The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-22


OF brillianey .r-r
N, First and foremost. thev promise
at that Secession should be ueeceabla
at Secondly, they promised that if pc
at chance war should ensue, it would be
O. very short war; that it would not In,
d. $ar months-:hat the Yankees wonld ae
te ight-that one Southerner could VIII,
u from ten to one hundred of them-thu
q England and France would speedily rec
IS ognIze us and render US every assistano
d We might desire-that whatever mirh
g be their abstract opinions on the subiec
t. OF Slavery, their interest would imne
n them to promote its perpetuity in tn.
:, Southern States; that if after all the,
Il should not be disposed to assist MS G,f
n ton acGs King, and would soon bring ali
Y the crowned heads of Europe on their
l. knees IN supplication to as; would com.
D pei them to raise the blockade
f should one be established; in thirty DAYS.
III sixty days, in ninety days, in one
hundred and twenty days, In six months.
5 In nine months, in one gear at farthest
, u - 0'1cy ProHTtseu rfIorr-srfi rl.,
save States except Delaware would ioin
: should not only be perpeuuareu IN Une
States, but that it should be extended in
to all the Territories in which the negro
could live; that all the grievances occa-
sloned by the non-eXecuti0n of the fugi-
tive slave law should be speedily re-
dressed; that slave property should be-
established upon basis as safe as that
of landed property
Fourthly, they promised as that the
Government should be mere Confeder-
acy OfStates of absolute Sovereignty and
/ equal rights; and that the States should
/ be tyrannized over by no such "central
acSP0HSm as the old Government at
Washington; that the glorious doctrine
of State rights and qualification as taught
/ by Mr.. Jefferson and Mr. Calhoun. should
| prevail in the new Confederacy-that
the sovereignty of the States and their
Judicial decisions should be sacredly re-
/ spected
Fifthly, they promised us the early and
permanent establishment of the wealth.
est and best government on the earth,
whose credit should be better than that
OF any other nation; whose prosperity
and happiness should be the envy of the
civilized world.
war should ensue, they would go to the
battlefield and spill, if necessary, the
last drop of their blood in the cause of |
their beloved South
While such have been their promises.
what have been their performances? In
stead of secession being peaceable as
they promised that it would, it has given
rise to such a war as has never before
desolated any country, since the barhari.
ans of the North overran the Roman
Empire.
So far from the wars ending in six
months as they said it would, should it
~---~-.,-:4 lr -l->->I-- -
sued, it will last more than two years
dictIons, the am&ees' '1fsive f5a9;rrv,-c On
many occasions with a spirit and deter
mination worthy oftheir ancestors of the
RexqIstiaprs.yfgi5S fPsEr fPsErtfte rs ''SrfUsaa nts
roic spirit and religious zeal made Oliver |
Cromwell's army the terror of the civili- |
zed world; or of those French Hugue- |
nots. "who, thrice in the lGth century, !
contended with heroic spirit and various
fortunes against all the genius OF the !
house of Lorraine, and all the power OF
tbe house of Valois" England and
| France have lot recognized uS-have
not raised the blockade-have not shown
us any sympathy, nor is there any proba-
bilitv that they ever will, and that cotton
is not King is now universally acknowl-
edged. And Maryland has not joined
the ConfedAracy, nor has Kentucky or
Missouri ever really been with us. Sla-
very has not only not been perpetuated
in the States. nor extended into the ter
ritories, but Missouri has passed an act
of emancipation, and Maryland is ready
to do SO rather than give up her place IN
the Union, and the last hope of obtain
ing one foot Of the territories for the pur-
J nose of extending Slavery has departed
: from the Confederacy .fOreUer The
: grievances caused by the failure OF some
of the Northern States to execute the Flu
ritive Slave Law haze not only not been
! renedied, but more slaves have been lost
l to the South forever since Secession was
d inaugurated, than would have escaped
b from their masters in the Union in five
: centuries. And how have they kept their
o promises that they would respect the
sovereignty and rights of the States?-
Whatever the Government may be III
e theo,g, in fact we have grand military
=. consolidation, which entirely ignores the
= existence Of the States, and dIsre
= n est r,rufvfaI Itfuuhdts, 1"0 Stec'
dosnotism at Washington, as they were
!, nleased to call it. was at any time, pre-
u r;ous to the commencement OF the De
! cession movement, and even for som
time after it had commenced, mos
~ ~ mild and benifcent Government CON
~ nared with the central desPotasnt q
~ Richmond, under which we are now h'
at ing n,opant q
if tahlisbment of the wealthlest and De
y government in the world with unooun
we Cd credit" what have we got? In spl
IA IF all the victories which they profess
c0u on have obtained over the Yankees, tn
an an have lost the States of Missouri, ne
lmu a tnckv. Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, NJ
nf sissinpi and Tennessee, and IN my hu
.ed. hle opinion, have lost them forever al
,oo % in ali probability, Alabama will soon
i be1 added to the number. This will leave
ny ny fbe Confederacy but fire States out OF
20 for original thirteen, and of these hve
ont n Yankees have possession of many, OF
nro- most important points, and one-thlT'
Iere their territory. So far the ! ankees D
.nce never failed to hold every place oil
we nortance which they have taken;
sncb present indications arc that Cnafi7'
e. t. iii soon he added 10 the number,