The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1862-04-23

q paper just started in Tennessee under Oh,
suspiees Of Governor Andy johnson, ans
refectng his views. gives u,,erance 10 ihs
following sentiments In regard 10 the object,
Of the war and the purposes Of the National
ADMINISTRATION. The source from whence the
article came, gives il some significance, and
whether int nded or not some OF lie utter,
snces are two edged swords ss they cut both
ways. We give the article entire:
] Whenever we hear a secessionist iepre
eating the idea Of the subjugaton Of the re-
volted States and declaring il to b. impos.i.
Bile, we are somewhat at q loss to decide
whether he is crazy or kneve. The idea
that the States 10 the Union. or any one o.
them have the slightest desire to keep the
revolted States il subsection, or deprive
them Of any privileges which they them
selves enjoy, is TOO absurd, preposterous and
uniounded to be entertained one moment BY
any body out Of Bedlam. The charge 10 an
unfounded. audacions, unmiligated lie. for
we may as well be plain about it. The
whole Union army, from the highest Gen.
srsl 10 The loweet private, laugh immoder.
ately at the thought that any body out
Of mad house or South CAROLINA. should
suppose the Union men would, II they could
do so without blow, hold the seeded
States in any other condition. or with any
less privileges than the loyal States emily.
T'aa whole charge isgotten up BY knaves
and believed by persons who have either
feeble wits. or ara too much agitated 10 use
them properly. All under heaven that the
Federal Government proposes to DO is to
establish uniform supremacy Of law over
this nation. II the routed rebels Of Pea
Ridge. Winchester, Fort Donelson and Pitts
burg. defeated. disseminated and utterly scat
tered as they are, will say, I'VE mean 10
obey the laws just as we did one year ago,
and will submit to the voice Of the majority, ,
as laid down in the great charter Of our ma.
tional organization. then the work Of our
troops will have been finished, and they will
60 cheerfully and gladly back to their plows,
their looms and their anvils. But no rebel Il
need lay the fiastering unction to his soul
that the Union soldiers will consent to less
than this. Never, never. never. will they
suffer the galaxy Of the American nation toI
be deprived Of single star. They win facet
FIRE, and she'll, and shot, and ssber s,rokel
and bsycnci. to keep the golden chain Of the
Union unbroken.
They know too well its boundless cost
A million bosoms sh all be riven before one
golden link is lost. Is !, subjugation to
obey laws you have made yourselfl Is i'll
slavery TO venerate Constitutions you have
lived under for ten. twenty, thirty and forty
years. not only without complaint. but with
rapturous appreciation Il Il conquest To-
say that public faith shall be kept, and sa-
cred covenants entered into voluntarily BY
whole people. must and shall be observed, q
We think MOI. Yet in this lies the soul oil
the war against the present rebellion. And
on this basis i will surely DO prosecuted.
even though every man now in arms sgalns,
The Government and the public safety should
have TO perish en- the bate field IKE
UNION MUST AND SHALL BE PRESERVED