The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-01-24
. The MISREPRESENTATION of n North
ern Tory.

ern Tory.
In this issue of the Daily Journal will be
found an article contributed to the Memphis
Appeal of January 4th, by "Northern
man with Southern principles" formerly
resident of this city. The writer of the
communication recently paid visit to Ev-
ansville and Cannelton, where he endeavor-
ed to inculcate his reasonable doctrines in
the minds of the people. At the latter
place he is said to have been very active in
the so-called Union meeting, in which was
passed the notable resolution declaring that
in case of disunion, Perry county demanded
that the line of demarcation between the
two sections should run north of her, in
stead of along the Ohio river. In this city
the individual in question was not very
successful in the propagation of his treason
able doctrines and if report speaks truly,
he left our loyal and Union-loving city with
flea of huge proportions in his ear.
Smarting under q sense of the indignant
replies he is said to have received to some
of his toryish remarks, when he reached
Memphis, he could not rest until, in that Sc
cure asylum, he should pour out on the
heads of the Republicans of Southern In
diana the walls OF his impotent wrath. The
result of his brooding malice is before the
reader, and a delightful specimen of fair
ness, courtesy, and veracity toward his
former fellow-citizens and patrons is the
TRADE we copyI Some Of the Germans, for
whom the Memphis writer used to manifest
a friendship, will be particularly struck
with the loving kindness he exhibits toward
them.
Now let US consider the beauties of the
article from the Appeal in detail.
With what sang-froid and unconcern is the
phrase :" future republics used. The writer
is a great stickler for concession and COM
promise. Yet he does not seem even to
entertain an idea to that end. We are to
have future republics more than one,
you see. 1t is a fixed fact The Appeal writer
knows-he is in the secrets of the Secs
sionists. He is aware that they laugh
at the idea of mutuaIrconcession and COM
promise and want nothing of the kind
nothing but dissolution.
What delightful state of Arcadian felicity
exists along the River. Why the people on
each side actually keep up " commercial
and friendly intercourse p To the mind
of our tory writer this is proof positive that
the people on this side love slavery and mig
gers and want to enjoy the blessings " o.
the institution. The idea does not seem to
enter his head that while the people of the
free States have no dislike to their brethren
of the slave States-that while on the con-
trary they esteem them highly as friends,
relatives, fellow-countrymen- detest
their institution of slavery, not on account
of any love for the negro, but because OIL
the degradation and poverty it inflicts on
free white labor. Our people enjoy highly
the friendly intercourse they have with Their
friends and neighbors across the River, but
they do not like slavery and while they
our free territories that are not already
cursed with it, they have desire, in
tention to interfere in the least with it in
the places where it exists by the force Of
local law. And further, they acknowledge
the Constitutional obligation that requires
fugitive slaves to be given up on proper de-
mand Because they like the Southern
people, and enjoy friendly intercourse with
them, it by no means follows that they
worship slavery and desire to place
themselves under its influence. They
want nothing to do with it. Lei
those who have it enjoy it in their OWE
way We are a thousand-fold better of
without it. The States which possess it are
welcome to all its boosted advantages. In.
diana is all free soil and will remain so for.
ever, notwithstanding the efforts of the
Slave Propaganda and their tory sympa.
thizers here at home to reduce her Southern
section to slavery.
\Tbe Appeal writer's talk about making
the dividing line along the National Road
in case of dissolution-and even the same
remark applied to the Ohio and Mississippi
R. R. line is the height of delusion or
depth of deception. Such an opinion is
utter folly. The person who utters it does not
even understand the sentiment of the peo-
pie of the River counties, much less of the
counties north to the National Road. He
ISLANDERS the people of Southern Indiana
grossly when he talks thus. In effect he
accuses them of being devoid of principle
or so idiotic as to be unaware of their own
best interests. A proposition to separate
from the balance of the State, and attach
themselves to a slave confederacy, if made
in earnest, would be secuted from the pub
lie mind and its authors overwhelmed with
infamy.>
Our tory writer discourses learnedly
about the right of revolution" and says
it is as inalienabe in State as it is in
the Confederation. If his logic should be
carried out, what would become of law and