The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-11-27
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EVANSVILLE, IND.
A New Compromise.

ct fully developed. There Is no question |
mt what large portion of the people of
putin Carolina favor secession complete
paration from the Federal Government,
nd the establishment of a Southern Con-
deracy. So long has this been their theme
v day, and the burden of their dreams by
light, they have become completely infatu-
ted. They have argued themselves into
ne belief that they are oppressed
nd degraded, and have dosed a
omewhat morbid pride at best with
lies of imaginary wrongs, until it
as broken through every restraint with
hich reason would hedge it in, and ira
erses the South infuriating the turbulent,
rousing the careless, and silencing the pru-
emf So terrible is the storm now sweep
ag over the Palmetto State that it is use
ess to attempt to stem it. The man who
aakes the attempt will do no good and but
IMPAIR his power for usefulness at some fu-
ure day when the paroxysm has passed and
he people have in part recovered their rea-
on. The friends of the Union in that mis-
uided State will have to gracefully bend to
he fury of the elements Hntil q lull occurs
n the storm, when their voices may be
leard and their arguments needed.
But while it may be true that the bulk of
the population of the Gulf States honestly
lesire a separate government and think
.hey will become more Independent, veal
Thy, and happy under such than they are, or
can be, under our government as at present
constituted and administered, we do not be-
lieve the agitators who have originated and
famed the excitement to its present alarm
ing extent, have any notion of seeding at
all. We are confident few days will dis
cover the object they have in view, and that
it will not be secession. Already we have
slight Outcrops of their real design, suf-
ficient at least to point out with precision
what they expect to accomplish. Govern
or Letcher and the press of Virginia; Geo.
Sanders-a political weathercock THAT
points out the shiftings of the Southern
wind with unerring precision Toomhs Of
Georgia, and a portion of the Kentucky
press-all indicate that we are to be offered
another compromise, another finality-
another for eyer settlement Of the vexed
question, that ought to be " embalmed in
the hearts of the American people"
This new arrangement will be fully de-
veloped soon after the opening of Congress.
Virginia, claiming to stand midway between
the extremists Of both sections, will, we pre-
sumo, stand as Godfather to the new
scheme and have it baptized as n new
compromise to save the country" The
proposition will demand sundry concessions
on the part of the Northern States on the
slavery question-such as the repeal of
"Pcrsonal Liberty Bills in those States
where they exist, and the recognition of the
doctrine that the Constitution of the United
States protects slavery in the Territories.
However the Northern States may be OPP
posed to this, it is eXpected-inasmuch as
it is a compromise to save the Union, and to
put the slavery question at rest forever
they VIII finally waive their objections and
acquiesce. If they hesitate, and pirate about
dOing' violation to principle thing the
Southern politicians evidently regard as long
ago exploded so far as the North is con-
cerned-Virginia will threaten to throw in
her lot with the Gulf States, and create
as Greeley desires of the pamela higl
old secession" tear the Union to tatters, and
scatter its fragments to the winds.
This, we say, seems to be the course thai
will be pursued by the agtatOrs of the South
and further concessions by the North on the
question of slavery is the object at which
they are aiming. The election of Lincoln
and the personal liberty bills are used as in
strumentalities to excite Southern people Il
the proper phrenzy. This is evident from
the fact that the personal liberty bills do no
interfere in the least with the States VIII
are making the most fuss. South Carolina
Georgia ard Alabama lose no slaves by tn
| liberty bills p" of Massachusetts,, Michga
and Wisconsin. 1t is a fact, pregnant will
instruction, that those slave states fror
which slaves are in the habit of escapin
have made but little complaint except as the
are melted to by the radicals further South
against the States passing Liberty Bills
and that the border free states, in which tn
negroes generally take refuge, have nevC
enacted such laws. This, of itself, is CON
mentary on the foolishness that characterize
the legislation on the slavery question bot
in the extreme north and in the extrenl
South.
When the secession hubbub has in
measure subsidized, and, as we have indicat
ed, assumed the shape of compromis
we anticipate the sudden appearance of
rare assortment of Paci6cators, both sma
and great. Here is a new field for NJ
Douglas. Having ridden his squatter SOW
reignty hobby to death, without arriving
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