The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-11-23
SPRINGFIELD, H., Nov. 20.


EDS. CoM.-Senator Trumbull, after con
graduating the assembled Republicans on
their victory and eulogizing Mr.. Lincoln,
said " Mr. Lincoln, although the candidate
Of the Republican party, as Chief Magis-
trate, will neither belong to that or any
other party. When inaugurated, lie will be
the President of the country and the whole
country and I doubt not lriU be as
ready. to defend and protect the State IN
sChch he has moi TeceiUed u Sodtdry Uote,
against any encroacbment upon ats c0HStitu-
tlonaI Tigi.te as the one IN a0hich he has TeceiU-
ed the tlrgeat maJoriD. While they, by
whose votes he h:s been designated as
Chief Magistrate of tie Republic, will ex-
pect him to maintain and carry forward the
principles on which he was elected, they
know that in doing so, no encroachment
will. l., made on the reserved rights of any
Of the States. They know that the FEEDER
al Go, rrnment is one of delegated powers
-IhdD 1t can do nothing except the author
itv for the act can be found in the instru-
meat which created ii, and that all powers
not conferred are reserved to the States or
tn people of the States. When their po--
R..cah opponents have charged the Rcpnbli-
g ms with Abolitionism, or attributed 10
them a desire to interfere with slavery in
the States, or some fanatic has insisted that
they ought to do 50, the reply has inyaria-
bly, been, that the people who made the
Federal Government did not think proper
to confer on it such authority, and a. has
therefore no more right 10 aeddte NTH stdrefy
an a State than al has 10 meddle NTH sertdom
IN Russia, nor are the people of non-slavc-
holding States, in any way responsible
for slavery in the States which tolerate it,
because on that question they are to each
other as independent governments H
81 have labored in and for the Republican
organization, with entire confidence that
whenever it should be in power, each and
all Of The States ,0ouLd be let m as complete
control Of Their olcn affairs respectively, and
at as perfect liberty to choose and employ
their own means of protecting property and
preserving peace and order, within their re-
spective limits, as they have ever been under
any administration. Those who have voted
for Mr.. Lincoln have expected, and still ex-
pect this, and they would not have voted
for him, had tEey expected otherw Use.
regard it as extremely fortunate for the
peace of the whole country that this point,
upon which the Republicans have been so
long and so persistently misrepresentod, is
now to be brought to practical test and
placed beyond the possibility of doubt
II should be a matter of rejoicing t. ell true
Republicans that they will now have an
opportunity Of demonstrating to their pOlit-
zeal adversaries, and the world, that they are
not for interfering acith me domestic utSttu-
tons Of any Of the States, and are not the adj
vocates of negro equality or amalgamation
with which political demagogues have so
often charged them. When this is shown, u
reaction will assuredly take place in favor of
Republicanism The Southern mind even
will be satisfied. The rights of Northern
men viii be respected, and Tie Jrdternal feel
ing eListing IA oIdeR times aoheR men from all
parts Of the country lve7st forth together 10
battle for q common cause, against common
enemy, 1ciU be restored DiSuuonists Der So,
of whom unfortunately there have been a
few in the country, for some Years under
stand this, and are now in hot haste TO Get
out of the Union, precisely because then per
ceige they cannot much longer MAINTAIN an G51-
treAeBsion among tie Southern people that
their homes and freSjdeS AMI Ines are TO be en-
ddngered by The action (f tie Feo}erat GoDcy7t-
,nent With such, now or never is the max
i'm hence they seek to iuAame the public
mind by misrepreScnting the objects and
purposes of the Republican party, with the
hope of precipitating the Southern States in
to a position from which they cannot, with
out dishonOr, afterwards sccede well know
ing if they delay till after the new Admin
istration is inauguated and tested, it Will
furnish no cause for their complaints. Sc
cessiOn IS an impracticability, or rather an
impossibility. The Constitution provides
no way by which a State may withdraw
from the Union-no way for the dissolution
of the Government. 1t creates the general
Observation-Disclosures but little with the
individual rights of the citizens except for
protection; it is chiefly felt in its benefits
and its blessings, and not in its cxactions
"If every federal officer in South Carolina
were to resign and their offices remain va
cant, and its convention declare the State