The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-13
THE REBEL PRESS.
From theEvansville Courier, 5th.
Editorial Correspondence.
NEBo, HOPKINS Co., KY.
june 3 1864

klns county, and stopped under tn
hospitable roof of Hon. Charles s
Green, the Representative from Hop
kins and Webster.
The readers of the Courier, at leas
some of them-would perhaps like t.
read candid portraiture of the I'm,
hung as the gentlemen are found II
this part of Uncle Sans vineyard.
l have circulated during the past
few days very freely among the great
and small 3" Unhungs and feel com
petent to render a just description.
L, therefore, unhesitatingly assert
that an Unhung" is pretty clever
fellow, and does the thing by a
stranger about right; that is, if the
aforesaid stranger is known to have
been neither sewing machine, piano
or ladies' wardrobe thief, or a COM
nissioned murderer, Federalist or
Guerrilla.
CesaslnS unacr nzitiIer OF the above
exceptions, | found many kind friends
among the great Unhung,' and a
hospitality as genuine as natural.
The people of these counties being
very generally " unhung," are, never
theless hung to what is right, and
repudiate all that is wrong. An I'm
hung is as far superior to negro
thief, or sewing machine thief, or
ladies wardrobe thief, or any other
sort of a Yankee thief, as heaven is
superior to hell, or sunshiny day to
stormy night on the mountain
gOrges
Give me the great Unhung all
the tlme-there is more love of Con-
stitutional liberty, of right, of honor,
in one unhung Kentucky rebel than
IN fifty thousand Yankee house-gut
tiers, and that's what's the matter.
Being an " Unhung Rebel" ourself-
that is never having been hung, to our
knowledge-we naturally sympathize
with the Unhung," and positively
assert, after mature comparison and
reflection, that Unhung Rebels are by
tar more valuable to society than
Hung Rebels, and a COMPOUNDED
sight more so than all the dead and
most of the live Yankees.
The country about Nebo, as every
kentuckian in that section knows. is
very tine-the land being rich and the
people generally well-to-do. We have
IN the village one very large tobacco
factory by Mr.. r. G. Slaug hter, well
known in Evansville as one of the
,leverest sort of Unhung Rebels, who
has large number of niggcrs at work
'temmlng, pressing, and preparing to-
laccO for market, and also another bv |
1raham Il Laughlin. Tobacco. as at
most other points in this section, seems
o be the product of wealth, and the
present crop. just -setaout.. looks Eezr
loyance of the Freedmen's Bureau,
pretty large crop will be raised.
But while referring to the Freed
mems Bureau it is proper to say that
Mr.. Captain, Colonel or General John
l.. Peyton, the Freedmen's Bureau
Agent of this county, so-called, but |
who really has absolute African do
minion over only about $50 acres of |
land, has gone to Louisville TO get
regiment of military to arrest Judge |
of the Circuit Court, for some |
decision or instructions given that did |
not suit his African Highness. What !
is to be accomplished is not known,
or what the military are to do when
they come; but one thing is certain
if the Government wants peace always,
and cordial and Christian commu-
nifty Of interests between the people Of
this country, the rulers ought to send
a regiment out to gather up the Freed
mems Bureau Agents, and ship them
to Mexico or HI. The poor negroes
in this State are the principal sufferers
from this New England humbuggery,
which was intended to populate the
county jails, State penitentiaries, and
hell generally with the poor victims.
The negroes seem well disposed,
and would no doubt, if left alone, and
this is what the people want. 1t is
not ownership they care for, but la
Dor they want The farmers want la
borers, but cannot get them. The ac-
cursed, internal and damnable Blu
reau gets between the negro and the
farmer, and destroys the efficiency of
the one and the crops of the other
Sambo is we'll disposed, and would
get along very we'll with his late mas
ter, if these blasted Bureau devils
were discharged. They act as ennis
saries, and although some perhaps
intend we'll, they all do positive in
jury.
| have attended upon the courts of
Judge Fowler, and do honestly be-
lieve that it is impossible for man to
be more impartial and straight for
ward than he is, and those who run
around on the Freedmen's Bureau
business, do so purposely to create
trouble, and are laboring for that end
No dependence should be placed upon
anything said by them. or respect
shown for their diabolical attempts.
[ heard of nasty case of New Eng
gland miscegenation in Webster coun-
ty, which ought to encourage the New
England Religious hypocrites to fur
Their efforts in the free-love line. There