Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-08
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Our exposure Of the Infamous SANDER
against General Hogey. put in eircnla-
ton By the Editor Of the Times @hen he
was Editor Of the RushviIle Jaeksonian,
makes that worthy writhe worse than an
impaled dsh-worm; and, We might add,
bis tarnings and twistings are equally
impoteht to relieve hin from the odinm
his SANDER Justly merits
The paragraph We copied from the
Jdcksonian was neither "mutiIated nor
CARRIED" The editorial in the Jackson
ian consisted alone 10 applying to Gen
eral Hoyey, Of this State, certain state
ments made before the Mcdowell cotton
investigatiBg cotnmisaion, which had no
references to him whatever In ether
words, Mr. sproale grossly slandered
brave man, without taking the trouble TO
investigate the facts in the case Ia this
be showed the spirit Of hostility TO our
officers and soldiers which has always
aninsfed bin. Even now, when We have
exposed bis meanneSs. he says be ap-
proves every sentiment in the paragraph
copied. We haze no doubt Of Il, and the
baseness Of lhe calumny ouly tn more
heartily coinmeuds itself 10 his adnira-
ton. j, was from no expectation of i'm
proving either his morals or patriotism
that We brought TO light his meanneas.
These are beyond hope. Oar only OBJ
jecs vas to ahow ap the man who talksso
aippantly about being the soldiers
friend. ~
4 We admire The shrewdness OF the
TiHeg Editor in gsrblisg bis own srfi
Gle. Il viii be seen that he gives bis
readers only that portion Of the article he
didn't write lie furnishes them what
be calls Tie testimony, but fails 10 lay
before item bis comments on that testi-
mony, Or rather bis application Of il.
IN The application loas The faIsehood
aud Islander. Did The Editor Of the
Times ever Fetract his SANDER IN the
JaeksoHtaa' If so, give as the date
But he says nov be WIS mistaken in
the Heyey. Another case, we presume,
Of " a small glass Of beer
We DO not know whether Col. Hovsy.
Of Illinois, was guilty of stealing ne.
sroes and then exchanging them for cot.
ton or not but we do know that the
statement published in the Times Of yes.
terday don't prove anything Of The hind,
and we copy II in fall that our readers
may examine it for themselves.
The editor Of the Jaeksoaian intro
duccd his quotation from Mcdowell )
Report, By The following paragraph
Hovey sent a steamer, the Iatan,
with company Of soldiers, from Helena
/ down the river. 10 charge Of bis aid.
The members Of the company then re
late what transpired, as follows. +"
This may be true, bot we think Il
doubtful Why didn't the Jacksoniaa
publish testimony to prove that Col
Hovey sent the steamer and that he did
It of bis own volition. People in this
community are beginning To receive il
editors statements With many grains Of
allowance; and, since be has confessed
that he was altogether mistaken IN the
Hovey, he may also be mistaken as to
who sent the STEAMERS Bat, granting
that Col Hovey sent the steamer, lei
Us examine the testimony Of members
Of the company which went down on the
boat j. is as follows:
| ave landed on the Mississippi side Of
the river. opposite the cut off-Whitt
river. There was aboard the boat one
Brown, an overseer OF Colonel Melee
plantation, he was on the boat when W,
went aboard After the boat was tiet
up, Brown vent ashore; this was aftel
dark Some Of our company supposine
him 10 be rebel soldier, asked hin
where be got his clothes. He told then
he got them in the Mexican war. III,
went to the Captain of the boat and tolG
him i was all tight--that the eottor
would be in, inthe course OF a few hours
In due time Brown returned, bringing
with bin twenty-six bales Of cotton
After the cotton was delivered, the boat
men, BY order Of tke Captain, puf o.
shore fifteen negroes that had beea uses
as beat hands After getting them OF
SHORE they tied them, after considerable
Struggling on the part Of the negroes
In the tying operation one Of the ne
groes escaped After they were lied
Brosea took fheHa Gscdg
Il @ After these fifteen negroes wer
put ashore, did any negroes cone bscl
with yon as deck hands in the service G
the boat9
4 NO, sir. Ttess aegrocs rsys saks
: oa an expedition 10 ths sanae place sons
ieeeks before from t8e same plantation
2. Under whose charge was that eS
peditioaY'
A. "C5ionef Hossg. 81
From this testimony i seems that "a
latan was sent down the Mississippi fo
cotton that after the cotton was deliver
ed, the Captain Of the steamboat, wit
his bOatmen, put off Is negroes who ha
been used as boat hands who we're take
: into the interior by the oyerseer of
plantation / and that these same negroe
were taken by an expedition. under ID
charge Of Col Hoyey from the sam
plantation some weeks before No,
what is there in ell this 10 prove tina
Col Hovey first Sole tks agrees an
: then exchanged them for cotton' Il
! not proceed that he sent the Iatan dow
. the river it is not proved that the ne
: groes were put on or of the boar BY hi
Z orders, or that he had anything TO d
!, with it AS We said before, we have ID
statement ofthe editor OF the TTass tia
3 Hovey sent the boat down and that
strong presumptive evidence that he di
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