The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-01-08
Secession Near Home

Secession Near Home.
The Henderson Reporter is out strongly
for secession. The paper has been edging in
that direction for long time, and has final
ly, with a desperate leap, plunged into the
"gulf of dark despair" Hear what it
says: t1
We have no hope Of any concession on
the part of the Northern States. Hence,
we declare ourselves for SECESSION-and
shall abide the issue, satisfied that no one
having an interest in Southern Institutions
desires to perpetuate form of government
under which the equality of.1the South is
denied. U nder the Mon, the most valua-
bic item of Southern property is not only
depreciating in value but becoming more
and more insecure. The " glorious Union
has turned out s sublime humbug, and we
believe vast majority of the entire people
of the country so regard it. and are very
tired of supporting it.
The Reporter don't seem to think for an
instant that after secession Southern
property would become more and more
insecure; that n1ggers within forty and fifty
miles of the Ohio river would be worth not
over 500 apiece, and bad speculation at
that 1t is this sublime humbug," as the
Reporter calls the Union, that gives any
value at all to slave property in the border
States. Dissolve the Union, and Kentucky
would become free in ten years by the force
of circumstances.
Our neighbor says further:
The South has borne two-thirds of the
burdens of the Government and shared but
few of its benefits.
As proof, instance the case of South Car
DINA, for whose postal accommodations the
North pays nearly one-quarter of mil
lion Of dollars per annum over and above
receipts and she is only one of fifteen
Southern States. And then the businest
done at the custom house of Charleston
doesn't near pay expenses. And SO it is as
most other Southern ports.
Thus saith the Reporter further:
They have sent emissaries, in the guise of
school teachers, pedlars, drummers, and
patent medicine vendors, to instil false ideas
into the minds of our children and corrupt
and vitiate the black population of the
South.
You have vitiated your black population
yourselves by telling them all sorts of yarns
about the Black Republicans" and how
they meant to free all the niggers when
Lincoln was elected.
The sensitive nerves of the South can lily
bear the shock of so much oppression. Her
great heart is sore from the long-chahng of
smothered indignation-and it is not at all
wonderful that chivalrous South Carolina,
stung to madness by the indignity and OPP
preston of the North, has torn her lone star
from the national escutcheon and stands to
her arms, ready to repulse coercion, or per-
ish in the trial.
OF course the nerves of the North are not
sensitive, and were not at all shocked at the
breaking down of the Missouri Compromise,
the bred Scott iniquity, the outrages on
innocent Northern men in the South etc,
etc, etc. Oh mo- Only Southern nerves
are sensitive; Northern ones have become
callous from oppression, and have no bust
ness to be sensitive.
We feel thoroughly assured that the
masses of Kentucky are tired of being OPP
pressed and insulted by the blne belied
wooden-nutmeg Yankees of the North.
If the Reporter correctly represents Ken
lucky sentiment public opinion is much at
fault in regard to that heretofore loyal State.
Tie Union may, even now, be consider
ed dissolved forever 1t can never be re-
built, in its original shape.
If broken up by the South land the
North never threatened such treason) you
can be very certain that it will never be re-
built in its original shape. If rebuilt, free
don. must have preference over slavery
free labor over slave labor as the immor-
not the contrary, as squad OF Calhoun
politicians of late years have sought to
bring about by the lowest intrigue. If the
South deliberately break up this Union, as
sure as there is a God in Heaven, will the
act be the death-knell of American slavery
and in twenty-five years, when the South is
torn into as many factions as unhappy
Mexico, and ruled b. a military dictator,
will she be asking on Bonded knee for a
1rotectorate from the United States Of
America.
We do not often feel thus, much less
write thus; but there are times when the
whole truth ought to be told, and a fair I'M
derstanding had, This is one of these occa-
sions There has been plain speaking on
one side there ought to be on the other.
WOrkIngmen's Meeting.
At Meeting of the Workingmen and