The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-11-20
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EVANSVILLE, IND.
Long Contemplated scheme.
DAY MORNING.

cry indication goes to show that for
it has been the purpose of the Fire
f, to withdraw from the Union and to
great Southern Confederacy. An
sded and systemized organization has
ears existed throughout the South, the !
t of which has been and is to cause a /
sion of the Cotton States from the I'm /.
to consolidate them into a Southern /.
,deracy, to acquire Cuba, Mexico, and I,
raj America, and thus TO form n great
er in which slavery shall be the promi- |
interest and the shareholders class of /
deged persons like a nobility. The de
Is, when the new nation sets up for it.
to legalize the Slave Trade SO that AT
as can be bought at low prices. Then
ueans of this plentiful supply Of cheap
r, the subjugation of the "poor white
1" the absorption of ali lands by the
lthy aristocracy, and the acquisition of
v cotton lands by annexation of fresh
.itory, the great Southern staple
,g Cotton-it is expected viii become a
4 greater power in the world than it now
so much so that not only the European
nufacturing nations, but our Northern
ties, must eventually be forced to bow
En before this new divinity and worship
and become the subject of the great
uthern cotton nabobs. Such are the
,gnifcent plans of Yancey & Co; the
1of Astounding on every hand leaves no
On to doubt these surmises.
The Fire-eaters who are at the bottom of
IS plan, have long been awaiting a prete1t
break-of The probable election of
,emont in the Fall of 1856 gave them ma
rial on which to threaten and buster,
I'd they did it to the utmost extent. When,
oweyer, the Republicans were defeated, and
was found that the pro-slavery Democracy
adj succeeded TO the continued control OF
le Government, and that they could carry
n the Slave Trade, extend Slavery, and
ave their own way generally without VIC
ant revolution, they were content to wait
our years longer TO see whether the Demo
racy might not then gain another lease OF
lower.
The four years rolled around. Buchanan
ried during the time to yield everything
nto their hands, but was resisted in his SUBJ
erviency by the greater part of the North
Il L. . Ior,.o ,,,,v,,J,o, n 6 TT,;O,, ,ror n tl,o
south. The Democratic party was split in
wo by the effort by part of it to make
Slavery national ana controlling and by the
,ther portion to conciliate an indignant
North. At the Charleston Convention, the
Fire Eaters, having no confidence in Doug
as, and knowing that he would if elected
cater to the more powerful North, determin-
ed to defeat hmm Finding him too strong
for them, they got desperate and made NJ
their minds to have their own way, if by 81
doing they even broke up a Union which
they drspised. Accordingly, at Baltimore
they nominated Breckenridge, and the re
suit is the Democratic party, their last hop
to rule the Union, is discovered and dead
and the opportunity long sought for by
them to set up for themselves, has come.
<Our success is not the cause of the pres
ent excitement in the South, but the pre-
text that the leaders in the secession move
ment have long been looking for. They ar
glad to have an excuse for carrying on
their long cherished plans. They take hol'
of the work they long ago cut out, will
the energy of men who have been prevent
ed for years from going into a congenial occu
patton. They have at last found their prop
er sphere, and bid fair to excel in the per
petration of treason and the exercise of a
the viler passions of humanity. Had Lin
coin not been elected, the final designs c
the leaders of the Disunionists would hav
only been delayed in execution, not aban
doned. Had even Douglas succeeded, the
would have demanded of him the most eI
treme pledges as a price of their continu
ance in the Union. The probability i
Douglas would have given all the pledge
demanded, and thus have kept the Fire-ea
ers in the Union by betraying and outraG
ing the North and West, and the Bord'
Slave States. But even this would IL
have satisfied the malcOntents. The instal
their demands were refused, or less sui
servient President was chosen, they wou
have renewed their hostility to the Unto
It must he seen that the present troubl
were in the nature of things inevitable, al
that when men charge them to the succc
of the Republican party in the election
Lincoln, they either are ignorant of Il
true state of the case, or seek wilfully
deceive the people
MINNESOTA, IT'S PLACE AMONG THE STATE
The young State of Minnesota has mac
a move in the right direction in the esta]
lishment of a bureau Of statistics. The il
stitution of statistical Offices in the sever