The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-06-15
THE SECESSION CONSPIRACY,
DUTY OF KENTUCKY To SUPPORT
THE GOVERNMENT.
lcoNrINrED.l

AN'AAlh I ED.
Inc vigorons measures adopted for III.
saiedy oi Washington and The Goverpn,en,
fty, may az nave 'e ari5en qi5sR Y RfE 81 6dqt 6d rs
ton ia the pressure Of the terrible necessity
under which the Administration has been
called to act. When a man feels the poign-
ard of the destroyer at his bosom, be is not
likely to consult the law books ms TO the
mode or measure of his rights Of self-de-
fense. What is true Of individuals is in
this respect equally true of Governments.
The man who thinks he has become dislov-
al because of what the Administration has
done, will probably discover, after close
self-examnation, that he was dsloyal be
fore But for what has been done, Wash
ington might, ere this, have been a smoul-
dering heap of ruins
They have noted the course Of public af
fairs to little advantage, who suppose that
the election Of Lincoln was the real ground
of the revolutionary outbreak that has oc-
Cured. The roots Of the revolution NAV be
traced back for more than n quarter Of
century, and an unholy lust for power is the
soil out Of which it sprung. A prominent
member Of the band of agitators declared
in one Of his speeches at Charleston last
November or December, that they had been
occupied for thirty years in the work of
severing South Carolina from the Union
When General Jackson crushed uulli6ca-
ton, he said it would revive again under
the form Of the Slavery agitation, and we
have lived to see his prediction verified --
Indeed, that agitation during the last fifteen
or twenty years, has been almost the entire
stock in trade of Southern politicians. The
Southern people, known TO as generous
in their impulses as they are chValric,
were not wrought into a frenzy of passion
by the Incorporate words Of few fanatca
a bolitiouists for these words, IL left TO
themselves, would have fallen 10 the ground
as pebbles into the sea, and would have
been heard Of no more. But il was the
echo of those words, repeated with eXagger-
alton for the thousandth time by Southern
politicians in the halls Of Congress, and in
the deliberative and popular assembages.
and through the Press of the South, that
produced the exaspcration which has proved
- ~ ,Usgi1 ..,i '' '''' H'iip' ~ '.9 euu
and the iugglingrev VINO Hgf'f 5f,.
wires and could at viii direct its lightnings,
appeared NJ Charleston, broke up the Demo-
cratic Convention assembled to nominate a
candidate for the Presidency and thus Sc
cured the election Of Mr.. Lincoln. Having
thus rendered this certain, they at once set
TO WOTk 10 uEluE llt iblulhI lilHA u. ..'
South to the point Of determining in ai.
vance that the election Of n RepubHcan
President would be pr So cause for disso-
luton Of The Union. They were bu Too
successful, and 10 this result tie ina zion
and indecision of the Border States dep.
blv contributed. When the election o Ar.
Lincoln was announced, there was rejosrr
in the streets of Charleston, and dOubtle
other points in the South for twas bel
bv the conspirators that this had bro
a tide in the current of their mac
tions which would bear them on to t.e-
tory. The drama Of secession was bow
open. and State after State rapidly rushed
out of the Union, and their member
withdrew from Congress. The revolution
was pressed on with this hot haste in order
that no time should be allowed for reaction
in the Northern mind, or for any adjust
ment of the Slavery issues by the action q.
Congress or Of the State Legislatures. iaa
the Southern members continued in .leir
seats a satisfactory compromise would Ho
doubt have been arranged and passed be-
fore the adjournment Of Congress.
was. after retirement, and after Con
had become Republican, an amendmelf t9
the Constitution was adopted by a ta8-
thirds vote, declaring that Congress should
never interfere with Slavery in the States.
and declaring further, that this amendmelt
should be irroyoeable. Thus was falsife4 lha
clamor so long and so insidiOusly rurg IN
the ears Of the Southern people, tina .la
abolition Of Slavery in the States wa ..
ultimate aim Of the Republican party. Hut
even this amendment and all others rr.
may be needed to furnish the guarau Gees
demanded, are now defeated by the sece SON
of eleven States, which, claiming to be ouf
of the Union, will refuse TO vote upon end
modify the Federal Constitution. fiiuvtS,
are now tbirty-four States in the eonfederacy
tbree-fourths OF which, being tWenty-siX,
must concur in the adoption OF any amend
ment before IL can become part Of the
Constitution; but the secession Of eleven
STATES leaves but tvs cnty-three whose vote
can rossiblv be occurred, which IS less than
the constitutional number.
Tbns we have the extraordinary and dis
creditable spectacle OF revolution made
Inv certain States, proie53edly on the ground
,5at Guarantees for the safety Of their in
atituf.ons is denied them and at the same
time instead Of cooperating with their SIS
ter States in obtaining these guarantees,
they desiqnedly assume a hostile attitude,
and thereby render it constituGonally inn
possible to secure them. This profound
assimilation shows that 10 was not the
safety of the South, but its severance from
the Confederacy, which was sought RON
the beginning Contemporary WIN, 80 7"
some instances preceding these acts g. o.
cegsiop. the greatest outrages were coniniiiiea
mon tbe Government OF the L nited states oy
he states engaged in them. us iort7r arse
'iI -, - barracks custom houses, post
sioas e. 1ooneys. and indeed every species Of
-,,arf,, within the limits OF these States,
Plrera seized and appropriated, down 90 'he
rer, hospital stores for the sick SOLDIER
More than half a million dollar was