The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-09
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EVANSVILLE, IND.
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Our National Troubles.

Our National Troubles.
President Lincoln has been duly inaugu-
rated, and has delivered his Inaugural Ad-
dress and formed his Cabinet. The Address
has been spread before the people and has
elected various expressions from them ac-
cording to their peculiar predictions. On
the whole, the opinion of the Address is
favorable, showing thatthe people generally
are for the Union first, last, and all the
time. The perfect unity which exists
amongst the members of Mr.. Lincoln's par
ty in relation to the course he has marked
out in his Address is a very hopeful sign
1t shows that he is sure of united party at
his back to sustain him. Then, the support
of the policy he foreshadows, by Andrew
johnson of Tennessee, Douglas (if we may
believe the reports), and many other intu-
entail political opponents, shows that the
President has struck a cord in the popular
breast which vibrates in such a manner as
to bring forth d" the music of the Union"
But while the sentiments of the President
accord with the feelings Of the people gen.
orally of the North, of all parties, and meet
with an approving response in the secret
souls of the Union men of the South, we
must confess that there come up from the
perturbed South sounds which resemble the
ominous tones of distant thunder. There
seems to be a general feeling in the Slave
States that the address means acar, and the
people there appear to be taking steps to act
on that supposition.
There will be, especially in the border slave
states, terribly severe struggle between
the Unionists and Disunionists, on the ques-
ton SIS to whether secession shall take place
in any event Some of the resolutions in
troduce1 into the Missouri Convention, as
published lately by US, will serve to show
the feeling amongst the noble unconditional
Union men of the Slave States. On the
other hand sentiments such as are daily ut
tered by the Louisville Courier "a specimen
of which we copied on the 7th) will con-
vince all that there is a large and powerful
party in the border Slave States which is de-
termined to drag them out of the Union,
and will make use of Mr.. Lincoln's manly
and determined inaugural to effect their
purposed. Such political quarrel as will
take place soon in North Carolina, Tennes-
see, Maryland and Delaware on the vital
question as to whether those states shall go
out or stay in the Union, has never been
known in the history of the Union. The
bitter feelings between patriots and tories of
the Revolution will give some idea of the
Vindictiveness of the strife. The question,
in it's effects on the prosperity of the Slave
States and their people, will be almost a
matter of life and death, and the people
Immediately interested will act accordingly.
We may all well feel great solicitudo to
know where this trouble is to end. It is q
subject fraught with the most important in
terests of mankind. 1t may be that one of
those great revolutions that form eras in
history is being acted out in this country,
and that we are all to be actors therein.
1t seems that the irrepressibIe conflict
that Lincoln and Seward said existed (giv-
ing this as their mere opinion of a fact), is
upon us. If so, it has been through no fault
of the friends of free labor in the North
Their action has been orderly, regular, and
constitutional. They are but taking pos
session of those privileges which they have
fairly won. Who shall deny them this
right? Those persons who do so mus
stand the consequences. Lincoln will bu
execute the laws made by his political enc
mics. All who violate the laws will suffer
the penalty. No others will be molested.
1t is not " coercion" to enforce the laws.