The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-04-21
a Letter fronn John ". Rornex.

The patience, forbearance, and self-denial
of the people of the loyal States of this
Union, constitute the best proof of their
fitness for their sphere, as the custodians and
defenders of free government. These high
attributes, also, establish that they are
proud of their position and greatful that
they are permitted to occupy it. Moth
ing has surprised the Europeans more
than the temper of our people under man
fold trials and experiments. Even the.
London Times has beer compelled to ex-
press its surprise at this spectacle. But no
class has been more disappointed than the dis
loyal politicians of the loyal States. 1t will
not be forgotten that when Mr.. Lincoln was
elected these politicians were confident that
the masses of the free States would rise
against the Republicans. Blinded by dis
appointment, and confident that, as their
transgressions under Buchanan and their,
support of Breckinridge had been largely
supported by deluded Democrats, they re-
yelled in the anticipation that they would
be still further sustained by popular tumults
in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.
No idea entered more thoroughly into the
calculations of the traitors themselves.
They had been 80 filed with hope by the
Tylers, 0Conors, W. B. Reeds, and Isaac
TouGeys, that they did not withhold the
prediction that the signal for riot would
be sounded among the working-classes. of
these great cities, the moment Mr. Lin
coin attempted to execute and enforce the
laws. The attack upon Fort Sumpter
was rude awakening from this cherished
dream. The masses rose, but not for
them. The people spoke, but not on their
side. Hundreds and thousands of olsen
chanted Democrats rushed to the battlefield.
as if tc prove their fealty to the Federal Con-
and to disprove the hopes based
upon different course of popular action.
Every slbsequentday has added accumulated
manifestations of the forbearance and pa
triotism of the citizens of the loyal
States. They have sustained every act
of MIR. Lincoln and his friends They re-
ceived the surrender Of Mason and Slidell in
thespirit that prompted it, and nobly subdued
their passions in the face of the prognosti-
cations of DR.. Russell, of the London Times.
They observed the long delay of our army
on the Potomac, and credited it to the most
patriotic motives. They overlooked the
operations of spectators as excesses for
ever incident to a great war. They saw
themselves deprived of work, property de-
preciated, commerce arrested, a great debt
incurred, and still they murmured not
Enough for them that the struggle in which |
their country was involved was not the |
work of Mr.. Lincoln and themselves; that |
those who precipitated it did not deny, but,
instead of this, gloried in their shame and |
that the preservation of the Union was Wor-
thy of every sacrifice and every effort, no |
matter how costly and how severe.
Unenlightened by these forcible teach |
ings, the politicians, SO balIied and borne
down by former disappUintments, again /
predict that there will soon be an uprising |
in the free States. Mark my words" /
said one of this school, a few days ago.
4" blood will presently flow in the crowded |
cities of the North and Northwest. Now |
will come the turn of the men who hunted
us for supposed hostility to the war after
Sumter fell" This fond hope is inspired /
by the expected exodus of free negroes from I
the South. The demagogues rely upon the
natural preiudices of caste between the |
whites and the blacks to realize a wish that
is father to their thought. Take note how
this game is being played. All
their papers and politicians, who were only I
loyal when personal interests and personal /
safety forced them to be loyal, are engaged
in it. How desperately these gamesters
stake their fortunes upon the supposed ig-
norance of the American peoplel They
read history forever backwards. Because a
thing has been, they believe it must be. In
asmnch as they have been successful de-
ceivers of great bodies of men, they hug the
hope that they can renew this system. Far
better and more profitable it would be if
they would review the events and lessons
of the year gone by. From this retrospect
they would gather the great fact that the
American people, once deluded, cam
not soon again be miEled by the |
same men that falsifed history and violated /
confidence. Reason is ever vigilant and |
wakeful after great crime has been perpe- I
trated. Millions who would not believe /
that these leaders contemplated secession,
or sympathy with secession, now they are