The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-07-20

turn for thecompliment, made speech glow
ing with patriotic and Union sentiments.-
There is n most remarkable revolution in the
views of this gentleman, who has heretofore
been one of the ultra Southern fire eaters
and disunionists. The New Orleans Delta
"a paper more violent in its doctrines than
the Charleston .Nereury-has been supposed
| to be the organ OF his sentiments. Although
we may not understand the reasons or mo-
tive for the change, it will be hailed as
harbinger of peace, and the promise Of an
end to sectional strife. If Mr.. Davis can
emancipate himself from the shackles of ex-
treme Southern prejudices, and adopt broad,
statesmanlike, national views, he has the
genius and force of character to make him.
self one of the brightest Statesman in the po-
litical horizon. A truly national man from
the South would be more admired and petted
at the North than his equal from any other
section of the Union, from the novelty of
the character. In his Portland speech, after
describing in very succinct terms the rich
political legacy bequeaihed to us in the Union
of the States and the Constitution, he says:
Shall we preserve and transmit it to pos
terityl Yes, yes, the heart responds; and
the judgment answers, the task is easily per-
formed. 1t but requires that each should
attend to that which most concerns him,
and on which alone he has rightful power
10. 10 .1,,I 10, th.f IL "A
here to the terms of a written compact, and
that all should cooperate for that which i'll
| tercst, duty and honor demand. For the
general affairs of our country, both foreign
and domestic, we have national legislature
Representatives and Senators are chosen by
districts and by States, but their acts affect
the whole country, and their obligations are
TO the whole people. He who, holding
either seat, would confine his investigations
to the mere interests of his immediate con-
stituents would I've derelct to his plain duty
and he who would lcgislate in hostility to
any section would be morally unfit for the
station, and surely an unsafe depository, if
+ not a treacherous guardian, of the Inherit
ance with which. We are blessed. No one,
more than. myself recognizes the binding
force of the allegiance which the citizen
owes to the State of his citizenship; but
that State being a party to our compact, a
member of our Union, fcality to the federal
constitution is not in opposition to- but flows
from the allegiance due TO one of the United
States. Washington was not less Virgin
, ian when he commanded at Boston; nor did
Gates, or Greene weaken the bonds which
bound them To their several States bv their
campaigns i'm the South
In proportion as a citizen loves his own
| State will he strive to honor by preserving
her name and her fame free from the tarnSh
of having failed to observe her obligations,
and to fulfil her duties To her sister States.
Each page of our history is illustrated by the
{ names and the deeds of those who have well
understood and discharged the obligation
Have we so degenerated that we can no
longer emulate their virtues? Have the
purposes for which our Union was formed
E lost Their value? Has patriotism ceased to
be virtue, and is narrow sectionalism nc
longer to he counted crime? Shall tn,
North not rejoice that the progress of agri.
. culture in the South has given to her great
: staple the controlling influence of the com
merce of the world, and put manufacturing
nations under bonds to keep the peac,
/ Will tic L Hittu Nil:tll tile NOutI
: not exult in the fact that the industr,
y and pcrsevcring intelligence Of the Nortl
: has placed her mechanical skill in tn,
:, front rank of the civilized world-that on
i mother county, whose naughty Ministe
c some eighty odd yearsago declared that no
k q hob-nai should be made i'm the colonies
which are now the United States, wa
. brought some four years ago to recognize
our pre-eminence by sending commission
to examine our workshops and our machin
cry, to perfect their own manufacture of tn
! arms requisite for their defence? Do no
our whole people, interior and seaboard
, North, South, East and West, alike fee
II proud of the hardihood the enterprise tn,
e skill, and the courage of the Yankee sailor
IF who has borne our flag as the ocean bear
Il, its foam, and caused the name and the char
acter of the United States to he known an,
I" respected wherever there is wealth enough
n to WOO commerce, and intelligence enough
= TO honor merit?
, So long as we preserve and appreciate tn
achievements of Jefferson and Adams, G
Franklin and Madison, of Hamilton an
: Hancock, and of Rutledge men who labore
Ie for the whole country, and lived for man
:, kind, we cannot sink to the petty strife whic
would sap the foundation and destroy tn
% political fabric our fathers erected and I've
10 queathed rs an inheritance to our poSterit
ii forever. Since the formation of the constitr
a ton, vast extention of territory, and the Va
riedrelationS arising thercfrom, have present
ed problems which could not have been for,
rs seen. 1t is just cause for admiration, eve
Ii wonder, that the provisions of the fundamen
I'm tai law should have been found so fully ado
quate to all the wants of government, ne
~ in its organization, and new in many of tn
I'm principles on which it was founded VIVA
nj ever fears may have once existed as TO Ill
% consequence of territorial expansion mu
give way before the evidence which the pm
rs affords. II at some future time, when al
III mingled with the dust, and the arm of m
m infant son has been nervcd fordeeds of maj
Il; hood, the storm of war should burst upo
your city, feel that relying upon his inhc
10 iting the instincts of his ancestors an!lmin
at | may pledge him in that perlous hour
he stand by your side i'll the defence of yo,
n hearth-StoneS, and in maintaining the hOn'
of IA flag whose constellation, though toI
y smoked in many battle by eaand by Ian
&c has never been stained by diShonor, and wi
ITS / trust forever fly rs free as the breeze whiC
nh unfoldS it.
E;as" The Convention at Grccnsburg, e
its dorScd the course of Gen J. u. Foley, as
or representative from that district As