The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-05-26
From tho Nashville Union
Null hcRffOn In the United States
Senate.

Senate.
We have been exceedingly mortified at
some late remarks made in debate by Sena-
tor Davis Of Kentucky. His original re-
marks we've 50 reasonable that member
sent copy of them to the Clerks desk to
go on record, whereupon Senator Davis
made the following explanation
said that in my judgement, Congress
had passed unconsututIonh measures, and
so far as these measures are demonstrations
al, will advise my constituents to resist
them, AMI | here repeat it. The position
have adhered to all the time, is that so far
as the legislation of this Congress in the
Judgment Of my people sboud be unconsti-
tuiional, | will advise them to resist it by
all tie means they can command Until
the Supreme q .urt of the United States has
decided \ law to he constitutional, eUerg
c tizen has q right to juoge for himself, upon
his own responsibility Of the constitution
ality of the law and he has right TO resist
according to his ot0R Judgment aud to sub
NIT himself 10 the pruper courts when his
conduct shall become subject to their judg-
menC. If 10y his course, he commits The
crime Of treason, be is justly amenab!e to
the punishment of a traitor.
ing the very soul Of uu ficatiou 1t was
inst such hereEy that pr, C plated the Cot
ton States into a revolution. 1t was such
heresy as Calhoun instilled into South Car
olina il 1888. 1t is rark higher-le ewism,
aud if acted on, will involve this nation in
bloodshed forever " Every citizen has
right says Mr.. Davis 1" to judge for him
ssf" whether the law passed by Congress
and signed by the President be constitution
al or not, and if he come 10 the conclusion
that it is unconstitutional this Kentucky
Senator advices him 10 ''reslst ii BY ALL
MEANS at has commando! Shoot the
Sheriff or U. S Marshal, break open aud
demJIi5h the jails, fire on the Federal PJ-
lice do anything to obsjIuct the enforce
meutof the odiotls laws Do we d: cam =?
Can we trust our senses2 Is this Garrett
Davis or JEFF Davis who utters doctrines on
the floor Of tile Senate 50 monstrous aud
a0horrent to every law-abiding, conservative
man? Why this frothy rant is the very
Language of radicaism and jacobinism II
is the Wild jargon of the mob 1t is
repetition of the cant of Toombs. Mason,
WigfalI, IFerson and JEFF Davis, who will
heartily endorse the views of this Senator.
We have 20 faith in Senator Powell, Mr.
Davis colleague, and yet we do not believe
that even NJ would have dared to preach
such iucendiarism in the Senate, before Mr.
Davis SpevcF " hat he will d. now is
bard to predict, but of one thing we feel
certain, that he cannot say anything more
abhorrent to the feelings OF Iaw-abidi ng
men We feel certain that the Union men
of Kentucky will repudiAte indignantly
the hgher-lawism of Mr. Davis 1t surely
can find no response save with the rebels
| We thought it was the duty IF all citizens
to obey the laws until repealed, or set aside
! by the decision of the Supreme Court No,
says Mr.. Davis, you have right to resist
the law " by all means at your command"
! until the court decides such a law TO be
4 constitutional. Was there ever wilder or
more dangerous randicalsm Imagine for
u Ir1rr,1s "a as-yv vveaIA 10 snr condition if
| the laws were to be thus resisted. The
whole nation would be perpetualiy on the
stormy waves of anarchy and mob-law. 1t
| would be worse than den of wild beasts
! engaged in the work of mutual destruction.
! We feel most painfully assured that Mr..
| Davis is nft to be leader and counsellor
of loyaI men in time which demands so
! much GOODNESS, discretion and self-controI.
| We would far rather see him declare open
! " for the enemy than profess loyalty and
preach notification.
.eSP The franklin (La.) Banner tells US
how the ladies in that region are freeing
themselves from a dependence on the North
for shoes. 1t says:
"The cheapest way that they make them
is to take the soles of old shoes, soak
| them in water until they are Timber, pick
out the old stitcheg, fit them to the last af-
ter the cloth is fitted to the same, sew the
/ soles 70 the, cloth with ssrong waxed thread,