The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-12-03

he support of the Government and the
restoration OF peace.
Even if the Legislature of the Border
States should not initiate such a policy, |
the loyal men of these States will &C.
cept it.
Such measure does not involve ex-
pense in conveying the liberated negro
to other countries. 1t has hitherto, in
deed, been the usual policy in Slave
States to discourage, as dangerous, the
residence there of free blacks; and
hence an idea that colonization shouldbe
the concomitant of emancipation. Of
general emancipation, there is no need
whatever that it should be. Those who
take up such an idea forget that the jeal-
ousy with which shareholders regard the
presence of free negroes springs out of
the dread that these may infect with
desire for freedom of the slaves around
them, thus rendering them insubordi-
nate. But when all are free there will
be no slaves to incite, nor any chains to
be broken by resort to instruction.
1t is no business of ours either to de-
eide, for the liberated negro, where he
shall dwell, or to furnish his travelling
expenses Freemen, black or white,
should select their own dwelling place
and pay their own way.
AS to the fears of competition in labor
sought to be excited in the minds of the
Northern working man, they have found
alton only in case emancipation be re-
fused: for such refusal would food the
North with fugitives. If, on the con-
trary, emancipation be carried out, the
strong local attachments of the negro
will induce him, with rarest exceptions,
to remain as hired laborer where he
worked as a slave. Thus humane mas
tiers will not lack sufficient working
hands, of which colonization would de-
prive them. And if, notwithstanding the
probable rise of Southern staples, profits
at first should be less the security of the
planter will be greater. de will no
longer lie down at night uncertain
whether the mornings news may not be
that his slaves have risen against him.
This is the paper view of the question.
But all edicts, all proclamations, how
wise and righteous soever, are but idle
announcements now, if we lack courage
and conduct to enforce them.
Courage we have. Raw levies have
behaved like veterans. The skeletons of
regiments reduced to one-tenth their
original number, attest the desperate va
lor with which they confronted death.
Not with the rank and file is the blame !
The leadingl There has been the secret
of failure
With all the advantages of a just cause
over our enemies, we have suffered them
to Guido us in earnestness. We lack the
enthusiasm which made irresistible the
charge of Cromwelps Ironsides. We
need the invincible impulse of senti-
ment We want, above all, leaders, who
know and feel what they are fighting for
This is a war in which mercenaries avail
not There must be a higher motive
than the pay of Swiss-a holier duty
urging on, than the professional pride OF
the blind obedience of a soldier By
parliamentary usage, proposed mea
sure is entrusted, for fostering care, tC
its friends. So should the war be- tt
conduct should be confded to men whose
hearts and souls are in it.
Again 1t has long been one of oul
national sins, that we passed by, with
scarcely a rebuke, the gravest public
offenses. We utterly fail in holding to
a strict accountability our public men
The result of such failure, in peace, hat
almost escaped our notice In war, WI
have now beheld its effects, fragrant an,
terrible.
II was not to be expected that among
sdAany thousands of officers, suddenl
appointed, there should not be some hun
dreds ofincompetents. Such things mus
be. No one is to blame if, in field o
garden, weeds spring up. The blam
rests with him who leaves them there t
choke the crop and cumber the ground
Accountability that should be tn
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS stern, ur
relentingl Office has its emoluments
let it have its responsibilities also. lie
us demand, as Napoleon demanded, sue
cess from our leaders. The rule ma
work harshly. War needs harsh rules
Actions are not to be measured in war b
the standard of peace. The sentinel
worn by extreme fatigue, who sleeps a
his post, incurs the penalty of death
There is mercy in courts martial-drum
head court martial. A dozen officer
shot, whenever the gravity of the offens
demands it, may be the saving of life I
tens of thousands of brave men.
Eighteen months have passed. Eigi
hundred millions have been spent "
have million of armed men in the fielt
More than a hundred thousand rest
soldiers graves And for all this, VIII;
result? Is it strange if sometimes til
heart sinks and resolution fails at til
thought that, from sheer administrator
infrmity, the vast sacrifice may hay
been all in vain?
But let the Past 60! Its fatal faul
difficult, perhaps, to avoid under an c
fort so sudden and so vast) can never |
recalled. Doubtless they had their us
1t needed the grievous incapacity "
have witnessed, the singing reverses v
have suffered, the invasion even of fir,
States that we have lived to see col
meneed; it needed the hecatombs
dead piled up unavailingly on BATTLEFIELD
after battlefeld-the desolate hearth
the broken,hearted survivors-it needt
all this to pave the way for that emant
patton which is the only harbinger
peace.
The Failure! that is still ours to il
prove. Nor, if some clouds yet rest upc
it, is it without some bright proms
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