The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-08
Major GeneraI MiiIigan Scared.


The startling effect of his Button
speech, and the manifest influence
which it is likely to have to the injury
of the Democracy. has terrified even
its author, the puissant Major Gen
eral MILLIGAN, late of the Sons-of-
Liberty, and more recently of the
Ohio Penitentiary. Several Demo-
cratic papers have deprecated the eff
fects of the speech, not that they
really differ from it's sentiments, and
its principles, but from policy. They
deem it injudicious and damaging
just at this particular juncture. There
is an election coming on and they re-
member how cold the developements
of the reasonable conspiracy of MIL
LIGAN, BowLEs, BINGHAM, DoDD
and HoRsEY, knocked their nartu4 ;,s-
fou4, ana they would prefer to have
it drawn mild until the party has re-
covered somewhat from that blow.
MILLIGAN himself becomes scared.
and sends the following to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer. He is not even willing
to trust j. to the Herald and Little
PERKINS:
INDIANAPoLIs, May 81, 1896.
To the Editor Of the Cincinnati Enquirer:
GENTLEMEN: You have done me great
injustice mot Intentionally, knowJ in
be my speech at Button. The report is not
null, not correct in Language or Sentiment
Even when think he intends to be correct
a knowledge of things necessary to he
known by every man who attempts tore
port spec eh.- You will therefore please
correct, ant is calculated to misin form the
L. P. M11I1eAx.
In reply to this the Gazette says:
Our reporter took Mr.. MiIligans
speech phonographically. We did |
not publish it all What we did pub !
lish, as spoken by him, was verbatim.
What. we shortened, by Stating the
substance was plainly distinguished Il
by being put in the third degree. aihHf
That part of the speech which is
most offensive to the public sense, I
was reported verbatim. We suppose
it is that which he now wishes to
escape from. His charge of incor-
rectness is conveniently vague and \
general, for he knows that he can not
sustain a specific charge. The diff
Guilty is that his speech has shocked
the pubic sense, and it is feared that
it will damage the party. Not salts
fed to get off with so light punish Z
ment for so atrocious crime, nor to
tSkt lrc-Hene6t e tla-e+ teeA saies.l loasl
doubt of his guilt, Mr.. Milligan fool
lshly went before a company Of svn-
and showed himself to be
man bit for such murderous CON
spiracy. Dla sH a1h itt'fi 4 - -
His virtual recognition of Booth as
a comrade in the work of Providen A
tlal retribution, his satisfaction at the
assassination of Lincoln. his hvena
tearing open. the grave Of Brough
to defle his dead body, and his gloat-
lug over the idea that Morton is
stricken with death-the man whose
magnanimity saved MiIligan's neck
from the halter which he deserved
established the general conviction
that he is just the man he was taken
for: It is the effect of his speech /
which he now tries to divert by as
sailing our report.
Thepeople have not forgotten the
of the leaders Of the Dem }
ocratic party to open the doors of the
rebel prisoners, and to give our peo- ]
pie, the women and children of Indi-
ana, up to outrage and massacre, and !
our cities to pillage and the faggot.
was the chief leader in that
and isnow the leader of {
he Indiana Democracy, endorsed by {
he State Democratic organ, the. In {
Annapolis Herald. t