The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-14
From the indianapolis Journal.
COpperhead Riots.

In another column will be found a full
account of the recent riot, reaching al
most to the proportions of an insurrec-
ton, of the Copperheads of Iowa When
the reader connects it with the New York
riot. The rebellion in Holmes county,
Ohio, the march of 600 rebel sympa-
tbiz=rs upon the town of Olney, Illinois,
the Collection of 500 under Hester to
attack Edinburg in this State, the fire.
queui parades. at an hours notice, of
hundreds of armed and mounted Knights
Of the Golden Circle in Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois. he will see that so many oc-
currences with so many features alike,
are not the result of mere accident, or
localiH feeling. They prove that gen.
eral organization exists with the pur-
pose and power to assail loyal citizens
and anbarrass the government Besides
the demonstrations on a scale which
three years ago would have been deemed
civil war, there are constantly occurring
ail over the State little outbreaks of Cop
perhead violence. local riots, and threat
ening. and disturbances of neighbor-
hoods, which show how widely the poison
instiied by Vallandigham, Voorhees,,
We condense from our country exchanges
Of last week an account of some of these
minor, but significant, exhibitions of
Copperhead spirit.
A little over a week ago most dis
graceful disturbance was created at a
meeting in Neville township, DeKalb
county, by Copperheads, both male and
female, who attended armed, with the
purpose of creating riot The Water
loo Press gives the following account
of it: 1885
by previous secret arrangement they
assembled a strong force at Coles Corners
on Tuesday evening, the 18th ult. there
being an appointment for preaching at
that time and place. The feminine rep
tiles took their places in the congreea-
ton, armed, as was seen afterwards, with
stones tied in the corners Of their band
kerchiefs; one of them boosted that she
had brought six shooter with her. The
male roughs came later and assembled
on the outside of the house. A creature
disgracing the name and character of
woman, seized the earliest moment
mhen the meeting was dismiss
ed, to bring on the fray by grossly insult
Union lady in another part of the house,
using words that we cOuld not repeat
without offending the modesty of our
readers. She made her way through the
crowd to Mrs. g., displaying her butter
nut with much insolence, and daring her
to take it off She took it off, and there
upon the Union ladies were violently as
saulted Blythe whole crowd of viragoes
A scene OF riot then ensued, in which the
stone sings were briskly piled, dresses
torn, and hair disheveled. In the mean
time the outside barbarians had rushed
in foaming and cursing, and doing their
best to bring on a general engagement.
There were present from fifty to sew
enty-fve Copperheads, most of them
armed .oith rerolUers as was ascertained,
and doing their utmost TO get into a gen
eral fight; but by strenuous efforts on
the part of Justice H. Canine and Con-
stable j. NJ. johnson TO preserve the
peace, they were prevented from carry
ing out their oUtrages to the extent in
tended. One young Tory who had the
dauntless bravery to lay violent hand:
upOn young lady and choke her, ough
not to be left unnoticed. His name we
understand was Hart - ~ - e
Last Saturday week the Copperhead:
of Union City gotup as much of rio
as they could, of which the Eagle give!
the following account:
"Union City was again the scene of thu
most disgraceful conduct and traitorou
proceedings on Saturday last The But
ternuts, large numbers of whom had as
sembled in front of Alters Saloon, afte
vainly endeavoring to raisei row, b
irving to force lame soldier to fieh
one of their number, Haunting their EN-
bien1s of treason in the faces of Uniol
men, daring the citizens to pull them of
and even hurrahing for that dalnnabl
traitor, JEFF. Davis, finally succeeded i
provoking Charlie Hill, a brave Unio
Democrat, who became disguised a
such Unreasonable proceedings in tn
streets of our loyal town, struck one c