The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-29
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Judge Ballard Smith and the Camel
ton Reporter are engaged just now in
very laudable, but fruitless undertake
ing-the explaining away of the trea-
sonable character of the celebrated Cam
melton Resolutions, adopted in that de-
lectable village in January 1861 These
resolutions were passed, it will be re-
membered, after a large number of the
rebel States had already seeded. We
are not surprised that the gentlemen feel
that they made arpolitical blunder on
that occasion, as we'll as being guilty.of
aTr avery unpatriotic'act g <
AS refuge, however, from the effects
OF this act the editor of the Reporter
skulks behind some of the Republican
papers as follows: ~ ,. .ng
I'd = Such sheets as the New York 1'i-
bune, Indianapolis Journal, Cincinnati
COMMERCIAL, and Evansville Journal,
nn mayadPocateg peaceable secession as
right or expediency: they may compli-
ment jeff Dayis's constitution, and in
their Imagination map new lines divid-
ing the North and the South, but LOYAL
conservative men will never consent that
the Ohio-river shall belone of them.
So pitiful a begging of question we
never sawl The Evansville Journal
never advocated peaceable, or any other
kind of secession. It was never in favor
of letting the Southern States go out of
the Union. 1t always regarded pedceG-
Die secession as an impossibility-a cheat,
~ miserable deception. When the editor
of the Cannelton, Reporter was concoct-
ing his reasonable resolutions, full of
venomous sophistries, with which 10 p6is-
on the minds of honest but unwary vo-
ters, the Journal was doing its utmost to
-e prove the folly of the Southern conspia,
81 tors and the necessity of the Northern
ern States standingfathfuly by the Gov
eminent
Loyal men," says the Reporter, will
never consent that the Ohio River shall
be the divividing line, and hence the
remedy it suggested was the running of
the line just north Of the counties
bordering on that stream. We say, loyal
men will not willingly consent to any di-
vding line, and only traitors advocate the
establishing of any such line. No divi-
~ ding lines will ever be drawn unless the
Government is paralyzed in its efforts
by the Vaccinations of Northern con-
spirators, in sympathy with Southern reb-
els.
We do not deny that papers may ad
vocate peaceable secession, because we
see it done every day. One has only to
consult the columns of the State Senti-
mel, Cincinnati Enquirer, and the speech
es of Voorhees,, Vallandigham, John Van
Buren,, and Seymour, to>become con-
WINGED ofthat fact We are also aware
that individuals may commit treason and
yet escape punishment, at least for a sea-
son.
The New York Tribune and Indianap-
oils Journal did advocate the propriety
la of letting the Southern States secede, but
insisted that the secession should take
place through a National convention,
and change in the constitution while
the State Sentinel, and Cincinnati En-
quirer, and, for ought we know, the Cam
Melton Reporter insisted that the seces-
sion of one State broke up the Union,
and the attempt to compel any State, by
,A- force, to remain, was coercion and UNI
constitutional
We never endorsed the Tribune on this
point-regardng its views as imprac@
Il ticabe. When, however, their impracti-
cability was demonstrated by the bonn
81 bardment Of Fort Sumter, those papersa
Immediately insisted, and have ever
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since continued to insist on vigorous
prosecution Of the war. just here their
y conduct differs from that of the Tory or
gans throughout the country. The latter,
not only endorsed the Montgomery Com
stitution--which the former never did
but have done all they possibly could, E
and are still doing all they can, to insure
the triumphs of the authors of that in
strument, and the extension of its pro-
visions over the Northwestern, as they
now prevail over the Southern, States. +
But gentlemen of the Cannelton'reso- (
lutions, however the present struggle
~ may terminates you have placed on re-
cord an act which, while it is Notifying
? to yourselves now, will prove legacy of
bitter humiliation to your posterity.
The "UXoN AS IT WAS. We COM
mend to the favorable consideration of