The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-21

sideration of those who propose to re-
store the Union by an armiStice and
compromise with the rebels, we call their
attention to the following declarations of
the Mobile Erening NeWs and Richmond
Examiner. These rebel sheets only echo
the sentiments uttered by JEFF. Davis and
all the leading rebels of the South:
From the Mobile Evening News.
The Northern idea of carrying on the
war to "restore the Union" has long
since become an exploded humbug. The
Black Republicans are original disunion-
lists, and they have labored faithfully and
successfully in their vocation They
have destroyed the league with
slavery" and the covenant with hell"
| (their synOnyme for Union) with ven
geance The Northern Democrats are
but shade better, for they sacrificed
their own principles, and allowed their
written Constitution to be trampled in
the dust, and gave their money and their
men to carry on war which the COM
monest sense must have instructed them
was war of subjugation and extermina-
ton. It does not mend their case, that
they have at length walked up to sense
of their own supreme folly They only
became humane and constitutional when
they saw the hopelessness of Southern
conquest, and became alarmed for their
own material interest and public liber-
ties They have done all in their power
to dig and deepen the wide gulf of sepa-
ration between us. Let its black tide
roll there forever. The Richmond Er4
dminer happily touches off the miscon-
ceptions of these Northern Democrats as
to the true causes of Southern complaint,
and the means necessary to the attain
ment of their ends of peace:
Lincoln proposes to restore the Union
and end the war by constitutional amend
ments guaranteeing payment for slaves
emancipated by the States during the
present century. Bgler would restore
the Union and end the war by constitu-
tional amendments guaranteeing the
equality, sovereigntA, and rights of the
slaveholding States Neither Bigler nor
Lincoln seems to know that the separa-
ton was caused, not by dissatisfaction
with the old Constitution, but by the vio-
lation of its provisions and the disregard
of its guarantees by the Northern people
and the Northern States, against whose
bad faith no Constitution can make pro-
vision A knowledge of this fact, which
both Lincoln and Bigler have had thun-
dered in their ears on the floor of Con-
gress and throughout the press, should
satisfy them of the impOssibility of re-
construction, and dispel all hopes based
on that idea. The old Constitution re-
cognized every right asserted by the
slaveholding States; it afforded every
guarantee demanded by them; but its
violations by sectional majority made
it of none effect, and forced them, reluc-
family, too reluctantly many of them, to
secession and the organization of sepa-
rate and independent Confederacy. Yet,
after the inability of the Northern Gov
eminent to subjugate and hold the States
composing the new Confederacy has
been demonstrated beyond cavil, Lin
coin, the Abolition President, and Big
Ter, a Democratic statesman, propose to
" maintain" the Union and terminate a
struggle about to eliminate in recog-
milton of the Confederate States, by con
stitutional amendments They will learn
better yet They want peace now; they
will learn how to obtain it by and by
Others there are in the North-a noble
few-Who are as anxious for peace as
hGH AND u 4e H tf teet IJe gp ttF8
stitution would have maintained the
Union; no constitutional amendments
can restore it; neithern Northern arms
nor Northern diplomacy can make us
L" hewers of wood and drawers of water"
for New England When Northern
statesmen learn this, then we will have
peace-not before