The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-01-24

call Oh Cnls gentleman We are quoting anu
all his Bell and Douglas friends to live up
to their professions. All that is now neces-
sary to restore public prosperity is to
act on that sentiment-"the Union, the
Constitution, and the Enforcement of the
Laws"
The comments on the present beautiful
Democratic militia system, in which the or
ganization is altogether in the hands of the
enemies of the North and her institutions,
are refreshing. The consolation he bestows
on our model militia-that they can not be
Invested of their constitutional privilege to
bear arms-wiH prove about as soothing to
them when new militia system is adopted
by the Legislature, and they lose their COM
missions obtained in such hurry and by
such questionable means, as the consolation
given by Jobs comforters to that afflicted
worthy.
The expression " fanatical and murderous
hordes of Black Republication" is a very
fair one to be used against thousands of
peaceful and high-minded citizens 1t is
worthy the source from which it emanated;
entirely so. It's author is a great stickler
for etiquette and fair dealing in newspaper
controversy. He has a singular way of car
rying out his theories in this respect
Our writer remarks that the offer of the
Vanderburgh militia officers, to go to Ken
lucky and help to suppress instructions
and repel invasion, has not been replied to
by Gov. Magofin. We imagine it will not
be. Benedict Arnold, after the betrayal of
the American cause, and after the war, went
to settle in England, and was distrusted and
despised for his treachery to his country
condemned by the very people he sacrificed
| his manhood and his honor to serve We
| presume that Gov. Magofin-high-min
| Kentuckian as he is-also distrusts the
| fidelity and spurns the services of men who
will deliberately propose to act the traitor
to their own people and State. "Their af-
fections are as dark as Erebus. Let no such
men be trusted
What biting sarcasm is sought 10 be
embodied in the words our tory quotes
" Free North" Yes, indeed too free for
| the comfort of man sold to cotton, lucre,
slavery, spurious Democracy, secession, and
treason. Thank God the North is too free
for such men. 1t is not a healthy place for
traitors.
"The first fight upon the borders will be
within the confines of the free States
There will be no eight" 1t will be the
mere hanging of traitors, in the regular ex-
ecution of the laws of the land.
"The masses of native American citizens
everywhere along the river are loyal to the
constitutional rights of the South" This
is true, and if the testimony of Black
Republican paper will pass current in the
South, we can testify in addition that all
citizens along the river, native and natural
lied, are loyal to the constitutional rights Of
the South.
The idea that any Republican would Ia
Dor earnestly to restore to power the rotten
corrupt, and defunct Democratic party, is
absurd. Also the assertion that Republi.
cans are sorry for voting according to the
dictates of thair nfnSninnnA-~We have mo-
met one yet who would not do as he die
through the recent contest, a Thousand
times, If necessary to prove his attachment
to the cause of free labor.
The Memphis writer alludes to English
citizens in such way as.would lead the
reader to suppose that they were sympathiz-
ers with slavery. Far FROM it. The tory
writer might as well undeceive himself a
once on that score. 4" No slave can breathe
the air of England. The moment his foo
touches her soil, his shackles fall off" Oul
English fellow-citizens (of whom there are
many in this part of the country were ed
ucated to take this noble utterance of Chic
Justice Mansfeld-this axiom in British
jurisprudence-as next to the Gospel itself
Are they going to stultify themselves anG
disgrace their native land ? No. We know
of more than one English citizen who were
before the election, but who now would
readily vote for Lincoln if the election were
to be held again.
Our tory makes venomous attack on
Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina
"renegades as he terms them. These
persons saw and felt the evils Of the servile
system in their home in the Slave States.
They left the old homestead and the friends
of their youth in order to remove them
selves from the blighting influence of this
unfortunate system. Once free from it,,
they are of course opposed to again living
under it. and will always oppose any effort
to spread the evil. The most determined
Republicans are from the slave States. Sad
experience is their guide in their conduct.
When our writer, in his philippe, comes
to speak of " the Dutch hordes and q" Hes
SLAMS" as he denomi mates the German
Republicans, all his ill-will seems to flow out
in bitterstream. The innate Know Nothing
ism of his character and associations here