The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-03-25
[From tie Nashville Patriot, 2Ist.
SPEECH OF HON. II. MAYNARD.


The Court House was we'll filed last
night to hear the speech OF Hon. Horace
Maynard We submit to-onr readers the
following sketch Of bis remarks, embodying
enough to arrive at the tone of his address
as whole; 80 rezd 1ss--E- 40
2 iFeIloa0-citizens Of Nashville :5 s'F
| come tonight to address you in behalf
of an imperilled country. Hear me, pray
you, for my cause.
Ii is now more than a year since | met
you in the free enjoyment of a united gov
ernment. During this lapse of time, an or
ganized band of traitors have conspired to
destroy your liberties.
/ call yenr attention to the addresses of
these men, threatening the destruction of
to the Presidency. had. t..sr. s1
South Carolina commenced a series of
aggressions, basing them upon the imag-
ined wrongs she would suffer in the event
of a Republican success. These prelimi-
nary encroaehments need not be rehearsed.
The threatening condition of public af-
fairs called for some measures of pacifca-
ton. Butler of Harper's Ferry, moved the
appointment of the Committee of thirty
three. The members from South Carolina
refused TO act upon the committee, and the
members from Florida followed. They de-
sired no compromise. In the lenient course
pursued by the government at this Matching
period of the rebellion, is felt the truth of
Jackson's declaration that be had left null
liication half put down he should have
hung John @. Calhoun and his coEfederates.
As sure as JEFF. Davis and his subalterns
have rebelled, this unnatural war against
the government will be put down.
The favorable moment, as they thought,
had arrived for these rebellious men to
strike their blow. They spurned all at
tempt at conciliation they would accept no
compromise. ~ f- p 1-@ =
They telegraphed home to seize the forts
and other public property along the South
ern coast in which they were obeyed. Re-
fusing repeated offers of adjustment, these
bad men go before their people and tell
them there was no chance for terms of satis-
faction. asses $50
Six refused to vote, in order that the
Crittenden proposition might Est pass.
Buchansn's Administration died out, and
he died with it. He had told his friends
that Mr.. Bell would carry Tennessee. His
friends told him that a plot existed in
Washington to break up the government,
and, should Lincoln be elected, South Caro-
lima would secede, all the Cotton States
would initiate the example, and draw the
border States with them. Buchanan was in
the plot from the first, Breckinridge after a
while Douglas would coerce the seeded
States, Breckenridge said nothing on the
subject. Er
Lincoln was inaugurated. The seasons
| alternated as usual. No remarkable phe-
nomenon exhibited itself. The demented
politicians of the South kept up the tur-
moil. They had gone too far; their dis
grace must be made complete. a--a
Federal offices were filled by secession
| lists, who disguised themselves as Union
| men. This, they thought, would further
| their objects of treason. They succeeded in
seizing everything in the Cotton States before
their hypocricy was detected.
Lincoln, in his inaugural, wished no
strife-did nothing to add fuel to the flame
of secession. He found the country in the
hands ofsenemies, and would deal gently
with them Fl s
The Mobile Register inAamed the minds
of the people with pictures of Southern
! Confederacy, and said the forts must be pos
sessed.
Virginia could only be carried out by a
fight taking place. Roger A. Pryor said
| so. Strike a blow at Sumter, said he,
and Virginia is in the Southern Confed-
eracy.
Friday, the 18th of April-ominously
hangman's day-fre opened on Fort Sum-
ter. The assailants kept up the attack until
the small garrison, who brayely defended
the fort, were out of provisions, on the
point of starvation, and the flag was lower
ed. This hostile episode had the desired
effect. Secessionists all eVer-the country
were cheerful. They must secede now.
No better man in the world than Major
Anderson. His love of country knows no
measure. When the flag of his alteration
gave way, he expressed his anguish in
terms as a child. al1
Mr. Magnard here read and spoke at