The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-03-23
MARCH 33, 1864,


organization, and are prepared to swear
that they don't know anything of the *.
G.. C-,s." and that no such order exists
in the State, hut the name and rituals are
nothing. The essential element, the life.
of the old reasonable order is in the one
now growing or grown and that life is
the death ofthe Government They are
prepared for violence and intend it.
They count upon the enormous outflow
of Union strength into the army to give
them power enough to paralyze the State,
and complete the rebellion, and they
count upon the secresy of their move
ments to make their power elective
We warn the people of Indiana, that they
stand in peril of a greater disaster than
any that the rebel armies can iniict,
from men whom they meet every day, and
hold intercourse with as reputable citi-
zens. Members of Congress are con-
cerned in the conspiracy, and the general
management of it proceeds from men in
high places. A very few days will dis
close what the conspiracy is, and how far
it reaches.
Since the above was written, we have
encountered, in the Washington CORES
pondence of the Cincinnati Commercial,
the following statement in regard to the
same matter:
Very little has been heard of this or
ganization of late, but they deceive them
selves who think it is not in existence,
or that it will not put forth efforts more
vigorous than ever during the approach
ing summer and fall to accomplish its
mission. which is directly the disaffec-
ton ofthe Northwest on the subject of
the war and restoration of the Union, and
indirectly the establishment of the
Southern Confederacy, and the anneXa-
ton to it of the States of Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois. William r. Morrison,
Dem Representative from the
Twelfth Con gressional District of Illi-
nois, stated this fact to a friend yesterday
Mr. Morrison was for two years Colonel
in the army, and though now peace man,
refuses to join the .'Knights," though he
has been importuned to do SO. He is
well acquainted with the leaders and
principal members of the traitorous cabal,
and knows whereof he affirms when he
says they will try to get control of the
elections in the Northwestern States next
fall
A large number of Copperhead mem
bers from Indiana and Illinois have gone
home the past two weeks, and for no other
hov To hn Il ifrbf ~
Among those who have gone is William
j. Allen, representative from one of the
southern districts of Illinois-the sue
cessor of Gen. Logan. This gentleman,
it is well known, wanted to organize the
men of Southern Illinois and put them
in the rebel army. He rendered the com
mand of them to Logan-so Logan
charges on him, ut any rate-and it is
not secret that in his district he did
raise several companies, which he sent
south uia Paducah, and which were
mustered into the rebel service in Union
City. During Gen Grants campaign in
Mississippi l met rebel soldier who told
me that he was from Southern Illinois,
and that he belonged to a company, raised
by Mr.. Allen.
This band of villains and traitors will
make desperate struggle to defeat Gov
ernor Morton in Indiana. at the approach
ing election. Senator Hendricks though,
perhaps, not a member of the organiza-
ton is pledged to the establishment of
Northwestern Confederacy, and the same
may be said of every Indiana copperhead
in Congress, and of all the leading mem
bers of that party at home-Judge Ecllles,
Jesse d. Bright and such men.
In this connection it may not e inappro-
pirate to quote the following from an edi-
torial in the Richmond Examiner of the
29th ult:
while the political leaders are thus in
telligently arranging their platforms,
Indiana, we learn, has become more dis
loyal this year than ever. So this
year again there are signs of trouble in
the great Northwest-not signs of peace
with us, but of disintegration and dislo-
cation at home; gracious buds promise,
which with the approach of this election
may bloom and blossom into the bloody
fruit of revolution
This correspondent is right as far as
he goes, but there is more known of the
order and its purposes here than he seems
to have learned. AS we said, a few days
will disclose something of both, but in
the meanwhile we caution Union men
to be on their guard The danger
is not merely apolitical one. Il reaches
farther. 1t is true it is tool or ally of
the Copperheads, or their master rather.
as it was last year, when more than half
of that party in the Legislature belonged
to it, and is expected to do great deal
IN the elections, but its first object is to
prevent all elections by overthrowing
both the State and National governments,
and carrying out Mr.. Hendricks pet
scheme of separating the Northwest from
the Union A great and dangerous or
ganization now pervades the State with
exactly this object. and it is time the
people were moving to counteract or
crush it
TA democratic meeting in Butler
county, Ohio, adopted last week an