The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-30
A Thin Disguise.

A Thin Disguise.
The Vincennes San quotes the follow
ing paragraph from Vallandighams late
speech in Congress, which disguised
even his Democratic associates, and en-
dorses it as pretty good Unionism:
."There is not one drop of rain that
falls over the whole vast expanse of the
Northwest, that dos not find its home IN
the bosom of the Gulf We must and
and zoe tciH tolloo ii, with travel and
trade, not by treaty, but by right; freely,
peaceably, and without restriction or
tribute, under the same Government
and fagl"
Very prettily said, we admit; but what
a pity it amt true. 1t strikes Us there
is pretty considerable quantity ofwater
falls in the Southwest that "never finds
its home in the bosom of the Gulf.
Most of the streams in Northern In
diana and Illinois, in Wisconsin and
Michigan finds their way into the Lakes,
whence if the drops of which they are
composed persist in travelling they jour
ney to the Atlantic ocean. That fact
seems never to have struck Mr.. Vallan-
dighams attention. mis- eyes are ever
turned South. To have made his figure
more beautiful and complete, as well as
patriotic, he should have said:
" There is not one drop of rain that
falls over the whole vast expanse of the
Northwest that does not find its home in
the Gulf or the Atlantic ocean. We
must and we will follow them with travel
and trade; not by treaty but by right;
freely, peaeeably, and without restriction
or tribute, under the same Government
and flag" A's--
That, we think, would have been re-
garded as patriotic sentiment, but that
is not what Mr.. Vallandgham meant,
nor is it what the Vincennes Sun means.
To show what is uppermost in their
minds we have only to quote the follow
ing paragraph from the same speech
from which the Sun takes its extract
"He Valiandigham-nex held that
the Middle States and the South could
not separate from each other by reason
of the geographical ties. He said the
Northeast could not separate from the
South, and the day that saw q division
between the slaveholding and the non
slayehC lding States, lCould see q sepdrd
~s--1~As~T w. t-ss-.1z e,sss.fs ltssh1ld
that subject as politacal element, must
ceaSe-that they must return to the con
stitutional and actual basis of fifty years
ago-the threC-Giths rule, the return Of
fugitive slaves, and the transit and tenn
pOrary sojourn of masters with their
slaves in the free States. This uaS
the price Of the Union scheuerer they
choose TO pay.
The first quotation only goes to show,
according to Mr.. Yallandigham theory,
that the Northwest cannot separate from
the South not that it may not separate
from the East; and the Sun knew what
the speaker was aiming at when it quo
ted the paragraph above. But the peo-
pie are not prepared to endorse the re-
evolutionary schemes of these conspira.
tors. So it is necessary to deceive them,
as to the end in contemplation, a little
while longer. After the plans are all
perfected, every disguise will be thrown
aside, and the conspirators expect to sue
coed by a coup q etat for which the peo-
pie will not be prepared. Perhaps these
plotters may succeed, more likely they
will not The conspirators are striving
for more elevated positions; but when
they are attained they may not prove
calculated to add to their peace Or pro-
long their day in the land