The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-31


his troops could only be levied for
twelve months at a time, that he could
more easily break the obstinacy of
any incorrigible town by quartering
a body of foreign troops upon it. This
practice has been adopted in the late
war. Foreign troops, alien to the cit
liens of Indiana, and not only aliens.
but in many instances Yankee enc
mics to the citizens of Indiana, were
needlessly quartered In every consid-
cradle town and city in your State.
Not only have foreign soldiers been
CHARTERED upon you, but a class un-
deserving the name OF soldiers. Sol
diers have courage, and men OF ceur-
age are never cruel and revengeful.
They have self respect, and never
steal. They have respect for their
profession and maintain its dignity.
Citizens become soldiers temporari-
ly from motives of patriotism. Now,
patriotism and larceny never were
companions. Mercenariesr fight for
pay, and would as willingly run as
fight. 1t is said the devil has servants
clad In the livery of heaven; so the
garment of patriotism has been used
under which to carry off other peo-
pies property, by too many officers OF
the Federal army. There we're quar-
tered among you, all over Indiana,
officers with whom even Butler would
not compare. They were too coward
ly to. go to the front, and do service in
the cause they professed to regard,
and organized under the title of
Home Guards, . and, as pimps and
SPIES undertook to ayenge their own
private grudges, and were paid for
their perjury. These were more in
sulting and tyrannical than any true
soldiers ever were. Is fee m
4 hio- 4tSoP FOR THE SOLDIERS. 9.t4,,
I respect true soldiery, bravery, and
gallantry. as much as any man living,
whether in a Robert E. Lee or Ulys-
ses Grant, giving Lee the preference.
Reporter. or the gallant and dash
ing soldiers on both sides of the late
conflict who stood or fell in thous-
and hard fought battles, and forgive
them for the ruin they have wrought.
And notwithstanding the falsehOod of
politicians, who wouldsprejudice sol
diers against me and those with whom
| have acted, | would trust my lifeSand
integrity with them a thousand times
rather than with the politicians who
remained at home, or, leaving, left
with commission or cotton per-
nit in his pocket.
PURITANIsM PORTRAYED.
Could draw a picture of the last
five years, America might blush for
herself, and the nations of the earth
weep in sorrow. But Puritans cannot
blush. tits a grace God has denied
them, or which they have obliterated
by corruptions to which history has
no parallel, even In the administra-
ton of Charles II, from whom the
world turns with loathing. Cotton
permits, the capture of private prop
erty for the benefit of those capturing
it, leases ofabandoned lands, etc, etc. /;
such things constitute the moral pes
thence that everywhere prevails. Sue
cessfnl crime is made the standard of
responsibility. And that great center
of education, where a higher civiliza-
ton is boosted Of than common Chris
D1dAo Odu <toplAC. WI 9OOouOns Ao tue
school where people are thus educated
to villainy, where yillainy is most re-
spected. 8t 65o5T
And this moral pollution has been
carried by New England far into the
West. Even in Ohio big thieves are
more respected than honest men,. A
Gibson and a Dorsey can play chuck
a-luck with the public money, and go
free, while the poor boy not yet out of
his teens in sentenced to "a years for
horse stealing. fa4,ee6 500 d.s 81
81 nq ARIsTOcRAcY OF CRIME.
81 But this is not the only form of
moral delinquency with which we
have to contend. There is an aris-
itecracy of crime warmed into life by
the protective system exacted by New
England, controlling Congress as the
East India Company controlled Par
lament, with money. This state of
things was early brought to the pub
lie gaze by hiring Webster to go to
the Senate, and since then their sue
cess has made them more impudent.
Prior to the meeting of Congress, it
has not been uncommon to see it
boosted of In their papers that Boston
had raised $780, 900 or 100000 to carry
her measures through Congress. How?
By bribing your Congressman to be-
tray your interests and that of your
children. So well settled has this
practice become, that, few years
ago, when certain capitalist was
asked to contribute to an electioneer-
Z ing fund for the purpose of securing
the return of a plant Western mem
Der, he objected, boldly saying it
would be cheaper to buy whatever
member might be elected than to
bride as many votes as would be
necessary. hA 3it -tit
NEW ENGLAND JEsUITIsM. -
The speaker il. this connection