The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-01-19
Vvatchman, what of the Night :"

,ATURBAY EORNING................JA 10
3 Tvatchman, What OF the Night:"
In six and q half weeks of time the day
will come OF which our new President is
10 be inaugurated. A formidable plot is
being carried out to prevent Abraham Lin
coin from becoming President of the thirty
three States composing the Republic. The
plot is assuming serious proportions. Com
mencing in the early part of November as
a mere speck in the Southeastern SKY, the
cloud of rebellion has assumed threaten
ing aspect and is now rapidly spreading 1T
self over the Southern portion of the politi-
cal armament.
Is this really to be a storm of dreadful |
violence, or a mere squan charged with a |
large quantity of wind and modicum OF
hail, rain, thunder and lightning This IS
a question now of absorbing interest, which
all are asking themselves.
The prospect seems very gloomy for the
integrity and peace of the country. South
Carolina, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi
have adopted ordinances of secession. Geor-
ria will the early part of next week.
Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas will doubt
less follow suit with little delay. Tennes-
see. North Carolina, and Virginia we have
no hope of seeing refuse to join the SIAM
pede. Delaware not being q pro-slavery
State "to hurt" may be considered as a I'm
ion State, to all intents and purposes. There
is likewise some hope that Missouri may
deem it her interest to remain so, but we
fear not. Maryland and Kentucky we fear
will be dragged against their will into the
vortex of secession by the over-powering
influence of slavery. Thus nearly all the
Slave States will secede, SO far as they can
do so on paper, before the fourth of March.
We fear this is inevitable.
If Maryland can be dragged into the dis
uion movement, the next step of the rebels
will be to pounce on the Capital and take
possession of it for the use of the proposed
Southern Confederacy.
Either the people engaged in this mad
scheme are in earnest or they are playing a
deep, bold game in order to bully the North
into the grant of substantial concessions to
the peculiar institution. If the former, they
are determined to form q Southern slave
holding Confederacy, and to set it in opera
ton before Lincolns Inauguration. If the
latter, their plan is for all the slave States
to pass ordinances, and then hold them IN
terrorem over the North to force her to
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doubt but the Gulf States are in earnest and
intend to form Southern Confederacy.-
The border States and those of the middle
tier we think expect to so act as to extOrt
concessions from the free States.
If the slave States of the middle tier and
the border follow the Gulf States by pass
ing ordinances, the whole movement will
be regarded as made in earnest with the de-
liberate design of disunion The North,
though hard pressed to do so; will make Nc
concessions that will satisfy the leaders in
this conspiracy. The Gulf States cannot b.
1atigfsd by any concession the North will
make, and though the border slave States
might possibly be satisfied with concessions
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be obliged in self respect and apparent sell
interest, even against the inclination of a
majority of their citizens, to follow wher-
ever the Gulf States lead.
N On the fourth of March the Republican
party will be obliged to choose between q
bloody civil war waged to coerce the seced-
ing States to stay in the Union ; or their
peaceable, quiet withdrawal after properly
arranging for the payment of the public
debt and division of the property or a con-
cession yielding some of tie vital princi-
pies of the organization. This will be the
great problem presented to the consideration
of Mr.. Lincoln, his advisers, and followers
They are, we believe, able to decide wisely
and to act their part credItably.
In the meantime the North has TO keep
cool and prepare for the worst, yet hope for
the best. The times are big with impor-
tant events, and we are all actors in one Of
the most momentous dramas that has ever
been enacted on the stage of the world.1