The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-01-10


"a Governor Morgan of New York, in
his recent. annual message, thus discourses
on subjects Of general interest
New York Yields to none of her sister
States in her devotion to the Union She
reveres it as the fruit of long protractsd
contest for liberty and independence, and she
cherishes it for its present benefits, and ITS
guarantees for the future. Her citizens dis
covered at a very early period that slavery
was an evil, and prompt and considerate
provi ion was made for its extinction. So
far as our example was worthy of imitation,
the other members of the conIederacy bad
the advantage of it; but it never claimed
that we had the right to interfere, directly
or indirectly, With slavery as it existed in
the other States of the Union.
We are satisfied with the solemn and cara
est declaration recorded on our statute books,
that we regarded slavery as governmental
and social evil, and treated it accordingly.
The State of New York still maintains the
same position She emphatically disavows
all sympathy or cooperation with those mis-
guided men who, no matter under what pro-
vocation, have sought in the past or may
seek in the future unlawfully to interfere
with the institutions of any of her sister
States. Thatzthe offenders in the recent in
vasion of Virginia intend to subvert the ex-
listing government and establish in its stead
another more in concert with their notions
OF Justice and equal rights, is not certain.
That they professed to liberate and arm the
slaves of that region and aid their escape 10
foreign country, is beyond dispute. That
purpose, It need hardly be observed, was an
lawful. and certain to be resisted at all haz-
ards Bloodshed thus melted, rests in the
eyes Of the social law on the heads of these
whose violations of laws provoked or caused
We may admit that their aims were un-
selfish and even philanthropie, that they
honestly believed and felt that they were
risking liberty and life in behalf of the
wronged and oppressed, but we must never
forget the obvious truth that social order
can only exist through general recognition
of the sanctity of the law, and that tranquil
aity and security must vanish from the coIa-
munity, wherein every one shall feel at lib
erty TO redress whatever he deems grevious
by raising his arm against the authorities
and the laws. ~
Another question is presented when it is
proposed to establish, or to permit the estab-
lishment of slavery in the Territories, being
the common property of the whole people
so long as they remain Territories. New
York will claim the right to participate il
their government, and inn way can she dc
so except through the agency OF her chosen
representativestiaC Congress, and therefore i
is that the cleo rs of New York rec ognizs
the authority ofCongress to legislate for thu
Territories, and prohibit the establishment
of slavery therein, yielding cheerful obedi
ence to the doctrine of State sovereignty
having no disposition to interfere with loca
institutions of the States, prepared at al
times to aid those States, in the preservation
of their sovereign power. The people o
New York will always enforce their view
in a legal, peaceful and Constitutional man
ner; viii not surrender the right to partiei
pate in the reformation of this, or any othe
evil, in the Administration of the Nationa
Government. s