Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-07-23

would be honorable, fair, right and salts
factory.
-"But that the Union cannot be pre-
served BY the arbitrament of the sword.
The Union was formed BY the sword;
why can it not be preserved By the same
means7 The laws are executed, on
small scale, by force. Scoundrels are
compelled to obey the laws against mi
nor offences By a show of force to over
awe them. Why cannot the laws of the
United States be executed by foree7 We
must have law, and every law must have
a penalty for disobedience, and force
must be used when necessary to enforce
the penalty if incurred So there is
nothing wrong nor inconsistent with the
principles Of freedom in the use Of force
in the execution Of the laws, more than
there is in the use Of the rod Of eorrec-
ton by loving father on disobedient
child. In either case the punishmentis
intended for the good Of the refractory
subject In fact, without the readiness
and determination TO use force to CON-
pei obedience to law, and the use Of it
when necessary, no government can De
maintained The rebellion is q vi
olation Of law on a large scale, and force
must be applied on large scale to pun
ian the law-breakers and compel them
to keep the peace. This is all there is
in the bugaboo of subjugation, and
the preservation of the Union by the
sword" The sword Of justice will re-
main in the scabbard if our people will
keep the peace and obey the laws
The Union can be preserved by
the word, because the large ma
jority of people are devotedly attached
to il, and all their interests are bound up
in it; without its blessings life would
lose its attractions 1t therefore be-
comes simply matter Of selfdefsnse,
of life or death, to preserve the Union
and perpetuate its blessings. Those who
attempt to destroy it, DO so at their peril
The people of the United States, who are
the Government, have shown during this
exhaustive and bloody war, by the deter
mination with which they have sustained
their agents whom they have chosen to
execute the laws and preserve their IN
heritance, that the Union must be pre-
served, and that they have the right to
aud will use force to preserve it when
necessary. No fact is better established
The people will not willingly let the Union
die. There is psaceable remedy for
all real grievances: forcible measures
can be met only by force. When rebels
make war they viii get war until they
are subdued. Nothing else viii save Us
from Spanish-American anarchy.
The Swiss coufedsracy was held to-
gether By "the arbitrament of the
sword, and the certainty that the sword
would be used by that iron-nerved pa
triot. Andrew Jackson, prevented our
rebellion from breaking Qua in 1882.
The blood Of traitors is the cement Of
all stable governments. The spord Of
Justice accompanies the scales Of justice
in the representation of the allegorieal
figure illustrating the Genius of our Re-
public.
al. That the new call Of Abraham
Lincoln, for Eve hundred thousand more
Of the laboring men Of this country, is
unreasonable, and il enforced must re-
sult in serious injury to our productive
resources
We admit that our productive resources
are being diminished The men must
either be taken, or the contest be given
up, the Confederacy Acknowledged, and
the country allowed to 90 to ruin. There
is no danger that there viii not bt
enough food raised to sustain life, and
sufficient goods manufactured to shield
the body from heat and cold. There are
old men, women, and boys enough in the
country 70 do this, and if worst comes tc
worst, we can call out the adle- bodied a,
closely as the rebels have. If they car
take the last able-bodied man, and ever
those not able bodied, and also old mer
and boys in vile and an infamous
: cause, cannot we do so, if necessary, in 9
good and righteous one2 Shame OF
us, and destruction to us, IL we do not
Nor do We deem the call for 500,00C
r men unreasonable The fault ali tbs
time, since the rebellion broke out, hai
been that we have not had enough meG
in the field. The rebels have had. M
doubt, nearly as many soldiers as W.
= have had, while they have been operating
on the inside Of circle and behind for
tifeations, thus doubling or trebling The
effectiveness of their force; while vi
have had to operate on the circumference
of the circle and have been the assault
E ing party in the great majority Of in
stances where Notifications were used
100000 new men are not too many to fin
ally subdne the rebellion, aud to make
sure work of it. And then consider the
immense number OF troops whose term
will expire within the next three months.
The places of these must be filed, and
this is plenty late enough to commence
the work of recruiting to keep our armies
up to the full lighting standard
IS. That we heartily endorse the Off
cial record of Hon. John Law, our pres
ent worthy representative in Congress I"
As Judge Law is politically defunct,
we have no desire to be pummeiing his
corse. We are content to leave him to
the impartial judgment of thedoyal aud
. 3 A. l.