The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-07-01

Ity. They Will do no more than separate
the true men from the false, and will knit
the former into frmer and more invinci-
BILE phalanx.
HEAVY FREIGHTs.
might stop here; but the gentleman
from Indiana makes other complaints
which, though not gernmane, demand no.
tice. One is. that nit costs sixty cents to
freight bushel of corn from the Wabash
river to New York, and leaves from seven
to fourteen cents to the farmer "a terri
Bile extortion, which the Administration
did not commit, and for the correction of
which respectfully refer the gentleman to
his two distinguished political. friends from
New York, members of this House, who are
believed to be closely connected with the
management of railroads which compose
part of the line from the Wabash to New
York. do not know through what other
agency he will as speedily liberate his con-
stituents from this oppression.
THE MoRnILL TARIFF.
Respecting the other complaint, refer
ring to the Morrill, tariff, wherein be de-
nounces it as interfering with his right to
buy where he can buy cheapest, and as ben
citing only the manufacturers of New Eng
land and the ironmongers of Pennsylvania,
| desire to ask him what would be the
present condition of the country, if, carry
ing out his theory, turning ourselves into
producers of raw Materials and opening
our markets to unrestricted or scarcely re-
stricted trade with the immense, eoncen-
trated, ever aggrandizing capital OF Europe,
we had become, as we inevitably would
have become, as dependent upon Europe as
the South has been upon the North-as
little self-sustaining and self-reliant. Would
we have escaped insult, injury, interVen-
ton Let the gentleman consider the pO-
sition of Mexico, and answer.
What is so powerful a protection as
poaoeT2 Would the gentleman have his
country safe Then must she be strong
How can she be strong without the exer-
else which comes from the development of
all the elements of strength within herr
The narrow theory of the gentleman looks
not beyond to-day--anticipates net the con-
tingencies which affect national existence,
and provides not for them. 1t would pro-
vincialize his country; repress ambition,
invention, and progress crush out every
distinctive feature of the American charac-
ter, paralyze energy, and fit US for the yoke
which our masters, the capitalists of Eu-
rope, would quickly prepare for Us. Call
you this craftsmanship? God forbid that an
American Legislature should ever SO think 2
THE IRON INTEREST.
Not only does the gentleman oppose this
self-pr otecting and self-progressing system,
but he fliugs especially at the "iron mon
gers of Pennsylvania Sir, this is the
very madness of the moon.
What is iron, that the gentleman repro
bates the growth of its manufacture? II is
a national necessity. Without it we cam
not defend onr harbors from foe, our COM
mercial cities from lombard nent, or our
long sea-coast from .ravages at every point.
Without it, we cannot hold the forts upon
which millions have been spent, or protect
our commerce, whitening every sea. With
out it, this Capitol is insecure, and unten-
able against easy attack. Without it, we
cannot maintain our position among the
Powers of the world, much less grow in
influence and importance. 1t is as COM
pletely essential to national life, as is the
bread we eat to our physical life. It is
not enough that we have inexhaustible
supplies of the ore, limestone, and COAL
We must have the product in the highest
form of manufacture-in the most advanced
condition in which ingenuity and skill, mind
and machinery, capital and labor, have
been able to place it. We cannot have these
necessary conditions fulfilled unless the
Government, by legislation. fosters and
leads it up to the highest point required, at
least, as generously, steadily, and appreci-
atively as rival Governments have fostered
and are fostering theirs. Had the theory
Of the gentleman from Indiana prevailed in
former years, when advocated with per-
sstence, if not with wisdom, we would this
day be at the mercy of our enemies. Con-
tanning within ourselves everything neces-
sary TO protect Us from q world in arms We
would be in the humilating position of in
ability to defend our Institutions, assert our
rights, and save the continent from being
parceled out among the mOnarchs of Europe,
or reduce to colonial subsection. Recent
events have betrayed the real feeling of
Europe towards US. He who in the light
of them, recommends policy whose effect
would be to place US in its gripe, carries
MS theories to the very verge of treason.-
For no truly patriotic person would have
this country dependent upon Europe for any
essential of defense or any means of Of
Tense.
EFFECTS OF THE REBELLION.
This rebellion, atrocious as it is will bear
many good fruits. Que will be TO forever
dispose of those speeious theories which have
weakened the Government, and were the
foundation on which Secession rests. An
other, to explode those false doctrines of
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