The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-06-14


IS not one Of administrative policy or Of the
claims of the North, the South, the East or
the West; but is simply, whether nineteen
millions of people shall tamely and lgnobly
permit five or six millions to overthrow
and destroy institutions which are the COM
mon property, and have been the common
blessings and glory of all. The great thor /
oughfares of the North, the South, the East,
and the West, are luminous with the ban /
ners and glstening with the bayonets oil
citizen soldiers marching to the Capital, or
to other points of rendezvous; but they
come in no hostile spirit to the South. II
called. to press her soil, they will not rufhe
flower of her gardens, nor blade OF grass
of her fields in unkindness. No excuses
will mark the footsteps of the armies OF the
Republic: no institution of the States will
he invaded or tempered with, no rights OF
persons or of property will be violated.
The known purposes of the Administration,
and the high character of the troops EN-
pIoyed, alike guarantee the truthfulness OF
this statement.
When an instruction was unprecedented
few weeks since in Maryland, the Massachu-
sets regiment at once offered their services
to suppress it. These volunteers have been
denounced by the press of the South as
q Euayes and vagrants,' " the dregs and
offscourings Of the populace," who would
rather "fleh handkerchief than fight an
enemy in manly combat yet we know
here that their discipline and bearing are
most admirable, and, presume, it may be
safely affirmed that q larger amount of
social position, culture, fortune, and eleva-
ton of character, has never been found in
SO large an army in any age or in any
country If they go to the South, it will
be as friends and protectors to relieve the
Union sentiment of the seeded States
from the creuel domination by which it is
oppressed and silenced, to unfurl the stars
and stripes in the midst of those who long
to look upon them, and to restore the flag
that bears them to the forts and arsenals
from which disloyal hands have torn it.
Their mission will be one of peace, unles:
wicked and blood-thirsty men shall IN
sheath the sword across their pathway.
1t is in vain for the revolutionists to ex'
claim that this is |" subjugation." 1t is so
precisely in the sense in which you and
and all laW-abiding citizens are subjugated
The people of the South are our bretheren
and while we obey the law enacted by GU
Joint authority, and keep a compact t,
which we are all parties, we only ask tina
they shall be required to do the same. w
believe that their safety demand this; W
know that ours does. We impose no burde
which we ourselves do not bear, we clair
no privilege or blessing which our brethre
Of the South shall not equally share Thei
country is our country, and ours is theirs
and that unity both of country and of gov
eminent which the providence OF God an
the compacts of men have created we coul
not ourselves, without self immolation, de-
stroy, nor can we permit it TO be destroye
by others.
Equally vain is it for them to declare th,
they only wish 4" to be let alone" and tina
in establishing the independence of the s.
coded States, they do those which remain
the old Contederacy no harm. The FRI
States, if allowed the opportunity of doiu
so, will undoubtedly concede every guaral
tee needed to afford complete protection
the institutions Of the South, and to furnis
assurances Of her perfect equality in Il
Union but all such guarantees and assn
ances are now openly spurned, and the on
Southern right now INSISTED on is that
sl-As-f
this right neither States nor statesmen W
be F" let alone Should a ruffain meet n
in the streets, and seek, with his ak, to be
an arm and leg from my body, | won
not the less resist him because, as a disho
ored and helpless trunk, | might perchan
survive the mutilation. 1t is easy to pc
ceive what fatal results to the old COME
eracy would follow should the blow no
struck at its integrity ultimately TRUMP
We can well understand what degradati,
it would bring to it abroad, and what wea
ness at home what exhaustion from ince
SAINT war and standing armies, and from Il
erection Of Notifications along the thou
ands of miles of new frontier; what en-
barrassments to commerce from having
natural channels encountered or cut of
what elements of disintegration and rev
luton would be introduced from the perm
cious example; and, above all, what humi
iation would cover the whole American be
pie for having failed in their great missile
to demonstrate before the world the capaC
ty of our race for self-government.
While far more fearful responsible
has fallen upon President Lincoln than u
on any of his predecessors, it must be a
mitted that he has met it with promptitu,
and fearlessness. Cicero, in one of his or
tons against Catiline, speaking of the cree
due himself for having suppressed the co
spir2cy of that arch-traitor, said, aft q
glory Of him who founded Rome was gree
how much greater should be that of hi
who had saved it from overthrow after
had grown 10 be the mistress OF the world
So it may be said Of the glory Of that state
or cheftain who shall snatch this T
public from the vortex of revolution, no
that it has expanded from ocean to ocea
has become the admiration of the world. al
has rendered the fountains of he lives
thirty millions Of people fountains of ha
Diness.
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