The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-09-09

we have assumed to ourselves as people
the special championship not only of the
right, but of the capacity of the race for
self-government; and that assumption has
been accepted by the lovers of freedom ev-
erywhere and now, with the nations of the
world looking down upon US, as from the
seats of some vast amphitheater, we have
no right to suffer this sacred and Sabine
cause to be stricken down, and crushed upon
the battle-6elds of the South, and to perish
there, amid the SCOTS and jeers Of Kings and
despots. Applause. How anxiously and
confidently have they predicted thissday
How they have longed fOrIits coming In
che essential antagonism Of their institutions
to ours, and in the adherence which they
feel to that system of government which
gives the honors and fortunes of the earth
to the toiling millions who are the archi-
teets of both, how gladly would each one
of them this day build a monument to
the skies il be could only inseribe
upon it these words: g In memory
of the great Republic of the United
States founded by Washington, DESTROYED
by Toombs, Ewiggs, and Floyd" What
record for humanity would that be Fell
low-citizens, / do but utter truth which is
painfully present to all minds. that the dis
loyalty which is found in our own midst,
especially at Washington, and in the Dor
der States, has been a fruitful source of
disaster and of Encouragement from the
| very beginning of this unfortunate struggle.
This evil has assumed proportions of such
magnitude that its correction has become
paramount duty upon the part of those
charged with the administration of the Gov
eminent. e It's prevalence has been marked
| by all those treaeheries and excuses which
have been its unfailing characteristics in
| other lands and IN other times. Mex. to the
| worship OF the Father of our spirits, the
grandest and the strongest sentiment of
which our nation is susceptible, is the love
of our country. When that sentiment has
been corrupted, like an arch from which
l'the keystone has been displaced, the whole
moral character seems to tumble in ruins.
The public and the private proAigacy of
| traitors and spies, both male and female,
has been vouched for by all history, and in
deed it has grown into proverb that ethe
man who will betray his country will be-
/ tray his God" Great applause He will
/ betray his friends, his kindred, and, if need
be, the very wife of his bosom and children
/ of his loins. Suppose that You lived in one
of those cities where there is a steam FIRE
engine and a paid company to operate it;
and suppose that your house was on Gre
and this company and this engine had been
summoned to the spot and were vigorously
engaged in extingaishing it; and suppose
that you discern. from time to time, men
/ creeping outfrom the crowd and sticking
their knives into the hose, from which the
water. is. seen to spout forth in all direc-
tions upon the payements' of the street,
I How long do you think the presence
/ of such miscreants would be endured p
But suppose that, looking mora closely
into the faces Of those men, you dlscov-
er that they are members Of this FIRE com
i pany, recei7ing the salary to which
/ you have yourself contributed iss3In the
first burst of your indignation would
! you not feel that their punishment would
not be too greatsif they were thrown iuto
the flames which they were thus indirectly
feeling2 And yet this has been precisely
the condition of: the Government of the
1 United States. A voice. That's fact I
That has been, from the commencement of
this struggle, its precise condition. know
i there are those who look with more t5lera
\ --------Ai f3usslDTy 40. Perhaps
am TOO harsh but must say this I'd Al
the men VINO In our own midst give aid and
4 comfort to'the enemy, either by furnishing
| them secret information or by advertising
their cause, or by striving to sow dissen-
slens among ourselves, or by insidionsly
dlsuading loyal men from entering the mil
/ ltary service, are more vitality the foes of
1 our country than if they were in the army.
| of the Confederate States FApplause T.
The power of the Government can do much
to correct this evil, but much more can be
done by the crushing power of public opin
ION, branding as infamous socially and DO
7lltlcally disloyalty whenever and wherever.
encountered. Applause These men are,
morally, at least, guilty of the death of
those who fall in defense of the Govern
ment, just as much az if they had met them
upon the battlefield With the deadly wea-
pons OF war. In your railroad cars. unon
your steamboats,, in your thoroughfares, in
every business and social circle, disloyaIty
should be branded and blasted as a leprose
and loathsome thing. Great applause. /
AND therefore, my friends, when you see
these men, be it upon Change, or be it in
the social circle, and they offer their hands.
look well to them, for if you have the ewes
that have you win see that they are red
with the blood of brave men, YOUR kindred
1t may be, who have persisted, aud who are
perishing still on the battle-fieid-turn
away from them in disgust and Indignation.
EelloW-citizens, | know there are some.
1t is true who do sincerely believe that this
Kepubhc-the question of public honor out
OF question, out of Fiew-that this Repub-
lie could be separated, and that a
peace could be patched up, and that the two |
Governments thereafter could live on pros
perously, peaceably az before. no more |
false or fatal thought ever crept serpent
like, into an American bosom. TGreat |
cheering. You might as well tell me that |
the boat which has been turned adrift above \
the cataract of Niagara will have a tranquil |
voyage. [Cheers. If you will go and
stand, as many of as have done, among the
ruins of crumbling empires in The old world
ask them, they will all tell you it is a de-
lusion; if you win go into the cemetery of
nations, and hold your ear to the sepulchre
OF those young and generous and high
spirited nations that have persisted through i
the CONCLUSIONS of civil strife, they will an-
swer in accents of Observation-Disclosures it is
a delusion. And if you. will not listen, to
the voices of the past, go into Mexico and
South America, and ask the inhabitants of
those bright lands, blest with climate the
best of earth, snd occupying a soil of ex-
laIIstlesS fartilifv