The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-01


flict at Washington, and declare that " ar
gument is exhausted 1t does seem to me
that the present attitude of the North is
that of digni6ed consistency, and certainly
of praiseworthy forbearance towards the
South. Why, do you justify the vio-
lence of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi in seizing government prop
erty, and the act of fell treason and war of
the former in firing into government ves-
sell? If you do, why do you not at once
initiate their example ? But you do not
Justify their course. You say they have act
ed with precipitation, and that you are for
preserving the Union. Well, if goa cannot
sanction what they have done, do not the
Northern States show great magnanimity,
that they do not resent these wanton out
RACES to our government and to the honor
of our national flag?
We fire up in great Indignation and our
sapient Legislature passes death breathing
resolutions, because, after an aggressive act
of war by SouthernsState, and after ex-
tensiye arming preparations in the South,
some of the Northern States see proper to
tender aid to the general government
Have they not excelled US in a spirit of pa
tience under great provocatiOn, such as they
would never have submitted to from the
most powerful foreign nation on the globe 2
Do we approach them on the subject of COM
promise in a spirit of conciliation g? No; !;
with arms in our hands, we demand their
humiliation, and by all the sacred memories
Of Bunker Hill, Lexington, Trenton, and
Concord, neither the South nor any other
power on earth can achieve their humilia.
ton. They are our equals, and it is my
pride to say that we are theirs We are
one people, all Americans, and no such
words as humiliation, subjugation, submits
sion, or cowardice, can be found in the vo-
cabulary o. our family traits. [ want no
humiliation. | want q fair and honorable ad-
justment, without leaving any ranking
sense of shame and degradation.
Can we get it? l say we can. Already
have the Governors of many of the princi-
pal Northern States recommended the re-
peal of all offensive laws on their statute
books, and addressed words of friendship to
the South. Some of them have recommend
ed the adoption of Mr.. Crittendens resolu-
tOns. Mr.. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, votes
for these resolutions, and his colleague, Mr.
Cameron declares that whenever the South
manifests a sincere desire for accommoda-
ton he will meet her upon terms of equal
Cancellation. Messrs. Trumbull and Harlan
and Sherman have met the occasion so far
as to propose the admission, at once, of the
whole Of New Mexico as a slave State-all
the Southern territory we own between the
States and California. Mr. Armstrong has
recently made a great and conciliatory
speech from the Republican side. Mr.. Trum-
bull, who spoke by authority for Mr.. Lin
coin, said at Springfield, Illinois, that " Mr..
Lincoln, though the candidate of the Re
publican party, as Chief Magistrate will
neither belong to that nor any other party.
When inaugurated he will be President of
the whole country, and will be as ready to
defend and protect the State in which he
has not received a solitary vote, against any
encroachment upon its constitutional rights
az the one in which he has received the
largest majority.
The Republican party are fortunate that
they have it now in their power to prove
that they "never intended, and do not in
tend, any encroachment upon the right of
any State or any section" Mr.. Lincoln
himself, about the same time, in responding
to a call from an immense crowd, said, " in
our rejoicing let us not express nor cherish
any harsh feelings towards any citizen who,
by his vote, has differed with us. Let US,
at all times remember that all American
citizens are brothers of a common country,
and should dwell together in the bonds of
fraternal feeling" At a recent interview,
so states q correspondent of the st, Louis
Democrat, when asked if he thought the
Missouri Compromise line ought to be re-
stored, MIR. Lincoln replied, " although the
recent presidential election was verdict of
the people in favor of freedom in all the
territories, yet, personally he would be
willing for the sake of the Union to divide
the territory we now own, if, in the
Judgment of the nation, it would save
the Union and restore harmony"
Mr.. Seward the premier of the incoming
Administration, in his late great
speech, declared, " Republcanism is
subordinate 10 the Union, and it ought to
disappear in the presence of the great ques-
ton of Union. So far as l am concerned,
it shall be So This speech is character
lied throughout, in the estimation of can
did minds with q tone of Cin his own Ian
guage( the utmost moderation, forbear-
ance, and Cancellation" Horace Greeley,
commenting on it, says, Governor Sew
ard indicates purpose to push concession
to the utmost verge" and, as if catching
a kindlier spirit from that speech, though
heretofore utterly incorporating in his SEN
timents says were any evidence given by
the secessionists that they could be placated
by moderate and reasonable concessions, we
should be willing to see them met in a spirit
at least equally conciliatOry." Now take all
this in connection with the many large and
/ Northern States, and the fact that we have
/ 500, 600 of voting friends in the North, and
1 large accessions to that number daily, and
| theinnate love ofthe Union that animates all
good men of the country, and what need
have we for precipitate action; why Indulge
in rancorou5 bitterness and hurl anathema5
and invectives at men who necessarily have
to feel their way and approach us, the in
censed party, with caution? Such spirit
! on our part inevitably repes, and postponeS
the hour OF reconciliation. | am sure from
the moderated tone of the Northern press
and from every received principle of COM
mon sense, that the Republican party desire
peace whenever it can be had without max.
ing them assume the position Ofa vanquish
ed party We make our demands upon
them as if the Union were boon, that il
infinite charity, we were willing to allow
to them, and that they were the only party
to derive anv rood from it. | am not sur