The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-05
MilIigan and the Democracy.

eral of the Sons of Liberty, was re-
leased from the penitentiary, all the
hosts of the Confederate Democracy
shouted hosannah to MILLIGAN. He
was brought to Indiana in triumph,
escorted by CoFFoRTH, Copperhead
candidate for Attorney General of this
State. and was received with a grand
ovation as blessed martyr" by the
Copperhead Democracy at every sta
ton he passed, the multitude crying,
Great is MILLIGAN, the Democrat
and Martyr !"
PERKINS, of the State organ, saw
in this demonstration of the people
danger to his own ambition, and spoke
warily of MILLIGAN, and even limited
that the world would have existed, if
MILLIGAN had been hung. CoFFoRTH,
Democratic candidate for Attorney
General of the State, brought MILL
GAN to indianapolis, and the next day
PERKINS pronounced eulogy upon
him. PERKINS was modified. What
arrangement he made with MILLIGAN
has not been made public. But the
State organ of the unterrifed Democ-
racy indorses MILLTGAN, and thus
since his speech at Bluffton, PERKINS
WASH t afraid.
The New Albany Ledger, whose
editor has more frequent lucid in
tervals than little PERKINS, ap-
preciating the damage that MILLIGAN
would do the party if acknowledged
and Endorsed as a leader, throws an
anchor to windward, by limiting that
MILLIGAN is " small potatoes, and
few in HILL" that he is an imprac-
ticable, injudicious man, not fit at all
for blessed martyr MILLIGAN has
not Uistted New Albany yet, but we
hope the Ledger will have faith and
patience to endure.
The St. Louis Republican, with an
impairment desire to NEEDLE in the
little family quarrel among the Dem
ocratic family in Indiana, denounces
MILLIGAN as belonging to that class
of politicians who are too old or too
obstinate to learn, and after saying
that MILLIGAN and men of his like
have damaged the Democracy quite
enough, that they brake loose from
him as an impracticable and vision
ary-good advice, doubtless, if it
could!be followed-but PERKINS has
already Endorsed him, and his is the
organ of the Indiana Democracy.
Some fellow, too, in the absence of
the political editor of that highly con
sentative paper, the Evansville C0u-
rter, hits MILL1GAN slap in the face,
and gets it published in the Courier
as editorial; and gives as a reason why
the Democracy should sour ON MILL
GAN, the fact that that gentleman in
sists upon it that the Democracy
should cherish the memory of their
wrongs-whether real or imaginary
and take vengeance on Union men
when they again come into power,
while the lamb of the Courier, with
the charity of true Christian, would
forgive and forget ALL
It is true that in a recent issue of
the Courier a column and more of
Outrages, by Union men against Demo
Gratis, were paraded, and Democrats
invoked to remember them, and to
nurse their wrath and keep it warm
until their time should come; but
that was only done in a joke. But
the real editor of the Courier, who is
now examining the architecture of the
stables of Kentucky, when he returns.
will set this little inconsistency ali
right. He will certainly not go
back on his friend, MILLIGAN, while
the Democracy of the State will have
to submit to MILLIGAN as the leader
and the martyr of the party. The
only difference between him and the
other leaders of the party is, that he
has a foolish habit of speaking as he
thinks.