The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-06

EDITOR JOU RNAL.- ne eultoF OF Tue Lou
isville Journal, in his issue of the third inst,
addresses himself to his Old Wing friends
of Indiana-that is to those of them who
belong to the Bell Everett party-in which
he earnestly exhorts them to SO cast their
votes as to defeat the Republican party of
this State.
OF course the direct mode of defeating
Lincoln here, is to vote for Douglas. The
indirect way is to vote for Bell. The Jour
nal editor fails to indicate which of these
modes he prefers. But we infer from the
general tenor of the article, that he would
advise the more direct; for, in the conclusion
of this advisory article, he calls upon the
Bell men to remember that there is an De-
tober election as aceU as a November election.
(The italics are his.) Now we concede that
Mr.. Prentice is an able, sincere, and power
full advocate for what he conceives to be
right, but can he convince his Old Wing
friends that they should cast their votes for
the man who has spent the greater part of
his life in heaping abuse upon abuse, upon
the great apostle of Whiggery ; and against
a man who has with equal zeal labored for
the pan ana me cause w e t1luk not.
What earthly reason can any old Wing
have for supporting Col. Hendricks, life
| long Democrat, over Col. Lane, "A lifelong
Wing For the reason intimates Mr.
Prentice, that Mr. Douglas is a conservative
and national man, and that Mr.. Lincoln is
a radical and sectional candidate. We deny
both positions Where is the evidence of
Mr.. Douglass conservatism Do you find
| it in the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise Does the opening of this Pandora's
box and scattering the seeds Of political dis
! cord and distraction broadcast all over the
! length and breadth of the land, constitute
an argument in favor of his conservatism
/ If so, we grant his friends the benefit of it.
/ Or where is the evidence of LincOln's
/ radicalisn ? Has he not distinctly avowed,
/ on all proper occasions, that he is ready and
| willing to sustain all the constitutional
rights of the South ? Has he not again
and again asserted that the subject of negro
! slavery was addressed alone 70 the States in
| their sovereign capacity and has he not as
often said that that sovereignty should be
respected 1t is true that he did say that a
/ house divided against itself cannot stand
| that this country must finally become f.ll
free or all slave territory. Is there anything
criminal in this Is not Mr. Lincoln en-
titled to his opinion about the ultimate eff
! feet of certain causes, as we'll as other
persons Has not George D. Prentice, and
a host of other good and conservative men,
| again and again said that such and such
causes would imperiI the Union of these
States And who ever understood them as
saying that they were in favor of such
result Far from it. We all know that
they would deprecate it as an unmitigated
evil Then why not allow Mr.. Lincoln the
benefit of the same construction. Even Mr.
Bell land his patriotism we do not permit
ourselves to question: said that dissolution
of the Union was preferable to some other
evils, and yet we do not understand him as
saying that he is in favor of the remedy,
fraught as it is with evil and only evil
Then we say, allow Mr.. Lincoln the right
of private Judgment about cause and effect
without impugning his motives. He may
and perhaps does believe that slavery is a
| wrong-a wrong especially TO the white
man-which will in time be seen and appre-
ciated by the dominant race. He may and
perhaps does look forward to the time when
they (the slave-hoders) will look this ques-
ton full in the face, aud do that which is
Just and proper in the premises. Is there
any treason to the institutions of the South
in that On the contrary, we boldly present
Mr.. LIS record and defy scrutiny and just
criticism.
We know that he eschews Popular Sow
ereignty with the bred Scott addenda, as
cheat and deception, and we honor him for
it, for we all know that Popular Sovereign
ty, coupled with tame submission to the
bred Scott decision, is cheat and humbug
+ We have been told that may vote slave
~ up or down in the territories if the Su-
preme Court is willing, and we know at
the same time, that said Court has declared
! that we cannot do it. Commend US to
: Breckinridgeism at once, rather than to
such duplicity The error of Mr.. Douglas
was that he agreed to submit this question
TO the Supreme Court-a question which
/ should be adjudicated as one only OF private
and individual right, and binding alone on
the parties 10 the record. To assume that
/ the Supreme Court are the lejudges ofthe
extent of their powers and Jurisdiction on
questions properly POLITICAL and to pledge in
advance meek and tame submission to eve
~ opinion that they may choose to promul-
gate, is at once to surrender all our politi-
cal rights to an irresponsible oligarchy-s
principal which'Jefferson warred against all
biu life