The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-12-11
Lateat from the south.

NdSuVllle OOuFleT, OF laS6 1HdISua91 tL0 /
9Th inst. Among other articles Of inter |
est, it contains a communication from G. |
W. johnson, the Provisional Governor of
Kentucky, on the Independence of the /
South" To show that this johnson, is not !
only a scoundrel and a traitor, but con-
summate ass withal, we quote the following
paragraph from his article
Some have supposed that these times are
not sufficient for the protection of the |
South, and that any treaty of peace must |
embrace substantially the provisions Of the
Fugitive Slave Law. Nothing can be
more erroneous than this. If we have III
dependence and would grant reciRro-
cate free trade between the North and the
South, would not give q button for fu-
gitive slave law. These terms will pro-
tect US more fully than laws or armies,
| because they will give to our slave prop
erty the protection of every man in the
Northern Confederacy. The very shores
of the beautiful Ohio might then be cul-
/ tivated in perfect security by slave labor.
Why? Because, first: The independence Of
| the slaveholding States destroys the very
/ foundations on which both religious and
political abolition rests. That the people
| of the free States-I mean the religious
bigots and fools-will no longer Imagine
themselves responsible for the @crime Of
slavery which no longer exists in their
government, and the political demagogues
and agitators will no longer have that
'shorse to ride" And secondly, because
free trade will make them court our friend
ship in the adjustment of our tariff lists
and fawn around us like dogs. The "peace"
will never be disturbed by them. Their
interests will always forbid a disturbance
of an existing harmony between the North
and the South, upon which good feeling
| risk their chances of protection under our
laws. Whenever you ascertain the inter
est of a nation, you may securely build
upon that, as upon a rock not to be shaken.
Our good viii would be of importance to
every manufacturer and to almost every
! man and woman in the North.
Hence you would hear no more, the mad
mans cry of the "Poor Slave" "Under
Ground Railroads" John Brown Raids,
and eabolition societies. These melodious
sounds would cease forever, and the Fugi-
tive negro would be met with fire and
sword on the north bank Of the Ohio
They would no longer need him to feed an
extinct abolition agitation, nor would they
want him as a rival and competitor OF their
white operations-Independe for the
South and Free Trade between North and
: South, is, then, the best safeguard of our
e slave property that could be de-ired-ar
unwritteD but onnipOteut Fugitive Slave
Law.
n The Courier informs us that the appoint
f ment of the modern Falstaf, Humphrey
+ Marshall to a command, has "created every
= where TIN 80 st demonstrations of de
n light" t.,u. Marshall lis advancing" say
; the Courier, and will shortly be in Lexing
II ton or some other point near Cincinnati.
d The Courier says:
10 We are informed that a number Of ian
kee rnarauders from Smithland and Padu
Q dab, came up the Cumberland Il few day
l. since and going into Caldwell county neal
Of Princeton, stole and drove off with then
IL 400 hogs and 30 beeges5 bgla9} eri n lie sc6tfh
drels succeeded in making good their es
, cape.
In tho Geographic columns of the Courier
> we find the following:
> The Norfolk Day Book of the 4th says
we have been put in possession of a secre
Z which suggests the probability that Genera
% Scott may now be on his way hither in tn
d same condition that Messrs. Mason and Sill
q dell were carried North.
g A telegraphic dispatch from Richmond
= announces on the authority of the Exam
= liner, that some Virginian by the name 0
i Heath had been fshed up, appointed Majo
d General and assigned to the command 0
the Confederate troops in Missouri, in place
of Price.
e The farmers about Lynchburg, Virginia
! have the face to ask Sl5 per cvb for their
pork