The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-09-12
EVANSVILLE, IND., .sATURDAY MORNING..
Southern Interests as Represented
by q Southern Man.

and political condition of the South ius
previous to the rebellion, and describing
the system of aristocratic despotism anC
its reign of terror in that misnamet
democratic region. He says:
Whenever such men as VIM. L. Yam
eey speak of the South, they zeUer near
the noia-stareholders, scho represent TIN
numerous proportion of fifteen to on,
as compared Nth the planters o,
Shareholders.
Although, in this republican form OF
government, which claims the people as
the sovereign, and a majority as the
ruler, the ncn-slaveholders are,.by far,
the most important class yet, on account
of the skillful agitation of the slavery
/ question, the Shareholders haze obtained
a despotic mastery, and allude ercl,s-
siceiy to themselves and their property,
schen they use the expressions " the
South" Southern iptersts,'' &c."
Mr. Tharin, in true democratic
spirit, opposed this tendency OF the aris-
tocracy, and soon, of course, succeeded
in making himself very unpopular among
the good society" of Alabama He de-
scribes follows, however, what most
seriously affected his standing among
these grandees:
Il bad advocated, in series of arti-
cles in the Wetumpka Enquirer, the es-
tablishment of small farms, and the use
of the waterrpower of the falls and rap
ids OF the Coosa, which flows through
that village. / had proved the in
Jurioas effects upon ''the people of over
grown plantations, and had expressed
the belief that Wetumpka would soon
eclipse Montgomery, should judicious
application be made of the water-power
and the mineral, medicinal and agricul-
tural elements of success which abound
ed all around ard within her. ] also adj
Vocated the abolition of all monopoles:
such as the penitentiary system, by which
the crime of the State was engaged im
industrial pursuits, to the loss Of the vir-
tuous. poor mechanic. was never pepn-.
lar with the cotton planters after that,
Small farms would bene6tthe "masses," ~
and that would injure them; agricultural
pursuits would make white men see their
interests, and that would diminish the
power of King Cotton"
For these doctrines Dir. Tharin at once
became an object of suspicion with the
planters, and having proposed to publish
paper at Montgomery, opposed to se-
cession, and to be entitled the Non
Shareholder, he was seized by one of the
Vigilance Committees, organized to de-
tRed tfRed S0sthern rights, and driven from
II
Vigilance Court in his case:
!. | had conrersed with several non
shareholders in the neighborhood on the
subject of their Southern rightsl
''2. | was about to establish, at Mont
gomery, a newspaper to be entitled the
n-SlaUeholder
"3. l was organizing the people into
secret associations, for the repeal, by
convention, of the ordinance of Seces-
sion"
And ahase. taA- sA..A~..--- 6 L. -
'We, the Jury find the defendant
guilty, and decide that his punishment
shall be as follows:
al. He shall receive thirty-nine lash
es, as disgrace.
60 AS soon as this shall be concluded
he shall be escorted, by a committee of
FIVE, to Benton, and placed in charge of
the captain of the first boat which stops
there.
:" 8. Should he ever return to this
community, he shall be hanged
"a. The proceedings of this meeting
shall be published in the Montgomery
AdrertiSer and Post
We commend these proceedings to the
consideration of the copperheads who
are now clamoring against the hardships
suffered by the traitor Vallandigham, in
being sent without violence or special
indignity among the people whose sin.
terests" he so much prefers to those oi
the people of his own region. We like.
wise commend them to Joseph Surface
Seymour and Fernando Wood, but mosi
esp ecially do we commend the princi
pies for which Mr.. Tharin suffered, to
the serious reflection of those old-fash
ioned, honest Democrats who are nov
being manipulated in favor of aristoc
racy and despotism by the aristocratiC
demagogues of their own party. W.
have an abiding confidence that the
honest masses of that party will get the
true philosophy of the present struggle
properly through their hair yet.