The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-06-25
JUNE 95. 1869.


conceive that Calhoun intended his auditors
to understand that the Mississippi river, SO
far as trade upon its waters affected States
bordering upon it was another MEDTTER-
RAHEAE. 1t vessel enter port and dis
charge cargo she must pay The charges and
duties of the port; but if her mastes choos-
es to pass Nelms' Landing, or auy port of
entry, she could not be made TO round to.
The prime movers in the pending revolution
thought differently; and steamers from
Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois,
were all forced to land at the Dorfhern line
of Mississippi when the Southern Confed-
eracy was first formed aa#
We witnessed the efYe,t of this policy
upon the people of Kentucky, whose Legis-
l4ture was then in session. We see its ef-
frcts To-day when Ealf the people of Ken
tncky are waging against Us a relentless
war. We ss'e large shareholders, Keatuck-
ians and Missourians, under Haleek at
Pitsburg, denouncing the anti slavery
policy of The Lincoln despoism, who still
fight The South, not because they love the
North, nor because they are AboIilionists,
but because, like JOHN G. Calhoun, they
deem the Mississippi g a great inland sea-"
W e once bad a Congress (histoFy so
teaches) that years ago sat in Washington,
when Clay, Randolph, Calhoun, and Web-
ser lived; but they died, and With them
did genius. craftsmanship, and patriotism
become extinct. Vanity and weakness sup
planted self confidence and native ability #; |
and ambition was crowned when patriotism |
was entombed. 1t has been rumored that |
a centre of politicians convened not long |
ago in Richmond. What they dId, except |
the wise bidding of our President, and en- |
act Conscription BILL we have never yet |
learned but this much We do know, that 1
they failed to discover a mode of depriving |
our enemies of halt their strength, by de- |
claring for absolute Free Trade, and by |
quoting in the law the language of CAL |
houn, that the Mississippi is an inland /
sea.
There can be no sacrifice of principle on |
the part of the pc pie in declaring that their
J. aders were incapable of dischargiug their
duties as legislators These men would
have us fight the Northwest forever, rather
than acknowledge that they, rhe great lead
ess in this revolution, had ever committed |
the slightest error IN war or legislation.-
The President confessed bis fault like a
true hero, in his late inaugural; but our
Congress did nothing save grant themselves
a magnificent salary and mileage, and en-
joy their pay in Richmond till the proximi-
ty of McClellan's army made the place un-
comfortable. Would it not be well for this
iflusrrious body of statesmen to convene
again at some safe place like ths--even
here in Macon, Mississippi-and retrieving
former errors, declare to the world that
tariff system shall never be known in the
States, and that the Nisssissip-
pi is in very truth what Calhoun pronounced
il, Great Inland Sea, free and open
to all the nations
II hrt hare auouacf had haor, dopa /
last spring, the greatest military man in all
the northwest, not even excepting -
-, citizen of free State, who has ta-
ken no part IN this war-LhIs man would
have joined Sterling Price with one hun
dred thousand men from Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa and Wisconsin,, 10 aid US in throwing |
off the yoke of Yankee tariffs and Yankee
Even yet, he and thousands
Of others in the northwest have hoped tha'
hey would be left uttramme.ed by the
ariff legislation of the Confederate States
Let US have free trade with the north
west. miserable tariff on tea begat the
Did Revolutions; miserable mud TO at
Nelms' landing armed the northwest agains;
rs. Let not the wisdom and memory of
Calhoun be degraded by those who, little
his genius aud plans of
nship, only learned enough from ,
MS lips to become potent for evil.
If evidence conirmatory of the views
In our leading editorial of to-day
we're wanting, it is abundantIy furnished by
he able address TO the Northern Democ-
.acy which was issued more than two
weeks ago by the Democratic Delegation in
he Lincoln Congress. This is the first
ymptom of a return to reason which has
lawned upon the North since Lincoln's ele-
7ation to power. We may now hope that j
Richardson, Vallandigham, Doniphan, and
,ther conservative men of the northwest
\ ill again assume that power and influence
o which they are entitled by their wisdom c
md patriotism. We could not pect these :
men in the very outset of their operations A
u this first stage of their rebellion agai nst
he Federal despot, TO assume positions ut
erly antagonistic to all the acts and policy
# the party in power. But we have only
0 await the organization of two parties, and
ach will drive the other to extremes. New
England will be arrayed againstthe North
vest, and then the South will learn the
ray 10 safety and peace.
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