The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-07

GINA and Tennessee; after the refusal
of Magofin, of Kentucky, to furnish
troops under the Presidents call-af-
ter the war was fully inaugurated and
the bloody work of battle had com
menced., 1t was after all these events
that Brown, the gallant and elo-
quent champion of the Democratic
cause" declared that Kentucky
would not furnish one man or one
dollar to aid in the unholy war against
the South"-that he would resist
the Northern army unto the death =
and that any loyal man that dared to
join it " ought, and he believed would
be shot down before ne LETT the State.
Brown did not make good his bold
threats by entering the Rebel army,
but in the rear he did all he dared for
the Confederacy, and he was always
known as full blooded stay-at- home
Rebel. The Courier boastfully says it
knew him long ago,-his position
in 1861 and during all the years of the
war-and he is such true Dem
ocrat that if it had a thou
sand votes to give, every one Of
them would be cast for JOHN YOUNG
Brown" 1t does not deny that he
wrote the letter, nor does it deny that
all his efforts and all his sympathies
were towards the overthrow of the
Government and the establishment of
the Confederacy. He never recanted
the sentiments contained in that let
ter; he never repented Of his treason
able course; he is still a Rebel in
sympathy and in principle. 1t was
because of the position occupied by
him in 1861 and during the war, that
he received the nomination of the
Calhoun Convention; and he now
receives the support of every rebel
soldier, guerrilla, and traitor in the
Second Kentucky District. It is for
such man that a Democratic organ
Of Indiana throws up it's hat with en-
thusiam, and with such enemies of the
country it calls upon the War Demo-
Gratis of the North to consort.
The entire Democratic State and
Congressional tickets of Kentucky,
with the exception of poor DAWSON
who was staff officer awhile in the
Federal service, and of which he says
he has repented-are of the same
stamp as JOHN YOUNG Brown. Some
of them, like men of brave and honest
purpose, were in the Southern army;
but the most of them were stay-at-
home peace sneaks, without the
courage to fight, but who did all the
damage they could to the Union cause
and army; and the most of them have
either been in Federal prisons or
sojourners in Canada. If the Dem
ocratic party of Indiana is satisfied
with the association which the Evans
vile Courier would have them
make, they have certainly abandoned
all their professions of loyalty, of
which we have heard so much.
In revenge for the course of the
JOURNAL in pinning it down so firmly
in favor of the Rebel party of Ken
lucky, the Courier threatens US with
some startling exposures. We hope
it will be free to publish all the facts
it has at its disposal. We hardly
think it cap be as successful in prov
ing our support and advocacy of any
man, who during the past four years
of war for the nations life, was doing
all he dared to destroy it. We GER
tainly are not in favor of such men
for Congress.
In the meanwhile will our cotem-
porary be little. more explicit in
reference to the course and senti-
ments of John YOU'VE Brown during
the war, without eyasive or inapt al
lusions to the opinions of others?
And will it further inform the pub,
lie how many of the candidates upon
the State and Congressional tickets Of
the Democratic party in Kentucky
were not known and acknowledged
rebel sympathizers during the war
(poor DAWSON excepted), giving us
their names?