The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-06-22
'eNEk IN the Cocoa Nut accounted

for"
We learn by telegraph that our own
State has been invaded by an armed
oaad of marauders. who crossed the Ohio
river in the vicinity of Brandenbnrg.-
On reaching the State they proceededat
once to the interior, and when last heard
from were at Orleans, Orange county
At that village the Home Guards made a
show of fight, sbut easily repulsed,-
What damage the rebels are doing, we
have not learned. Whether they reach
ed the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, or
did any damage to the New Albany and
Salem road has not transpired A force
made up of convalescent soldiers from the
hospitals of Louisville and New Albany
and home guards were in pursuit of the
freebooters but had not overtaken them
at last accounts,
We are not sanguine that the 100 reb-
els who compose the rebel band will be
killed or captured The mere fact that
they could march fifty miles into the in
terror of our State before their presence
was generally known, can easily be ac-
counted for by the supposition that their
friends in the section OF country through
which they passed were neither few nor
far between.
e. A few weeks ago the Richmond En-
quirer, in commenting on the propriety
of making raids into the nothern States,
used this significant and emphatic Ian
guage.
If our troops should this sam
mer, appear trithin their borders any
schere beticeen Cairo and Philadelphia,
they toould be hailed as friends by a
population nOtc pretty sceU cured Of f
Pluribus UnWm! Their cry would not
be Union, but deIverance. Wait then,
and ,gdtch and keep your lights burning,
&c Knights Of the Golden Circle!
Well, raids have been made, and what
do we see. In McConnellsburg, Penn
sylvania, the rebels are favored with
handsome bouqets by many of their SYM
pathizing friends, and not to be outdone
$500 -.s.es Dvvu svIAeu- Union men, OF
course, did not fare so well Their prop
erty paid the penalty of their patriotism.
One hundred men would never have
attempted raid into our State if they
had not been well informed by sympathi-
zers living in our midst of the condition
OF affairs and that they would run no
great risk in making the adventure.
Through such aid they successfully ran
sacked private dwellings in Newburg
last year and now they seem to have
passed one third the length of our State,
almost before their presence on its soil
was known.
The milk in this cocoa nut is easily
accounted for. Sympathizers-rebels at
heart but -cOwardly in action keep the
bands of marauders prowling through
Kentucky, well informed as to every
movement that takes place in our State,
and they shape their conduct accordingly.
Governor Morton had provided for
just such raids as is now disgracing our
State, by stationing the 9TH Indiana cav
airy at different points along the border.
The democratic members of the State
Legislature, could not tolerate such
precautionary measure and they kept up
a clamor until the cavalry was removed
and our border left defenseless. We do
not soPPese-t, property or any or those
democratic legislators will ever suffer
from such invasions. They will watch
and keep their lights burning"
Do not these things suggest to Union
men the necessity of thorough organiza-
tion2