The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-07


at the hazard OF all that IS
dear, in repelIing an invading foe, Il IS not
beLeved. that this solemn obligation imposes
silence, wpon their just complaints dgosrtSt the
autk-rs of The national misfort:a1es. 1t is
on the contrary, sacred duty, to hold up |
to view on all occasions the destructive pol
lev. by which state of unparalleled ma
tional felicity has been converted into one
of humiliation aud danger, believing, that, |
unless an almost ruined people will discard |
the men and change the measures which have |
induced this state of peril and suffering,
the day of their political salvation is past."f
Now let us see how similar this quota
ton is in spirit with that of the Democratic
resolutions passed at the Convention on the
Both ult. Resolution No. declares that
the rebellion now in arms must be sup
pressed and put down, but "they are unal-
terably opposed to war of conquest or
subjugation, and they will never consent
that the war on their part shall be waged
for the purpose of interfering with the
rights or overthrowiug the established in
stiutions of any of the States"
Then follows the fifth resolution, which
arraigus the Administration on series Of
charges:
5. That we protest, in the name of our
selves and of our children, and in the
name of all that we hold dear in the future
of our beloved country, against the mis-
chievous measures of negro emancipation in
the District of Columbia, and the payment
for such negroes out of the National Treasu-
ry; and we further protest against the reso-
luton of Congress pledgng the nation to
pay for all negroes which may be ernanci-
pated by the authority of any Of the South
ern States; that we regret such measures,
involving as they do, an expenditure of two
thousand FIVE hundred millions of dollars,
as measures of transcendant enormity, and
fruitful only Of the National beggary to the
land we love; that We are unalterably and
Internationally opposed to all schemes hav-
ing for their object immediate or remote,
the taxation of the white man for the pur-
chase of negroes anywhere; that we deny
the Constitutional right of the President or
Congress to adopt a policy which taxes
white labor to pay for negroes, or which
would make the Government or people slave
dealers; policy which. if not arrested by
the votes of the people, will entail upon the
unborn generations of our kindred debt
more overwhelming and appalling than
ever cursed any nation of ancient or modern
| times.
Again we quote from the federalists of
| Massachusetts,:
+" 1t was never doubted by these persons,
that a war with Great Britain would be ac-
companied by at extinction of commerce
by the Punishment of our sailors the DESC
lation of cur coast, the blockade and inva-
sion of our sea-ports, the failure of national
credit; the necessity of oppressive taxes
and the contamination of national ruin by
an alliance with the late despot of Europe,
from which greatest of all calamities we
have been preserved only by his fall. OF
all these evils, were our rulers forewarned
by Massachusetts, whose vital interests were
thus put in jeopardy; and they were i'm
plored by every consideration of policy and
humanity, to stay their hands from the
cruel and wanton sacrifice of the interests
of those who asked from them nothing but
the privilege OF pursuing their own indus
trious callings. But government deaf to
this voice, and listening to men distinguish
ed in their native State only by their dis
loyalty to its interests, and the epjoymen
of patronage bestowed upon them as its
price, have affected to consider the patriotic
citizans of this great State as tanned with
disaffection to the Union and with prediIec-
ton for Great Britain, and have layished
the public treasury in vain attempts to fix
by evidence this odious imputalion."
Now listen to Richardson of Illinois, as
he declaims against the Administration:
Around every Preside were contentment,
happiness and plenty. But what is the
scene that meets our eyes at the present
time? From every vocation in life the SOL
der is burryiug to arms From the plow
and from the auvil-from the physicians
office and from the halls of justice-we are
hurryiug to arms. n {. al
The Union has assumed the appearance
of one vast military camp. The tax-gath-
erer, too, will soon be upon US, to wiring
from US our substance. There are grave
and important questions tor US to decide.
= g g
Let us inquire a little into the past his
tory of these men, and see whether they
deserve to be trusted for the future You
remember that few years ago we warned
the people that the formation Of sectional
parties was dangerous to the Union and the
Constitution. You will recollect that these
men then sneeringly said to us that we
were "Oonstitution and Union savers.n
They told you then that all our talk about
| danger to the Union and the Constitution
was the merest braggadocio. They asserted
that there was no danger of the South Sc
cedng-Ghat you could not get them out of
the Union--their slaves would up and MUIR
der them. Well, we did not find that ex-
actly the case, did we? These men cheated
You then, didn't they 2 Some of them
cheated themselves Others, and by far the
largest portion of the party did not, al
| fhnnph they cheated vnn III.