The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-07-16
JULY 16. 1860.


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and now Conservatives, EIoud applause,
who have seemed proud, in consideration of
prevent and peh, to toll ia subordinate sta
tions around its altars. By the combination
of these forees the Negro Propaganda long
ruled the politics of both sections of the
Union, securing to shareholders large pre-
ponderance of The chief offices of the Fede-
raj Government, hedging the institution
around with honOrs and emoluments, and
making its service attractive to the merce-
nary and the ambitious. But, fellow-cti-
zens, something even more potent than this
reaching after new territories, and cIutching
at political honors, has precipitated the
country into this rebellion this revolution
as it may properly be called: The extraor-
binary claims which slavery, during the
last thirty years, has been gradually setting
up and insidiously enforcing to new rights
and privileges has more than all else dis
closed its lust for universal dominion, first
impelling it to put forth professions which
it could not maintain by the ballot-box
within the Union, and which it subsequent
ly resolved to defend on the battlefield be-
yond the UniOni
In the dawn of the Republic. property in
slaves was regarded as transient system,
local and exceptional in its character, and
having no rights outside of the municipali-
ty whose laws created it. The power of
Congress to prohibit its existence in the
Territories of the Union was deemed indis-
putaole. These principles were accepted as
uLquestionable, till the period of the Mis-
souri, controversy. Slavery then shadowed
forth in faint outline, the startling assump-
tions which have since become the accepted
creed of large and influential parties. After
that extraordinary man, John q. Calhoun,
became the high priest and dominating ge-
MUS of thei Slavery Propsgandists, his dis
ciplas, by stealthy steps, advanced from po-
sition 10 position, till, first mooting, then
questioning, and finally denying, the old
fashioned priRciples respecting the transient
and local character of slavery, and the
power of Congress over it, they substituted
instead the novel and dangerous doctrines
that slavery was natural condition of hu-
man society, resting on a basis anterior TO
government and superior to law, and that
so far from Congress and the Federal au-
thorities having power to inhibit it, it was
their duty to establish and protect it where
ever our ensign was unfurled. In a word
they claimed that slavery was not local.
temporary institution, but a permanent ma
tiOnal Institution, entitled to protection
from the government and homage from the
people, wherever it erected its throne.-
These new doctrines bore natural fruit in
the repudiation of the Wilmot Proviso, in
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in
the passage of the Nebraska Bill, in the
raids upon Kansas, in the Lecompton con-
spiracy, and in the politico-j juridical pro-
nunciamento known as the Dred Scott de-
cison. That's SO. By the persistent in
culcation of these uOctrinal pretensions, the
mil raa 60 I'll oboI
lion in which we are now involved. Now,
fellow citizens, let US trace the practical
steps by which the South was brought to
the brink of the precipice, and finally in
duced to plunge into the gulf of Secession.
Throughout the different stages of this doc
irinal controversy, the slavery rropagand-
lists inculcated upon their disciples the most
bigoted sectionalism. The alternative pre-
ways been ed ID ths 10 Tf tTfe pFsisSsions and
submit to our rule, or accept a dissolution
of the Union !" ElVions of the growth
and prosperity of the North, and unwilling
to assign them to the true cause-free la
bor-and ashamed of their own stagnation
and decay, and unwilling to trace them to
their obvious source-free labor-the slave
ry propaga ndists have cultivated toward
the free States the most intense jealousy
and hatred. And long ago they resolved
that so soon as they became unable TO rule
within the Union they would dissolve po-
litical partnership which was CALLING to
their pride, and a restraint upon their am
bition. In pursuance of this policy, they
have from time to time raised the by pocriti-
cal cry of Northern aggressions," and
have repeatedly been appeased by " compro-
misses" in which slavery was always the
gamer, and freedom the loser. At length
a.
its Northern servitors became intolerable.
One of its most Jealous advocates declined
TO pluck the bitter fruit of the tree of his
own planting. Douglas refused to sustain
the LeeOmpton iniquity, and turned his
back upon the propagandists. CCheers.
From that hour their doom was oecreed-
their fate sealed. The Presidential election
of 1860 was approaching. The conspira-
tors below the Potomac and the Ohio, TAX
ing warning at the detection of Stephen A.
Douglas, resolved to make the result of that
election the occasion, in the language of
Mr.. Yaneey, fer " precipitatiug the Cotton
States into a revolution" Douglas, the
strongest man in the Democratic party, was
sacrificed in the Charleston Convention
That's fact two candidates in opposi-
ton to Lincoln placed in the field, his cleo
ton thus made sure, and the pretext for the
IeD6lliOH LHeE6Dy SSCuI6us ms sOUu hS IL
was known that he had carried the country,
and before his policy could be anticipated,
and four months in advance of his ascen-
sion to power, South Carolina, long the
heart and home of the great conspiracy,
passed an ordinance of Secession, and
plunged into the vortex of rebellion ani
revolution. Other States promptly follow
ed her mad example. Startling events
tramDled on the heels of one another, until,
in due course of time, Sumter fell, and the
whole country was launched upon the SAN
culinary waves oil a wide, desOlating war.
Such, Mr.. President. is a rapid, skeleton
sketch of the chief causes of a Rebellion
which has initiated war on a scale SO broad
that blood-stained Europe stands aghast at
it's vast proportions. The strife has all the
ordinary characteristics of a conflict be-
tween independent nations. But it has fea-
lures peculiar to itself. At is a rebellion
against lawful, just, and benignant authori-
ty-an attempt to overthrow civil institu-
tions long the wonder and admiration of