The Daily Evansville Journal

Fluttering And Threatening.—Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, the mis-representative of the 7th Congressional District, published "a card" "departing from his usual custom"—a whole column in length, in the Terre Haute Journal of last Friday, in which he tries to soothe his own feelings and comfort his followers over the withering rebuke he received of soldiers and sailors who were passing through the State on the railroad.

In his effort Daniel is not very particular about a strict regard for truth, but makes up for that, fully, in vaporing and vaunting threats. He said he had showed a bold front to the soldiers, but numbers of eye witnesses whose word is far more creditable than Voorhees' oath would be, failed to hear it. The fact was that Voorhees sneaked off, and takes this safe method to vindicate his courage.

All Dan's acquaintance know that he is game. He proved that when, being published as "a liar, a coward and a poltroon," he hastened to resist it by publishing a "card" two weeks afterwards in a paper published seventy miles off and which had no circulation in the region where the denunciation of him was circulated.

Dan in his last card warns the "Abolitionists" that the Democracy are armed and organized ready to stand by their rights, that is their right to resist the conscription, to shoot down Provost Marshals and kill inoffensive negroes.

Voorhees is very willing to educate his followers up to the mob point but if there is ever any fighting to do, like Fernando Wood and Booby Brooks in the late riot they helped to organize in New York, he will be off in a place of safety making a speech to further the interests of Jeff. Davis. Dan is the hero of many unfought battles.

We see the puerile tricks and falsehoods to which the Copperhead press resort to against the Government and against the brave men who are fighting in its defense.

The boldest and most senseless of these is the silly item going the rounds of these Copperhead sheets, that it was given out among the soldiers in the Army of the Potomac on the 1st of July that Halleck had been superceded by McClellan, and that the soldiers were incited to their duty by this rumor.

It is not only a base falsehood, but a base slander on the soldiers of the gallant Army of the Potomac. It is simply asserting that the veterans of that long tried and always true army are not fighting for principle, nor for love of country, but for George B. McClellan. It is a base slander against their manhood and their patriotism, and one which the soldiers will resist with indignation. The privates in the ranks of the Army of the Potomac are, as a mass, as intelligent as the officers, and possess as much principle, self-respect and patriotism as their officers, and in a majority of cases more so, and they have done just as good fighting under Burnside, Hooker and Meade as they ever did under McClellan, and are ready to do their whole duty, let who will, command them.

Of course the name of the "reliable and intelligent officer" who put this base lie in circulation will never be known.