The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-03


language of an eloquent s .nator, as mud
sills.'' We believe that God created all
men free, and imposed labor upon them for
their advantage. Which hypothesis shall be
proven true? We will see hereafter But,
knowing that the principles of justice are
uniform and eternal, | presume TO believe
that those principles will prevail, and hui
man rights be maintained. | am not ignor-
ant of the fact that those who suppose they
may rightfully make merchandise OF moth
ers aud their children, seem to think they
can shape the designs of Providence, and re-
write the history of humanity, reversing
everything our fathers thought, and for the
maintainance of which they perilled life
and honor. l must be pardoned for dlsa-
greeting with them aud protesting against
such conclusions.
The extension of negro slavery into the
territories of the United States has become
a settled policy of the Democratic party
| This reality cannot be disguised, and ought
not to be denied. 1t is easily accounted for.
4 Unity of interest and unity of desire will
/ always produce a perfect concentration OF
strength The fortunes of the South have
! become completely Unidentified with their
/ peculiar domestic relations. By their har-
/ mony they have been enabled to govern the
Democratic party, and, thus far, to govern
| the country through the agency of that
party. The vital force of that organization
being in the South, and slavery propaganda
| ism regarded there a necessity, it cannot
be considered strange that the influence Of
the party should be so directed as to fortify
doctrines most congenial to the supposed
welfare of those who direct its machinery.
To many it has seemed unaccountable that
executive action and legislative and judicial
proceedings should be so shaped, from year
to year, As to strengthen the few at the ex-
pense of the great mass of our people. Let
/ it no longer be regarded as a marvel or a
mystery; the responsibility of it rests with
| those Northern men in whom we have re-
posed our confidence and clothed with the
| garments of authority. Examine the re-
| corded votes in your national Congress, and
there learn why it is that Northern capital
and labor are constantly borne down by the
enormous weight of Southern exaction.--
| When your reasonable requests are denied,
l need not tell you, with earnestness and
emphasis, it is because eight millions of men
control eighteen millions through our rep
resentatives elected by party pledged to
| interests adverse to ours.
Slavery educates its statesmen in a high
school under able professors. 1t teaches
that the Northern men are cowardly, and
| that their ambition is linked with avarice !;
and unfortunately for us, it has arguments
to fortify its faith. In half a century it
may not be credited that less than n dozen
men, trained under these circumstances, so
alarmed Pennsylvania President as to in
duce him to recast message, violate the
plighted faith upon which he was elected,
disgrace his native State, and degrade the
high office TO which he had then bnt recent
ly been elevated. And yet not only has this
been done almost within our presence,
but the representatives. of free constituent
cies have been induced to lend their aid to
force servile labor into competition with
that of the white man, and a slave State
into the sisterhood of undergraduates to
throw the balance of power against their
own people. Some of these are now not
only respectable members of the Douglas
church, but missionaries among the unbe-
lieving and outside barbarians. | have
some of them very distinctly in my recol-
lection, and it would be quite refreshing to
hear their remarks in laudation of popular
sovereignty, such as they denied to Kansas,
and deuunciation of Southern demands, to
which they sucCumbcd as reluctantly as IA
thrice seduced damsel to her lover. I be-
lieve it was Mirabeau who said % the pre-
sents of despotism are always dangerous :"
he should have included, in his remark, the
y W
The allegation that Southern combina-
tons are formed for the purpose of counter
acting opposition extremists, is a sheer false
pretence, resorted to as a blind and cheat
No fears ever sprung from such parentage
Slavery does not exist by legal enactment
anywhere it is the child of force, and as
the sentiment of the world is against it, it
cannot live without the sustaining hand OF
power. Surrounded by an atmosphere OF
freedom it is necessarily unsafe, and stalu-
tory safeguards and defenses become nee
essary.
Vassalage and sabiection never impress
themselves, without violence, upon the
natural man, whilst, on the contrary, the
sentiment of freedom must forever disturb
the subjects of a despotism. The South, to
be safe, must. therefore, extend through and
beyond all the countervailing influences to
which have referred, and, consequently,
our frontier possessions must be captured.
But as the Inherent weakness of the South
Is not equal to this task, craft is resorted to
to supply the needed assistance. Upon
whom can this be more advantageously
brought TO bear than n President without
courage, Judge without candor, or le-
gislator without integrity? We are sold
or betrayed hourly, and il we had not more
forbearance than discretion we would ter.
rify traitors. Millions of acres of fertile
lands, every now and then, are filched from
our industrial classes, who reqnu1 them fol
: the support and education of their families
: to be turned into barren wastes, by those
who have already blasted more than one
half of our soils az with an avalanche Of
, fire. Factories and workshops are tottering
: in ruins and families and neighborhood,
= left starving and in rags, because fostered
= industry is not required in that region
where the laboring man has no rights which
the owner of men is bound 10 respect. And
: ships rot at our wharves, and storehouses,
| become but rendezvous for idlers and
Migrants, for the reason that uncompensa-
ted chattel sinews yield fruits cheaper than
compensated skill, and require no shield
: against the pauper products of Europe. !
a change of tariff laws were required by
5 the South instead of the North, they could
: not fail of its accomplishment. In that
case the President would advocate it with