Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-09-21

meet lnere must De Tune iOf bAS eleE- T
ton Of delegates and for their assem-
bling. Several months will necessarily +
be consumed, for We must wait for The
delegates from the Pacific side.
Let us stop at this point for moment, /.
to consider what will have become ofo1r
armies. No progress from NoTember
till Merch, then another delay whilst the
armistice Is under negotiation; and
finally longer pause. until .be delegate
to the great Convention shall have
been elected snd como together. All
this time Cur soldiers are idle. They
cannot 90 much as be employed on mill
tary roads or Notifications, for that
would be hostile work Fellow.c citizen,
it would be impossible 70 keep our
armies together. They would melt away
by expiration Of time and desertions,
and BY furloughs, never to re.assemble.
Then, again, as 10 this Convention
where Is il 70 meet2 That is q difficult
point 70 be settled. Perhaps it will b.
somewhere in Canada, if you can call
that neutral territory Then It must be
Convention Of all the States, thirty-Gye
in all You see, / count on Western
Virginia, and do so, because Western
Virginia is a State Of this Union, reeOg
nized by Congress and the Executive
There can be no longer any question
that Western Virginia is de jure as well
as de JactO State. Her political status
Is irreyocably fixed Il matters not what
seeming irregularities attended her al
mission into the Union, for she was ad.
mitted by the very authority which had
the right 70 say, come or keep out We
can no more agree to exclude Western
Virginia from The Convention of States
than We can agree to exclude Kentucky
Bat while We can never consent 10 eK-
clude Der, very much doubt II Virginia
and the other rebel States will ever agree
10 admit her Upon that question me
Convention would come 10 a dead lock
in the very act Of organization. No
doubt there will be two sets Of delegatH,
whose claims must be first settled--one
loyal, the other rebel-from several Of
the States, say from Missouri, Tennes-
see, Arkansas and Louisiana, and por-
haps from Maryland, aud even from Ken
lucky
Next, M 10 the vital question Of tho
mode Of deciding matters in this Con-
vention The matters 10 be decided pfe
at iasue between the parties met togeh h.
er. There is No provision for an ub
pire, No third and disinterested party 10
be called in; bat this Convention IA 10
decide aud settle for itself Shall - IA
State have only one voter shall New
York have no more voting power than
Dslaware2 Nay, shall each State haze
one vote Will the South ever conse az
10 that9 The loyal States are rs three to
one, and where Il comes 10 q vote on the
basis Of members the loyal States would
carry tho point No. my friends, depend
upon IT, these rebellious States will never
consent to the decision Of the majority
They will claim that the loyal aud rebel
States should stand each as one party,
equal in dignity aud voting power. In
settling great national questions which
concerns MS all, one rebel vote must
count equal to three loyal yotesl Moth
ing short Of that will satisfy the South
When It comes to that what are you "a
expeetR Everlasting debate, without
any result Suppose a single branch d
a single subject TO be under eonsidera
tion-the question Of slavery in the Ter
AitAAN84 An hNAAH y AEtE AuNMi taAhAH lhN
will vote for that claim, or a rebel State
that sill vote against IL?
There is no occasion TO euumeratt
tho other issues which would arise, bu
we know quile we'll that the South woal,
AJAX all kinds Of guarantees, recognizinI
slavery--indemnity for their losaes----hl
sumption Of their public debt, and
know not what besides
What guaranty would they give ia
North2 There ia one that we would re
quire, aud that is that hereafter Their
shall be no secession. This ia precisel
the guaranty, give them what We nh,
which the South will not give US.
No, fellow itizens, this cunning plat
form ofan armistice aud convention /
save the Union ia all delusion. Thos
that got It mp intended 10 save Davis an
the Confederaoy, and they could hav
hit upon nothing more opportunc,
more certain, if adopted, to aecompHs
that purpose. Cheera
Armtstiee, Contention and Disnnion
Nothing seems 10 me more certai
than that the election Of Mcclellan, to
lowed by an armistice and convention
will end the struggle aud the Union 1
gelher We shall then have a pea,
purchased by dismemberment-- pea,
that destroys our nationalily-a peace
which We get nothing and surreud,
everything--a peace which compels ,
TO lower our flag all over that gre
Southern region, first purchased BY o,
treasure, and since repossessed b. [,
precious blood Of oar soldiers and sal
ors--a peace which changes us from
great nation, feared and respected a
over the world, into disjonted aud cruz
bling elements, with new Tags. ne
boundaries, new names aud new treatie
That precious Union which was entrus
cd to this generation by that which h
passed, is to perish in our degenera
hands, and we must straightway set
work 20 reconstruct our North Ameries
map. We must mark ofi the boundari
Of the two goveraments and run II,
Of division from Asa Atlantic to ii
Rocky Mountains, and perhaps to Il
Pacific, This line-the only one d
South will agree to--must begin on d
Atlantic coast, and run west by the o
Mason and Dixon lice to the Ohio riv,
along that river to the Mississippi, IN,
up the Mississippi so as to include NJ
souri, aad from the southwest corner
that State TO the West indefinitely.
Look at your maps, and see what W
be lett north and west of that line II
Southern Confederacy viii have mo
than two-thirds of our seacoast, and
our Gulf coast They will have I
mouth Of the Chesapeake, cur nation
capital and the control Of the Miss
sippi.
Citizens of Newport, where will
Kentucky Consider where that III
will leave you. Loyal men of this he
tueky city, who love the old fac. Il
line viii take away Jour country a.
carry you under new fag-with a n,
allegianee-into the holy keeping Of /
Southern Confederaey.
AS for myself, / am too old for so