The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-04-13
NUMBER 1862.

"A" Va my StaH- he very cOOllY
paraphrased the Dred Scott decision,
and said that they had no rights which
negro was bound to respect Laughter
and applause. In dealing with them /
took care to preserve personal safety to
every man. l heard friend behind me
say just now, But how did that affect
loyal men2" The difficulty with that
proposition is this:
The Government, in making peace or
carrying on war, cannot deal with indi-
vldualS, but with organized communities,
whether organized rightly or organized
wrongly; and all could do, so far as nv
Judgment taught me, was to see that no
exactlon was put upon any loyal indi-
VIdual and no property taken from him
that was not absolutely necessary for the
success of military operations l know
nothing else that / could do could not
alter the carrying on of the war because
loyal citizen was unfortunately. Ike
poor Tray. caught in bad company.
Laughter. But to such persons and
their property all possible protection was
afforded. Let me repeat-as it is quite
necessary to keep it in mind and / am
AFRAID that this is the cause of so many
OF my Democratic friends getting lost
that in making war, declaring peace, and
carrying on Government power of any
sort, Government and the representatives
OF Government can only deal with or
ganlzed communities, and men must fail
and rise with those communities. You
IN New York must follow the Govern
ment as expressed by the will of the ma
Jority OF yolr State, and the loyal lnen of
the South must, until this contest cones
to the process of settlement, also follow
the action OF the organized maiorities in
the communities IA which their lot has
been cast No man nor any set of men
can see any solution of or any other gov
ernmental problem as affecting States,
except upon this basis.
THE SOUTH TO BE TREATED as ALIEN
ENEMIES
Now, then, to pass from the particular
to the general, come to the proposition.
what is the contest with all the States
now banded together in the so-called
Confederate States? Into what form has
1t come? 1t started an insurrection; it
grew up rebellion; it has become a
revolution, carrying with it all the rights
OF revolution. Our Government has
dealt with it on that ground When it
blockaded the ports it dealt with It as a
revolution. When it sent cartels for the
exchange of prisoners it dealt with these
people no longer as simple insurrection-
lists and traitors, but as organized revo-
lutlonlsts, who had set up a government
Tor themselves on the Territory of the
United States Let no man say to me,
Then you acknowledge the right of
revolution in these men," beg pardon,
only acknowledge the fact of revolution.
| look things plainly in the face, and
trust that do not dodge becaus. they
are unpleasant to my sight Again /
say, find this q revolution; and these
men, therefore, are no longer our loving
brothers, but they are our alien enemies;
foreign to us-Capplause] ]-carrying on
war against US; attempting to make
alliances against US; attempting to get
into the family of nations. | agree it is
not yet successful revolution, and it is
a revolution never to be successful until
Il cheers and cries of " Never."1 was
going to say until acknowledged by the
parent State. And now, then, am will
ing to unite with you in your cheers, and
to say that it is revolution which we
never will acknowledge. and which,
therefore, will never be successful IRE
newed cheers
Ii these men are alien enemies, how
does that effect your political action?
Think moment If we are at war with
foreign country-as insist we are for
all intents and purposes-how can any
man stand up here and say he is on the
G1d nf no
GOOD" and applause. A man must be
either Tor his country or against his
country. A voice-"that's so."1 He
cannot be all the time throwing up i'm
pediments in the way of the progress of
the country under pretence that he is
helping some other portion of his coun-
try. If a man thinks he can do some
thing to bring back his erring brethren
at the south, let him take his musket and
go down and try it in that way Laugh
ter and applause If he is of a differ
ent opinion, and thinks that that is not
the best way of bringing them back, but
that he can do it by persuasion and talk,
let him go down with me to Louisiana
and will send him over to Mississippi,
and if the rebels do not feel for his
heartstrings not in love-I am very
much mistaken Laughter But (Eorci-
bly, and impressively) let him not stay
here. Tremendous applause and wav-
ing of handkerchiefs by the ladies'.
Let US say to him, " Choose ye this
day whom ye will serve If the Lord be
God, serve him; if Baal be God, serve
him. But No man can serve two
masters, God and Mammon" TCheers.1
There are other logical consequences to
follow from the view which / have ven
tured to take of the subject, and that is,
with regard to our political action. If
they are alien enemies, l am bound to
them by no ties of party fealty must
look simply to my country and it's serv-
ice. By that l give up no territory of
the United States. Every foot that ever
was circumscribed within the boundaries
of the United States belongs to us.
Cheers. 1t is to be drawn in under
our laws and Government as soon as the
power of the United States eau be exert
ed for that purpose. Therefore you see
one set of the logical sequences which
must follow-namely, that we have no
occasion to carry on the fight for the
Constitution as it was-I beg pardon, for
the CODSfltufi0n WL.