Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-10-25

tlls ola ana u1eQ bOF0er State OemO-
crat would lend himself to reckless ef-
fort to manufacture political capital
against his old party by the invention of
wholesale aud elaborate slander
Judge Holts is 8 name not unfamiliar
TO Democratic esrs. James Buchanan
thought him sufficiently sound as Demo
crat and conservative as statesman to
occupy a place in his cabinet; and it has
been within one Of the most recent cycles
Of the Louisville Journal that that en-
bodiment of Kentucky conservative was
lauding him to the skies, as the soul of
Kentucky honor and the perfection OF
Kentucky politics
Now It is upon his honor as public
officer that Judge Holt, after the most
thorough and painstaking examination
reports the existence Of this reasonable
secret military organization among the
Democratic lead ers at the North, and
gives names, dates and facts with MN
ateness that proves either the eompre-
hensiye nature of his information or OF
his invention.
Sincere Democrats. which DO you hon
esEly believe il to be? Is the old Ken
tucky Cabinet officer ofJames Buchanan
common har7 Or is be an idiot, in
capable of Weighing testimony and sift-
ingit7 Or, il be is not either, must not
these things which be has told to be
true7
Consider veil what they are.
BE charges that these organizations
are vide spread; that they are organized
BY Democratic leaders and made up
of such Democrats as these leaders can
bring into the rsaks; that their orgaiza.
ton is purely military, and that every.ef-
| fort has been made 10 arm them that
| Clement l. Yallandigham is at their
head; that prominent Democrats through
out the West whom he names are asso-
ciated with him in the higher Offices
that their object was originally resistance
10 the draft; that since then, they have
added 10 il the encouragement Of enlist
ments, the encouragement of desertion,
the furnishing Of supplies to the rebels,
the forwarding to them Of recruits from
the North, the communication 10 them
of valuable information--in word tha;
they exhau sted al forms and shapes OF
treason ia their efforts TO aid the rebel
lion and TO defeat our brave soldiers
in the field
And this is not political sleetioneer-
ing bY areekless nobody-it is ofrecord
in the official report of a great Demo.
cratic statesman, a favoFite of Ken
lucky, aud member Of James Bnohan.
ans Cabinetl
OF late, we have been having mystic
Eious hints Of possible revolution i'm.
pending over US, led on By disaAected
army officers Of the Nsglee and Fitz
John Porter pattern, in the event OF a
| defeat Of Mcclellan at the election A
leading confidential friend Of Fremonts
said to me within twenty-foar hours that
be knew such thing to be in eontem-
| plAtion, and knew that It's leaders were
greatly disappointed at not finding
Fremont with them what lurid glow
does Judge Holfs expose cast over these
vague but sinister whisperings Of the
election autumn.
TIE ELECTORAL vorEs NOW sURx FoE Mr.
LINcoLS.
Some time ago sought to show tha,
no matter how New York, PennsylvA
mia and Indiana went, the election o
Mr. Lincoln, with or without their aid
was inevitable The close result Of the
election IN PENNSYLVANIA gives renewed
interest to the calculation
Last Tuesdays work rendered per
feetly certain (if II had Anywhere beet
uncertain before the vote of the fol.