Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-03-12

stances of disaffeetion ana desertion
amongst the sworn defenders of our
country's flag and our country's honor
This state Of things was occasioned bv
seditious letters from disloyal friends at
home-the circulation of Northern pa
pers, though of pretended loyalty, breath
ing forth nothing but the satanic UenOm
of treaSon-and by the distribution of
speeches made and resolutions adopted
in Northern Legislatures and Peace
Conventions, the productions of hypO-
critical sycophants, who, not unfre-
quently rrostituted the sacred name
OF Democracy to cover their treas
enable designs; and who, though claim
ing to be loyal, were in league with the
sworn enemies of our country, and in
partnership with rebels. But fortunate
ly for the country, such men have in
many instances received significant re-
buke at the baIlot-box.-their vile
schemes have been exposed and thwart-
ed, and their ability to exercise a vicious
influence in the army, they have lost for
ever. 1t is true we still occasionally
meet with northern sheet evidently in
sympathy with the rebels; but ii is trea' :
ed with merited contempt, and It's con
tents are regarded as the last .feebic
''spiritrGppings" cfthe ghost Of Vat-
landigham
1t IS also remarkable as we'll as graft
flying, to notice the almost miraculous
change of sentiment, both amongst our
soldiers in the field and the loyal inhabi
tants of the Southern States, in refer
ence 10 the war policy inaugurated by
the President. Thousands, who but
few months ago bitterly denounced his
Emancipation Proclamation of the lst of
January, 1868, as Unconstitutional and
unwise, now regard the measure, not
only as constitutional but as a master
stroke of craftsmanship, aimed with un-
erring wisdom, at the very root of the
rebellion itself And by his late Amnes-
ty Proclamation, he has entirely dis
armed those who to the last have been
clamoring for Compromise; for it
is universally acknowledged that he has
gone to the fullest extent of magnanrn-
ity, and has offered the insurgents more
than they deserve, and more than they
could have REASONABLY expected, from the
Chief Executive of the nation, whose
Constitution and laws they have inglori-
ously trampled under their feet Not
withstanding the fact that only few
months ago he was exceedingly unpopu-
lar in many portions of the army, yet, if
the soldiers in the field now had the op-
portunity of fair expression of their
preference for the Presidency in 1864
Abraham Lincoln, to-day, stands head
and shoulders above any other man in
the nation
When peace shall have been restored
to our country, and reconstruction of
the Union shall have been perfected on
the basis of the Presidents proclama-
ton, we may then look back on this re
bellion as the last death-throes of the
slave power; which, though for Il CEN
turyit had been hanging like an incubus
on the vital energies of the country, and
which, when just ready to tumble to
pieces of its own rottenness, it shook the
earth with its last death struggle, and
gave up the ghost And when all Chris
tendon shall be summoned, in the light
of history, to set as eoroners jury 10
hold inquest over the vile carcass of the
defunct institution Of slavery in this
country, the verdict of that jury will be-
Murdered by its own friends
j. 2. GLEzEN.