The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-27
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EVANSVILLE IND.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING.......


southern DespotIsn.
Notwithstanding the buster made by
some of the southern papers, there is but lit
tie doubt that the Permanent Constitution
adopted by the Southern Congress will
never be submitted to the people for their
approval or rejection. The people are not |
to be consulted their wishes are not to be /
regarded. Quite an Arcadian Republic, is
the Southern Confederacy s3
The Alabama Convention--so the Jack
son Mississippian informs us-have already
adopted the new Constitution without per-
hitting the people of that State to have any
voice in the matter The inhabitants of
North Alabama have given so many and such
unuistakable indications that they were dis
satisfied with the whole secession scheme
and that they only lacked the opportunity,
to condemn the movement by their votes
that the traitors who have usurped control
in that State didn't dare to submit the new
Constitution to the citizens of the State for
fear il acouId be rejected. IF the tone of the
of the sentiment of the people, there
is every reason for believing that
they would have joyfully rallied
against the proposed constitution in such
numbers as to overpower the secession vote
in the southern portion Of the State. That
the State Convention refused permission to
let the people vote on the work of the
Southern Congress is another evidence that
the above view is correct.
We do not believe the constitution will be
submitted TO the people either in South Car
DINA, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana or Mis-
sissippi. The Jackson Mississipian may de-
nounce the contrary course as it CHOOSES
1t may boot at the ridiculous position that
will be assumed by the Georgia delegates
in g sitting in Judgment upon their own
ats" and adopting their own bantling'
1t will he of no avail. If the secession
leaders have any reason to believe that
there is the least probability the people
of that State will refuse the new ConsUtu-
ton, they will never give them the oppor-
tunity. So with the other States. The
people of those States have long been taught
that negro has no rights which white
man was bound to respect. They are now
being taught another lesson more advanced
IN the logic Of despotism-that the people
have no rights which their rulers are bound
to respect
We should like to have one of the fiery Sc
cessionist organs analyze the boosted liberty
and independence achieved by the people of
the Seeded States in permitting themselves
to be dragged out of the Union by unscru-
pnlous political adventurers. We should
like to see the component parts of that
independence which they so laud as whole.
The only liberty given the people in the
new government is the liberty to be taxed
outrageously to support the political drones
now eating out their substance The liberty
to carry arms pick-axes, and shovels. anG
sned their blood in the defense of their rul-
ers, but not the liberty to say what shall
be the organic law for their government
How much superior is this newly achieved
independence to what they have been made
to believe was oppression under our govern
ment When with us they were lightly tax
ed, were protected from the savages by fed
eral troops, and were furnished with regular
mails at very slight cost to them.
The Missssippian is laboring zealously to
compel the Mississippi Convention to submit
the new Constitution to a vote of the peo-
pie. It says; Whatever may be the
final declsion of the Mississippi Convention
on this subject, we definitely submit that i
Will be p wretched prOpriety and good tastI
to say nothing of prdaep5e-for those o
its members who are also members of th'
Montgomery Convention to ask that it b.
taken entirely upon trust and without Civ
ing the people an opportunity of pronoun
cling judgment upon it. It ought to be
point Of honor with them to demand tn
fullest and fairest investigation" We shall
watch with interest to see what attention i
paid TO its appeals.