The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-13

armies would be compelled to return
home to raise food upon which to subsist
themselves and families. If they are
permitted to retain slave labor, they are
enabled to maintain their armies in
great force, and to destroy that force we
are compelled to shed much of our best
blood. Let US not be more tender of
their property, than we are of our blood
But it is said the emancipation of tho
slaves will lead to insurrection, and the
sacrifice of innocent women and chill
dren. Such an event would be greatly
deplored. But it is not, in my Judgment,
a necessary result, or one likely to &C.
cur The history of instructions shows
that they spring not from emancipation,
but from despair But if it were, / should
say to the rebels, that if they were I'M
willing to incur the dangers of insurrec-
ton, and do not wish the Government to
NEEDLE with their slaves, they must cease
employ them in the prosecution of the war.
With what propriety can they employ the
institution of slavery as a means of our
destruction, and at the same time ask US
to let it alone? AS we'll might they
place their women and children in the
front of their ranks, fire over their heads
at US, and then call upon us not to fire
back for fear of hurting them.
The madness which would inaugurate
civil war in the North, and set neighbors
and brothers to cutting each others
! threats, because the President has pro-
claimed freedom to slaves in States
which have attempted to secede from the
Union-having utterly rejected the au-
thority of the Constitution of the United
States-have formed for themselves
new Constitution-made new flag, and
to maintain these are waging an unnat-
ural and bloody war, is beyond human
comprehension
That we should fall upon and devour
each other, TO protect the Constitutional
rights of those who declare to the world
that they have forever renowned and
abjured all allegiance to the Constitution
and Government of the United States,
would be a spectacle so monstrous that
no parallel could be found in history.
There is but one salvation for this
people, and that is the suppression of
the rebellion and the restoration of the
Union; and this can surely be accom-
| plIoueu IL VIC are DuI unIIeQ; ana pray
God that the storms of party and pas
sion, which now obscure the heavens,
may speedily pass away, and again dis
cover US to the world a united people,
unalterably resolved to vindicate our
honor, and preserve the Union which
our fathers gave.
believe that the masses of men of al
parties are loyal, and are united in their
determination to maintain our Govern
ment, however much they may differ
upon other points; and do sincerely
hope that men of all parties will be will
ing to abate much of their peculiar opin-
ions in subordination to the great cause
of preservation to the great cause of
preserving our national existence And
in conclusion, allow me to express my
confidence that your deliberations will
be animated only by an ardent desire to
foster the honor and interests of our
blessed State, and to cherish and pro-
tect, at whatever cost, the power and the
glory Of the government of our common
country. OLIVER p MORTON,
Governor of Indiana.
4 January 10. 1863.