The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-09-20
john w. FOrncy on the war.

The following extract from late Wash
ington letter, written by Mr.. Forney, will
be read with interest
/ IF this conspiracy shall triumph, what
will be the condition of the intelligent pro-
ducing classes of the free States? Contem-
plate, for moment the capture of the city
of Washington by the slavery banditti I'M
der Beauregard and Davis. Try, if you
can, to realize the results that would fow
from the secession of Maryland, the loss to
the Union column, of. Delaware, of Ken
lucky, Missouri and, by consequence the
seizure and monopoly of the navigation of
the Mississippi river. Ifyou submit to this
catastrophe, you will be regarded by the
civilized world, not only as having lost
your manhood, not only as having parted
with all claim 20 the respect of other ma
lions, but as the conquered subjects of a
self-constituted nobility; and who, having
succeeded in overthrowIng the regular Gov
eminent of the United States, substituted
for it, what must be neither more nor less
than > monarchy -making yourself, as /
have said, the merest dependency, and at
tsching all your great interests to their own
peculiar institutions. The consideration of
negro slavery becomes a matter of measure
less insignifcance compared with the dan
ger of converting this country into a thea
ire, upon which the great tragedy of turn
ing the whole white population into the
abjeet followers and interiors of a cabal of
reckless tyrants is to be enacted. That the
end Of this struggle will be the abolition of
slavery, requires no prophet to tell; and
those who will deserve the credit, if credit
it be, of producing such an issue, are not
the anti-sIaverv fanatics of the North, but
the pro-slaveFy fanatics of the South
| What is to become of the so-called servile
population when emancipated, is problem
that may well be postponed to a future day
"a legacy that may we'll be left to our pos
terity, upon whose shoulders we are about
to place inconceivable burdens. 1t is for
the white race that our armies are fighting,
1t is for human liberty in its highest ana
| broadcast aspect, that the {" fierce debate" Is
now being conducted on the banks of the
Potomac, the Ohio, and the Mississippi. Tt
Is for a common religion, an unmntiiated
church, an open Bible, a general and gen
| erous popular education, liberal system of
| emigration laws, an untrammelled press. an
uncorrupted and incorruptible judiciary, an
| equality among men, fair competition for
| the best honors of the Republic, an IN
restricted commerce, healthy and elevated
industry, comprehensive and unquestion-
ed toleration to men of all creeds and coun-
tries--it is for these thatwe are TODAY con-
tending. What madness, what folly, what
weakness, to attempt to compare snch a,
contest with the struggles that have taken
| place in other nations, with the petty wars
between foreign principaiities, even with
that which Cromwell led, and, lower than
all, with that bloody drama which took
place in France, when our FIRST revolution
intoxicated liberal men of all nations, aud
buried more than one tyrant from a guilty
| throne