The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-12-21

office in Richmond, and the conclusio.
attem pied to be drawn, that free speec
and free press are denied there. Sir, 70
J years the people of Richmond submitte
! to the publication of that traitorou-
sheet in their midst. Day after day
uttered its ISLANDERS against the men VIII
were charged with the salvation OF the
Republic and discouraged the army who
had rallied to save all that was dear to
freemen. The people OF Wayne county
never dreamed of interfering with that
office From their high position of in
telligence and LOYALTY, thev could well
afford to look down with silent contempt
and pity upon the miserable wretch who
daily advertised his treason to the world.
Bnt company of Illinois soldiers hap
pened there. on their wav home from q
long imprisonment in the heliish murder
mills of Andersonvilie. They had just
escaped the clutches of that pink of
Democratic virtue Captain Wirz. whose
recent execution the friends of the Sena-
tor from Vioo denominate murder and
( butchery. These brave BOYS, fresh from
the CORY battle fields of the country, and
the dirt of the prison pen upon their
garments, singing under the thought
/ that while they were suffering to uphold
/ the proud fabric of their fathers, thero
were fiends at home disseminating 9 treason
! in the land where nothing but universal
/ patriotism should have been found, quiet
/ ly demolished that office, and went on
/ their way home This, too, may have
been a violation of law, but il finds an
i apology deep down in the heart of every
soldier in the country. They erred
doubtless, but they erred on the side of
public virtue and public loyalty. Sir. |
can tell the Senator from Nigo, that at
that time public sentiment was so strong
in the army, such feeling was aroused
in the breasts of every soldier, that had
their faces been turned homeward. every
Copperhead press in the land would have
been DESTROYED. and every 'ssour apple
tree" in the country would have groaned
beneath the load of '.strung mp Butter
nuts" Sir. it was at that time that the
infamous Legislature of 1868 was setting
in this capitol plotting means of destruc
ton to the nation. while n flood Of trea-
son was pouring over the land, and the
stoutest hearts were were chilling for the
fate of the Republic But even this was
not the work of the people of Wayne
county. What would they do: Must
they have arrested the gallant heroes and
put them into prison again TO satisfy the
grim visaged monsters assembled around
the council fires of the Sons of Liberty
at the hour of midnight No, thank
God, the people of Wayne county are
not SO brutalized, but they leave the inn
prisonment of soldiers, the shooting of
enrolling officers. and acts of kindred
nature to the Confederate loving constitu-
ents of the Senator of Vigo, in the God
forsaken county of ;Sullivan-that speci-
ally favored spot which the devil. when
he offered the whole world to the Savior,
reserved as a homestead for himself
The next count in this remarkably
precious document, drawn with such
care by the Senator from Nigo, is that
once on a time one poor little Sam. Cox,
who, but for this unfortunate resurTec-
ton made Ivy his friend from Nigo, had
been considered as dead, and even this
memory faded away from the minds of
his unappreciaiing fellow citizens, had
received a whipping ut the hands of
somebody at this same bloodthirsty
village Owing to the presence of the
many ladies here assembled, ! shall he
compelled to decline full Justice to the
other wise delicious banquet which the
Senator has pleased TO set before lis. The
visit Of the honorable gentlemen TO
Richmond was connected with a visit to
the fair attaches Of certain travelling
show which happened to he then in that
city, and like All other animals that
follow up that kind Of prey, tell in with
a bigger purp" and got thrashed =
That l. the whole Of the Cox case
The next count in the grand Indictment
is that a certain quiet party OF the good
citizens of Abingdon had occasion to
visit the town OF Centrevilla, on some
purpose of benevolence or patriotism,
and while there party of shoulder
hitters, "roughs, and dead rabbits
from the beiigerent civ of Richmond.
stole over to Centreville and captured
most of these amiamhle Abing gtonians,
and pursued the remainder to their
peaceful homes, and dragged them off TO
some horrible Bastile, or Lincoln dun
geon. Tie history of that case is
simply this A lot of drunken Copper
heads. from Abingdon. went to Centre
vile, wearing butternut embIems. and
shouting for JEFF Davis, knowing that
all the young men were in the army. and
supposing the old Quakers wouldn't
fight. and not fearing the women and
children. But the Sheriff and his posse
captured a portion of them. and put
them i'll Jail to prevent the old women
and boys from lynching them An
indignation meeting was called in the
Golden Circle of Abingdon. and a
raid organized to capture Centreville
And a force of forty or fifty drunken
Copperheads, rebel refugees and army
deserters, mounted on horses and mules,
and armed with pistols, shot guns, brass
knucks and slung shots, entered the
town, and commenced series of barbar-
ous acts worthy of the palmy days Of
Sullivan county. A dispach was sent to
Richmond. A party of dozen men came
over. charged on the motley crew OF
traitors, and the doughty heroes o.
Arlington fed in confusion, paralleied
only in the battle of Pogue's Run. leav-
ing behind only about dozen who wero
so drunk they couldn't get away. But
the Richmond boys had not yet sufficient
sport, 90 they pursued the feeting
column of the enemy. easily folloxin1