Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-05-26
The Monroe Doctrine aHd copperhead
.asA FauIt-FIndIng.

that IL does suits them HnApcTef IL
favors they oppose whatever it opposes
they favor Tell as what course it takes
on a given question, and We will tell
700, TO certainty, the course thsy viii |
pursue, which will be the opposite one.
No matter how critical the crisis or dire
the event, they are never in copjunotios
with, but always in opposition to, the
chosen agents Of the people who have in
their hands the fate Of the Nation for
veal or We. Opposition is the lifs-blood
Of the CopperAead organizations, and it
could no more live in any other eondi-
ton, than it's snaky prototype can live
without breeding venom and sDHking its
fangs into the unwary,
An article in the Evansville Copper
head organ 81 the Esd proves these as
sertions to be true. The Administration
and the Senate are vioienily assaiIsd FOR
an alleged abandasmeh. OF the Monroe
Docirine. The suthoriiy Of the Tines Is
as item fsom lhs Paris Moaftssz Of Mar
/, reading as follows:
"The Government Of the Emperor has
received from that Of the United States
satisfactory explanations relative 70 the
ssnse and bearing Of the resolutions
passed by the House Of Representatives,
At Washington, with regard 70 Mexico.
II is known that the Washington Senate
has indefinitely adjourned the consider
alton Of the resolution, which 10 any
case, has not been sanctioned BY the
| Executive"
What are .hs facts Ia the eAsef ETi-
IDENTIFY theJ ara. that our Government,
having is hAads already isIl while car
ryiag on vast and deadly struggle with
smiiors in ftoas aad their syn pathizsrs,
aiders aAd absssars on both tanks and ia
the rear, has 50 zuch 10 attend 10 as II,
can manags, and Is Ia a bad condition
% go into war with aHy foreign power,
moro especially so, as Il might fnd itself
iavoIvsd il hostilities With Spain and A us-
tria and Other Catholic powers, in sddi-
ton TO France, II il we're TO pus Itself for
ward at this inauspicions time as the
champion Of the Monroe Dostrina A
nan had better Gnish ais own difficulties
befors takirg up the quarrels Of others,
eFsn ]. they DO bis friends. So with
gossrnmenta
Sufficient ante tha day is the evil
thereof is the wise expression Of Holy
Writ, aud ws doubt not that this
is the motto u our Govsramtut
IN iss terrible confess With rebel
lion and Coppsrhsadisna. ''oas var
as . time" is snesher sensible motto
that i. Observes There IL the highss.
wisdom 10 this oourae, which the people
viii approve on reflection.
We believe that ihis nation ia abe pre-
destined champion Of Freedom and Re-
pub.icsnism en- this continent, and that
IL il to be oEs Of the main Instrumental
tieH Of Providsnes 10 the overthrow OF
dsspotism and The extension ef demo
cratic government and religious iolora.
tie.n in the Other hemisphere. But this
great work Is not TO be done in day or
. year or decade, nor perhaps in .
century.
1.-THE mills Of tks Rsds grind siswiy,
But they grind sxe-eaing small"
| A nation is not bull. up in a day /;
neither Is civil and religions liberty and
representative rosernnens to be made
worldwide and all-peryadine Ia q gener-
alton. The process is Of allow growth.
First people must prove themselves
! ~ortty OF such blessings. and when they
really become worthy they will no. be
long in finding war to sslfsovernmeni
and religious frsedoH.
Eishty-eisht years age car Nation was
bora 10 freedom. II grew and Aourished
for nearly aeentury, sut 1t had implanted
in iss system poisonous substance that
was antaronistie to tic welfare and per
petnitt Disease has nov como ia eoa.
) sequence Of that poison Traitors, made
so by Slaroy, are attempting to subvert
, , tbs Government and destroy the Union
In shis they are aided, Tor parry pus
poses, By Northern sympashizsrs ar
worthy the name Of freemeu. II ma
jorfty OF our people aide With the rebels
along with the coppsrhsad leaders, ii
; the coming elections, this Union viii b,
destroyed, and the last hope Of the op
: pressed for eentnries will be Lost, an,
the Nation wili have proysd itself On
worthy to exist AZ free power, and on
I people will have sho<n themselves in
: capable Of selEgovernnent
!. This is the Hrst problem 10 be solved
!. Let US frat prove ourssIees worthy 70 en-
;, JOY and able to nsistain free Institution
osfore volunteering 30 champion poo
:. Mexico in her nister.uasa If zee can
not with all eur experience aud inselli
genee and poser a. nation, saainsai
= our Freedom, Why hold it up as an ieni
: JssUss to other peoplsa Lex Us srst .,
h sablish eur own republican institution
ss on u 6rm and durable bA.is-lstas
! |. our Government free in fact instead {
:. merely so in Rams-sRd then it will b
- right and proper sad adviaabls and rish
!. !. eous, and glorifsing 10 us as a people, :
.. help Mexico and other oppressed rspu
ts lies out OF their difficulties
We may have soH,ething 10 say hsr
y. after on aaotAer pace Of shis subjeS
The Government sor vie purposes
doubt, refrains from hssnmiag the qua
rs. rel Of Mexico, and undertaking the "a
chile assertion Of the Monroe Doetri.