The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-01-23

ingmen of this city on the evening OF the
18th, and makes the following remarks in
connection Herewith: ..-.--
The Evansville Journal, Black Repub-
lican print, IS not at all pleased with the
spirit of these resolutions, as might nave
been anticipated. They are entirely TOO
conciliatory for its ferocious and bloodthlrSty
editor The Journal Furthermore says
that this meeting " was managed oy ser
of political wire-workers, operating behind /
the scenes through honest and unsuspect-
ing men, who started out to do right, ana
intended nothing but what was right all the
way through, but unfortunately allowed |
political demagogues to NEEDLE where they !
had no business Now, the truth OF the
matter is, as we are assured by reliable cor
respondent that the movement was actual
" initiated by two z0eLJ-nasd7liRg RePuoAcdnS
who explained their object to few other
workingmen, of both Bell and Douglas poll
tics, and induced them to join IN the DEM
onstrntion. These formed themselves INTO
a committee of arrangements ana carrleu
the affair into execution without any out
side or caucus intervention whatever we
deem this explanation due to the bone and
sinew of Evansville, who have been sname-
fully misrepresented by local paper
The reliable correspondent of the En-
uuirer is doubtless one of the individuals
who made himself so busy in eaueu'
the night previous to the meeting, and
of course is very reliable in telling his
own story. No matter what the En-
ouirer and its correspondent may say
tits susceptible of proof, that one of the
pripcipaI actors in the effort to mould the
sentiments of the meeting according to the
notions of the Court House managers when
charged with being privy to caucus to
get up resolutions for the meeting, reloined
by saying he guessed there was more than
one caucus-thus admitting that there 90as
caucus of Democrats and pro-slavery Bell
men. The charge that the Republicans in
tended to interfere, and had held q caucus
to prepare for doing so, was of course not
true but the charge was made, neverthe-
less, and used to justify the Democratic and
Bell caucus which had so much to do in an
undetermined manner to-mould the proceed
ipgs of the meeting.
The authoritative style in which the
" MISREPRESENTATION of 'local paper, on
the authority of letter from an interested
partizan, is ridiculous. As if the local
paper" with all its sources of information,
were not in better position to tell cor
rect story than paper long distance off
In this connection we notice communi-
cation of Mr.. c.. ". Mcbride of this city to
the Louisville Journal, accompanying the
proceedings Of the meeting sent for inser-
ton in the Journal. We omit the prelimi-
nary remarks of Mr. Mcbride for want of
room, but give the latter half Of the COM
munication -.
There seems to me to be but one class of
men opposed to the settlement of this cues
ton: namely, the Republican members of
Congress, who are now without party in
their respective districts. Surely the Re
publican party should be the last party to
oppose the restoration of the Missouri COM
promise The Journal of our city only a
few DAYS ago told its readers that the des-
truction of that sacred compact was the
cause of the organization known as the Re
publican party. We all know that the res
toration of the Missouri compromise was
the rallying cry of the Republican party for
several years after its demolition. Now,
when all parties are ready and willing to
restore that compact with tenfoid securlty
AGAINST its destruction by incorporating it
in the Constitution itself, the leaders of this
party persistently refuse to vote for its res
toration, they knowing as they must do
that it is the only means that will restore
peace and tranquility to our distracted
country. The Journal, of our city, also bit
terlv complains that no resolutions were
passed eondemning the South-none asking
the Government to enforce the laws at
all bazards-none calling upon the Gov
erument to support Major Anderson in bis
perilous situation. Now the Journal and
his party can do all this without the she'd
ding of one drop of innocent blood, and
now he and bis party have it in their power
to avert the calamities incident to a civil
war BY simply following the admonition OF
Senator Crittenden, in his speech of the
7th inst, in which he says that the estab-
lishment of line dividing the territories
was not SO much a compromise as a fair
adjustment of the rights of the States He
asked if statesmen and Senators had rather
encounter civil war, with all its horrors,
than make a fair compromise and recognize
the existence of slavery in a territory till II
becomes a State? Mr. Critten1en told the
Republican Senators in that speech that bis
compromise would put an end TO all feVo-
luton. Lot Cone,raaa Erst mako q fair nd
justment Of this question, giving to each
and every section of our common country
its full guarantees under the Constitution,
and not till then let Us talk about coercion
and civil war. The workingmen every
where must rise up in their might and de-
mand of their servants q settlement of the
question upon just and honorable terms
alike to all sections of our country
Mr.. Mcbride proceeds to make his argu-
ment upon the assumption that the Critten-
den Proposition is identical with the Missou'
ri Compromise. Such was the Impression
when the first intelligence of the PROPOSE
ton was sent over the country, but the OF
fetal publication showed that there was E
radical difference in the two measures
While the Missouri Compromise declared
that all territories north of $50 3O/ (tht