The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-22
EUMBER 273.

= n4"ch weakened and dis
Erited By this failure, and the fall !
d Eieksburg, and how long even Ricbmon,
VIII be safe no one can tell. As IN
: Richmond Enquirer said some time .go
= they are slowly but surely gaining upo,
t us acre by acre, mile by mile" and nm
less Providence interposes in our bebal
OF which see no indications-we will
al no great distance of time. be a subin.
gated people. 9'' :
As to our unbounded credit. based
upon the security of King Cotton. il il
unnecessary 10 speak When we see one
OF the most influential States in the Com
lederacY dlscredIting very large part of
the Confederate currency. and the Con-
iederate Government itself repuaiating
TO some extent, its most solemn obligs.
tons, we caunot but suppose that Tho
confluence of other nations in the COOL
faith and credit of this government ;s
small indeed. AS regards their nrom;so
70 go 10 war and spill the last drop of
snelr oio9d In the cause of their beloved
1ouIh' l viii say nothing. Everybody
/ - - - L. .J~Sess:v~:-.---e ir.i !
carolina have kept that promise. Every
Fv'O''s, -'i---''si is--ei
ate
What deplorable spectacle does the
foregoing history present to our viewl
10 what desperate pass have they
br"n5ht us, aud for what? They say
that they did it because the North would
give US no guarantee in the Slavery
question. have before stated that not
one of the Conventions of the seven Cot
ton States erer demanded any guaran-
a. h0f M sl
accept of any if their friends of the bor-
der States would Procure them for them.
The Legislature of North Carolina. at
ITS regular session in January, 1861,
adopted resolutions appointing commits
soners to the peace Congress at Wash
ington City, aud also to the Convention
which assembled at Montgomery, Ala i
bama, in February, 1861, for the purpose
OF adopting a constitution, and estab-
fishing provisional government for the
Confederate States of America On the
motion of the writer Of this, the resolu-
tlOn appointing commissioners to Mont
gomery was amended so as to instruct
them "to act only az mediatorS, and use
every effort possible to restore the Onion
upon the basis of the Clittenden propo-
sitions as modified By the Legislature of
Iirginia" Ire Commissioners under
these instructions were the Hon. D. L..
Swain, Gen. NJ. W. Ransom, and John
L. Bridgers, Esq, who, upon their re-
turn. submitted report to his Excellen-
cy, Gov. Ellis, which was by him laid be-
fore the Legislature, and was printed
among the legislative documents of that
year, where it may be consulted. In
this report they say that they had the
most ample opportunities of ascertainiug
public opinion in the Cotton States, and
then added: 1--WE regret to be con-
fhat oaIy ia very deciasd minority OF the
comnnnitx in these States are disposed,
proposition of adjustment which looks
toward reconstruction of our National
Union In this state af th mrs We have -
The secret sessions of the Congress The
resolutions of the General Assembly are
upon the table of the Congress, and nav
ing submitted them as peace of1ering'
we would poorly perform the duties as
SIGNED to us by entering into discussions
which would serve only to eDklndle
strife
But it viii be said that these guaran-
tees could not have been obtained from
the North This | admit to be true,
and only produce this piece OF history
10 prove that whatever might have been
attained. nothing would have been ac-
cepled. But the Congress of the Uni-
ted States did pass, by the constitutional
majority of twothirds, the proposition
reported by Mr. Corwin, from the com
mittee of 26, to so amend the Constltu-
ton as to perpetuate Slavery IN the
States. What stronger guarantees coald
be given so far as the States were con-
cerned. it would be difficult to conceive.
What then would have been left to quar-
rel about? The territories. During the
session of Congress which closed on the
4th of March. 1861, acts were passed to
provide temporary governments ior tue
three remaining new territories, to-Wt'
Colorado, Navada and Dacotah. lhese
acts contain no trace or indication OF
! the Wilmot Proviso nor any other pro
| hibition against the introduction OF Sla-
very. but on the other hand, expressly
| declare among other things, that no
law shall be passed impairing the rights
! of private property; nor shall any DIS
examination be made in taxing different
kinds of property, but all property suo,
Now. when it is considered that al al
three of these territories are nortn Vi ~
Jngs 20 min, and that IN the new terri
torg now owned by the United states
south of that line, Slavery actually exists
and is recognized by the territorial a, law,
the question may well be asked what
was there worth quarreling, much less
: S@bt;nq aboutb" Here was settlement
ofthe Question in the territories made
: bv a Republican Congress which gave the N
i South all that, up to the time OF the
L Charleston Convention, she had ever
e asked. and far more than she could hopt
o to gain in any event, by secession. IN IN
y deed | think it must now be appareu pl.
n thst secession, even ifit could have peer
S efacted eafSS peaceably, would have been NJ
n remedy for the grievances OF which the
d. complained Nay, SO far as any grle'
be onces arising from failure to obtain
to -eturn Of our fugitive slaves was col
he cerned. | think it must be apparent I'M
nc i would have been an aggraVaIon =
he stead Of remedy for the evil thlf
OF that all calm and dispassonate ms
we arervwbere. are now ready to admit tn
IN, + wenld have been far better for us
,nd have accepted the terms offered US q
t ton preserved peace and the Urion, tnsn ,,
ee have plunged this once happy coun'