The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-22
The Democratic Opinion OF Soldiers.
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gan of the Democracy of the Eastern
States, in noticing the decoration of
the graves of the Confederate soldiers
by the people of Richmond, on the
31st of May, says:
Thank God the vandals who disgraced
the name of American soldiers, end who
plundered defenceless soldiers homes I'M
der the sanction of Lincoln and Stanton,
had not the power to beat it back, the God
given right to shed tears, and to hold sa-
cred In memory the ones who were to them
dear and worthy.
Who will shed tears over the graves of
hundreds of Northern officers, who rob-
bed, burned and pillaged the homes Of in
nocent parties? Angels may weep over
their sins, but mortals never Will over
their virtues; and who will weep over the
graves of the tyrants, towards, and tools
of tyrants who went about the country
mobbing men for an opinion, and impris-
oning men for their belief, and beat their
brains out with clubs for not shouting
lie in praise of tyranny, cowardice, wrong,
and usurpation?
Union soldiers tyrants, towards,
and tools of tyrants!" Northern
officers robbed, burned and pillaged
the homes of innocent parties did
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The La Crosse Democrat, in com
menting on the remark said to have
been made by Gen. GRANT, that
such papers as the New York Nesos
and Chicago Times, which are now
striving to- incite another rebellion,
ought to be suppressed" talks as fol-
lows:
All, but old dog Of GaIena, your teeth
are gone, and as the age of miracles has
passed away, you are not likely to grow
new set right away-your will is good
enough, but those same newspapers-those
kindred sheets, as you term them, have
full as much power to seize you and shake
you out of the uniform you disgrace, as
you have to cripple and fetter their pow
ers. Me
General GRANT said that LEE was
behaving badly, which remark furnish
ed the Democrat an opportunity for
fulsome adulation Of the Rebel Chief
tain and depreciation of the Federal
soldiery, which it eagerly improves:
The lucky General of the Federal
forces never has forgiven, never will for
give the grandest living warrior of the
American continent, who, with an inferior
scrafx
Of the Federal General, strewing the path
way of the latter from the Wilderness to
Richmond with untold numbers of killed
and wounded sacrificed to his ignorance
and lack of skill. Lee behaving badly.
no man of all the thousands who fought
in behalf of the Lost Cause has conducted
himselfmore properly and heroically since
the cessation of the conflict of arms, and
Grant knew it.
In commenting upon the present
feelings of the South, General GRANT
said that the citizens of localities
which our armies avoided were most
troublesome, and the most difficult to
deal with, and that itwould have been
better had the Federal armies passed
over every inch of Southern SOIL The
Democrat comments as follows:
What an utterance for man by whose
genius { p hundreds of miles of the most
fruitful and beautiful sections of the South
ern country were wasted and devastated
and ruined with fire and sword, cities ut
terly destroyed, and crimes peypetrotedo Of so
nionstrOats and Jfeadish a nature that though
cry TO HeaUen for vengeance What an as
piration for man by whose orders the
torch swept the fair and beautiful Shenan-
doah; Nero f1ddling, dancing, and revel-
ing, over the wreck of burning, did not ask
another Rome to satiate his passions, but
General Grant, aOho planned deeds, and
caused, By his agents. horrors at 1OhicE the
civilized Uoald stood Gghdst, is dissatisfied
because the war did not last year longer,
that he might have used the persuasive
agencies of the torch, rape, lOiltage and mar
de1supon portions of the South still unvis-
tied! -
And it winds up its TRADE with the
following:
Some sneering illusions to the general
ship of Mcclellan alone suffice to show
the bombastic character of the man, and
come tothe portions of his conversation
indicating the fiendishness and despotism
indwelling within him, and his hatred of
freedom of speech.
We could continue these choice
extracts for column or two, but the
above suffice to show the hatred the
Copperhead faction feel toward the
man who crushed the Rebellion and
the hopes of the Democracy at the
same time. In Indiana, the friends and
confederates of this writer will beg