Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-04
Expose of the Sons of Liberty.
Their Ritual, Grips and Passwords.
Official Report of Gen. Darlington.
Treasonable Nature Of the Order.
1t is Both Civil and Military.
Extent of the Organization.
It Embraces Twelve States.
Vallandignam Supreme Comman-
der.
Dodd Gand Commander Of Indiana.
Bowles. Milligan. Walker, and
Humphreys, Major Generals.
The Operations Of the Order.
Northern and Southern Traitors.
&c, &C., &c.
Bowles. Milligan. Walker, and
Humphreys, Major Generals.
The Operations Of the Order.
Northern and Southern Traitors
&c. &C., &c.


the state of Indiana, at their Meet-
ing Held ON the 18th and 18th OF
February, 1864.
The within proceedings are published
in compliance with the following reso-
luton
Resolred, That the grand secretary
prepare and publish in pamphlet form
the address Of the grand commander,
with such part OF the proceedings Of the
grand council as may be necessary for
the information Of the county Temples,
and send one copy Of each publication
to each county Temple.
COUNCILLORS: For the honor you have
done me in fixing time to hear my
views and suggestions in relation to this
organization and general matters, / feel
duly sensible, and am only sorry that
am so lily prepared to meet your expec-
tations.
We are organized for high and noble
purpose-the erection and conservation
of Temples TO the service Of Republic
anism al,aFs upon which we may lay
our bands and hearts with the invoca-
ton, God Of our Fathers = Wen may
we call upon the God Of truth, justice
and human rights, in our efforts to pre-
serve what the great wisdom and heroic
acts Of our fathers achieved.
This, my friends, is no small under
taking-requiring patience, iortitude, pa
triotism and a selfsaeri6eng disposition
from each and all, and may require us
to hazard life itself, in support and de-
fence of those great cardinal principles
which are the foundation stones OF the
State and Federal Governments. Il is
the boast Of those who, for long centu-
ries have fostered and kept alive brother
ly lo,e and mutual protection amongst
not only the civilized, bot in some de-
gree the semi-barbaroRs nations Of the
earth, that they have attained now appa.
rent great results through trials, tribula-
tions, long safferings and prosecutions
So, too, the worshippers Of God, be they
Jew or Gentle claim to more distinctly
merit an identity and name, in couse-
quenee of the imminent perils and innu-
merable conflicts which have been thrown
in their way to impede their progress
| So may we, and doubtless will, point
with pride to our present troubles, in tho
great brotherhood is entitled now to the
respect Of all mankind, for the part it
enacted in the period anterior to the
revolution Of l77a Through it the
Declaration was male, and the indepen-
denee of the States achieved This
alone would endear il to every patriot
heart, to every lover Of Republican in
stitutious; If its history should stop here,
when its operations are suspended, it
were certainly enough; but still more
glorious, superlatively brilliant, win be
its history waSn reinstated as it now is.
II shall restore TO this great people their
hreside rights, pure elective franchise,
and an untramu.eled Judiciary; when
tanatical usurpers and would-be tyrants
and dietators are swept away with the
rubbish that has been thrown to the sur
face in these extraordinary times; when
once more the governing principle shall
be the will of the governed expressly de.
clared; when no more power shall be
exercised than is or has been derived
from the people, the legitimate sourse ol
all power.
The great principle now in issue il
the Capitalization of power, or the keep
ing il diffused in State sovereignty as it
is by organic laws. constituting States
and forming the general Government
The creation of an empire, or republic,
or the reconstruction of the old Union
By brute force is simply impossiblel
The liberation of four million blacks
and putting them upsn an equality with
: L - - l.
bring its authors into shame, contemp
and confusion. No results Of this enter
prise will ever be realized beyond tn,
army of occupation.
1t is not the part of wisdom for thosl
who hsve in hand the noble work of pre-
serving the States from ruin, the race
from intermixture, to base their actor
upon incident or accident, CT upon an,
supposed termination Of our supposed
present irolbles. He who change
his view upon victory or defea
is but a poor soldier for & lonI
campaign against the mass Of error, cor
ruption aud crime, now thickly spreaC
over and through the body polite, anl
to an alarming extent influencing th,
action of the American mind
r But shall we stand aloof from politica
alliances and seek in our own way t
assist in the ueedful reformation? Shal
We rely entirely upon ourselves1 By nj
means. When the great end in vieV
can be in the least degree promoted, "
should not hesitate to lend our aid an
, support but care should be taken tha
. no uncertain path or devious ways be en-
, tered upon.
Let me speak plain. Our political a
6nity is unquestionably with the Demo
. cratic party, and if that organization
goes boldly to the work, standing irml
! upon its time-honored principles, main
tanning unsullied its integrity, it Is SAT
to presume that it will receive the mora
and physical support of this wide ez
a tended association.
The great boast of the Democrat
party has been, that it has met an
beaten back the party of centralizatio
I since the formation of the Union; an
s although 1t has never ordained an
1t principles in regard to the status of th
= inferior races, it has at all times strictl
adhered to the doctrine of making it