The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-05-29

The Presidents Last reclamation.
+, The modification by the President of
Gen. Hunters military order, declaring the
slaves free in bis Department, has, of
course, met with the hearty approval of the
so-claimed and so-caIled conservative Press
of the country. The papers in the bor-
der slave State rejoice that Hunters poll
icy has been disavowed by the President,
but pay no heed to the weighty suggestions
in his proclamation urging those States to
take immediate steps to act in conjunction
with the government for the emancipation
of their slaves. They disregard the "signs
of the times"
On the other hand, large portion of the
people felt disappointed when the President
interfered with Gen. Hunter. They think
the rose water policy ought to be abandon
ed and a rigorous policy adopted. They
fear the effects of Southern climate upon
our soldiers, and are anxious for the organ
ization of negro regiments to fill the South
ern Notifications and protect the public
property. The rebels use the slaves against
US, to the extent of placing arms in their
hands, and why may we not defend the
government with the same Instrumental
ty used to break it up" 1t is urged by
these so-called radicals, and they do not at
tempt to conceal their disappointment in
the Presidents persistence in carrying out
his policy Of kindness To both of these
extremes, we commend the following arti-
Gle from the New York Times, itself par ez-
ceElence, conservative paper. The picture
it paints of the progress of events is so
skilfully done, that all must admit its life
like character. Speaking of the Presidents
proclamation, it says:
These are s0eighty, solemn, momentous
sDords. The heart out of which they flow
feels all the magnitude of the issues they
involve, and is equal to the grandeur of
the responsibilities they imply. 1t is, as
Mr.. Lincoln justly says, impossible for the
people of the Southern States to be blind
TO the signs of the times" Consciously or
unconsciously they have been brought into
a contest with the National Government
aohich issUolUcs inevitably the fate Of sEavsry-
the veTy existence of their social and civil in
stitutions If they persist in this mad con-
test with a fixed and stable government
having a recognized place among the civil
lied nations Of the earth, representing
twenty millions of people among the proud
est, most intelligent, and most high-spir-
tied on the face of the earth, backed by
enormous resources, and only stimulated by
disaster to new efforts and new eonquests,
they simply rush upon their own destruc-
ton. There is no instance in history where
any form of society, however sanctifed by
time or the affections of mankind, has sur
vived a contest with the advancing spirit of
q progressive age. The South calls rs of
the North fanatics; but in that very fanati-
cism, if they were wise, they would dis
Germ the utter hopeEessness Of the soagfare
then a1age eEpon qCs 1t was fanaticism in
England which beheaded the King, and ex-
tinQuished the throne, and rooted out of the
English heart the sentiments and civil af-
fections which had grown there longest and
taken deepest hold on the public mind
II was the fanaticism of democracy which
crushed all the institutions of the middle
ages on the soil of France, and drenched its
fields in the blood of all who opposed its
resstless sweep. Suppose the people of the
South once array against slavery the full
" fanaticism of the United States, backed
by the sympathy and the sentiment of the
OnriStlan WOrlCt Can b1ey see TOT tHeAu-
selves any other result than utter and rem
ediless ruin2
Up the present time the contest of the
government with the rebellion which as
sailed its existence has been conducted with
the most scrupulous regard te the rights of
the South under the Constitution they are
seeking to destroy. This has not been done
thoughtlessly or without purpose. 1t has
been in pursuance of plan deliberately
formed by the government, and carried for
ward with steady, single-minded disregard
of all opposition from friends or foes, which
NAV challenge universal admiration. The
President has from the beginning regarded
this rebellion as a conspiracy, as the work
of leading, selfish and wicked men, who
have obtained temporary control of the re-
sources, the prejudices, the passions OF tn
Southern people, and are using them for the
destruction of the Union. He believes that,
if this assumption is correct, the Union can
be restored whenever the military power
which these leaders have marshalled on
their side can be broken-and whenever
the great mass of the Southern people shall
come To see the falsity Of the pretexts ky