Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-03-15
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The New Albany Ledger discourseth
thus over the result in New Hampshire:
New Hampshire, it appears from a
dispatch elsewhere published, has gone
for the Administration party By much
larger majority than last year, thus
greatly disappointing the Democrats.of
that State and of New England gener-
ally. We have not seen the platform
adopted by the Democratic Convention
of that State, but we believe it was
largely composed OF "peace2 materials.
This is TO be inferred, also, from the fact
that ex-President Pierce assumes to lead
the New Hampshire Democracy, and he
is one of the most devoted of disciples
of peace.
Peace is a most desirable thing, and
in view of the bungling, inefficient man
ner in which the war has been conduct
ed by this Administration, to say nothing
of its perversions from the original
ayowed object, we are not surprised that
thousands of Democrats are anxious
that it should be brought to a close
There is nothing more certain, however,
in our opinion, than that very large
majority of the people Of the United
States are determined that the rebellion
shall be put dorm If the Democracy
take this ground and anhinchingly main
tain it, they will succeed. If they aban-
don it and go to crying = Peace 8
"Peace!3 they will, in all human prob
ability, be beaten throughout the Union,
just as they have been beaten in New
Hampshire.
Not content with thus belsboring poor
Frank Pierce and his associates for be-
ing beaten in the New Hampshire cleo
ton, the Ledger adds insult to injury BY
fatty asserting that slavery is dead, and
that the South did more to kill the insti-
tuition on the 18th day of April, 1861,
than all the Abolitionists of the world
combined What are we to expect next ?
The following is the Ledgers article
complete, as we find it in its issue Of
March 18th, 1864 Let those Who have
been denouncing all the Union men as
Aboltionists read ii, reflect upon it, and
then mend their ways and manners
DEATH or sLAvERY. are many
t persons, mot belonging to the Abolition
! party, who nevertheless believe that the
/ folly of the South, and the events of the
war, have killed the institution of sla-
very. The New I ork Express remarks,
most truly, that it was killed off in the
District Of Columbia at an expense of a
| million of dollars to the Federal Treas
ury, by q vote in Congress. It was
killed off in Western Virginia by the
votes of the people 1t is being killed
off in Missouri and Maryland by assem-
blies, conventions and Legislatures. In
the Old Dominion it is gone between
the Potomac and Richmond in one
direction, and nearly up to Richmond
on the Peninsula It is struck ont
/ Of existence on the whole coast
front along North and South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Florida, and Texas, on
the Mississippi, in parts of Alabama,
| Arkansas, as well as in a portion of
Louisiana. No property is now held by
sosfrail tenure as slave, and nothing
that has been stable and profitable is
more uncertain in the great future. We
recognize these facts as facts, and would
have the country act accordingly. We
wish all the people of the slaveholding
] States could see them in the same light,
| for with them is the constitutional pow
er to control their own destiny while
dealing with slavery. The longer the
war lasts the weaker will slavery be.
Administration men generally saw and
owned this truth, till others owned it
| also. aud then with that perversity which
so often controls men whose principle
consists rather in acts of opposition than
in measures of accordance, they doubted
what they had hitherto affirmed Bv and
/ by North and South will see and act up
| on the great truth that States cannot be
practically blotted out of existence and
the Union live Slavery is one thing
and anti-slayery is another thing, and
the old Union is worth more than either.
The time has passed, in our Judgment,
for defending or opposing slavery for
reasons identified with the Union. The
South did more to kill the institution in
one day, in the United States, on the
18th of April, 1861, than all the Abolit-
ionists of the world combined. Is it not
so?
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