The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-03-09
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stand by the Union even though he have to
head the Army and Navy OF the country, to
suppress physical attempts at disunon-has
occasioned great turmoil among the New
Orleans papers. The Picayune, Bulletin and
Delta, are the only papers we have SEEM
The two first strongly support the President,
and say he speaks the voice of the South in
assuming this position. No one doubts it
The South we believe will at the crisis, fit
come, be found as true to themselves and the
Union, as the most patriotic OF the North
The Picayune is a neutral and the Bulletin
Wing paper. The Delta is neutral. 1t
opposes the other sheets bitterly. In the
course of its remarks it says:
"The North and West are stronger than the
South. They have more representatives
more electoral votes than the South. Itmay
be safer to threaten the latter, and on that
very account we do not-we cannot believe,
that such language ever proceeded from Gen
eral Taylor. Nor would such language be
becoming in any Executive of this Union
The President is no Autocrat, ruling by d.
vine right, with armies and navies and the
public purse at his command. 1t is an usurpa-
ton for him, without the consent Of Congress.
TO declare war, to threaten blockades, of even
foreign ports, much more ofthe ports of the
sovereign States of this Union. HIS simple
duty is to see that the laws, as they are pass
ed by Congress, are executed. If he goes
beyond this, he is tyrant and a traitor.
We think il is great error to imagine that
the people of the South can be brow-beaten
into an attachment to a Union which ceases
TO command their affection, when it is made
the means of expressing and running Them
These threats may not now be sufficient to
drive them into dsafection but they will sink
into the hearts OF our people, and will rankle
there until the attachment which it is worse
than idle to insinuate does not exist in every
American bosom, will be converted into indii-
ference and hostility. The South is not to be
ruled by threats"
1t Is the Presidents duty to preserve the
Constitution at all hazards, and to preserve
the Union. In saying as he has, that lift be
necessary for this, he will head the Army and
Navy o. the country in person and shed his
own blood, he has only met the expectations
of his countrymen, and be assured his fellow
citizens will confidently rely upon just such
determined action. In doing thus. he will as
sumo no " divine right" He will declare no
war, nor threaten any blockade. He will
merely prove to the North and the South
that the spirit OF treason when it ripens to ac-
ton, must and shall be quelled. In this he
will be supported by every good citizen, with
out respect to party.
And how ridiculous is the language of the
Delta, when it speaks of the North trying to
brow-beat the SOUTH Is it the North partl-
cularly, which is thus speaking SO emphati-
cally through southern President? The
Delta thus says the President is brow-beat-
ing the South, yet the President halls directly
from Louisiana. Gen. Taylor remarked that
he believed the people of the southern States
would themselves put down the disunionists.
And coming from the South, he had the pa
trlotlsm and firmness, when told by the Com
mirtee that the Southern members would re-
turn home, to say-"L them 90; there will
be good enough men TO take their places.n-
This may be called "brow- beating" by Dis
unionists, but the country will call it an hon
est patriotism, which allows no sectional par
tiality to govern the President of the whole
People.
Who are those members of Congress that
have been most furious in their threats and
menances, and in endeavoring to "brow. beats
their colleagues? They have been Southern
men. The South has tried to cocrce northern
Members by threats, and these threats have
actually been permitted by maleabe northern
members TO have their influence And now
for Southern paper to assume tie position
that the North is trying to " brow-beat" the
South is exceeding folly.
The Delta, however calls the statement o
the North that there are any considerable
lumber of Disunionists in the South, a ''vile
llumny of our enemies" We hope it is so.
nd it denies than any proposition or memo
al for disunion has emanated from the South.
i'e are glad of this too and we have always
id that the reasonable opinions uttered by
1uthern members in Congress, found no re-
onse in the bosoms of the people of the
nuth. The Delta concludes one editorial on
subject in these words:
" The South, we assert, is faithful and at
ched to the compact of these sovereign
ates. 1t is prepared to carry out, IN letter
d spirit, the Constitution as 1t stands. Ii
never failed to display its devotion to the
aion in deeds that speak louder than all the
cling rhetoric OF the Soi-disdnt peculiar
ends of the Union. But we do not believe
1t the South is to be menaced into tame
omission to positive violations of the spirit
me Constitutional compact-of those guar
ices. without which it never would have
eAtered into the Umon."
Inc South is only menanced by the South
Inc worth has no desire to infringe upon