The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-01-25
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The Contrast.
EVANSVILLE,

and is confirmed more and more every day |
by actions, which speak louder than words.
1t can be shown by mention of familiar
incidents that much greater degree of re- |
spect exists in the minds of Northern people |
for the rights of the South than manifests
itself in the South for the rights of our sec
ton.
To say nothing of the violation of sacred
compromises and compacts by the South,
let US recall to mind few familiar iu-
cidents.
In yesterdays dispatches occurred the fol-
lowing words, dated at Cleveland o.: " In
the case of the fugitive girl, Lucy, the de-
Tense was withdrawn to-day and she viii
return to Virginia tomorrow. Here is an
instance where a slave escaped and fed to n
city in the very heart of the most extreme
anti-slavery region in the Union-only
about thirty-fye miles from the famous
Oberlin, where, everybody knows, 1" a white
man is as good as niger if he only be-
HAYES himself" This bond-woman is ar
rested, and after an examination of the
claim of her master, is given up to be
taken back into slavery. Had the mass
of the people not been determined to
do justice to the South, the woman would
never have seen Virginia again, for it would
have been easy to release her and take
her to Canada-some fifty miles across Lake
Erie.
How is the law against the Slave Trade
carried out in the Gulf States Very rare
ly has seizure been made, and when made
the guilty parties have been allowed to es-
cape and bid defiance to the laws.
When John Brown, with a few crazy fol-
lowers, invaded Virginia, his conduct was
denounced throughout the whole North, and
the general verdict was that he suffered
death justly.
Mississippi, because she happens to be To-
Gated on the Mississippi river, imagines that
she owns it, and, regardless of the rights of
the citizens of other States, she establishes
the mouth of the cannon, to "hail and ques-
ton passing steamboats," to the serious det-
riment of the interests of the Northwest.
A couple of weeks since the traitorous
Secretary of War, Floyd, gave orders to re-
move a large number of cannon from Allie
ghany arsenal to the South for the use OF
the Secessionists under the pretense that
he wanted them to mount IL two fortihca-
tions-one in Louisiana, the other in Texas
which Notifications were scarcely begun,
much less ready for their armament. The
citizens heard of the contemplated removal
they knew the real design of the abstrac-
ton of the artillery, the use it was to be
put to, and the deception used in the mat
ter: The Republican majority in the coun-
ty was near 10000. The removal of the
cannon might have been easily prevented
but, after the first burst of justifable indig-
nation was over, peaceful councils prevail
ed, the citizens withdrew their opposition,
and the Government found no obstruction
to the removal. Law and order prevailed
During the last campaign Southern ora
tors-real secession, disunion fellows, reek-
ing in treason-of whom Yancey was a
type-perambulated the North preaching
their odious doctrines with impunity. They
were never so much as insulted, but were
treated respectfully. Southern prints open
" publishing treason, were scattered broad
cast over the North. No opposition was
made to all this, for we live in a section
where free discussion has the widest scope
How is it on the other side? Suppose the
most moderate Republican orator had gone
any distance into the slave states-fOr in
stance into Tennessee, Mississippi Arkan-
sas, or Alabama. He would have been hung
to the nearest tree till he was dead. How
was it with the stray Republican papers that
may have found their way down South
They were promptly burned.
Southern men can come North and talk
as they please on all subjects. There is nj
restraint on free speech. Can Northern men
go South and say what they think? Not il
they value their lives.
We adduce these examples to show how
little reciprocity there is in the good viii
for the South existing in the North as illus
trated by such occurrences as the above.
How THE PROPER WAS RECEIyED.-The