The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-05-03
Are we Ready.

ly read the Louisville Journal, for week or
two past, cannot fail to have had their most
serious apprehensions aroused. 1t is clear
" evident, from the Journal and other
sources, that the secessionists of Kentucky
are connecting some scheme of damnable
villainywhich is as yet kept in the dark. The
Journal seems to be ignorant of its nature,
but imagines that it is to be an attack on
Cairo. We quote from the Journal of We'd
nesday:
We learn from a variety of sources that
the secessionists in this State are not only
chucklng a good deal in secret, but openly
throwing out something more than insinua-
tions, that within a UeTy few days, some
thing startling will occur, calculated to
kindle a fame of revolution throughout the
State. If anybody can tell us definitely
what it is that is on foot, we viii thank
him for the information. Some think that
leading Union men are to be attacked and
slain, and this idea is cOuntenanced by
many hundreds of anonymous letters, part
of them filled with warnings and the rest
with threatenings but the more general
Impression Is that a conspiracy IS on foot for
getting up bloody collision somewhere upon
the TiUer.
We have no desire to needlessly alarm
our people, but we are convinced they
should be fully aroused to their exposed con-
dition. The constant presence of danger is
apt to create disregard of it, and our citi-
zens have become so familiar with the fact
that they are on the border and liable
to be attacked at any time that they
seem to grow Indifferent and careless
This indifference is manifested in the
various military organizations of our
city at the hours set apart for drill and in
struction in the manual of arms. If the
Louisville Journal is convinced "that a
conspiracy is on foot for getting upa bloody
collision somewhere upon the river" ought
we TO disregard every warning?
The secessionists of the border slave
states are proceeding precisely after the ex-
ample set them by their co-conspirators fur
Their South. First to bring about a collision
between their States and the General Gov
eminent, and then to pass an ordinance of
secession during the excitement occasioned
by the execution Of their preconcerted viii
famous designs. Every indication in Ken
lucky teaches US that deep game is being
played and that the Governor of that State
is party to intended crime. More per-
fdious than Arnold, he opens correspond
ence with Governors Morton and Dennison
with the view of throwing them off their
guard, appoints meeting at Cincinnati for
the purpose of consulting with them as TO
the best course to be pursued by their re-
spective States which he fails to attend, and
at the same time is in the confidence
of and in regular correspondence with, the
traitorous spoilsmen at Montgomery. He
goes farther than this. The same paper
from which we have already quoted in
forms US that, at meeting held in New
Orleans on Friday last, to welcome the Da-
Wis Guards, who went from Louisville to
fight for the Southern Confederacy, one DR..
Blackburn, a well-known and native-born
Kentuckian, made use of the following lam
guage:
He was an accredited representative of
Kentucky, to lay before the people of the
South the exact state of affairs in that State ;
governed 1er
in the course she had pursued as a Border
State. He was proud to state that Ken
lucky had now shaken off the mauacles
with which she had been fettered by those
who did not reflect the true feelings of her
people, and she is now, in heart, as she agiU in
a. fer days be az act, shoulder to shoulder
with her sister States in the Southern Con-
federacy.
He gave a glowing account of the cause
of the South throughout the State, and as
sured the meeting that the South, West, and
Middle Kentucky were a unit in regard to
the great question of Southern honor and
Southern independence. He appealed for
arms for the use of Kentucky. Then mere
a0iL5ing and ready for the fray, and though
abundantly able to purchase them, no op-
portunty had offered for their purchase.
Mississippi had nobly responded to their
appeal, and he was confident that the call
for arms which he intended to make upon
the Mayor of New Orleans and citizens of
Louisiana would meet with the same re-
Spouse. That if they had the arms to fur
nish the kentuckians, not one of the 10000
troops it is supposed Lincoln intends to
start from the mouth of the Ohio would
ever get as far as Memphis
Here we have an individual, whose We
racity the Journal endorses, speaking as an
accredited representative of Kentucky and
appealing to- Louisiana for arms, and stating
that Mississippi had already responded lib
orally in supplying the necessities of Ken
tucky in this respect. When such glaring
daplicity is made manifest on the part of
high officials in our sister commonwealth
ought we to hesitate in putting the worst
possible construction on their intentions
Let our citizens take map and glance
their eyes along the Ohio river. Where
could gang of Daviss marauders do so
much damage, with so little risk, as bv
making a foray on our city2 We cannot
depend on the Union men of Kentucky for
even fair warning of a contemplated raid.
1t may be urged that in thus making known
our weakness we invite attack We do not
80 regard if To ba Fcro -