The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-04
A Bogus Soldiers, Convention.

Sunday morning of Call for Sol
diers' Convention to appoint delegates
to the Cleveland meeting of John
sonites soon to be held. But when
the names of the signers of the call
were examined the surprise was
changed into laughter and derision.
AS briefly as possible we desire to no
tice some of the marked features
of the Call. The only person we have
heard of as having circulated it is A.
T. WHITTLEsEY, whose political his
tory is so we'll known in
this community, it would be
unnecessary to refer to it, except for
information ofour readers abroad. He
is the leader of the small-fry brood Of
politicians of the late Democratic par
ty of this city. He never was in the
army, and never was known to do
anything to encourage the soldiers in
the field; but, on the contrary, was
during the four years contest the
most loud-mouthed opponent of the
war and the policy of the Government
in this county He it is who conceives
. the movement and eirculates the Call.
He is an applicants for the Post Office
of this city, and is anxious to do what
he can to merit the appointment.
Out of the three or, four thousand
soldiers who went into the army from
this county, only thirteen officers and
thirty-seven enlisted zen could be
found so forgetful of THE cause for
which they've were about to say,
fought-as to lend their names to such
movement, in the hands of such
man as WHITTLEsEY.
The signers of the Call were made up
of three classes: First, those who con-
Quoted themselves creditably in the
army. butwho have such strong Demo
cratic prejudices and surrounding
influences, that they are unable
to break away from them, but must
obey the beck of such men as those
who circulated the Call; in this class
are some who, like Captain KoEHLER,
whose card we publish, when in
formed of the real design Of the
movement, will disown it. The Sec
ond class are composed mostly of
those who spent but short time in
the service, some of them never
having left the State, and who re-
turned home long before the war
closed, 70 denounce the Government
and ally themselves with the party, |
which was doing all it could to Grip
pie the efforts of the Government to
sustain the soldiers, who were fighting |
to put down the rebellion. The third |
class of signers to the Call are COM
posed of officers and men dishonora- !
bly, discharged, deserters, and bounty
jumpers. We would not tarnish |
whatever of honorable reputation the
first class may have, gained in the
service of their country, and only re-
greet that they cannot rise above par
ty, and unite with the great mass of
the soldiers Of this county in continu-
ing the warfare against the old enemy.
The second class are pretty we'll
known in Evansville. We trust it
will not be invidious, however, to
designate of this number Capt. A. g.
DENNIS and Col. CHARLES DENNY.
The war and political record of the
former is sufficiently known. Col.
DENNY is the only one, of the fifteen
or twenty Colonies of Vanderburgh
County, who was willing to join in
such movement, and it will be of |.
interest to know will is his
record. As private citizen
and lawyer, we do not say aught
against him. But he has publicly !
given his name to Call to his breth-
rem in arms to meet him in Conven-
ton, and it is perfectly legitimate
for us to inquire whether his Call is
worthy to be obeyed by soldiers ofthe
Union army. Col. DENBY was a Vir-
ginia BRECKINRIDGE Democrat, but
few months after the war commenced
he entered the service with earnest
ness. As early as 1861 or the FIRST month
in 80, we find him in advance of the
Government, and in advance of the
people, on the slavery question, being
fully up to the celebrated FREMONT
Order which the President revoked;
declaring that every man must make
his record on this question, and that