The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-08-20


hate and Jealousy, producing las bad long
been foreseen and predicted by us) its coun-
terpart in the South of secession, disunion
and armed resistance to the General Gov
eminent and terminating in bloody strife
between those who should have been forever
bound together by fraternal bonds, thus
b. inging upon the whole country a calam-
ity-which we are now TO meet as loyal citi--t
Gems, striving for the adoption of that mode
Of settlement best calculated to again re-
store union and harmony,
A. That in rejecting all propositions like
ly to result in a satisfactory adjustment of |
the matters in dispute between the North |
and the South, and especially those meas
ures which would have secured the border
slave States to the Union, and hearty CO.
operation on their part in all constitutional |
and legal measures to procure return of
the more Southern States to their allegi- |
ance, the Republican party assumed fear
full responsibility, and acted in total disre-
gard of the best interests of the whole |
country. /
5. That if the party in power had shown
the srme desire to settle, by smicable al
justment our Internal discussions before
hostilities had actually commence, that the
Administration has recently exhibited to
.void war with our ancient enemy, Great
Britain, we confidently believe that peace
md harmony would now reign throughout
I'll our border.
We hope every reader will look over
hese resolutions two or three times before
laying them aside. What do they mean I?
they charge that the civil war was coca
stoned by the people of the Northern States
by electing President of their own choice;
: hat the use of this right had produced GAS
had long been foreseen and predicted by
usl' secession, disunion, aud armed resist
ance to the Government in the South. The
/ resolution is designed apology for re-
bellion, and an outrageous insult to the
loyal States. But these traitors go further.
They say I" that in rejecting all propositions
likely TO result in a satisfactory adjustment
of the matters in dispute bet,oeen the North
and the South . = to procure re-
turn of the more Southern States TO their
allegiance, the Republican party assumed
a fearful responsibility, and acted in total
disregard of the best interests of the whole
country"
But the conspirators do not stop there.
They assenhstill further, "that if the party in
power had shown the same desire to settle,
by amicable adjustment, our internal dis
sensions, that the Administration has re-
Gently exhibited to avoid a war with our
ancient enemy, Great Britain, we confident
ly believe that peace and harmony would
now reign throughout our borders" This
charge is based upon a falsehood.
q The Republican party was not in power
at the commencement of the secession
movement. In both Houses of Congress
they were in the minority, and Mr.. Lincoln
could not make asoIitary appointment with.
out the sanction of Senate politically op
posed to him. But what is falsehood to
men deliberately engaged in planning the
overthrow of the Administration The Adj
ministration is charged with exhibiting a
greater desire to avoid war with an an
Gent enemy, than to adjust patff659faJu aSssAR
hood was never embodied in writing.
| Now what was the effect of all these res
olutions2 1t will be rememered that they
were adopted during the darkest days of
the Republic. Fort Henry, Fort Donaldson,
Bowling Green, Columbus and Manassas
were in the hands of the enemy, who we're
making threatening demonstrations towards
| invading the Free States. What democrat
who could be induced to endorse those reso-
buttons would enlist in defense of the Gov
eminent.
Who, when convinced that the North
was all wrong and the South right; that
| the Administration was violating all its
! pledges-while hearing never a word of
condemnation of the Confederate Govern
ment-would not conclude that the proper
course to pursue was to break down the
government by Withholding men and sup
plies, and permitting the Southern Con-
federacy to triumph. Such we feel assured
was the design of the leaders at that time.
They have obtained new light since. The
speeches of John G. Davis and Tom. Her
bricks, which were so approvingly copied by
every rebel paper in the South who could
get hold of them, taught the people to
expect the breaking up of the old govern
ment and the foundation of new Empire
with the Northwest attached to the South.
ern Confederacy. No one can read their
speeches without discovering that Intention
lurking amid a mass of artfully framed
words and sentences. Mr.. Hendricks, in
particular, labored to convince the people
that their interests lay South rather than
East and rather that they should look for
their prosperity TO the SLAVE holding South,
than to abolition New England.
KGEThe Indianapolis Journal of Monday