The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-13

worth while to pause moment and re-
feet upon what trihing and irrelevant
causes the progress and prosperity OF
State will sometimes depend.
The disaster at Beuna Vista, which
should have disgraced but single man,
retarded the progress of a great State;
and 1 am opinion that but for the causes
have been considering the population
of Indiana in 1860 would have been quite
100000 Our disaster at Buena Vista
has happened to others during this war,
but the frequency Of the occurrence
seems to have diminished its importance
We are taught by this passage in our
history that the honor eff State should
be jealousy preserved Whatever it may
cost to preserve its faith, it will cost more
ifsit be suffered to tarnish. The folly of
the system of 1887 was only exceeded by
that which subsequently permitted the in
terest on the Public Debt to remain I'M
paid for six years.
But now, through the progress of
wealth and population, and the faithful
performance of all obligations for many
years, the credit of the State is entirely
restored and placed upon high and
secure basis, while the valor of her sons
had been indicated upon an hundred
battle fields, and may now justly chal-
lenge the admiration OK the world.
THE WAR PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
A number of States are in rebellion
against the Government, endeavoring to
dissolve the Union, and establish new
Onfedoraoy; they howe lorSe armies in
the field, and are making war upon a
grand scale. 1t is said by some that we
can compromise, and make peace. But
what is meant by compromise? Would
conserving to a dissolution of the Union,
| ACKNOWLEDGMENT of our territory and es-
ishment of an Independent Confederacy
be regarded as compromise? If so,
we can compromise. Have the rebels
ever intimated, or held out proposals for
peace on any other terms? If they have,
l have no knowledge of it. On the con-
trary, they have, in every form, and on
every occasion, declared their unaltera-
BILE purpose to accept only of disunion
and independence.
Some two weeks ago, VIM L. Yancey,
one Of the most able and influential men
in the rebel States, was invited to address
the Legislature of Alabama In the
course of his speech, he reviewed in the
most scornful and contemptuous Ian
guage, the proposals for compromise and
peace, which had come from the North,
and spit upon the men who offered them,
declaring that they would prove as false
to the South as they had recreant to the
North. He expressed, however, a hope
that the South would receive great bene-
fit from dissensions in the North, and
upon that subject used the following Ian
guage:
awe have something to hope, how
ever, from this division of the councils of
our enemies-from their fierce party
strife and jealousies. Upon this hope
let us build our own unity-upon their
iealousies let us build our own harmony
upon these clashings of party interests
let us bind together our own patriotic
energies-upon their selGshness and folly
let us base a prayer to God that he
would enable US to exhibit, in behalf of
our beloved country, self-sacri6cing
wisdom, both in opinion and action, in
all matters appertaining to our defense.
Why then should the people of the
North be deluded with the idea that COM
promise is possible, and thus induced to
bellion? Why should they be divided
among themselves, and weakened by the
proclamation of hope so utterly falla-
cious? Some there are who profess to
believe that all we have to do to bring
about peace ard restoration of the I'm
ion, is to lay down our arms and with
draw from the conflict Peace, tempo
rary and hollow, might be had upon such
terms, but not restoration of the Union.
1t would be dishonorable and shameful
surrender, forever furnishing the char
acter of the Nation, and history would
write down as infamous the instruments
by which it was accomplished.
Others say that we should reconstruct
the Union, in doing which the New Eng
land States should be left out But what
have the New England States done that
they should be left out? 1t is said we are
paying heavy drsties on imports to sus-
tain their manufactures, and are in that
way oppressed. If so, let us repeal them.
The New England States are but six,
while the States of the Northwest alone
are nine, with the prospect of an inde6-
mite increase. That, however, is not the
real objection. Ii is that their political
principles are offensive, and the men
who would turn them out, desire to con-
struct Republic in which they can hold
the power Such project would be
criminal to the last degree, if it were not
insane. The fortunes of parties are va
riable The party in power to-day is
down tomorrow, and the victors are, in
turn, overwhelmed, and so it goes from
year to year. The scheme of construct
ing a Republic, taking in such States as
are favorable, and turning out such as
are not, presents the last stage of parti-
san insanity 1t would be forming
Republic for the party, and not the party
for the Republic. A government found
ed upon such ignoble purposes could not
stand, and would not deserve to.
In every point of view, the scheme just |
considered, is full of dishonor and ruin.
Our Union once dissolved, and our pres
ent relauonS Droken UP, an UrIGrT 10 tr,srIi-+
tional and sacred would be lost, and any
future alliances that States might form
with each other would be regarded as
mere arrangements of convenience, pos
sessing no tie beyond the interests of the
hour, and liable to dissolve at the first
outbreak of faction.
The President has issued his procla-