Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-16

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emphasis, have, with what Justice let
them determine, denounced as the tyrant
Lincoln. aLEs4o R TuF 40 txr
The Confscation Act, the atrocious,
absurd, and imperative Emancipation
Act, (alas for the delicate wives and
daughters of the sunny South and the
Habeas Corpus Suspension, were blows
under which this unhappy land still stag
gers-the recreant land, which sees
noble martyr and exile sighing upon the
Canadian shore, and yet does not in
thunder tones cry to him." Come over
and help lpgusf'TT,TEls gsTFrsvT
But there were only the ring and the
halter by which the country and our lib
critics were to be. drawn down to receive
the finishing blow. That has at last de-
scended- America is discrowned among
the nations. We are lost forever, unless
under the leadership of tried statesmen,
a Seymour, a Wood and his brother,
Vallandigham, and Wiekliffe, we strike
despairing blow and conquer the con
queror.
Details are useless In the universal
wreck why specify any single loss?
But the final damning proof of the ut
ter subseryiency of the present embecile
Administration to the rankest Puritan
fanaticism is the proclamation for
Thanksgiving What is Thanksgiving?
1t Is a Yankee, Puritan, Roundhead,
sniveling, snufing. canting, hypocritical
institution. 1t smells of baked beans,
roast turkey, and Indian pudding, not
to say pumpkin-pies and soft custards.
PAIL We desire, in all GOODNESS to see
the constitutional warrant for.such an ap-
palling Innovation upon.snational customs.
We call for chapter and verse. 1t is an
outrageous and illegal ebultion of that
Boundhead spirit of Phariseeism which
necessarily bloats New England conceit
Why, let US ask-why should we return
thanks for the wasted fields and desolate
homes of our Southern brothers? Why
should we be glad that England stops
the Confederate rams2 Are we grown
such caitiffs that we are unwilling to
give fair play to an honorable antagon-
ist? o temporal o naores
But is it possible that the despotism
under which we live-or, rather, die
has so paralyzed our faculties that we do
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paw? . Is not this thanksgiving notori-
ously State anstitutionf Was it not
always appointed by the Puritan Gov
ernors and their imitators? And shall
we, without murmur, see the Washing
ton tyranny sweep this poor State right
away2 Awake, freemenl Arise, We op-
pressed Let the imperial State of New
York rally round her beloved and honor
ed dead. Let him take up the gauge so
scornfully hurled at him and at our SOW
ereignty, and say to Lincoln and his
minions, in their teeth, that the people of
the country have had enough of Yankee
fanaticism, of Puritanism and of cant,
and are resolved to vindicate the ma
jesty of State rights, and to appeal to
the hearts of our BETRAYED Southern
brothers, which yearn for the Union as it
was and the Constitution as it is, and to,
insist upon their mentioning the terms
of their submission. Could we but see
SeymourlP PRESIDENT, BobertT Toombs Secre-
tary of State, General Lee in-the War
Department, and Fernando Wood in the
Treasury, we should feel sure that the
country was redeemed, and that we
should have no more occasion for canting
Thanksgiving proclamations.- Harper's
Weekly