The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-06-25
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How o End The NYar.

We have hrard it stated that the West
ern men whom we have taken prisoners at
Belmont and Shiloh, and in all preceding
and subsequent battles aud skirmishes, uni
formally asseverate, that so far as they are
concerned they fight solely for the flee
navigation of the Mississippi. They de-
nounce the anti-slavery policy of the Lin
coin administration but, at the same time
declare, that they can attend to but one
matter at time. AT present they fight for
an open route to the Gulf; wnen this mat
ter is arranged they will settle this ques-
ton of abJlitiOnism, dethroping the des-
potism at Washington. Su:h, TOO, were
the declarations of officers aud men TO an
officer of our army, a most intelligent, ac-
complished gentleman, who recently visit
ed Nashville under a flag Of truce, and for
more than a month Icy sick within the
Federal lines.
Many Southern soldier at Fort Donel-
son, in the midst of a hand to hand con.
aic., heard his foeman exclaim 8. Ynnznrs
not now fighting id Yankees at Manas-
sas = In very truth the interests and feel
ings of the Western people would induce
them to cooperate witE the South in any
conflict which involved simply and solely
the question of slavery. But while they
seek 10 keep open the Mississippi river to
the Gulf, it is their policy to cooperate
With New Englanders, whose objects iu
this war are of two fold Characteristic
first, to perpetuate the tariff system and
navigation ac's, through which they have
been enriched and the Sou impoverished
and secondary purpose, to substitute n
system of peUnage for that of Southern ne
gro slavery. The great object of the whoe
North has become, with the progress of the
war, to force the South to pay all the debts
created by its inception and prosecution
Should we ever submit, the property of all
the Inhabitants of the originally seeding
States will be confscated.
Il has alreedy been suggested by leading
Northern newspapers, even the New York
Herald, The great organ of The Washington
despotism, that the inhabitants of the Gulf
States must be driven into Mexico, there TO
set up a new Republic, under the Presiden
ey of Jefferson Davis. Even in Tennessee,
under the auspices of Andrew johnson, the
policy of confScation and prosecution for
treason before the Federal courts has alrea-
dy been inaugurated. More than one thou
sand "t true bills" have been found by the
court at Nashville, where another Jrffreys
presides, in the person of Catron, vulgar
but able Judge, placed upon the Supreme
Court bench 10y Andrew jackson. Iu Ten
nessee, traitors may well be brought to
trial, but in the Gulf States the whole pop
ulatiou are contessedly guilty of the crime. !
Hence, we shall have no courts drawing in
vidious distinctions in Mississippi. The |
people here, en- mlSse, stand self convicted, |
nor would they have it otherwise. The Mis- |
sssippian or Alabamian who would seek |
exemption from the charge, would be deem
ed cowardly liar by the Yankee authori-
srf, hry
1t becomes, therefore, perfectly apparent
to every reader of the Beacon, that the war
must progress till one of two events bas oc-
curred-we must drive the enemy beyond
Kentucky, or if our graf army be beaten,
we must still fight with the same courage
and endurance as if We had achieved count
ess victories. In the latter event we may
rely upon men like Sterling Price, who in
Missouri and Arkansas, without govern
mental aid and agency, Waged just such a
war with unvarying success as that which
must be conducted in The Gulf States.
If we gain a victory at Cerinth the north
western States will raise another army as
great as that of Halleck's, with which to
open their "right of way 10 the Gulf
" hen John g. Calhoun stood upon the
banks of the Mississippi, in l64S, he pro-
bounced the Father OF FLOODS, "a great
inland sea-" Mr. Calhoun did not mean to
ay that it was a vast body of water. Any
ool would have thought this; but even
hen be looked forward confidently to
he time when his doctrine of secession
would be reduced to practice, and when
Ill the States would each be practically in
dependent of the other. Then each State
lpon the borders of this river would be
like interested in its navigation; ana with
III this change there was coupled the ever
present idea of FREE TRADE. He never
Ireamed that custom houses and ports of
ntry would interrupt the transit of vessels
rom the great lakes to the Balize after the