Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1861-02-07
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Por the Journal.
Notes from Under the Shadow Of NJ.
Louis.
No. p


Months have rolled away since my last budget
was penned; and beyond doubt those months
have been heavily freighted with good and
evil az any which have come and gone since
l776: they have been full. pressed down, and
running over with events of intensest interest.
Since my last hopes. relative to the cleo
ton, have been realized. Abraham Lincoln has
been constitutionally elected President of the
United States; aud for the frat time since the
struggle betweea freedom and slavery COM
menced in our land. the "sum of all yllianieS"
has met with decided defeat.
May God grant that it may be but the prelude
to il fall and fnal overthro~.
Looking back upon the past, and cndeavoring
to read what would be the true meaning of things
pr~esi. We are hopeful, that that event. is not
separated from those of 10 day, by very wide
gulf o. y.ars One thing accomplished. and We
believe II will b. nigh. even at our door' Ii by
reclamation OF the doctrines and guarantees
of the Constitution. the border States can be
detached from the rebel. Of the gulf the mat
riciial hards of keit Toombs 4 Co. will finish
the monster, without tho dread ed Interference .
Yankee peddl,rs, or school. mirms" Yet We
conlee. that our hope occasionally catches the
tremhler. when We rem, niber how large aad ia
huen tial IL the number Of reckless politicians,
who at the North, are giving support to Southern
rebellion, and how lamentably scarce aud dobil
ta,ed Ia the article of backbone. even among the
professed champions Of freedom
Come what will. Illinois, and even Egypt, will
be found as firm In her support Of the Union,
Honest Abe. and Rcpublicanism. ~ the rocks
which underlie her prairies. Notwithstanding the
disunion votes Of her misreprescntativcs. Poly.
gamy Brigham fouke. AID Dirty-work Logan.
and the bombastic vaporings Of such defeated
trieksters rs Don Morrison.
Would that We were as confident of the trust,
worthness of Missouri. for Of our sister State
there Il cause for alarm. Her legislature has
been in session for some time, aud but little
has been done. except to hatch schemes for
carrying the States down to the gulf of perdition.
One hish.handed outrage has already been per-
pe,rated, the CONTROL of the militia of the State
has been taken from the hitherto legally oonsti.
tuted authorities, and have been put at the
entire disposal of his mightiness Claib Jackson,
who has proved himself as worthy of the respon.
sibility as his Drunkenness Bob Stewart.
Asyour readers know, St. Louis city and Coun.
~. is, notwithstanding some statute laws de facto
free soil, yet the rebels have not given up hopes
or efforts of carrying even ST. Louis out of the
Union either by fraud or force. The first has
failed; and although some of their braves when
rendered very valiant by reason of strong drink
boast Of having in their sc,ret organizations
eight thousand men we'll armed and drilled in
the city and suburbs of st. Louis; while the
friends of the Union have not a single orsaniza.
ton, except such as use for their weapons the
tongue, the pen and the press. We firmly believe
the second riH fail also, for The destinies Of ST.
Louis and Illinois ore iasspardble.
The defeat of their attempted fraud deserves a
historian. The dodge played was the old one OF
"divide and conquer" and the programme was
to call mass Union saving meetings, from which
all black Republicans were to be excluded; then
some high pressure, trebly galvanized, eulogiums
upon the Union and Constitution were to be
passed, to be followed by some cunningly devised
resolutions of action. 10y which the secessionist
Delilahs were to deliver their Union saving
dapes into the hands Of the Philis,ines of South
Carolina; but alas,
The best laid schemes Of mice and mel,
on gang gley.'
several of the city papers tore the bait of the
hook. aud the minnows wouldn't hise. Since
then the contemplate swindie has been so we'll
ventilated that out OF all the long iist of Judges
and Generals, and Esqrs.. vho talked and
moved and seconded, in the reports of the
friendly papers which chronicIed the meeting,
scarcely one can be found who does not deny
that he was present, or in any way countenanced
he thing. Al.
~ Don'i fail 70 so and hear Prof. I. 3. Hun
! ter 70 night. Who lectures on Phreno'ogy