The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-17
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NO observant mind can fail to see that
the British Government with all its defects
and abuses, gives more protection to life
liberty and property than the irresponsible
and lawless rule of Shareholders speak
not only of that terrible infliction of Lynch
law, upon all persons who are suspected Of
want of fidelity to their interests but of
that general lawlessness which pervades the
whole of slave society, aud assimilates its
total Insecurity to the worst phases of the
" dark ages"
In wrestling the Government from such
influences, and placing il upon the basis Of
justice and law, the Republican party have
entitled themselves to the eternal gratitude
of mankind.
But we must not tiatter ourselves that our
work is done. Only the one great battle
has been won. The threats of rebellion
and necessary civil war which must attend
its actually, warn ns to be on our guard,
and call for no holiday patriotism.
Whilst we would bear with brotherly
forbearance, with the sore disappointments
of our late rulers, and give them, patiently,
time to accommodate themselves to the new
order of things, frankness and a wise phi
lanthropy compel us to say to them at once,
that "peaceable secession " is but Peaceatle
re6elliOR-an utter absnrdity Neither one
slave State, four slave States, nor ali the
slave States, will be allowed to peaceably
secede Every man of sense sees that civil
war would be better than that eternal war
which would be the result of divided ma
ton.
The forces engaged wonld be less and the
result final. The Union party of the South
would be our allies, and with victory,
which would be sure, for the Union and the
right would come peace and homogeneous
empire. But allow secession, and then with
the Southern seeding States united, would
come war inevitable the first time we met
upon the rivers or the seas which would be
settled and renewed from century To cen
fury. The South must know that the Re-
publicans intend to allow her all her Con
stitutional rights, aud then maintain their
own to the last extremity. This is a Coz
eminent of the people, and not a " compact
of the States !" there is no way to dissolve
the Union but by rebellion and civil war.
II remains for the Shareholders to choose
the Union, as it is and was, and is to re-
main, or rush into war with it, and take all
the chances of veal or woe.
For us we have no choice; we are bound
by all that is sacred among men, to main
tain the government in its supremacy, and
our principles upon which it is based. We
cannot choose our ground. Destiny places
US in the post of honor, and perhaps of dam
ger, and we are towards if we falter in our
duty to our country, and the liberties of the
people. We must stand on the immortal
language of Jackson, 1.-THE Union, by the
Eternal, u shall be PRESCRIBED. - There we
must stand now and henceforth, or be slaves
forever.
May God inspire our hearts with the
courage and patriotism of IS; and may our
cause, whether through peace or blood, be
eternally triumphant, is the aspiration of
yours truly, G. NJ. CLAY.