The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-04

: host of others in the South were concoc
e ing the means by which their infamous pui
r peses were to be accomplished. And whe
a at length these combined influences succeed
ed ia South Carolina, you might have hear
r Mr.. Wright and the Governor of that Stat
: addressing the public, and offsring q
: thanksgiving to God, but more especially t
the Abolitionists of the North, "who,p sal
they, shave enabled us to do what we hav
been trying to do for more than thirt,
years."
Hence, | say, you have two enemies 4
conquer. First, the rebellion. II must b,
put down; aud secondly, put down the Alb
olitionists of the North. care not by whs
name they may be ca led. The leopard i.
no less leopard il you call him bear. In
! the last Congress of the United States, eve.
ry effort that could be was made to make
the negro not only free, but even better
than the white man. They can 90 into the
army without the countersigu or a pass, but
we poor white men dare not attempt it. The
negroes see the change that has taken place,
end say that they have now the advantage
for the first time in their lives.
Fellow-citizens, let me really tell YOU
what did cause this revolution. II was the
contest for power. The South wanted a
Government for herself separate from the
Eas'. The East wanted government sep
arate from The negro, for this they we're
willing TO jeopardize the Constitution and
the Union aud the lives of thousands uDop
thousands of their felow-citizeus. IL would
be no hard job for the conservative Union
men of this nation TO have CONQUERED This
rebellion If twenty millions Of lreemeu
can not put down an armed rebellion of
eight millions without invoking the ne
groes and arming them, ] say get out of the
tcdy, ana we conservative men-Democrats.
Republicans and old Whigs-will do it.
came not here to defend slavery. 1t is
an expensive article 10 me, can assure yor.
| have been prscticing law now, for nearly
nifty years, and most of that time nearly all
that ! have made has gone upon the backs
and into the bellies OF my negroes.
Bat this institution existed in all the
States before the Union commenced, and all
but one when the Constitution was framed:
and Notwithstanding this fact you might
hear this man Lovejoy, preaching that the
Constitution recognizes the negro as the
equal of the white man, and that the decla-
ration therein contained that all men are
can as well as the Caucasian race. Why.
sire, look at the history of your country
and the deeds of your forefathers. When
they dared oppose the power of Great Bri-
tain, and poured out their blood like water,
what were they contending for2 For ne
gro equality? Mol No The liberty of the
negrof No! 1t was the right of repre-
sentation in the Parliament of Great Bri- |
tain, and the principle of no taxation with
out such representation. That and none
other was the cause which they struggled.
They declared I" all men were born free
and equal" la that declaration they set
up doctrine directly contrary to the doc |
triHes and the practices OF every despot in |
Europe; TO all that kings and potentates |
practiced uDon. They helisyaa ..,.s .,.sy
ernment upon American soil, II was TO be |
a freedom and Government for the white
man, and not for the negro. Why, sir, II
they intended to include the negro in that |
declaration, if they intended that the negro |
should stand shoulder to shoulder with the
white man at the ballot box, they were the
greatest set of fools in the world thst they
did not say SO. Why did not they then de-
clare that the slaves In Massachusetts,, and
in Virginia and Maryland, and in New
York, free, if they believed that they were
so created Did they do so2 Not one
word of it. 1t was the white man who
was their equal, and who then engaged
their attention, and for whose welfare they
were concerned.
But now the thing is changed. The ne
gro now engages the thoughts OF these
righteous men, and they are ready to sac
rilice the Government if they can not tree
the negro, and turn four millions OF blacks
loose upon the country. en. - f -t
Away with such talk. When you hear
Lovejoy preaching such doctrine, tell him
to 90 and preach it TO the negro, and let
white men alone.
call upon all who have wBt,te1 the
course of these men to say for which they
have shown, by their acts and by their
votes in Congress, the greatest anxiety, the
Constitution or the negro 2 A. %
Let me say few words in regard to our
friend, Mr.. Chase. He is our bunker, you
know. When our army had invaded the
| Southern States, and captured a few inlets
and islands along the coast, Mr.. Chase, not
having enough to do, took tinto his head
to commence raising cotton at the pubic
expense, and to supply the whole country
with the staple in that way. lie employed
some forty -oue agents to assist him IN nis
lenterprise; and among these agents was
one man from the State of Ohio by the
: name of Pierce, or Prce / think 1t was,
and | recolect seeing report made oy the
man to Secretary Chase.
Gen. Hunter, the commandant OF our
f forces, conceived the grand idea, contrary
} to law, and contrary to the feelings ofevery
, honest man in the country, of arming anc
8 drilling the negroes for service against theiI
. masters. He issued proclamation declar
4 ing all the negroes free. He set himself u
: work to raise regiment of "loyal citi
/ zens." as he termed the blacks. he drum
: med about for considerable time, and 60
t t,centv-fue! In the next place, Gnding tia
e that would not do, he sent soldiers out
Y Chase's cotton plantation, to raise negro re
o cruits by force. So the soldiers came ou
! and hunted the negroes down. They drov
e them out of the houses and from under tn
o beds. and from every secret hiding plac
- where they had taken refuge, saying, wit
', tears in their eye-Would that orr old MAJ
G. ters would come back. Our masters nevt
,r treated US so badly as that.
IL They were uniformed with white trov
e. sers and striped jackets-and Hunter raise
his regiment, but Chase's cotton plautatio
in was broken up.
be Now, sirs, if you white men OF the 10y
States are not able to maintain the autno
a a. of the Government and restore the Vi