The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-24
EVANSVILLE IND. TUESDAY MORNING,

men who are not so depraved as to pre-
fer property to country. The very warm
est advocates of the Emancipation Pro-
clamation are large slave owners Of this
State and Alabama; and the most radi-
cal letter we have seen on this subject,
we received a short time ago, from
large STAKEHOLDER of Kentucky.
The Journal, in its zeal to become
the proslaVery champion in Kentucky,
not only renounees its own previous we'll
known anti-slavery views, and throws all
the obstacles in its power in the way of
the war policy of the Administration, but
1t grossly misrepresents the feelings OF a
large majority of the best and purest
Union men Of Kentucky 1t says that
"Storerg is Uttal institution Of the
countryP 1t asks, in language which is q
gross insult to not only every non slave
holding State, but to every non-slave-
holding citizen: ",ShaU an unbridled,
Tadicat democracy, left 10 Themselves,
2olth0ut the conservative balance Which.
IL ssSSts54 La 0yOv0T'rI TrrH-
dish ADORE oar heads, at the. bidding of
zeatots, the rude force Of mere numbers
IN the control Of tie G0Uernment?' The
Journal thinks the non -slaveholding
States and communities are apt to be
radical, and need the wholesome con-
servatism of negro slavery to put bri-
die on their mouths and keep them in
check. Negro slavery, then, is the basis
of the Journals conservatism; it is
vital institution of the Republic" Hold
ing to this absurd dogma, it also enun-
ciates the atrocious one that the system
Of slavery shall not be discussed.
1t says:
'He amongst US who, 1Chdteuer the
purity Of has motiUe or tie lustre of his
character, should now attempt to inau-
gurate here the question of emancipa-
ton, would be set down by common con-
sent as q mischief-maker, and the at
tempt would be stamped out as the
lighted fuse of the bomb-shell"
1t even avowed its belief that the "re-
susitation of the Louisville Courier with
its open blasts of treason" would be pre-
ferable to the establishment in Kentucky
of loyal paper which should dare to
say that slavery was an evil and should
advocate its gradual removal. This is
the simon-pure, plantation clustering of
Barnwell Rhett and Preston Brooks, and
will win just as little respect. A news,
paper which can publish such miserable
stuff belongs properly either to South
Carolina or Bedlam. This is the day of
free speech, and people are determined
to discuss the subject of slavery, and its
relation to the welfare and eXistance of
the nation, just as freely as they discuss
all other subjects, even the sacred theme
of religion itself. To the hectoring,
stormlng and stamping" of bigotted pro-
slavery organs they pay as little regard
as they would to an edict of the Grand
Lama of Thibet, or revaletion from
Prophet Brigham Young. The day is
past when the crack Of plantation lash
can hush the voice of inquiry
We have noticed the articles of the
Journal on the slavery question, and the
violence of its opposition to all the war
measures of the administration which
affect its pet institution, not on account
of their ability, or even responsibility,
for their dullness. equals their venom,
but because they have been ushered be-
fore the public through the columns of a
newspaper, once as eminent for its talent
as it now is for its inconsistency and fee
bleness. Its present stupidity parades
itself in the garments of reputation
which is thing of the past, and it is the
outward seeming" only of that news
paper which makes its errors so PERM
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