The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-29

enG and the tQLOTe. II loi apPalSH'J1 .
calm and dispassionate review Of the seces-
sion revolution, from the adoption of the or
dinance Of secession by South Carolina in
December last, to the present moment. Also
a cursory glance at the present position OF
public affairs, and recommendation as TO
the course the Administration should pursue
in the future The whole is clothed in the
identified diction for which the Intelligencer
is so highly esteemed.
In glancing over the past, the venerable
editor repeats, in a condensed form, the
opinions urged by him, as to the policy that
ought to have been adopted at the different
stages of the revolution, and which-with
a pardonable vanity--he still insists were
the wisest that could have been taken
However beneficial the course recommend
ed by the Intelligencer might have been, it
is very certain the government did not see
proper to pursue it. Whether the present
condition of affairs has been brought about
by failure to follow the advice of that pa
per we are not prepared to affirm or deny.
that for long series of years the dismem-
berment of our government has been the
life-obiect of many of the most intelligent
and influential Southern citizens that all
the powers of their cultivated minds were
enlisted in matchmaking the masses of the
people with their ideas; that every preju-
dice was played upon in the most skillful
manner, until the entire Southern mind
was so wrought upon as to lose all self-con-
troll and placed as completely under the will
of these same Ieaders-as are good subjects
in the hand of expert magnetizers; when
all these facts are carefully reflected upon
we have the true significance of the South
ern Revolution. The movement originated
by South Carolina did not have its origin
in any sense of wrongs calling for redress"
This her leading spirits frankly avow. Ey-
cry attempt made to settle existing troubles,
from this stand point has been a miserable
failure All efforts at reconstruction the
Secessionists derisively boot at. This fact
may as well be accepted first as last. The
border Slave States may hold Conventions
and spend money as they choose, with a
view to peaceful reconstruction. Their
efforts will prove fruitless. By clinging to
their anarchicaI ideas concerning the en-
forcement of the laws and repudiating their
execution as coercion"-they may cramp
and distract the General Government so
that it will act hesitatingly and timidly :;
but they will fail to secure the insertion of
any acknowledgement of the right of prop
erty in slaves in our Constitution, or to
bring back the Seeded States to their origi-
nal position in the Union. The Intelligen-
Ger admits that the revolution has very
nearly eliminated in complete success.
The main point to look at now, is what
is best to be done? The Intelligencer re-
commends that the Government abandon
forts Sumter and Pickens forsake all at
tempts to collect the revenue make no eff
fort 10 recover any of the public property
stolen by the conspirators; and trust to the
returning good sense of the Southern peo-
pie to restore harmony. If the Southern
States are determined on forming a separ-
ate government, the Intelligencer thinks
that a general Convention of the States still
remaining loyal to the Union should bt
called, which might acknowledge the indie
pendence of the Southern Confederacy anG
re- construct our own government. The In
telligencer assumes-what it makes no at
tempt to prove-that peace will in this way
u i a. -
OF the case as either polite or practicable
because the people will not tolerate it, They
will not consent that this great government
which they have been taught to believe ha
no equal, shall sink into third or fourtl
rate power among the nations of the earth
If the SecessiOnists are permitted to accom-
plish their designs without opposition
"Ichabod," may as well be inscribed upo1
the walls of our Capitol at Washington a
once. The government has the power Il
preserve its integrity. 1t ought to-
must-exercise it. The provisions of th,
Constitution and the laws of the land mus
be carried out. We have never yet wit
messed the cure of propensity to steal, by
giving it license. The revolutionary dis
position Of people is not held in restrain
by proclaiming in advance that they may
exercise it with IMMUNITY.
The axiom-often quoted by Secession
ists-that this government rests on the con
sent of the governed, is true. But it doe
not follow that every person, neighborhood
or State, that becomes FESTIVE under tn
operation of some of its details have RICH
to rebel and set up for themselves. 1t rest
on the consent of the governed but it as
sumes that majority shall designate how
the government shall be administered.
If the object of the conspirators VIII,
have brought the country to its present IN
pleasant position, was the formation of
Southern Confederacy alone, they would
consent to a National Convention 90 the,
might change the Constitution in accord
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