The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-28
NUMBER QS4

lily mustered, and q rush maize on the Ma.
vy-Yard at Norfolk and the Armory at
Harper's Ferry, both of which were cap-
tured. The FIRST regiment from Mussachu-
seits passing through Baltimore TO WASH
ington was assailed with pistols, clubs.
stones, &c, in the streets OF The foim-r city,
two of its men killed, and seven wounded.
The city Of Baltimore openly cked their
murdercus mob, broke the telegraph wires
connecting that city with the Nor,b, tore
up or burned the railroad bridges, and sent
deputations to Washington 10 notify the
President that no more volunteers from the
North would be allowed to Iass through
that Ciyl And thus was Civil War fully
inaugurated-by audacious and muiderous
attacks, alike in Texas, at Fort Sumter,
and at Baltimore, on the a 'g aud au aority
OF the Republic-attacks which had no mo.
tive and no excuse but hostility to the
government and laws Of the UaiUD.
Yet you, John l.. O'Sulivan, traitor and
falsiher that you are dare talk to me of
my "vain and mad War Of CHrci1n," ss
though il had not been on the side of the
Union naked, imperative war of defense and
selfproitction. If the Union has not q
right 10 possess aud defend lis own lorts,
and arsenals, armories, su5-treasuIies, ccs-
tom houses, &c.-nearly or quite ali of
them standing on ground expressly ceded
to Il by The surrounding Sta,es-if it has
not precisely the same right to defend it's
fort in Charleston hsrbor as its Capitol in
Washington then there never was Un.
ion, and our political system has bseH moth
ing but varuished anarchy. But you
never doubted, and never would have
doubted, had New York or Massachusetts,
undertaken TO revolt and seize the forts in
her chief harbor under Democ: a.ic Ad-
ministration, that those forts v ere the
rlghiful and exclusive property Of the Un-
ion, and that whoever Undertook 10 wrest
them from the Union was responsible be-
fore God and man for whatever convulsion
and bloOdsbed might ensue. And the law
that is good for the harbor of Boston will
have to answer also for that of Charleston.
A single point more, and l leave you
forever. You say that the Democratic
party is the only one that possibly admin
lister our Government. The gist of this re-
mark is a menace" Keep our party in
power, for, if you turn US out, we will re-
volt and destroy the Republic" The peo-
pie had this dinned into their ears all
through the canvass Of 1860, but il did not
move them, nor will 1t now. Gene what
may, this nation has ceased forever to vote
or legislale in fear of a pistol at its bead.
g. The Guard dies-it does not surrender"
Yonr rebels may possibly succeed in driv-
ing or Gripping il, but they will never
more bully it out of its convictions, nor
into base complaisance toward wrongs it
abhors. They may possibly wrench from
the Union their insurgent States, but they
shall at all events leave us our free sonls.
do not believe they can beat ns; know
they cau no more corrupt and debase u.s.
The era of servility and compromise is past;
the day Of frsnkness and manhood has
dawned Victor or vanquished in this ter.
rible contest, rejoice at the assurance that
The United States shall henceforth be the
cherished home of Free Thought, Free La
Dor, and Free Meni
Yours, HORACE GREELEY.
AnniUersavy Of West India Emancipation,
NesO York, August /, 1862.