The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-06-27

esting. We have room to-day only for the
following exrac which will deeply in er-
est the country as the utterance of loyal
Kentuckian and a brave General serving his
country, on the slavery question:
/ wish 10 say word as to the ua
ton" as it is called by the reporters of the
day. propose to advise nobody. / lrc-
tend to no extraordinary foresight, but |
desire to state that this rebellion is Il lie
from the beginning. There was never any
cause for it.
To begin and keep up system OF false
hoods was adopted, and is pursued industr
ousIy to this day. II ia The only ock in
lrads rhcy have. They could te5S1 , rbT 't
deyn himself much be never knew before
about lying. Wherever the army has gone
it has met this fell spirit of -falsehood. We
have taken none of their property; we
have excluded their slaves from our lines:
when needed we have placed guards of our
soldiers around their houses to protect
them-and yet they persist in calling US
abolitioaists and negro thieves. And in
spite of our Disclaimers aud our soldiers
reservations TO The conirary-of cur words
and acts, they have insisted that cur object
is to liberate and to steal their negroes.
And if we fail To restore the Union " tie
everlas ing nigger will be the cause of the
failure. They know what they say is "a Sc,
yet they never cease repeating it. Behind
and before us this has been the cry of the
enemies of the Government. Now, the
army of Gen. HAleck is eminently conserv-
alive | believe there IS neither an aboli-
Zionist nor secessonist in it. If there is
one Of either faction, do not know il. So
orderly, so patriotic and so conservative a
budy OF men l believe never before assem-
bled together. That army in its intercourse
with the secessiOnists has pleaded and is
still pleading for peace under the old Gov
ernment, Offering to our Southern brethren
all they ever bad, and claiming nothing eX-
cept in common with them. They want to
take nothing from any one, but desire that
their Southern brethren shall enjoy NIL
their rights uuimpaired. But the negro is |
in the way, in spite of all that can be done |
or said. Standing before the eye of the
secessiouist, the negro bides all the blcs- |
sings Of cur Government, throwing black |
shadow on the sun itself. If it had been |
any other species of property that stood in |
the way, the army, provoked Is it las been
would Willingly have seen It's quick de- |
slructioD. But the negro they Did not wish |
to inIeIftre with in any way. Yet with all |
its conservatism and p0tri2tism, the army has |
gro1cR aoedry Of this insane cry Of . d6oIi- |
tionisnl - as cause for 4req.Fing up the Coz
eTRmeRt.
l have warned our Sou hern friends of |
the danger of continuing it much longer: I
and teH you to wight thai u ;,;U &c cor r.
bury its dead-p,-d those VIC 81,
all the oloousneu a,aoo ono o"99lation around US
free their negroes, 'o.U il then perstn one
An, find sLqUerv sRufed out e ron snnf' o,,t
a condle. Slavery IS not f0orS oasr Gogerr-
,nsnt II is not north our LbeT% His NOT
,rorfh all the precious blood nor B, ,qo ,,o,,r.
| cd ont for freedom. 1t is not north - free
~ Sor;oGtior of the Mississippi TiUer. Nose
must still have our GoVernment-it not as~
II now is. with slavery in it, still we must
80 ~ Governments. We cannot be
aIavos 10 Jeff. Davis and Company. we
So and will be free. We must nave the
80 e-oN .o,,;,ation of the Mississippi river;
a,ed ;f slqgerv qess in the tCdy Of these T1ghtS,
srb,, sLoperv must get out Of the tcdy. nat
rronld he the last resort, ana Wouio pe
sorry To have recourse TO 1t nut aih ~,
the Goyerument of our fathers against an
thinCg and everybody. Whilst the lioe[ties
of the people are secure unoeF IL es ~
=. vi 80 heeu. would allow nothing but
Sao,h 70 nreyent my upholding it. And,
IN.a' uea'n y. 1os NAV be to decide, you will
. 80 os / believe, be called upon TO do SO.
49,, 80 ~ vour eatreaties, the issue will oe
'aIiv thrust uIon you, ard you t'tt 0e
6,-ceJ IN decide sett1eeB SLAVERY ana yoaF
J, ,r:.'a. ,,J children. As for me, L am ready
+ e. ,ta reenonsibiity. A Southern man rs
e a., horn and bDught up in the Soutp, 1
.,15 .ot hesitate 5Te moment aCfseza the ISSUE
:. .arses,ted bet,vga the nigger and the Coz
g er,,1,ent of our .t1theTs, l am for the NO'