The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-07

obedience in your servants / leave
them peaceful, laborious, controlled by
the laws of kindness and justice.
Il have demonstrated. that the pesti-
lenee can be kept from -FOUR borders.
Il have added million of dollars TO
your wealth in the form of new land
from the batture of the Mississippi
Il have cleansed and improved your
streets, canals and public squares. and
opened new avenues to unoccupied land.
/ Il have given you freedom of cleo
tons, greater than you have ever enjoy
ed before
Il have caused justice to be admins
tered so impartialiy, that your own adj
vocates have inlesaslzs saqe7--
You have. sfepfaziie p1sflaa E >
ment against which you have rebelled
"Why, then, will you not all return to
your allegiance to that Government
not with lip service, but with the heart?
coniure you, if YOU desire ever to
see renewed prosperity, giving business
to your streets and wharves-if you hope
to see your city become again the mart
of the Western world, fed by its rivers
for more than three thousand miles,
draining the commerce of country
greater than the mind of man hath ever
conceived-return to your allegiance.
'If you desire to leave to your children
the inheritance you received of your
fathers-a stable constitutional Govern
ment-if you desire that they should in
the future be a portion of the greatest
.cbO
TO your allegiance.
"There is but one thing that stands in
the way
"There is but one thing that at this
hour stands between you and the Gov
ernment, and that is Slavery.
1.-The institution, cursed of God, which
has taken its last refuge here, in his
Providence will be rooted out as the
tares from the wheat, although the wheat
be torn up with it. ..
81 have given much thought to this
subject
81 came among ycu, by teachings, by
habit of mind, by political position, by
social affinity, inclined to sustain your
domestic laws, if by possibility they
might be with safety to the Union.
Months of experience and of obser-
vation have forced the conviction that
the existence of Slavery is incompatible
with the safety either of yourselves or of
the Union As the system has gradually
grown to its present huge dimensions, it
were best if it could be gradually re
moved; but it is better, far better, that
it should he taken out at once than that
it should longer vitiate the social, politi-
cal and family relations of your coun-
try. lam speaking with no philanthropy
ic views. as regards The slave, but simply
of the effect Of Slavery en- the master.
See for yourselves.
LSSF eH2HRd HRR SAH Rss
not all but destroyed the very framework
of your society.
~ am speaking the farewell words of
one who has shown his devotion to his
country, at the peril of his life and for
tune, who in these words can have Meth
er hope nor interest, save the good OF
those whom he addresses; and let me
here repeat, with all the solemnity Of an
appeal to Heaven to bear me witness,
that such are the views forced upon me
by experience.
Come, then; to the unconditional
support of the Government Take into
your own hands your own institutions
remodel them according TO the laws Of
nations and of God, and thus attain that
great prosperity assured to you by geo
graphical position, only portion OF
which was heretofore yours.
BENZ F. BUTLER"