The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-04-27

these paltry considerations, and inaugurate
the era when there shall be but one party,
and that for our country. The struggle is
one into which we enter with the deepest
reluctance. We are bound to the people of
the seeding States by the dearest ties of
blood and Institutions They are our broth
ers and our felow-couutrymen but if they
regard not these tender relations, how can
we? If they wage war upon us, and put
them selves in the attitude of public enemies,
they must assume all the responsibilities in
cident to that position. But while deplore
deeply the character of the contest in which
we are engaged, nevertheless we should
meet it as men.
To our sister State of Kentucky we turn
with hope and affection. She has grown
rich and prosperous in the Republic; could
she do more if she was out of i? 1t would
be a sad day that would sever the bond
which binds these States together, and
places US in separate and hostile nations.
/ appeal to her by the ties of our common
kindred and history by our community OF
/ interests by the sacred obligations to
maintain the Constitution inviolate, to adj
here to the Union, and stand fast by that
/ flag in defense of which she has so often
shed her best blood pray her to examine
her past history and perceive how the tide
/ of her prosperity has flowed on unbroken,
and ever increasing, until her limits are
/ filled with material wealth, and her people
! are respected, elevated, and happy and
| then inquire if all this is not the result of
/ that Union she is called upon to break, and
/ of that Government she is invited to dis
| honor and overthrow. To ask Kentucky to
! secede, is to ask her to commit foul dishonor
| and suicide. | trust that the good sense
| and patriotism of her people will not suffer
| her to be dragged by the current of evils,
which has been cunningly invented for that
! purpose, iRto the vortex of disunion; nor
| permit her to be artfully inveigled into an
armed neutrality between the rebellious
4 States and the Federal Government. Such a
! position would be anomalous and fatal TO
/ the peace and perpetuity of the Union
There is no ground in the Constitution mid
! way between a rebellious State and the
! Federal Government upon which. she can
stand, holding both in check and restrain
/ ing the Federal Government from the
enforcement of the laws and the exercise
/ of its constitutional authority
Such an attitude is at once unconstitu-
| tional and hostile. At a time like this, if
she is not for the Government, and for
maintaining it by the observance of all her
constitutional obligations, she is against it.
If the voice of her people can be heard,
fear not the result. Secession can only tri-
umph as it has triumphed in other States
by sitting the voice of the people, and by
| the bold usurpations by demagogues and
traitors of the powers which rghtfully be-
long to them alone. And, | might here re-
mark, it is quite manifest that the schemes
of the authors and managers of the rebel
lion, extend far beyond the dissolution of
the Union, and embrace the destruction of
! the Democratic principle of government
and the substitution of an aristocracy in its
stead. In the seeding States the control
of public affairs has been withdrawn, sub
! stantially, from the people, and every prop
osition to submit 10 their consideration
measures of the most vital Importance has
been coutemptiously oVerruled; and we are
in truth called upon to fight not only for
the Union, but for the principle upon which
our State and National Governments are
| founded.
If the rebellious States hope to profit by
the dissentions in the North they have erred
/ egregiously, and have wholly failed 10 COM
! prehend our people. Our divisions were
mere political and not fundamental and
party lines faded instantly from sight
! when the intelligence went abroad that war
was being waged against the Nation. When
the sound of the first gun reverberated
! through the land, the people Of the North
arose as one man, and declared that the
/ Government must be sustained and the
honor of our flag preserved inviolate at
/ whatever cost. The events of the last ten
days are pregnant with instruction and
moral grandeur. They present the action
of people who have suffered much and
waited long, who were slow to take Of
fence and were incredulous of treason and
danger; but who, when the dread APP
/ peal to arms was made, and the issue could
/ no longer be avoided with honor or safety,
promptly abandoned the peaceful pursuits
| OF life and devoted themselves 10 the ser
! vice of their country. | trust that the force
/ of this lesson may not be lost upon our err
ing brethren of the South, and that they
will at once perceive they have inaugurated
a contest from which they cannot emerge
with honor or profit.
On the 18th day of the present month
| the President of the United States issued
! his Proclamation calling upon the loyal
States to furnish 5000 men for the pro-
lection of the Government, the suppression
of rebellion and the enforcement of the laws
subsequently, the quota to be furnished
I by Indiana was fixed at six regiments Of
seven hundred and seventy men each. In
obedience to this call issued my proclama-
ton calling for volunteers and in less than
eight days, more than 1000 men have
rendered their services and the contest
among the companies has been earnest and
exciting as TO which should secure place
within the quota. This response has been
most gratifying and extraordinary, and fur
nishes indubitable evidence of the patriot
ism Of Indiana, and her entire devotion to
the Union. Without distinction OF party,
condition or occupation, men have rallied
around the National Standard and III every
part of the State may be heard the sound of
martial music and witnessed the mastering
of companies into the field.
In view ofthis remarkable response made !
to the proclamation of the goth inst, ten
dered to the President, for the service of the
United States, six additional regiments, but
telegraph and postal communication having
been cut off with Washington, no answer
has been received up to this time. A camp
was formed in the neighborhood of this city
for the reception of the troops, and Major
Mo- oFF