The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-06
What They Aim 1t.


nam, and some half dozen other Copper
heads, repeated the declaration of Mr..
Packard the day before, that the Mill
tary Bill and its kindred measures pre-
pairing the way for the secession of the
State from the Union, would not be aban-
doned, and the minority need not fatter
themselves with any such hope. We see
no reason to doubt that they spoke with
all sincerity, and after full party con-
sutatlon about the matter. The revolu-
tlonary scheme, for which, chiefly, they
were elected, is to be prosecuted if the
minority gives them tie least chance to
do II. They announce this purpose day
after day, and accompany it with every
form of insult and contumely that they
think will irritate the minority who are
resisting their headlong madness. They
mean to put Indiana out of the Union,
or prepare the way to do so at their
pleasure, and are frank enough to admit
that they won't give up the scheme if it
causes the failure of all other legisla-
ton. They propose:
First to elect delegates next April to
meet delegates from the rebel States. in
June, at Nashville, and agree on terms
OF peace and alliance, Independently OF
the General Government This legislates
Indiana out of the Union, for if Indiana
can make peace independently of the
General Government, she is no longer
part of it; she acknowledges no fealty to,
nor authority in the Constitution. To
accomplish this it is necessary TO gos
most among whIcn uoSrruor 1uufton.
II
Second, to legislate him out of all pow
erwhich can be used to defeat their pro-
iect The Military Bill, fragrant, def
ant violation of the Constitution, takes
from him every particle of military power
and puts it in the hands of Military
Board of their own partisans
Another obstacle in the way is the ex-
istence of the Legion, a loyal and well
organized force of citizens, whose cour
age and discipline have already more
! than once saved the State from invasion
and the horrors of war at our own doors
While it stands in the way the IS. u. Z. s
cannot move in any reasonable dlrec
ton without more danger than they care
to meet. Arms in loyal hands are thing
they have little stomach for, as wa
proved by the way they ran from the sol
diers in Morgan county, after firing upol
them Hence the Legion must be legis
lated out of existence, and to this EN-
they propose,
Third, to construct new militia syE
TEN, which disbands the Legion, an
puts the creation of all officers for tn
new force into the hands of their part
sans. By this means the K. G. c. S ca
be installed the duly organized and arm
ed militia of the State, and that ono
done we need not guess twice to hit tn
purpose it will be put to. What tn
X. q. C.'s are, and what they will d.
wien their representative men mab
them, as this measure aims to do, IL
military power of the State, let IL
, Morgan County War" tell. With Il
Governor rendered powerless, and Il
loyal, disciplined Legion disbanded, Il
wav to the secession of the State Ii
> widely open.
But there is still another importa
preliminary step. The possession of t
J. Capital, or the means to command
when the moment comes to execute t
ar conspiracy at which they are aiming,
is a matter of no little Importance. L
m citizens are loyal, and could, if not CT
pied by cautious legislation in advan
- make a good deal of trouble for tho
70 revolutionary schemes Hence the C
must be put under the control of m
who sympathize in the secession proje
To this end,
Fourth, they have introduced, a
steadily adhere to, bill to legislate
city government out of existence, in
its most important features, and
over it government which 1t nett
elects, controls, or removes, which is
responsible to it, and which for
years, while the Legislature is abst
or is as utterly irresponsible as the En-
nct ntg ror Of Russia. They propose to il
Id this government on the Capital, force
.f set citizens to pay for it, and use it, and
'est ,est police force created by it, for their {
purpose, when they see the time com
IG IGh' Two other measures, revolutions
.- uncalled for, and mischievous, but '
no particular relation to the main
of taking Indiana out of the Union
a Northwestern Confederacy, are:
Us, lst, The subversion of the exis
t, system of government of the Benevo
DIS, Institutions, which they themselves p
ed in 1859; and I'd, the overthrow OF
&C. Government of the State Univer
Anything IN ore utterly unjustifable
INA these revolutionary proceedings cal
be imagined. All the institutions