The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-25
From the Indianapolis Journal, 29t
What they Say and DO.

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Within the past three weeks there have
been such demonstrations of a purpose
on the part of the Copperheads to resist
the Government by violence, and para
lyze the war by instructions at home,
as no sensible man can contemplate
without alarm, or without preparation
Copperhead papers and speakers have
threatened revolution in plain words,
and Copperhead assemblages have taken
the form of armies and camps with a
uniformity that can have been born of
nothing but a general organization and
understanding. Copperhead bands have
repeatedly marched upon Union towns
to punish some grievance, or rescue
some accomplice. Copperhead riots are
breaking out in every State of the North
west, with more or less violence. Every
sign of state of feeling with either is,
or may easily be, worked up to the pitch
Of open resistance to the Government, is
visible all around u.s. Let the reader
look at the New York riot, and its indis-
putable connection with Lees invasion
Of the North, and the indisputable con-
nection of Fernando Wood and the Cop
perhead leaders with it; at the insurrec-
ton in Holmes county, Ohio; the mus
tering of an army in Keokuk county,
Iowa; the attack on Olneyslllinois; the
collection of regiment of armed men in
Brown county in this State, to resist the
arrest of the murderer Prosser, and the
subsequent marching of 800 or 400 upon
the town of Edinburg; the repeated as
sembling of COM 0anies of Knights of the
Golden Circle on an hour notice, arm
ed and mounted. in at least thirty of the
counties of this State; the constant and
systematic protection of deserters, and
the assurances sent down to the army
that those who deserted should be pro
tected; the murder of enrolling officers
the avowed expectation of the rebels that
through the Copperheads of the North
they were to be assisted; and in the light
of all these facts let him read the utter
ances of Copperhead organs since the
publication of the President 5 determine
ton to prosecute the draft.
The New York World, the ablest pa
per of the traitors, in a recent denuncia-
ton Of the draft, gave the following
unequivocal hint of the preparation of
revolutionary measures hT it's friends.
Revolution threatens to stalk in upon
us. The next act of official injustice
may break this calm as the thunderbolt
startles the summer night Let our CO.
temporaries, and especially those mo-.
in favor with the Government, send
out their people TO obse.'o, 'e 10 :
done. Let them question, and listen,
and look around. They will hear and
see the evidences of deep-seated, brood
ing disaffection everywhere"
Who made that classification, whose
existence is urged as argument for yield
ings its demands? The New York
World and Express, the Cincinnati En-"
quirer and Chicago Times, the Louis
Vile Democrat and indianapolis Sen
tinel, Vallandigham, Voorhees,, Wood
Hendricks and Perkins. The very mer
who hide their own cowardly treason
behind it, and warn the government Il
beware of pushing upon it, are the mel
who made it. Again the writer says:
''Mr. Lincoln is politically blind if h
does not perceive that this question i
fast passing beyond the domain of argu
inent More Democrats will be left i
New York than he can take away cor
scripts to the war, and it behooves hir
to consider whether our armies in tn
South will really be strengthened by
proceeding which will. create a 1seceSsit
for large armies in ere'y loyal State.
The threat that democratic movt
ments will require an army in every 10,
al State, is so bold and unequivocal {
to show that the traitors had measure
their strength and felt it equal to tf
struggle they threatened. How tn
strength was obtained and organize
may be guessed from the following e
hortation of the same paper:
sit is now at length evident to all b
the wilfully blind, that the rescue of Il
Constitution from the hands ofits ofiici
violators requires vigorous and dete
mined struggle Where there is wi
} if the cause be ri righteous, there need
no apprehension that we shall discov
,, fitting way, if we do not fail to appl
y ciate the magnitude of the undertaken
and squander in spasmodic, disconae
ed efforts the strength that should be {
erted in accordance with t0ett-iceigh
and concerted plan. The first thing
r be attained is obviously perfect und
standing among the friends of the CO
stitution throughout the loyal States.
We must ascertain, through the ordins
methods of preliminary political actic
what is the probable number Of DO
courageous, determined men, who {
sufficiently masters of themselves and
:, the passions generated in vehemt
= = struggle, to submit their conduct to
y wise direction requisite for attaining
If unity by which strength is economic
1t is not hard to see what this mea
,t Resistance to the Governments delit
ately planned and its means and mi
discussed. In no other country on ca
ir- would such open, ..defant treason
borne an hour. In the rebel States S
liar seditious language will find its '
to the gallows before its echo had
As' away.
In the West the avowal of violent
- signs has been no less bold. In rec
speech at Roseville, d. w. Voorhees,,
associate of Vallandigham and Br
IN inridge, urged "the Democrats to
;, themselves and drill, and when the