Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-06
From the American Baptist
The discipline or Three Years.

Three years, as we have said-three
full years of this war have passed The
rebellion did not begin when Sumpter
was taken; it did not begin when the
Star of the West was fred upon; it be-
gun on the 20th of December, when
South Carolina committed the overt act
of Secession, consummating her treason
and sounding the tocs;n of rebellion. At
the end of the year, when Ande1 son stole
away from Moultrie TO Sunpter civil
war was fully inaugurated Turing these
three years has all been accomplished
that might reasonably be expected? In
the direct act Of war, perhaps not. The
country has been impatient, the admins
tration has been impatient, our troops
have been impatient, at what seemed to
be useless procrsstination. But God had
a purpose. There was moral change
to be wrought, revolution in old ideas,
of far mightier consequence than tri-
umphs on the battle-f And who
shall say that everything has not been
exactly timed and ordered to produce
the greatest possible result? 10 mark
the different stages of progress, we can
not do better than take the speeches ut
tered at the great gatherings of each
year in this city on Foreiathers' day"
Slavery had always been tenderly dealt
with there. At the gathering of 1860,
NJ rude abolition sentiment broke over
the time-hoSored custom of saying smooth
and pleasant things, especially compli-
ments Of the dear South Senator Sew
ard was in his happiest mood Though
revolt WAS already insugurated, he en-
deavored to treat it as the passing of
shadow, the passionate flush of mo-
ments pickering between husband and
wife. He was for treating South Caro-
lima gently, as judicious husband woa Id
treat his tretful wife, and redress any
real wrongs che had suffered He was
ready for alterations and notifications
of the Constitution; he loved South Car
olins better than any other State out of
the American Union, better far than any
other country, and he was satisfied that,
loudly as they talked, if the city of New
York were assailed by any foreign power,
the people of South Carolina would i'm.
mediately rush to the rescue. Hepse,
he was not going to he humbugge4 by
their pretended secession. He believed
the desire for secession was wanning,
and had been since the day of the Pres
idential election, and that, in sixty days
more, we should see a brighter light ard
more cheerful atmosphere.
This was the average sentiment of the
stupe6ed, demoralized North Only to
think of the chief secretary of the new
administration dealing out honeyed
words of fraternal love and esteem to the
State which had already committed the
overt act of treasonl The next Pilgrim
anniversary showed a slight improve
ment, and DR.. Stone ventured to say
that if it was necessary to destroy slave
ry to end the war, we ought to lie pre-
pared TO do it, Thus, the charge of
opinion has been going on from yearSp
year, until nov what do we behold at a.
Forefathers' celebraiioP? Along with
IBeecher and Burnside and Farragut are
the old prominent Democrats of the city,
Dix and Brady and Sickles. Surely no
one will break tho happy harmony by
abiding in urfriendly terms to the insti-
tuition of slavery But listen to them.
What says Maj. Gen. Dix in regard to
his former associates, with whom he was
ever in perfect sympathy and accord2
"With whom shall the conditions of
reunion be negotiated and arranged?
Certainly not Nth the men aoho caused
the acar; and with the sacrifice of half
million of lives, national honor, retri-
butive justice, respect for the principles
of stability in established systems,
proper regard for the generations which
are to come after US, and whose political
organizations will derive strength or
weakness from the issue Of the mighty
conflict we are engaged in--all these
| considerations demand that the archi-
tects of disorder, who have violated the
public peace and broken the social con-
tract they had sworn to observe, shall
haps no part in our future government;
with them zoe can neUer soen negotiate
for peace When they shall have been
expelled from the country they have de-
vastated and dishonored, when their mil
itsry power shall have been broken and
their forces have dispersed, and the de-
luded masses of the South have been
liberated from the tyranny under which
they have been crushed, it will be time
to make terms-not with the guilty, but
tOith those sohOns they hare defrauded,
plundered and oppressed. Loud ap-
plause.
Mr.. James T. Brady, the Breckenridge
candidate for Governor for the State of
New York, how does he speak of slave
ry7 Surely he will cay nothing to coun-
tenance the abolition fanataeism against
which he has maintained lifelong war
fare:
81 say to those gentlemen for whom
within the feeble limits Of my capacity
have made all the sacrifices that belong.
ed to young life or old experience, all
the politicians that tell you that there
can come time when there can be re-
construction of this Union on the 6asi.
Of slarery, are telling you a lie Great
applause was willing, always have
been willing, no one was ever more will
ling than 1, no one more cheerful than
in the advocacy with the young men who
| met with me in the city of New York, in
"a the Washington Hotel, when thought
had something worthy of being sacrificed
on the altar of my country. We always
/ thought that we could make every sacri
; fee to retain that institution, so long al
, it could continue consistently with tht
, judgment of men; but now say for my
self, here and hereafter. that I neUei
, mean to fight that fight again. IT i
: ENDED. The great God of the univers'
has terminated it, and the rebellion, ter
5 rible as it is, costly in lie, in blood, ant
In treasure, is, In my humble and rever
ent conception, one of the mysteriou
$ ways in which the justice of God is beinI
5 worked out against the prejudices an
falsehoods of men,"
But there is another, Gen. Sickles, VIII
has lost a leg in the service of his couu
5 try. He is one of the two men whom
n Yancey described in the Charleston Cor
k vention as the only men of all the d.
mocracy of the North who RENAME
faithful to the South. The opinion {
Il this old, tried and true friend of tn
. Southern Democracy, will be worth hea
e ing. 1t is as follows:
UTn Decemher 1870 ba bsd N ta