shame upon the Democrat who
! would submit to II, and raise his cowardly
! voice and claim that he was an Indianian
lie and such dastards, with their offspring, are
nj mud sllls' upon which should be built the
lordly structure Of their Southern aristocracy
| And with whom would this uubOIy alliance he
formed with men who have forgotten their
| fathers, their Oaths, their country. and their
| God-with guerrilas-cottOn bIrners-witb
those who force every male inhabitant of the
South, capable of bearing arms, into the field
! though starving wives and babes arp Iaf, La'
hind WV "
Men who persccute and hang, or drive from
| their lines, every man, woman and child who
will not fall down and worship their Southern
! God. And yet, free born men of our state
| Will sympathlsG with such tvrants. and dare
to even dream Of coalition Indana's proud
and loyal lcgions, numbering at least seventy
thousand effective men in the field, and as with
| one great heart, we know they would rrpudiatC
all unhOly combinations, tending to the dis.
memberment Of our Government.
In this dark hour Of our country's trial there
Is but one road to success and peace, and that
| Is, 10 De- as trmiy united for our Government a,
me r,bC% are agrhtSt it, Small differences Of
opinion amount to nothing, in this grand
struggle for Il nations existence. Do not pIar,
even one straw in the wayi and remember that
every word you speak to encourage the Soutl
nerves the arm that strikes the blow which /,
aimed at the hearts blood Of our brothers and
| kindred.
ALVIN P. HovEY, Brig. Gen.
WIN. 7. SPICELY, Col. Path Ind.
WIN. Z. MCLEAN, Col, 43d Ind.
GEO. +. MCGINEIs, Col. 1lth Ind.
JAS. X. SLACK, Col. 47th Ind.
HELENA, Ark, Feb, 2, 1858.