The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-02
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4 6eRffe nt mp0d. one day Seaaled qnDp
Mr.. T., an old and highly Respectable
citizen of st. Clairsville, (n0w of
blessed memory, commenced making
asconfe5sj0I al. his many weaknesses,
spiritual advice with view to enable
him to turn from his vicious ways.
NJ. I. being a most exemplary Chris.
tian- very readily offered such. counsel
as Tho 3eaJe sEdhdd to require, and
felt that he was succeeding very we'll
in clearing up the gloomy doubts that
clouded the mind of the contrite Mil
ligan Finally, the latter said that
Ilhez was =beseB by one sin more edo {
nous than all others he had enumer-
ated-one that had subjected him to
parental chastisement ever since he was
large enough to be whipped, but without
effect. His father had agonized over
i it. t. prayed 6veE St 81 I'D eiAsfized him
until agony, prayer and birehwere ex-
hausted, and that he had now come to
his amiable Christian friend for coun-
sell. Mr.. T.. encouraged him to hope
that infinite mercy wars equal to the
wiping away of all sin, and asked him
to unbufdeR his-mind and state what.
great crime so weighed him down.
LAfter much hesitation, sem6ears and
bushes, Milligan confessed that the
besetting sin to which he referred was
/ lying. Mr. L, pious man that he was,
gave the SpeHfteat0 some excellent ad-
vice, but the perusal of Mr. Welch's
letter will satisfy any one either that
the advice was, not followed, or, if fol-
lowed, was not productive Of the de-
sired effect, as the failing which pre- d
voked parental correction in early
youth still clingss the hoary sinner
with all its original tenacity.,
Il have just read a. set speech deliv-
cred by L. P. Milligan to his Demo
cratic friends at the town of Blufton,
Ind. The occasion was what was
termed grand ovation to, the above
worthy, The orator improved the
occasion by indorsing the Democratic
| party generally, and denouncing the
leaders of the Union party in particu-
lar. The following most bitter and
malignant language he uses toward
President Lincoln, Gov. Brough and
| Gov. Morton: ~a-. s..issar .t~-ar s.
God is just, although to us, who
e.
that justice sometimes seems tardys- L
never was prone to believe in the FREE
! quent recurrence of special providen-
ces, but such instances are distinctly
seen in the cases of three of the great
sest0 Sinners against Gods righteous
will-Lincoln, Brough and Norton
"One has been sulnInoned,ta the bar
of retributive justice with his sins
lunrepented of Another, covered all
over with the mildew of debaucheryIr
and wrapped in the exhalations from
(which buzzards would turn their of
Tended noses, carried to the grave the
impress of -fnfamy.;S while there6yet1
remains one of the Goddess trio, but
the plague is onzitsi westward march,
his limbs are smote with the bloodiof
crime, and tremble under their load
I of corruption, But I. pray that he 4
may long live to realize in this world.
rather than in the next, that God eissI
| justl" sai ID
Now it will be recollected thatLam-I
din p. Millfgan, sBowles;E and Hersey.
were arraigned and tried during 1the
fall and winter of 1862, before a 1nili- i
| tary court in Indiana for high treason
and for a conspiracy which embraced
the assassination of Gov. Morton1and
+ the other State. officials of Indiana.
/ OF these charges they were each found
| guilty, and sentenced to be exeeuted.
Their sentence was first approved by
President ohnson, but afterwards
committed to Imprisonment forAi
when they Immediately entered upon
their term of service in the Ohio PEN
sitentsaryB where afIex remsined until 1
7 shortly after the first IF * Bril- last.
To show the utter recklessnesse and
baseness- of the man, who, under all
the circumstances, could use such Ian i
TguageGas that observation-disclosures the
late President Lincoln and Governor
Morton, [ will relate some of the lam
guage of this j.. P. Milligan, which.
was used-ln-a conversation had with
him in the Ohio Penitentiary on Sum
day, the first day of April last, and
only few days before he was released
from ;pFison.o Thad gone to the prison
to hear an old friend preach osthe
convicts. After service the minister
and myself, in company with the War
den. called-on Mftfigan IN the Prison
j Hospital, where we found him doing
hospital duty After learning that /
was from Belmont County, where he
had studied law and pretended to
practice for number of years. he inr
quired about the people of St. Clairs-
/ yllls and some Of Of the prominent men
jbof the county.1 The cony efsa ton them
turned on his present conditions and
misfortunes :. - IA ~. 50
, He first stated that he expected too
be released from prison in a few
Eays sfthhtFhe had assurance from his
attorney to that affect on which he
could rely, He then said, IF 'Presi-.
tRlent Lincoln bad lived little while
longer he (Milligan) would never
a have. been in prison: That the evil
6ence in the case of histriab withithe