The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-26
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TUESDAY mDkk1 II MN 70
Rsls~ If any confidence is to be placed in
the telegraphic dispatches which we publish
this morning, another military necessity"
is likely to occur soon at Fort Pickens.-
We are informed that the feet cannot reach
the fort and furnish supplies that the
stock of provisions on hand is nearly ex-
ha1sted that General Bragg has forbidden
the people in the vicinity of Pensacola to
furnish provisions to the besieged, under
penalty of coniscating their goods-wbile
he is diligently strengthening the batteries
which control the entrance to the harbor
thereby cutting off Lieut.. Slemmer's COM
munication with the sea.
In the meantime the intentions of the
Administration are kept most profoundly in
the dark. Every flying rumor from head
quarters but makes confusion worse con-
founded" The suspense of the people has
become so intense as to be almost unendur-
able. 1t has been repeatedly asserted that
Fort Pickens was in a condition to be rein
forced and made impregnable to all assaults
upon it by the Southern ConfederacY. We
think we can assert very positively that the
people in this section expect the gogernn1ent
to hold that Fort, as well as the Others which
were in its possession at the time Mr.. Lin
coin delivered his inaugural Fort Sumter
wasvirtuaIly in the hands ofthe Secessionists
when Mr. Lincoln took his seat. In evac-
uating that stronghold the Administration
is endorsed by the people, because they are
convinced that it can not be held, owing
to the course pursued by Mr.. Buchanan
They have been told that no such necessity
exists for giving up Fort Pickens, and they
will not smother their Indignation should
the Secessionists get possession of that
fortress without blow being struck.
individuals may submit to insults and
even blows and yet be admired for their
christian fortitude and forbearance. But
not so with governments. Sensitiveness
and pride are the very blood that pro-
longs their existence, and when they cease
to resent insults promptly and with all the
power they are capable of welding, they
very soon cease to be governments at ALL
They become degraded in the eyes of ma
tons abroad and prey to miserable fac
tons at home.
We see little use in crying peace, peace,
when there is no peace. The seeding
States are prosecuting as vigorous a war
againstus no was though hostilities had been
actually declared by the Montgomery Con-
gress. Every shovel-full of dirt thrown up
on the earthworks surrounding Sumter and
Piekens, was as much an act of war as
though cannon balls had been fred at those
brti6catioys. Peace is very desirable and
: valuable, bQta peace purchased by sacri-
Reingfhe inegYity of the government, would
he very cSstly and of short duration. That
BE permanency of our present form of gov
ernment would be greatly endangered by
tamely surrendering all the Notifications
within the limits of the seeding states and
abandoning its rightto collect the duties on
imports within their jurisdiction, requires
but little sagacity to perceive and very lit
tie effort to prove. If no resistance is made
to the movements of the seceders, the gov
erument to ali intents and purposes, &C
knowledges the right of secession, and con-
cedcs precedent that will ultimately work
its complete decentralization and destruc-
ton.