The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-24
The Progress OF Treason.

tion of our readers to the reasonable de-
signs of the tory organization in this
and other States and who, not content
with plotting the destruction of the coun-
try, have stolen the venerated name of
democracy in which to cloak their wick
ed purposes. The speeches delivered at
the Sth-ofJanuary Convention by John
, g. Davis, Thomas A. Hendricks, and
others, were full of the poison of Seces-
sion, and unmistakably revealed wish
on their part to embitter the minds of
the Western people against those of the
East, in order that their prejudices might
become so aroused as to make them
willing captives when it shall please
those arch-conspirators to hand them
over--bound hand and foot--to the ten
der mereies of the Southern Confedera-
cy. g-f..er ~.
While, however, we were fully cogni-
zant of the traitorous designs of the tory
leaders in the Northwestern States, we
were not aware that similar views were
entertained by the same organization, so
far east as the great State of Pennsylva-
e nia The following resolutions, however,
prepared by f. W. Hughes, the Chairman
of the Tory State Committee of the Key
Stone State, must convince all that the
plot to destroy the country looks to
nothing else than the breaking up of the
old Union and the construction of new,
excluding the Northeastern States
and, ultimately, the Africaniration, OF
the phole continent
n In the Northwest, the great motive
urged is, the desirability of the South as
market for our agricultural products
In Pennsylvania, the inducement offered
is that she may become the great work
shop Of the new confederacy; her cities
the great commercial depots and dis
stribnting points, and her wealth, popu
zlation, and glory thereby promoted in ar
unusual degree. s.sy ssr rc...s
' Our gallant soldiers, who, abandoning
their homes to yightsforr the perpetuity
and unity Of their great Republic, may
thus see the plottings Of the traitors lief
in their rear. As gentleman-who ha:
been in the army for eighteen months
remarked in our hearing, the other day
at is abodt time the army was called
back to look after traitors in the North.
We give the proposition of the tory
Hughes, in all its length and breadth
that the people may see it as it is. 1t i!
only another form of Mr.. Hendrick
favorite theory; s,.l
Resolrcd, That Pennsylvania owe
her growth in population, and the in
crease of capital and wealth of her cit
zens, chiefly to the advantages which th,
American Union has afforded for th,
i, development Of her natural resources
and that her glory and paramount inter
ests are identified withithe continuane
of that Union.
SHOULD, HOWEVER, CAUSES
HITHERTO RESISTED BY TIL
DEMOCRACY OF THE COUNTRY
REND ASUNDER THE BOND!
THAT BIND TOGETHER THESI
STATES, AND SHOULD THE FIF
TEEN SLAyEHOlDINGS STATES
|, CLAIMING TO BE DRIVEN By
| THE NECESSITY OF MUTUAL
PROTECTION AGAINST THE Ell
! Feet OF SUCH CAUSES, sue
/ CESSFULLY ESTABLISH IAN
! OTHER C0NFEDERACY, THE
| PENNSYLVANIA MUST REGARl
HER RELATION TO THE FACT
WHICH CIRCUMSTANCES BE
| YOND OUR CONTROL HAVl
| PRODUCED" b.
She cannot then refuse to perceiv
that she must either take her place j
some Northern fragment of a once glt
rious Union, and rest content to be shor
of the greater part of her manufacturin
industry, and of her export and impol
trade-to hold a secondary aud helple.
rela tion to the North-eastern States, tcit
no outlet or approach from the ocean fl
her great Eastern or her great Wester
metropolis, except through the ,caters al,
E before the forts and guns of a foreig
nation, and thus practically for tcdI
4 of ability to protect be made to yield /,
all reliable direct foreign trade.
"OR SHE MAY, IF A MEMBE
OF THE NEW CONFEDERACY, Bl
COME THE GREAT MANUFACTl
RING WORKSHOP FOR A PEOPL
. NOW CONSUMING ANNUAL
S300,000,000 WORTH OF PRODUCT
AND MANUFACTURES FROM, AN
RTED THRO UGH, TIL
NORTHERN STATES; HER CITIE
BECOME THE GREAT COMMEI
CIAL DEPOTS AND DISTRIBUTIN
POINTS FOR THIS CONFEDERl
4 CY, AND HER WEALTH, sPOPULl
TION, AND GLORY, BE PRONG
: TED IN A DEGREE UNPARALLEl
ED IN THE HISTORY AND PRO!
,PERITY OF ANY PEOPLEl
THAT it will be the right and duty
her citizens to consult their own best il
. terests in position so moment Us, an
decide between the lawful alternative
, And that in stating the truths. here al
{ nounced, zoe hare no desire to conceaIthc
our object is to present to the peop
of other States the position then ma
sererally occupy, If the coercion di
unionists iit their midst succeed in d