The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-09-14
Letter from Hon. Dan lei s. Dickinson
TO the Springfield, H., Meeting.
BINGHAMPTON. AnpnsL "a

tee, &c:
Ny DEAR SRI have been honored
by your kind invitation to attend and
address the proposed Union mass meet.
ing at Springfield on the 3rd of Septem-
Der, and heartily wish | could accent it.
for | should be glad to commune with
the loyal masses of Illinois upon the
questions of the day. But l cannot,
and hence this hurried note.
am glad to see in the terms of YOUR
call that you propose to meet with those
and those only, who are unconditional
Union men. There you may find me.
l devoted-sacrifced- of the best
years of my life to the reconciliation of
distinctive questions between the North
and the South. l was willing and ready
to accept, and urged and advocated and
voted for anything and everything which
promised to ailay sectional prejudice
and calm sectional irritation; for I
wished to leave the whole question of
slavery TO time and the dispensation of
Providence.
1t would have been thus disposed of
bad the political demagogues of the
South been satisfied with it as an institu-
tion of labor merely. But they had
learned that it had political capacity,
and that it could gather and disperse
eonventions-could make the mean
mighty and the little great-and in utter
disregard of the interests of the South
ern people, they pressed it into the polit-
ical service, under the pretense that to
maintain the rights of the slave States,
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free. They therefore raised this issue,
seasoned it with the cry of Abolitionism.
and inaugurated this cowardly, periured,
and murderOus rebellion. The leaders
commenced it for power and plunder.
The deluded Southern masses, to some
extent, believed it was in defense of
Southern rights, and under their knavish
leadership were cheated or driven into
war.
There had not been time within thir-
ty years when the southern people were
as secure from disturbance in their insti
tuition, as at the commencement oI-the
rebellion, and this was we'll Known to all
observing men. But the company had
been formed, the parts had been assign
ed, and the actors were in rehearsal be-
hind the curtain.
The tragedy has now been PLAYED,
which was to overthrow the Government
of Washington, and Hancock, and Ad-
ans, and Jefferson: and let those who
have sought to aid crusade so cause
less and INTERNAL look upon it and re-
sSfRu esixs igatvnfftti4Bs g ana 6aseGtss assert
that the records of depravity and infa-
my, from the fall Of man to the present
moment, may be ransacked in vain; and
those who remain among us and
meanly take sides, politically, with a
wholesale murder they are too cowardly
to help on with arms in their hands, have
my permission to take a conspicuous
place in the designations have given.
They will certainly occupy an important
niche in the worlds pillory hereafter.
| have been lifelong Democrat, rev.
cling in the sublime theories of Jefferson,
and rejoicing in the memorable illustra-
tions of jackson These eminent Dem
ocrats taught their votaries that all men
were created equal, and that the Union
must be preserved. But while their true
followers are proving their adherence 20
early teachings, and illustrating their
faith by their works, a spurious edition
has been issued, stealing the honored
Democratic name for the purpose of Civ
ing aid and comfort to the rebellion, as
the hypocrite steals the livery OF the
court of heaven to serve the devil IN.
They issue bulls of accommodation
with an assurance that would command
a premium on brass, and while there are
some Democrats who deny their impo-
tence and sworn their fulminatlons,
there are yet many who fear that they
shall be lost if they separate from the
Democratic organization, however spu-
rious or artificial. But let all Democrats
from principle be strong in their cherish
ed faith. When Judas passes for true
disciple, and Arnold for patriot; when
rats take the rank of lions, and mouslng
owls for eagles, then those who turn the
cranks for the hand organs OF party, and
grind out political music during the liie-
struggles of the only free government on
earth, will be esteemed, in the popular
Judgment, worthy descendants of Jeffer.
son and Jackson, and representatives oi
their principles.
This rank and rotten rebellion has
been crushed in the revolving States. Il
has, in great degree, been abandoned
to its fate by its perfdious friends
abroad, and its ignoble end is only de
layed by its aiders and abettors in th'
loyal States-those who would have war
by million of men in arms against th
Government, for the avowed purpose O
destroying it and dissolving the Union
poulticed with propositions for peace, OF
at most, fought with mixed preparation
of politics and powder. The loyal mind
for an out and out, up and down, hor
zontal and diagonal overthrow of the re
bellion, without any condition or CON
promise of any name or kind to the mint
| ..-4 nf n hnir. and while 1t does M