The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-04-28
The Issue.

The indianapolis Journal, and other ultra
Republican papers in this State, seem de-
termined to persist in making, to the GER
tain defeat of all patriotic efforts for the re-
form of public abuses, the niger question
the only issue in the approaching canvass
and persevering, with renewed bitterness
and hostility, in the international STRIFE De-
tween the North and South. The folly and
perversity of some of the leaders and or
gans of the Republican party is sure to
bring ruin and discredit upon every cause
with which they are associated. Unless the
chief of them can be deposed from the con-
troll of the party, it will be wise for honest,
conservative men to keep aloof from it. At
period when the most revolving corruption
and Generalization prevade every depart
ment Of State and national government,
and when the safety of the country is call
ing for the rally of all good men to check
the ruin and rescue public affairs from the
hands of mercenary spoilers, the Republic
can leaders would plunge us into suicidal
sectional conflict upon theoretical views and
the future Territorial rights of slavery
When the question is the rescue of our in
situations from fall, and the preservation
of our own civil and constitutional rights
these organs continue to preach crusade
for their Jerusalum of slavery. Let the in
fatuated march on to their fate.
The Indianapolis Journal has issued the
following proclamation of its platform:
The great mass Of sentiment in each Sec
ton, therefore, is hostile to the other, and
one or the other must conquer before there
can be quiet in the land. II ia no use to
elamor against the evils Of sectional con-
troversy. That will not prevent the con-
test, or remove the evils. 1t must come
The South is hurrying it with all the haste
Of her impetuous nature, spurred by the
hope of power, the arts of demagogues, and
the servility of the Democratic party. She
has broken down, one after another, the de-
fences that the North has interposed against
sectional strife, and fought her way to a
position that compels the free States to re-
sist, or submit. Again and again have
those States tried TO satisfy her demands,
and stop her career towards a sectional con-
test, but in vain. Over them all slavery
has followed, resolved on fight Of "sec-
tons, and now there is nothing left but to
tIrn around to meet il. If the South will
force the North to decide whether slavery
shall be national institution or not, she
must expect TO make the fight sectional
one. The blame is hers.
Any platform that shall ignore slavery, or
treat il as matter of little moment, will
not live an hour in the North The great
evil must be examined fairly and boldly
Sinking il, shutting ones eyes and making
believe that it is gone, disparaging its eff
fects, denouncing its opponents and all who
have the plain good sense to see that it is
urging an inevitable contest and may as
well be fought now as any time, is sheer
nonsense. The platform we fight on must
plainly and unequivocally meet the slavery
issue in all its forms, and everywhe re, just
as any other question should be met, and LEI
the odium Of the sectional character fall
on the party that made the contest inevi a.
bic. ..-.,. *
The time has come for every man TO make
up his mind whether il is his duty to follow
further in their career OF disunion such de-
luded guides whether it be not his duty tC
look to the preservation of his own freedom
and rights, and the happiness and liberty o
his children, and leave abstract rights, anC
the future extension of slavery, to the day
when it shall come up in a practical form
and when we shall have the constitutions
right not only to speak but to act upon it.