The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-02-15
The north and the south Again.

The North and the south Again.
The Enquirer does not like our article on
the North and South. 1t was a very natural
presumption with US that the Enquirer uould
not like it. In fact, if we were editor OF the
Enquirer, we should dislike it most heartily.
We should not like the plain common.sense
questions to be put to Us by the Journal
what good is this Nebraska bill going to do
the North!-what is there in it not beneficial
to the Southi-when we hadn't word to of
fer as an answer. We shouldn't like to be
occupying the position Of a Northern man
fighting for the South, fawning and cringing
like a slave to the South, licking the feet
Of the South, when the North has a
demand upon the heart and soul of ev-
every son to standby her. We desp,se these
Northern doughfaces who havn't the moral
courage to stand by their own interests, but
trembling at the word abolitionist or freesol-
er, pursue an opposite extreme to what their
own feelings would prompt or their conscien-
ces approve.
We would call the editor of the Enquirer
just such doughface, only that the author
of the brilliant Nebraska articles in the En-
quirer is Southern man, whose affections
and syppathies and afinities are all FOR the
South. We have not the opinions of our
particular neighbor, Mr. Hall, on the subject,
but of an individual who cannot possibly
have any such attachment to the North, or to
the interests Of the North. We do not blume
81 t,l-; h., hoe
done. Neither DO we blame Southern men.
Wings or Democrats, for not opposing this
bill. They are perfectly right, perhaps, in
taking advantage of the timidity and genera
sity of the North, and not refusing anything
Northern doughfaces choose to surrender
But we do blame Northern men for surrender
ing jot or title of what is rightfuly their
own, merely to court up the South. We
don't care fig whether those Kentuckians in
Evansville, alluded to by the Enquirer, like
our position or not. As Southern men, they
probably will not-but generous and hon.
est men, we shall at least Try to command
their respect for hones'y and candor in oul
own views, and in their full and emphatic ex
preston. II the interests Of the North are
not paramount with them to the interests o.
the South, it is tim they were changing. no
that ice should think, act or write for them, a:
the writer in the Enquirer is doing. Any
man who knows the editor Of this paper
knows there is not touch, stain or shadow
Of abolitonism about him, and just as wei
they know, that no fear of any charge of sucl
,,I,- ,-;,bb I'll L. e.
from opposing slave Interests whenever they
step out of their place TO encroach upoI
Northern interests.
This bill is no more nor less than q repea
of the Missouri Compromise. The attemp
OF its advocates to make the people believs
that It is only intended to carry out the Com
promise of 1850, is miserable and shallow
deception. Let no. Northern men be de-
ceived by these pretences. The Compro
mise of 1850 was no repeal Of the Missouri
knowledged when he introduced Nebrosk;
bill last session of Congress, recognizi ng tn.
validity of the Missouri Compromises
Benton, Atchison, Houston and other South
ern men have signifed.
But we had intended our previous article
on the North and South TO close our remarks
or at least general discussion, this subject
We shall say as little more on the Nebrask;
bill as possible, although we will doubtless
be called upon to speak of it occasionally
1t is but another agitation the SLAVERY
question, and we are not disposed to assist il
enlarging such agitation. That is but pluyin:
in the hands of the demagogue who is tn,
author of the agitation.