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

Gratis and well tried Union men. in
whose hands the military power of the
State will be safe. The commissions of the
officers are for four years. The Black-ke
publican leaders are enraged at this fore
stalltng in the hands of tue Union men, of
the military power Of the State, and they
threaten, as the Only means of oustirg these
new military commanders, that the Repuh-
ican legislature will, in the first week of its
session, repeal the system of militia laws,
and thus break up the whole system. They
are warning the new appointees not to in
cur the expense of new uniforms, for in thir-
ty days they will be deprived of their COM
missions, and their ranks be disbanded.---
But the companies and regiments, once Or
ganized, will remain together if the law be
repealed, and perfect themselves in disci-
pline, as volunteer corps under the provis-
ions of the bill of rights which guarantees
the right of bearing arms to every citizen.
The military spirit is so mate in our people
I that when once excited. it is not easily al
/ layed Or suppressed. The South will find
strong allies in these Democratic military
/ ranks in the free border States. They will
be sure barrier against the inroads and
bloody designs OF the fanatical and murder
Gus hOrdes of ack-Repubicanism.
A most significant indication of the feel
ings of these newly organized troops, is the
act of the regiment in Yanderburgh county,
Indiana, which embraces the city of Evans
vile. After its organization and equip
ment, it notified the Governor of Indiana
that il was prepared to obey his Or
ders, when any emergency occurred
demanding their services; they then ad-
dressed a formal communication to Gov
McGofin, rendering their services as a regi-
ment to the State of Kentucky at any time
when their aid should be needed ny Ken
tuekians to suppress Instructions or repel
Invasion. The reply of the Kentucky ex-
ecutlTe has not yet been received. The Of
fer is not likely to be declined. The act is
denounced by rabid Republicans as treason
to the State and to the '' Free North The
first fight upon the borders will be within
the confines of the free States The Demo-
cratic and Union masses in the southern sec
ton of those States will never permit any
hostile northern hordes 10 pass over the
river to invade their neighbors upon its
southern shore. They will stand An i'm
pregnable breastwork against the inroads of
abolition fanaticism into Kentucky.
The masses of native American citizens
everywhere along the river a:o oyal to the
constitutional rights of the South Tens of
thousands of them who were SO governed by
their old political prejudices as to vote
against their convictions for Lincoln, to
break down the old Democratic party,
would now labor most earnestly to restore
it to power, if they could have Chance
They are now iamenting in sackcloth and
ashes their errors and infatuatiou. There
was never in the history of politics SO great
and sudden revolution in public feeling.
The mass of Americans and English and
Irish citizeus in this important line of the
sections have come 10 a just appreciation of
the wrongs, and reasonable conviction of
the rights of the South but the rabid fana-
tcal leaders-who are all hungry Office
seekers-having recently got their cue from
Wade'5 speech, and the DeIphic responses
recently given out at Springfield, that no
compromises, no sacrifices even of an iota of
party principles is to be allowed, even to
save the country and the nlou-haye Ov-
come more violent and iusOlent-uncompr
missing and outrageous in the maintenance
of the . irrepFessible conflict" than before.
They are loud for coercion, bloOdshed and
war. Lincoln, in their view, is scion of
old Hickory, who is to hang all the traitors
North and South-beginning with the
northern sympathizers who may arrest the
march of his Republican mercenares upon
the South. They talk as giibly and violent
ly about treason to the North as the fire.
eaters of South Carolina declaim against
disloyalty TO their faction. Among these
hungry parasites of patronage and power,
it is sad to find great many renegades
from Virginia and Kentucky. The mean
est and basest- -ab0litionists of southern Hi
nois and Indiana are the wretched emigrants
formerly dirt eaters, from North Carolina.
They were the viiest scum of white Gre
alton in the slave States, and their natures
are not improved by exchange Of latitude.
Mingled with this now sloughing tail of
Republicanism along these borders, are the
Dutch hordes, whose antipathies to the
South, tostered by the eloquence oil the
agrarian demagogues, like Carl Shultz,
never change in their dull but beclouded
intellects. They now form the strength of
the Republicans here, and if an armed in
vasion of the South should be attempted in
the coming conflict, the imported mercena-
ries-like the Hessians ia the revolution
will be blind or perhaps willing instruments
of the tyrannicaI oppressors.
The South has created the great North
west, given just value TO its lands, peOpled
! it, and brought forth its resources. South
/ ern markets, when it was wilderness,
made demand for its products, brought
the hardy pioneer upon its rivers and prai-
! ries, and gave him the means to buy
/ the lands of the General Government. What
would be the condition Of the FIVE or six
/ States 10 the Northwest nov aspiring to
/ control the Confederacy at the present time,
/ had they been cut off from the cotton or SUI
gar plantations of the South They would
have been a wilderness as blank upon the
map of the country as the space which
/ stretches away TO the west of them up to
the foot of the Rocky mountains. In the
account currents which some of the Black
Republican accountants, who estimate polit-
ical rights and injustice by the credit side
of profit and loss in dollars, should take into
these estimates the values which the South
has given to the free States of the North
west. The region which the slave States
have peOpled, nursed and fostered till it has
grown rich and strong, now turns with
base ingratitude to destroy those who nurs-
ed and protected it, and gave to it's people
all their wealth, power, and consequence in
the Union. {.