The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-03-09
President TayIOr.

Our telegraphic dispatch, of the 26th ult..
published in yesterdays evening edition. Is
Of momentous Importance. President lay
lor. in the crisis which had occurred in Con-
gress relative to the territorial question has
assumed an attitude so full of dignity, firm
ness and well founded dependence on the
good sense, cool reason and calm Judgment
Of his countrymen that it will no doubt elic-
it a cordial cheer of appreciation from all
parts of the Union. He has administered
wholesome and well timed rebuke to those
Incorporate spirits who speak of dissolu-
ton OF the Union, with the same gllbness as
people ordinarily do of a dissolution of CO.
partnership in a commercial speculation
They have yet to learn that the great fabric
of this Union-the envy and admiration OF
the world, which was built up with so much
care and so much wisdom by those whose
memories have become the very heir-looms
OF freedom and humanity in every cllme-is
not 10 be touched by rude hand Ola slight
causes. Gen. Taylor's sentiments, which
seem to have been spontaneously given, on
the spur of the moment, are such as we have
a right to expect from patriotic Chief Mag
strate. He is a Southern man, intimately
acquainted with the wants and wishes OF the
inhabitants of his section of the country, and
he repudiates in burst of honest Indignation
the handful Of disunionists at Washington,
who arrogan1y assume to control the destlnles
of the South, and with them the destinies of
the whole Union. Gen. Taylor rightly esti-
mates public feeling in the South when he
expresses his conviction that there is enough
patriotic feeling and attachment to the Union
among its Masses to put down the disunion-
lists in whatever shape or at whatever point
they may appear. Although we admire the
old HERDS generous determination to pour
out his own blood in order to preserve the
Union intact, we apprehend that no necessity
for such a sacrifice is likely to result from the
agitation of this vexed question OF slavery in
territories. The overwhelming majority of
the Southern people are for the preservation
of the Uni n, and the disunionists are reck-
onlng without their host, if they imagine they
have influence enough to produce among
them such an effervescence as would lead to
the extreme measure of the Presidents
blockading their ports, or calling for volun-
teers from the North and West to invade
their territory. With mutual forbearance
and iudicious concessions on the part Of
North and South, a satisfactory compromise
can easily be effected and Notwithstanding
the untoward appearance, at this moment, of
affairs at Washington, we have an abiding
faith that such a measure will yet be accom-
pished before many weeks will have passed
over our heads ~ o. Pic.
The N. o. Bulletin says: I" We make the
assertion, which we do with every confidence,
that Gen. Taylor may rely upon the cordial
support of Louisiana. aud, we believe, also
on the great body of the people of the entire
South, in being supported in all his efforts
= pedceGbLy,' if it can thus be effected, and
forciblv,' if necessary-for maintaining and
preserving the Union against the separate or
united attempts of fanatics, demagogues, or
factionists."