The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-17

zan corps, he had been sent by General
ROsecrans TO communicate with General
| Burnside at Knoxville. How he had sue
/ cessfully passed the rebel lines. How he
| had laid an assessment on a certain town
| which had been liberal towards the Con-
federacy, and how he had pressed few
/ horses, the property of residents within the
rebel lines, on which to mount such of his
men as were afoot on account of their hor-
SEES having broken down. He described
how, on his return, he had cut his way a
time or two through Bragg's entire army,
and how he had well nigh fallen a victim
to the efforts of the Union army for his
protection. He had an enemy in the
army who trumped up a malicious charge
against him for levying an assessment
which he had never collected, and
for taking horses from rebels on which to
mount. his men. He was taken sick-and
well nigh died-was called home to nurse
a sick wife, and while on this duty of love,
received notice that he had been dismissed
the service, &C. He fastened back to the
field; found. .Roseerans and all his other
friends with whom he had associated in the
amy gone; was refused an interview with
Gen. Thomas; was assured by Gen. Whip
pie that there was no charges against him
on which a Court of Enquiry could be call
ed, or Court Martial. constituted, and he,
the innocent victim of slxuIking malice, has
ever since been unable TO obtain justice.
g. Under this state OF circumstances he APP
pealed to Col, Foster, editor of the JOUR-
NAL, as a soldier and an officer, to do him
justice, and would wait a few days to OBJ
tain it; when, if it didn't coIne, he would
vindicate himself, by publishing orders,
af1idayits, and statements, of which he
had any conceivable amount. ma, 1853.
The anxious crowd had waited patiently
all this time for some better denuneiatfon
of the editors of the JOURNAL, and were
evidently disappointed that the Major did
not pitch in. Indeed, they were so, eager
for billingsgate and vituperation that they
blunted the point of his remarks by ILL
timed and inappropriate interruptions,
which the Major had too much sense to
notice. He, perhaps, knew the men who
were goading him to make an uncalled-for
onslaught. ,.,fsst4..ss -.5tny-at35s,st
The JOURNAL. has made no attack upon
the private character or the public charac-
ter of Major MORGAN, but had simply pub
lished leaf of history, as it appears on
record, in the office of the Adjutant Gen.
eral; and, if the Major viii produce official
evidence that injustice has been done him,
in those orders, the JOURNAL will give
them like publicity. He appears among
us as the mouthpiece of the Democracy,
and processes to speak for and to the sol
diers of the grand army, as one of them,
and the public is entitled to know of his
official record. - ,..,ft4..ys+
He has appeared as witness against the
Republican party and against Congress,
charging them with high crimes and mis-
demeanors, and it is the right of the accus-
ed in all courts of law or justice to exam
inc into the credibility of the prosecuting
witness. -,,,fll., ..,.l..
After the Major had finished his explain
alton, which the Courier of yesterday says
was entirely satisfactory to all present, he
mounted his Pegasus and treated his au-
dience to Few glittering generalities, in
many finely rounded and pathetic senten-
ces, told one of his inimitable original an
ecdotes, and closed.
The audience was manifestly disappoint-
ed. This was not the feast to which they
had supposed themselves invited. They
came to hear billingsgate and denuncia-
ton, but William Won q not degrade him
self with either, and to-day he stands much
lower in the estimation of a large portion
of the Democracy than he would had ne
made d blackguard of himself The Jour-
NAL yet lives.